Sartre and the other left-wing French supporters of the wartime F.L.N. deplored that it had not gone further towards Marxism, that it failed to “export the revolution” to France. (An extreme revolutionary like Frantz Fanon would have found himself a prophet without honour in Boumedienne’s Algeria.) The emancipation of women lagged behind the promises of the war years, with the equality they had come to enjoy then forgotten in peace: “The woman is treated according to the racist principle of apartheid; she is still ‘colonised’,” complained Fadela M’Rabet in La Femme Algérienne.

XREF: Contrasts with the revolutionary promises of the FLN war years; echoes the broader pattern of postcolonial governments consolidating power over revolutionary equality.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 1679