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Émilie Busquant

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Émilie Busquant

Born March 3, 1901 · Neuves-Maisons, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France

Died January 2, 1953 · aged 51

Émilie Busquant (Arabic: إميلي بوسكان), born March 3, 1901, in Neuves-Maisons, Lorraine, and died October 2, 1953, in Algiers, was a French-Algerian anarcho-syndicalist, feminist, and anti-colonial activist. Born into a working-class family of nine children, she grew up in an environment steeped in social struggles: her father, a steelworker and union member, introduced her to libertarian ideas a…

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Messali Hadj - A Life In Service To The Algerian PeopleMessali Hadj - A Life In Service To The Algerian People · 2006
Messali Hadj - A Life In Service To The Algerian People
★ 10.02006
MovieDocumentaryHistory
The life and political activism of Messali Hadj (1898-1974), an Algerian internationalist politician who played a pioneering role in the process leading to Algerian independence, which he demanded as early as 1927. He was initially secretary of the North African Star (ENA), then in 1937 he founded the Algerian People's Party (PPA), in 1946 he founded the Movement for the Triumph of Democratic Liberties (MTLD), and finally in 1954, the Algerian National Movement (MNA). In 1937, the leadership of the North African Star (ENA) created its flag, green with a white star and crescent. Messali Hadj's wife, Emilie Busquant-Messali, simply sewed this ENA flag by machine; it would later become the flag of the PPA. In 1943, Messali Hadj, in conjunction with the party leadership, created the ENA-PPA flag, green and white with a red star and crescent, which would later become the current flag of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria.

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Messali Hadj - A Life In Service To The Algerian PeopleMessali Hadj - A Life In Service To The Algerian People · 2006
Messali Hadj - A Life In Service To The Algerian People
★ 10.02006
MovieDocumentaryHistory
The life and political activism of Messali Hadj (1898-1974), an Algerian internationalist politician who played a pioneering role in the process leading to Algerian independence, which he demanded as early as 1927. He was initially secretary of the North African Star (ENA), then in 1937 he founded the Algerian People's Party (PPA), in 1946 he founded the Movement for the Triumph of Democratic Liberties (MTLD), and finally in 1954, the Algerian National Movement (MNA). In 1937, the leadership of the North African Star (ENA) created its flag, green with a white star and crescent. Messali Hadj's wife, Emilie Busquant-Messali, simply sewed this ENA flag by machine; it would later become the flag of the PPA. In 1943, Messali Hadj, in conjunction with the party leadership, created the ENA-PPA flag, green and white with a red star and crescent, which would later become the current flag of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria.

Anti-colonial activist (archive footage)