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The **Black Spring** was an [indigenist
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uprising](List_of_Libertarian_Socialist_Revolutions "wikilink")
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coordinated predominately by [Amazigh](Amazigh "wikilink") people in
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Kabylie, [Algeria](People's_Democratic_Republic_of_Algeria "wikilink")
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in
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[2001](Timeline_of_Libertarian_Socialism_in_Northern_Africa "wikilink").
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## Background
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Amazigh people had face hundreds of years of war and genocide, the
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expropriation of land, destruction of culture and racist practices from
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the Algerian population. The killing of an Amazigh teenager by
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[police](police "wikilink") on the 18th of April, 2001 and the arresting
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of his friends in suspicious circumstances led to riots.\[1\]
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## Events
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Starting of the 21st of April, people began fighting with police,
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burning down police stations, welfare offices, government buildings and
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the offices of all [political parties](Political_Party "wikilink").
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After police were removed from the region, not only was there very
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little crime\[2\] but further protests into the capital of Algiers were
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organized.\[3\] Despite pressure to institutionalize from
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[academics](University "wikilink") and NGOs to form political parties or
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charities, the protesters continued to use insurrectionary tactics and
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rejected the measures of the state.\[4\]
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## Results
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The uprising led to the withdrawing of police and military units from
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the whole of Kabylie, the reinstantement of the traditional djemmâa
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system of [popular assembly](Democratic_Assembly "wikilink") to replace
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the [state](State_\(Polity\) "wikilink") and the recongition of
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Tamazight, the Amazigh language across Algeria.\[5\]
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## References
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<references />
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1. Jaime Semprun, (2002) <em>Apología por la Insurrección Argelina</em>
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2. [CrimethInc](CrimethInc "wikilink") -
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<https://crimethinc.com/2017/11/02/other-rojavas-echoes-of-the-free-commune-of-barbacha-an-autonomous-uprising-in-north-africa-2012-2014>
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3.
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4. [Peter Gelderloos](Peter_Gelderloos "wikilink") (2010) [Anarchy
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Works](Anarchy_Works "wikilink"), pages 205 - 213
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5. [Peter Gelderloos](Peter_Gelderloos "wikilink") (2015) [The Failure
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of Nonviolence](The_Failure_of_Nonviolence "wikilink") |