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The Friends of the Manifesto and Liberty (, AML) was a political movement in
French Algeria French Algeria ( until 1839, then afterwards; unofficially ; ), also known as Colonial Algeria, was the period of History of Algeria, Algerian history when the country was a colony and later an integral part of France. French rule lasted until ...
.


History

The party was founded in March 1944 by
Ferhat Abbas Ferhat Abbas (; ALA-LC: ; 24 August 1899 – 24 December 1985) was an Algerian politician who acted in a provisional capacity as the then yet-to-become independent country's Prime Minister from 1958 to 1961, as well as the first President of the ...
in order to publicize and defend the Manifesto of the Algerian People.Frank Tachau (1994) ''Political parties of the Middle East and North Africa'', Greenwood Press, p30 Its demands included equal rights for the
Muslim Muslims () are people who adhere to Islam, a Monotheism, monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God ...
population and an
autonomous In developmental psychology and moral, political, and bioethical philosophy, autonomy is the capacity to make an informed, uncoerced decision. Autonomous organizations or institutions are independent or self-governing. Autonomy can also be defi ...
Algeria federated with
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. The party provide to be one of the most successful parties in Algerian history, gaining hundreds of thousands of members and the support of the banned
Algerian People's Party The Algerian People's Party, was a successor organization of the North African Star, led by veteran Algerian nationalist Messali Hadj. It was formed on March 11, 1937. In 1936, the Etoile Nord Africaine (ENA), its predecessor, had joined the Fren ...
and the
Association of Algerian Muslim Ulema The Association of Algerian Muslim Ulama (, , AOMA), commonly known as Jam'iyat al-'Ulama (), was an Islamist and Arab nationalist cultural and religious movement in French Algeria led by Abdelhamid Ben Badis. Its motto was "Islam is our religion ...
. However, French officials refused to speak the party and used the
Sétif Sétif () is the capital city of the Sétif Province and the 5th most populous city of Algeria, with an estimated population of 1.866.845 in 2017). It is one of the most important cities of eastern Algeria and the country as a whole, since it is c ...
disturbances of May 8, 1945 as a pretext for dissolving it and arresting Abbas. A similar movement, the
Democratic Union of the Algerian Manifesto Democratic Union of the Algerian Manifesto (in French: ''Union Démocratique du Manifeste Algérien'') was a political party in colonial Algeria founded in 1946 by Ferhat Abbas, who was then elected deputy. The UDMA reflected the change in Abbas ...
was founded the following year.


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{{Algeria-hist-stub Banned political parties in Algeria Defunct political parties in Algeria Defunct political parties in France 1944 establishments in Algeria Political parties established in 1944 1945 disestablishments in Algeria Political parties disestablished in 1945 Algeria in World War II Algerian nationalism Sétif and Guelma massacre Politics of French Algeria