Étoile Nord-Africaine

As North African Star (French: Étoile Nord - Africaine; Arabic: نجم شمال إفريقيا / Nadschjm Shimal Ifriqiya ) is called the first political party in Algeria.

History

The Party of North African Star (ENA - Étoile nord africaine ) is an association founded in France in 1926 by a core group of migrant workers, mostly of Kabyle descent, which later developed into a political party itself. The best-known members who played the leading roles in the association are: Salah Bouchafa, Imache Amar, Abdelkader Hadj Ali, Mohammed Djefel, Si Mohammed Jilani, Belkacem Radjef, Messali Hadj Ahmed Belghoul.

Its members were recruited primarily from Algerian migrant workers in France. Politically, the party pursued the course of a communist anti-imperialism. When building the party's founder contacts helped the Parti Communiste français. Messali took over the organization as a cadre party and took over as Secretary General of a dominant position. The party had about 4,000 members within the Algerian community in France. Your newspaper El Ouma reached in 1934 with a circulation of 43,500 pieces a significant part of the Algerian community. The party did not begin until 1930 in Algeria itself with its members to gain a foothold.

1927 Messsali held in Berlin on the communist congress for Threatened Peoples, a speech with which he attracted attention internationally. The party had 2,000 members in 1928. It was banned in 1929 by the French colonial power, but continued to exist in the underground. 1930 moved Messali the party with the publication " Al- Umma " closer to the idea of an Islamic state. In the following, it came to a break with the PCF. The party was banned in 1937 by the Popular Front government of Léon Blum. Most supporters found themselves in the male-dominated as well by Messalie Algerian People's Party and later the MTLD again.