Georges Labica

Georges Labica (1930-2009) was one of the most prominent communist intellectuals in France in recent decades. He taught philosophy at the University of Algiers after its liberation and at the University of Nanterre (Paris X) from 1968 onwards. He actively participated in Algeria's anti-colonial struggle through the ranks of the National Liberation Front (FLN) and in the political and social struggles of the French people. He joined the French Communist Party in 1954 and left it in 1982. He was a co-founder of the theoretical journal Dialectiques in 1973. From the 1980s, he actively engaged in various initiatives to reorganize the forces of the radical Left. Among other works, he wrote significant studies on Arab-Muslim thought, Marx and Marxism, the relationship between democracy and revolution, Robespierre, and violence, and co-edited the publication of the Critical Dictionary of Marxism.