by JWE President Helena Cobban The mass reform movement that has swept Algeria for the past 42 weeks is united in opposing the presidential elections that the powers-that-be have scheduled …
Algeria’s popular-democracy movement gains new energy
We’ve been following Algeria’s popular-democracy movement almost since its weekly Friday mass demonstrations– known collectively as “the Hirak”– erupted onto the streets of the country’s numerous cities and towns back …
Discussing Algeria, on a historic day for the country
Just World Educational is pleased to continue its focus on the remarkable events in Algeria by publishing this very recent exchange of letters between William Quandt, a political scientist who …
Algeria: Popular movement reaching turning point?
For 19 weeks now, every Friday has seen massive demonstrations filling the streets of cities across the large North African country of Algeria. These protests have been overwhelmingly nonviolent, with …
Algerian popular movement stays strong, united!
This past Friday (June 21) saw the 18th week of massive, peaceful protests filling the streets of cities all across Algeria. Midweek, the country’s much-criticized strongman Gen. Gaid Salah, had …
Algeria: Some early thinking about a possible political solution
We are very happy to publish this paper, which was produced May 5 by a group of 15 professors at the Faculty of Political Science and International Relations, University of …
Algeria: Mass, peaceful protests continue, make slow gains
Friday May 31 was the 15th Friday in a row in which, across the massive North African country of Algeria, hundreds of thousands of peaceful protesters have taken to the …
Our ‘Story/Backstory’ project produced great new discourse-expanding resources
One of Just World Ed’s major projects in Spring 2019 was the “Story/Backstory” project, in which– over a 13-week period– JWE President Helena Cobban produced weekly packages providing richly informed …
Algeria’s amazing mass movement makes gains…
The Arab world is seeing a wave of mass popular movements that we might even call “Arab Spring 2.0.” In Gaza, protesters have marched weekly for over a year now …
Zohra Drif memoir spurs discussion on political violence and anti-colonialism
In recent weeks, the NYC-based Nation magazine has hosted an intriguing discussion about the use of political violence in one of the great anti-colonial movements of the twentieth century: the …