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Allison Drew has produced a fine study of the communist party in Algeria that is important not only for the historiography of French decolonisation but more broadly for its contribution to our understanding of the global dynamics of decolonisation. Socialism, like humanitarianism, wrestled with the ‘national’ and the ‘international’. Its aspiration may have been to forge a cosmopolitan community that rose above national politics and state interest. But to build a viable political organisation socialists could ill afford to ignore the local specificities and particular exigencies of the society to which they appealed. Socialism in Algeria thus developed at the intersection of three shifting forces: social class, religion and geopolitics. The predominance of the rural in Algeria operated as a major constraint on the development of communism. Religious cleavages served to reinforce divisions between settler and indigenous society. And geopolitics produced a fundamental inborn tension between those who placed greater emphasis on anti-colonialism (and communist parties championing the cause of the nationally oppressed) and those who were more concerned about the advent and spread of European fascism (and willing to moderate their anti-colonialism as a result).
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