Friends of the Manifesto and Liberty

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Friends of the Manifesto and Liberty (in French: Amis du Manifeste et de la Liberté) was a bourgeois political movement in colonial Algeria.

It was founded in March 1944 to publicize and defend the Manefest du Peuple Algerien. Its demands included equal rights for the Muslim population and an autonomous Algeria federated with France. Since the more radical Party of the People of Algeria was outlawed, the AML became the most popular party in Muslim Algeria of its day. The French officials used the disturbance of May 8, 1945 as a pretext for dissolving it and arresting its leader, Ferhat Abbas.

A very similier Union Democratique du Manifeste Algerien was founded the next year.

[edit] References

• Tlemcani, Rachid. State and Revolution in Algeria. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1986.
• Political Parties of the Middle East and North Africa Frank Tachau Ed. Westport Conn: Greenwood Press 1994