Revolutionary Committee of Unity and Action
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Revolutionary Committee for Unity and Action (in French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

: Comité Révolutionaire d'Unité et d'Action) was a militant group in Algeria
Algeria
Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab...

 fighting French
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 colonial rule. CRUA regrouped former elements of OS
Special Organisation (Algeria)
The Special Organisation was a secret paramilitary organisation in colonial Algeria, set-up by the Algerian People's Party at the convention of the MTLD in 1947 to prepare for armed struggle against France, which ruled Algeria as a colony since 1830...

 and radical from MTLD
Movement for the Triumph of Democratic Liberties
The Movement for the Triumph of Democratic Liberties , name proposed by Maiza, was created October 1946 to replace the outlawed Parti du Peuple Algerien . Messali Hadj remained as its president....

. In total the founders of CRUA consisted of 33 persons.

CRUA would later evolve into the FLN
National Liberation Front (Algeria)
The National Liberation Front is a socialist political party in Algeria. It was set up on November 1, 1954 as a merger of other smaller groups, to obtain independence for Algeria from France.- Anticolonial struggle :...

.

Reference

  • Tlemcani, Rachid, State and Revolution in Algeria. Boulder: Westview Press, 1986.
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