A-Infos (en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL Montreuil - history, Algeria: A tribute to the anarchist Saïl Mohamed (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]

Relatively known character of the anarchist movement of the years 1930-1950, it was called 
Saïl Mohamed. Under his real name of Saïl Mohand Ameziane, we just make it a public 
tribute in Kabylia. ---- A few dozen inhabitants and residents of Tibane (Algeria), 
political activists, trade unionists and associations, participated Friday, October 14, 
2016, a commemorative day initiated by the youth of the village association Taddartiw 
Taourirt tribute Mohand Ameziane Sail (Saïl Mohamed) 63 years after his death. ---- After 
listening historians lectures, a visit was made to the birthplace of Mohamed Saïl, where a 
commemorative plaque was affixed. His niece had made the trip to Algiers. ---- The 
newspaper Liberté has a story of the day (below) and website Bejaia News , which ignites a 
bit considering that Saïl had been "buried by the official Algerian history."

In reality, Saïl Mohamed was, until recently, known as historians of anarchism.

As anarchist - even libertarian communist, to be exact - it was to your fingertips. It was 
even a "intransigent" of the movement, if we analyze his career and his writings[1]: 
activist AU platformist, union the CGT-SR anarcho-syndicalist (minority choice among his 
comrades) volunteer combatant in Spain, militant FA after 1945 in Fontenis trend in 
1952-1953 ...

In Spain in 1936
Saïl Mohamed and Fernand Metant at Farlete (near Zaragoza), before the tomb where lie the 
dead of the International Group of the Durruti column. Photo published in Spain 
antifascist , November 18, 1936.

In the front row in the middle, with comrades of the International Group of the Durruti 
column in 1936.
He certainly fought tirelessly against colonialism, since the Hexagon where he was now, 
but died a few months before the insurrection of Toussaint in 1954, and could not 
therefore take part in the struggle for independence.

No doubt he would have been at the forefront, with activists and militants of the 
Communist Federation libertarian , or those of libertarian North African Movement .

Guillaume Davranche (AL Montreuil)

Read the article that had been devoted to Sail Mohamed by the journal Ballast
A photo report Arezki Saker, who also filmed the presentations at the conference.

Library Tibane hosted the conference.

A visit to the birthplace of Sail Mohamed, in Taourirt, to which was affixed a plaque.

Niece Sail Mohamed came Algiers.

ACTION ACTIVIST ANARCHISTE
MOHAND AMEZIANE Sail
REVISITED

Liberty, 14-15 October 2016

The Taddart-iw sociocultural village association Taourirt, in the town of Tibane, daïra 
Shemini (wilaya of Bejaia) yesterday organized a commemorative day in honor Mohand 
Ameziane Saïl, an anarchist and independence activist misunderstood, native this locality 
tribe Waghlis Ath in 1894, died in April 1953 in Bobigny, near Paris.

As such, members of the organizing association, headed Ameziane Hadjab, developed a rich 
program of activities, including a clipping exhibition of photos and documents depicting 
the life and work of the anarchist from the region, held in the town library of Tibane.

In the afternoon of the same day, this structure hosted a roundtable on this former 
driver-mechanic, attended by academics, elected officials, trade unionists, political 
activists and ...

Invited to speak at the meeting-debate, Professor Djamal Aissani, president of the 
Association learned Gehimab University of Bejaia, has paid tribute to the youth of the 
village Taourirt for taking the initiative to light the deceased Mohand Ameziane Saïl and 
resurrect his work and thought. "It was perhaps the first French-speaking intellectual of 
the entire region, since published several articles in the early 1920s attended one of 
five schools located in the colonial tribe Ath Waghlis since 1885, "says Professor Aissani.

Many activists claiming the left, the image of the former mayor of Barbacha Mohand Saddek 
Akrour, took turns at the microphone to highlight the struggle of this anarchist 
disappeared, but also to put forward their ideas which are very similar to those held by 
the latter.

For Mr. Akrour, Berber activist and former prisoner of the 1980 events, the Amazigh people 
is anarchist nature, by its social organization, its customs ... He believed that 
anarchist ideas advocated by Mohand Ameziane Saïl begin to gain ground and eventually fail 
by taking the above into this world in turmoil.

Note that the various speakers emphasized the need to continue this work of memory and 
research to rehabilitate the valiant journey of this anti-colonialist militant.

Finally, it should be noted that this commemorative day ended with the inauguration of a 
stele bearing the likeness of the late Mohand Ameziane Saïl, which now stands in the 
middle of his native village Taourirt. This ceremony will be followed by a snack in honor 
of the guests of the town of Tibane.

Kamal Ouhnia

[1]His biography is available on the website Maitron online.

http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Algerie-Un-hommage-a-l-anarchiste
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