Algeria, antifascism, and Third Worldism: an anticolonial genealogy of the Western European New Left (Algeria, France, Italy, 1957–1975) by Brazzoduro, A

“…This article explores the hypothesis that the Algerian War of Independence (1954–1962) occupies a core position in the genealogy of the New Left, having set the political and conceptual framework–namely the ‘global civil war’–by which the victory of Castro and Guevara or the triumph of the Vietcong would later be understood. The aim is to set out fresh approaches to understanding the emergence of the New Left as a complex process encompassing local, national and transnational dynamics; a process shaped by, but also shaping, decolonisation. …”