Visiting with Eldridge Cleaver in the Casbah

Algiers — Someone was once quoted, out of context of course, as saying if you’ve seen one slum you’ve seen them all; he might have substituted Revolutionary Fronts for slums.

The capital of Colonel Boumédienne’s socialist republic has become the Mecca of revolution, a haven for fugitives from America, South Africa, Rhodesia, Portugal, Palestine, Angola, Mozambique and just about everywhere else. From tough-talking, fire-breathing Black Panthers to soft-spoken, intellectually inclined Portuguese, Algiers welcomes all revolutionaries (except, of course Christians from the south Sudan—who have allegedly been massacred to the tune of 500,000 by the Moslem northerners— and, heaven forbid, any Algerian).

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Algiers — Someone was once quoted, out of context of course, as saying if you’ve seen one slum you’ve seen them all; he might have substituted Revolutionary Fronts for slums.

The capital of Colonel Boumédienne’s socialist republic has become the Mecca of revolution, a haven for fugitives from America, South Africa, Rhodesia, Portugal, Palestine, Angola, Mozambique and just about everywhere else. From tough-talking, fire-breathing Black Panthers to soft-spoken, intellectually inclined Portuguese, Algiers welcomes all revolutionaries (except, of course Christians from the south Sudan—who have allegedly been massacred to the tune of 500,000 by the Moslem northerners— and, heaven forbid, any Algerian).