[Marxism] Algeria Riots Pose Risk Of Wider Unrest

[Greg Dunkel]

The Islamists in Algeria won an election, decisively.  The government didn't like that so it canceled the election, arrested the leaders it could find and drove the rest underground.

Both sides were vicious -- I don't have a source, other than the Algerian I no longer have contact with -- but in one neighborhood of  Algiers, women were killed because they wore veils by one side and the women who did not wear veils were killed by the other side.

Whenever I think of Algeria I recall the war they waged against their French colonial masters, the war of a million martyrs.

Two books in English I particularly liked on Algeria:

Benjamin Stora, "Algeria: 1830-2000, a short history"

James Ciment, "Algeria: The Fundamentalist Challenge"



-----Original Message-----
>From: Walter Lippmann <walterlx at earthlink.net>
>Sent: Jun 1, 2008 11:35 AM
>To: gdunkel at mindspring.com
>Subject: Re: [Marxism] Algeria Riots Pose Risk Of Wider Unrest
>
>The weed of crime bears bitter fruit. The Algerian government's
>response to radical islamic fundamentalism has been repression, which
>drives them underground and turns them into martyrs.

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