EVENT INFORMATION

1
November
1954

National Liberation Front launches the Algerian War

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📅 1 November 1954 📍 Algeria, France

The FLN launched attacks across Algeria and issued a declaration calling for national independence and restoration of a sovereign Algerian state. France responded with expanding military repression. The war’s roots lay in settler colonial land seizure, unequal citizenship, and the denial of political self-determination, despite Algerian service in the world wars.

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People in this event

Ahmed Ben Bella

Mostefa Ben Boulaïd

Algerian civilians

Organizations in this Event

National Liberation Front

French colonial administration

National Liberation Army