The police waited for the Algerians to come up out of the metro stations, made them stand still with their hands above their heads, then hit them with truncheons....Corpses were found hanging in the Bois de Boulogne, and others, disfigured and mutilated, in the Seine... Ten thousand Algerians had been herded into the Vel'd'Hiv' [stadium], like the Jews in Drancy once before. Again I loathed it all -- this country, myself, the whole world.

For centuries the capitalists have behaved like real war criminals in the underdeveloped world. Deportation, massacres, forced labor, [genocide,] and slavery were the primary methods used by capitalism to increase its gold and diamond reserves, and establish its wealth and power.

Not so long ago, Nazism transformed the whole of Europe into a genuine colony.

The colonized subject discovers reality and transforms it through his praxis, his deployment of violence and his agenda for liberation.

During a particularly brutal offensive in July 1959 named Operation Binoculars, General René Challe’s troops sought to root out the insurgents of the Armée de Liberation Nationale (ALN) hiding in the high Kabylia mountains by annihilating local villages that offered support to the nationalists. The policy of regroupement, or resettlement, moved the rural population to barbed-wire compounds resembling concentration camps —fifteen thousand people sequestered in a space meant for three thousand and surrounded by bleak torched fields “without water, without sewage or sanitation of any kind, without land to cultivate and for the most part without work..."