ACTION THAT CAME NATURAL
When the rumor flashed through Algeria that American transport planes had been used to ferry Moroccan troops into Algerian territory, the crowds in Constantine -- such is America's reputation -- did not wait for the energetic denial of the State Department. Hundreds of people showed up at once in front of the American cultural center and broke all the windows,
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THE "FRONT OF SOCIALIST FORCES"
By Joseph Hansen
The name chosen by the heads of the armed rebellion in Kabylie, "Front of Socialist Forces," as well as their radical-sounding demagogy, seems unfortunately to have impressed a few socialists.
A glaring. instance is The Newsletter, weekly organ of the Socialist Labour League, which is published in London. The October 5 and October 12 issues gave most sympathetic treatment to the armed rebellion and joined this “opposition” in attacking the Ben Bella government.
The October 5 issue, for instance, declared: “The opposition seems to. comprise not only the poor peasantry but other politically conscious elements from the FLN calling themselves 'socialist.! They reflect the will to change of sections of the Algerian masses, who feel that they have been betrayed by Ben Bella's compromises with French big business.
"only those who eat out of Ben Bella's hand could write off such people as ultra-lefts and provocateurs. — .
"Tt is | likely that Ben Eella can isolate the revolt to the hills of. Kabylie, but only temporarily. The president faces a new upsurge in the tong battle for a socialist Algeria.
"His declaration that all remaining French-owned land is to be nationalized is an attempt to both divert attention from events in - ‘Kabylie and prove that he is still moving in a 'trevolutionary' way.
"In case this is ineffective he is also asking, in true de Gaulle fashion, for textraordinary powers! to deal with the Kabylie situation.”
Hocine Ait Ahmed and -Colonel Mohand Ou El Hadj, the two heads of the "