Algiers – Workers’ Party Secretary-General Louisa Hanoune has issued a strong warning against what she described as “dangerous plots” against Algeria’s unity and sovereignty. She asserted that the group calling itself the “MAK” movement has become “completely foreign to the Algerian people” and shares no national or political connection with them.
During a party activity held today at the Workers’ Party headquarters, Hanoune directly accused this group of “selling itself to the Zionist entity and hostile regional parties,” prominently naming “the Emirati entity and the Makhzen.” She believes that these entities are working to “sow chaos, dismantle the region’s countries, and pave the way for the imposition of foreign military bases to plunder the wealth of the peoples.”
Hanoune emphasized that what is being promoted under the name of “the Kabyle State” falls within what she called the “Greater and New Middle East project,” stressing that resorting to ethnic pretexts is a “desperate attempt to divide Algeria.” She added that the residents of the Kabyle provinces are “only the last concern of this predatory group,” which is investing in separatist rhetoric for external purposes.
Despite affirming that this organization “does not have a national extension and does not pose a real internal threat,” the Secretary-General called for not underestimating the plan, warning against attempts to blackmail the Algerian state and push it to make concessions that affect national sovereignty. She also praised the popular initiatives calling for raising the national flag in the Kabyle provinces, considering that their message is clear: “Hands off Algeria.”
Hanoune linked her positions to the significance of commemorating December 11, 1960, considering it a pivotal moment in the history of the liberation revolution, when Algerians of all backgrounds came out in support of the revolution and the demand for self-determination then presented to the United Nations. She affirmed that those historical demonstrations proved the existence of a unified Algerian nation with land, history, identity, and a state, pointing out that colonialism did not distinguish between Algerians, neither in repression nor in…
