Workers' Party
Subsequent to the riots of 1988, Algeria adopted a pluralist system in 1989 which made possible for Hanoune to establish the Workers' Party. The Workers' Party was founded in 1990 by writ of the Socialist Workers Organization. Their main platform concerns the class struggle between the workers or "exploited classes" and the owners or "oppressors". It is an independent party which supports the Algerian national movement. Hanoune was the leader and spokesperson of the party since its inception and was elected Secretary General of the party in October 2005. In 2007, there were 23 parties contesting elections in Algeria.
She is known for having denounced the dissolution of the Islamic Salvation Front, being outspoken in favor of reconciliation and, along with other parties, signed the Sant'Egidio platform "for a political solution to the Algerian crisis". During the period of newly independent Algeria, Hanoune formed her political ideals: “The whole country was still pulsing from the war of liberation, everybody was talking about socialism, of justice, of progress. Algeria was at the height of its anti-imperialist battle... we were completely united with the Palestinians, their cause was also ours. We were against apartheid in South Africa, we talked about Vietnam, I grew up like all my generation in this militant atmosphere, of struggle”.
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