Sadek Hadjerès died in Paris on Thursday November 3, at the age of 94. He was one of the most famous Algerian communist activists and opponent of the Houari Boumediene regime and the Islamists.
With our correspondent in Algiers, Faycal Metaoui
Sadek Hadjeres was part of a generation of Algerian communist activists who believed in Algeria’s struggle for independence in the 1950s. His political action began in 1944 within the Algerian People’s Party (PPA), a movement created by Messali Hadj, father of Algerian nationalism. He then joined the National Liberation Front (FLN) fight, without abandoning his communist ideas.
In 1965, after Colonel Houari Boumediene’s military coup against Ahmad Ben Bellathe first president of independent Algeria, Sadek Hadjerès goes into hiding and militates within the Socialist Vanguard Party (PAGS), heir to the Algerian Communist Party (PCA). Houari Boumedienne then considers the militants of this party as subversive opponents who threaten his authoritarian regime. Some are imprisoned.
In 1989, at the end of the one-party regime, Sadek Hadjerès, a doctor by training, and the PAGS returned to public militant action. He then led a fierce political fight against the Islamists of the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS), which planned to take power in 1992, after winning the legislative elections.
Sadek Hadjerès then moved to Greece, then to France from 1993. In 2014, he published his memoirs in two volumes: When a nation awakens and 1949, Berber crisis or democratic crisis?.