Larbi Bouhali ( ar, العربي بوهالي, born 1912, in
El Kantara
El Kantara ( ar, القنطرة, al qantara, the bridge) is a town and commune in Biskra Province, Algeria. The 1911 Baedeker travel guide described it as "one of the most important caravan-stations in E. Algeria." The town is well known for the ...
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[Cheurfi, Achour. ]
La classe politique algérienne: de 1900 à nos jours : dictionnaire biographique
'. Alger: Casbah éditions, 2006. p. 118 was an Algerian communist politician. Bouhali served as general secretary of the
Algerian Communist Party
The Algerian Communist Party (french: Parti Communiste Algérien; ar, الحزب الشيوعي الجزائري) was a communist party in Algeria. The PCA emerged in 1920 as an extension of the French Communist Party (PCF) and eventually beca ...
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Born in El Kantara, Bouhali hailed from an Arab peasant family.
[Moine, André, and Léon Feix. ]
La Déportation et la Résistance en Afrique du Nord: 1939–1944
'. Paris: Editions sociales, 1972. p. 216 In 1934 he travelled to Moscow, where he received political training for 9 months. Bouhali took part in the founding congress of the Algerian Communist Party in 1936.
In 1939 he was named secretary of the Algerian People's Aid (''Secours populaire algerien''), an organization dedicated to assisting victims of colonial repression.
In 1940 Bouhali, along with other Communist Party leaders, was imprisoned and deported to the Sahara. He was detained at the
Djenien-Bou-Rezg concentration camp. At the third party congress, held in 1947, Bouhali was elected general secretary of the party, substituting
Amar Ouzegane.
Bouhali was exiled throughout the
Algerian War of Independence
The Algerian War, also known as the Algerian Revolution or the Algerian War of Independence,( ar, الثورة الجزائرية '; '' ber, Tagrawla Tadzayrit''; french: Guerre d'Algérie or ') and sometimes in Algeria as the War of 1 November ...
. When the insurrection broke out, he moved to metropolitan France, and after the banning of the Algerian Communist Party on 13 September 1955 he moved to
East Germany
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. At the time of Algerian independence in 1962 he remained in East Germany. Bouhali returned to Algeria, but went into exile again (along with other communist leaders) a few months after the 1965 coup d'état.
He later became a member of the central leadership of the
Socialist Vanguard Party (PAGS).
Bouhali represented the Algerian communists at different international events, such as the
10th anniversary of the People's Republic of China in
Peking
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1959 and the
1969 International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties
On 5–17 June 1969, an International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties was held in Moscow. The meeting occurred in the aftermath of the Sino-Soviet split and the Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia. The preceding international meeting, ...
in Moscow.
International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties, Moscow 1969
', Peace and Socialism Publishers, t. Rudé právo, 1969. p. 4[Peking Review. ]
Guests of Honour Present at the Banquet
'. October 6, 1959. No. 40. pp. 11–12
References
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1912 births
Algerian Communist Party politicians
Year of death missing
People from Biskra Province
Algerian exiles