Hamza Hamouchene is an Algerian researcher-activist based in London. A founding member of the Algeria Solidarity Campaign and Environmental Justice North Africa, he is currently North Africa program coordinator at the Transnational Institute.
Frantz Fanon died 60 years ago today. In his last decade, he was deeply involved in Algeria’s anti-colonial struggle — providing lessons that can still be used in the country’s fight against dictatorship today.
Algeria is in the throes of a revolutionary moment. But having overthrown dictator Abdelaziz Bouteflika last spring, the movement must now find a way to return the class issue to the center of politics or risk watching the revolutionary moment slip away.