80 years after the massacres of Setif, Guelma and Kherrata: Algeria has won, Palestine will win!

On 8 May 2025, we commemorate the 80th anniversary of the massacres of Setif, Guelma, and Kherrata, during which 45,000 Algerians were assassinated by French colonial troops and European militias on 8 May 1945 and in the days that followed.

We commemorate this bloody date this year, as at the same time, in Gaza, the Zionist occupation army has been committing genocide for 19 months, still preventing humanitarian aid from entering the blockaded enclave, condemning the Palestinian population to famine and disease, while continuing to bomb what remains of ruins and tents, and announcing an imminent massive ground invasion of Gaza. At the same time, a bloody offensive has been carried out for over 100 days on the refugee camps of Jenin and Nour Shams, forcing tens of thousands of residents into exile, in an attempt to annihilate the resistance and liquidate Palestinian refugee camps and the right to return.

Despite this violence, the Palestinian resistance continues to inflict significant losses on the occupying forces and to defend its people and land with courage and dignity.

The French colonial empire carried out its massacres in Algeria, in Madagascar, in Indochina, in Cameroon—more than a century and a half after having drowned in blood Delgrès and his comrades in Guadeloupe, and nearly a century after the crushing of the great Kanak uprising.

Today, France is part of the imperialist powers which, in various ways and on different scales, support, finance, equip, enable, and legitimize the ongoing genocide in Gaza. At the same time, it is participating in attempting to impose by force the disarmament of the resistance in Palestine and in Lebanon and the governance of a corrupt and collaborationist Palestinian Authority, while it continues to imprison the Palestinian resistance fighter Georges Ibrahim Abdallah after 40 years of political and judicial persecution. This same government also represses the solidarity movement with Palestine, by demanding the dissolution of Urgence Palestine and, before it, the Collectif Palestine Vaincra.

This genocide is made possible only through the support and direct participation of imperialist and colonial powers such as France, the USA, Canada, Britain and Germany, and the complicity of the Arab normalization regimes.

The martyrs we see in Palestine, whose bodies and blood flood our screens and minds, for whom our eyes no longer have enough tears, and whose memory tears our hearts apart with incomparable pain, are in every way like our martyrs of Algeria, of Vietnam, of Cameroon, of Guadeloupe, and of Kanaky.

In one week, on 15 May 2025, we will commemorate the 77th anniversary of the Nakba. In memory of our martyrs, in memory of the ancestors and peoples cut down by colonial and imperialist violence, mobilizing against genocide, Zionism, colonialism, and in support of the Palestinian resistance is the greatest tribute.

“Each time one of us gives their life, they become a promise we are responsible for keeping” — Mohamed Boudia

Faced with the ongoing genocide in Gaza, where horror follows horror, where the martyrs water the land with their blood, where dismembered bodies appear before our eyes, we must remember that neither mass rapes, nor massacres of entire villages, nor torture and assassinations, nor smoke killings were able to break the resistance of the Algerian people.

We must remember that neither Napalm, nor Agent Orange, nor massive bombings across the entire Vietnamese territory were able to crush the determination and resistance of the Vietnamese people.

Today more than ever, in tribute to those whose lives were taken and crushed by colonial savagery, we must continue to mobilize in support of the Palestinian resistance and echo, here, its struggle against genocide, colonialism, and imperialism. Awaiting the day when the Palestinian people will taste freedom, when colonialism and oppression will be erased from their land, when the dreams of the martyrs will bloom through the smiles and hands of future generations. That day when the colonizer will be truly defeated and pay for their crimes. On that day, a part of the promise to the martyrs will be fulfilled.

Glory to the martyrs, may the infinite love of their people soothe the pain of their loved ones, and may their memory accompany the living along the long road to liberation.

Glory to the martyrs of Gaza, those whose memory is everything, those whose ruins are their dwellings, whose land weeps for their absence and for not being able to embrace their remains.

Glory to the martyrs with cold hands, to the mothers with hearts of fire, to those whose faces cover the walls and whose names are inscribed in the register of the eternal.

Algeria has won, Palestine will win!