40th Anniversary of the Start of the Revolution
Forty years ago, on November 1, 1954, the Algerian people decided to take their destiny into their own hands, writing through their determination to lead their liberating fight one of the most glorious pages of contemporary history. This is how men, guided by a sacred cause that the people had made their own, decided to emerge from a colonial night of more than a century by taking armed action, the only way to put an end to the oppression and exploitation of a country and a people.
No one in the colonial camp or very few in the international community predicted, forty years ago, the outcome of a liberating struggle and its consequences in the Maghreb, in Africa, in the Arab world and in the Third World in general. What was considered for a long time as a simple rebellion to be quickly and easily suppressed was transformed, thanks to the sacrifices and the genius of a people and the best of their sons, into a vast revolutionary struggle bringing hope, freedom, peace and justice.
Algeria will pay a heavy price for its independence, since more than a tenth of its population is to be counted among the martyrs without forgetting the invalids, the war wounded, the widows and the orphans, product of the terrible and no less bloody colonial war machine. November 1st constituted the expression of a change in the meaning and direction of history, the study and analysis of the consequences of which on the world today are far from being completed and recorded in universal memory.
Forty years later, the Algerian people commemorate this day which stood out as a break with a colonial order forever gone in Algeria and in the world. Today, no one can dispute the momentum brought by November 1st in the transformation of the nation and the landscape of the international community.
No one in the colonial camp or very few in the international community predicted, forty years ago, the outcome of a liberating struggle and its consequences in the Maghreb, in Africa, in the Arab world and in the Third World in general. What was considered for a long time as a simple rebellion to be quickly and easily suppressed was transformed, thanks to the sacrifices and the genius of a people and the best of their sons, into a vast revolutionary struggle bringing hope, freedom, peace and justice.
Algeria will pay a heavy price for its independence, since more than a tenth of its population is to be counted among the martyrs without forgetting the invalids, the war wounded, the widows and the orphans, product of the terrible and no less bloody colonial war machine. November 1st constituted the expression of a change in the meaning and direction of history, the study and analysis of the consequences of which on the world today are far from being completed and recorded in universal memory.
Forty years later, the Algerian people commemorate this day which stood out as a break with a colonial order forever gone in Algeria and in the world. Today, no one can dispute the momentum brought by November 1st in the transformation of the nation and the landscape of the international community.