Algeria’s brief liberal opening collapsed under deep-state repression after Covid.
Evidence
Similar to what happened elsewhere in the early stages of the Arab uprisings, a liberal democratic project began to see the light of day. But it did not last, and when Covid struck, the Algerian leadership was able to strike back by closing public space and spreading conspiracy theories against its opponents. The deep state returned vengefully, not unlike Russia under Putin. The current repression of Algerian democracy activists is the most severe in decades. — Youssef Cherif, Neo-pan-Arabism, 75
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Post-independence Algeria’s influence abroad hid internal corruption and economic collapse. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 39; Algeria’s liberal European third force collapsed once the French Left aligned with settler fascism.
Related
- The French Left’s inaction eliminated any liberal alternative for Algeria’s Europeans (similarity 0.82)
- Algeria’s liberal European third force collapsed once the French Left aligned with settler fascism. (similarity 0.81)
- No genuinely independent left existed among Algeria’s European democrats before the revolution (similarity 0.81)
- Post-independence Algeria’s influence abroad hid internal corruption and economic collapse. (similarity 0.80)
- Liberal moderates in Algeria became revolutionaries through successive disillusionments (similarity 0.79)
- A liberal colonia could have kept Europeans in independent Algeria. (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Algeria’s liberal European third force collapsed once the French Left aligned with settler fascism.
#corroborates(0.82) - Post-independence Algeria’s influence abroad hid internal corruption and economic collapse.
#expands(0.80) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 39