Nationalist activists formed the Comité révolutionnaire d’unité et d’action (CRUA) to overcome divisions and prepare an organised struggle for sovereignty. The committee drew on veterans of the MTLD and its clandestine Organisation spéciale. Its formation reflected strategic debates inside Algeria’s liberation movement, rather than a sudden or externally imposed beginning to resistance.
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Why was the CRUA formed in 1954?
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Algerian historical sources date the CRUA to March 1954 and describe its aim as preparing coordinated action.
The CRUA was formed to coordinate a new phase of anticolonial struggle.
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Its organisers sought unity and preparation for national liberation.