In researching the biography of Michel Raptis, known as Pablo in the
Trotskyist Fourth International, I came across Dimitris Livieratos’
account of the arms factory Pablo ‘authored’ in Morocco during a grim
phase of the Algerian War when the Algerians were starved of arms. For a
man who professed Tolstoyan-Christian attitudes towards violence that
was quite a step politically. That’s another story. Then there were all
the organisational difficulties and dangers – this was a time when the
French version of the CIA were busy killing collaborators with the
Algerians. Livieratos’ little book gives easily the best account of this
relatively unknown chapter in the Algerian revolution. in its way it is
a minor classic. Here are some notes on the book…
https://watermelongreenland.wordpress.com/2021/03/13/the-invisible-factory-of-the-algerian-revolution/
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