From the early 1960s to the mid-1970s, independent Algeria provided important support to anti-colonial movements and revolutionaries around the world. Successive presidents, Ahmed Ben Bella and then Houari Boumédiène, made Algiers a home for activists fighting against colonial or racial oppression. Algiers the White becomes Algiers the Red. The internationalist Che Guevara established there the rear base for his guerilla activities in Africa. The Afro-American leader Eldridge Cleaver made it the centre of international influence of the Black Panther Party. Algiers is called, during this period, the Mecca of revolutionaries.
Alger la mecque des révolutionnaires ►PriMed 2017 from CMCA on Vimeo. A documentary by the French-Algerian director Ben SALAMA selected for the International Prize for Mediterranean Documentary and Reportage (PriMed)