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Algerian Independence and the British Left

English · Paperback / Softback

Will be released 28.05.2026

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Based on archives from governments, parties, organisations and individuals, this book investigates the relationship between the British left and Algerian liberation movements during the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962). It explores the presence of representatives of the Mouvement national algerien (MNA) and the Front de liberation nationale (FLN) in London, where they actively sought support for peace, independence from France and the global end of European domination. By surveying their interactions with individuals and groups in the anticolonial left, including prominent Labour MPs, and Trotskyist groups, Asian and African associations and students'' unions, Torrent shows how and why solidarity was interpreted differently across the left, and in relation to Britain''s own end-of-empire conflicts. Tracing connections across Europe and beyond, this book demonstrates how the war influenced conceptions of socialism, communism and internationalism in Britain, what being European meant, and what place the Commonwealth should have in a world where armed struggle and liberation diplomacy disrupted boundaries.

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Authors Maelanie Torrent, Melanie Torrent, Mélanie Torrent
Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Release 28.05.2026
 
EAN 9781350474918
ISBN 978-1-350-47491-8
No. of pages 616
Subjects Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous

HISTORY / Africa / General, Africa, Colonialism and imperialism, Algeria, African History, National liberation and independence, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General

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