On this day, 1 November 1954, the Algerian war began as Algerians revolted against French colonial rule. The French military responded to the rebellion with extreme brutality, using widespread torture and killing hundreds of thousands of people, mostly civilians. Later on, French paramilitaries joined the conflict, carrying out terrorist attacks and murders of Algerian civilians. Back at home, French police murdered scores of people who demonstrated against French colonialism, mostly French Muslims and French Algerians, but also several white French communists. However, the anti-colonial struggle continued and ended with Algerian independence in 1962.
This is a 1959 account of the impacts of the struggle by Frantz Fanon: https://libcom.org/library/dying-colonialism-frantz-fanon
Pictured: Algerian independence fighters https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1571186866399791/?type=3