IMMEDIATE AND UNCONDITIONAL INDEPENDENCE
OF ALGERIA! ALGERIAN SOCIALIST REPUBLIC!
The independence of Algeria is an irreversible fact. French imperialism, defeated in seven years of military struggles in North Africa, is now trying t limit and control this independence by means of negotiations. It wants to keep control over the country's principal sources of wealth, and at the same time to impose conditions about its futuze of government, and its national and international policies. By means of a possible alliance or understanding with the revolution's right wing, imperialism wants to ensure that it can stay in North Africa, check the drive of the Algerian fighting masses toward a socialist reorganization of the country, and maintain there a key control post over the development of the new African states as a whole.
and Moroccan bourgeoisies, even when their interests do not cöincide with those of imperialism, are at present interested in the success of the operation to limit the influence of an independent and revolutionary Algeria on the North African masses as a whole.
US imperialism, while manœuvring to replace France in the alliance with the African colonial bourgeoisies, is not, however, backing unrestricted independence for Al. geria, which would leave its destiny largely in the hands of the peasant and urban forces which made the revolution and kept up the long war.
world imperialism and its bourgeois prubourgeois allies in Africa are aware that Algerian independence raises the question of the country's government and social organization, and that the revolution has developed powerful peasant, worker, trade-union, youth, anti-imperialist and anti-capitalict forces, for whom the revolution against imperialism is a synonym for the socialist revolution in Algeria. Those imperialist and capitalist forces, just as heretofore they tried to block or delay Algerian independence, are now proposing to prevent the masses of Algeria from deciding the destiny of their owr
This is the essential basis for the manœuvres, delays, and indefinite dragging-out of the negotiations, aimed discouraging the determination of the masses and at giving greater weight within the Algerian forces, not to such ghosts as the MNA, but to the more conciliatory pro-bourgeois wing of the FLN itself, to the sector most to make concessions to French imperialism for the principal purpose of checking its
The organizations of the African masses, of the colonial and semi-colonial masses of the entire world, of the French, European and North American workers, and of the wo:must intervene and help the Algerian revolution to defeat imperialism's manœuvres and pressures, demanding more forcefully than ever an immediate to French military intervention in Algeria, and immediate and unconditional Algerian independence.
The independence of Algeria, peace in Algeria, mean:
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The withdrawal of all French troops from Algerian territory, and the concession of no military base -as that of Mers El Kebir - from which pressure on or control over the Algerian Republie could be exercised.
The post-independence solution of the problems raised about the rights of minorities, be discussed by the Algerians themselves within the framework of the independent Algerian state. ' The first of all is the right of the Algerian majority to be independent and to govern its own territory.
The rejection of any attempt to impose economic conditions (French control of the Sahara, French rights to petroleum and natural gas, the French settlers against the agrarian reforn, etc). All "rights" arising from the French occupation must be considered null-andvoid. The Algerian people are the only ones to decide, according to their needs and advantage.
The rejection of any attempt to impose political condiions (independent Algeria's form of government, joining the Western bloc, etc).
The organization of the Algerian Republic on the basis of the worker, rural and urban masses who have kept up the war of liberation and who controlled the cities in the historic demonstrations from the Ilth to the 14th cf December. The Algerian Republic must be a socialist republic, based on people's committees, on the trade unions, on the plebeian forces of the Army of Liberation, on the people in arms, which will, immediately after independease, get the reconstruction of Algeria going on of a nationalized and plenned economy, orientation towards a Socialist Federation of the Maghreb, and a Federation of Arab Socialis: Republies.
The Fourth International, which has unconditionally supported and continues to support the struggle of the Algerian masses, led by the FL N, for their national and social liberation, which has turned its forces in all coun-
FOURTH INTERNATIONAL tries to the support of the Algerian revolution, which has undergone, as a result of this struggle, bourgeois and imperialist repression whose plainest example is the jailing of Michel Pablo, its general secretary, and Sal Santen, member of the International Secretariat, imprisoned for nearly a year for their labor of help and support to the Algerian revolution, calls on the colonial and semi-colonial masses of Asia, Africa, Latin America, on the French, • European and US workers, on the masses of the workers' states, to mobilize to demand the independence of Algeria and the unrestricted right of the Algerian masses to decide the destiny, government, and the organization of
Trade unions, workers' parties, labor and anti-imperialist organizations, and people's organizations, demonstrations, and mass-meetings, where the whole weight and force of the collective resolition is turned on support to the inmediate and uncondiof Algeria. They must send their resolutions to the French embassies, to the French vernment, to the G PRA (Provisional Goverment of the Algerian Republic) and the FLN, and to the Algerian, Tunisian and Moroccan trade unions. In the African states of the ex-"Communauté" must impose on their governments a break of any link with or dependence on French imperialism, which is relying on them to maintain
Africa and counter the influence of the Algerian and African revolution.
pose conditions ate pea of imperials to her
For the immediate and unconditional independence of
For an Algerian socialist repullic!
THE INTERNATIONAL