The following is extrated from a statement by the French section of the Fourth International on the achievement of independence by Algerias
". secocceeetTho Algorian revolution is going to have to tackle some extremely arduous problems, It has to develop economically a coutry which imperialism has maintained in poverty and which is beset by the misery and devastion of more than seven years of war. Aid to the Algerian people must not be a source ofprofit for the French capitalists; it is aid without strings which must be given to new Algeria. It is necessary to struggle all the more resolutely in this sonse that the Algerian revolution, under the stimulus of its nilitants, cannot build a capitalist state but must engage, just as the Cubans have, in the construction of a socialist socicty.
“As Rahmoun Dekkan, one of the secretarics of the Gerral Workers! Union of Algeria saids
'If the poasants and workers have taken up arms, it is not to merely for the..sake of a flag or a national anthonm....it is for agrarian reform, Our struggle is a class struggle, their participation in the armed struggle of today guarantces the workers their right to the control of the country of tomorrow. ?
"It is not a bourgeois democracy that the Algerian rovolution is in the process of bringing forth, it is a country which belongs to those who work there and which will serve as a symbol and guide to the Arab peoples of the Maghreb, tho Middle Hast, and to all African peoples. It is a revolution which has also inflicted some pow@ful blows on our exploiters and which has also helped in the struggle for a socialist society in France, an objective which the large working class organisations hardly dream of obtaining.
“Agrarian reform, nationalisation or control of industry, democratic assem blies of workers and peasants, the arming of the Algerian masses are the measures which assure the progress of the Algerian revolution.
"Let us assure the Algerian workers, who have always participated in the class strugjle alongside the French workers, of complete solidairty with the work which tley are going to tako up on their roturn to Algeria. But aid to the Algerian revolution assumes that in France that the workers far fron withdrawing, lead a victorious struggle against their exploiters,"