جوانب من نشاط الحركة العمالية و النقابية في منطقة سيدي بلعباس 1889-1939

Abstract EN

This modest study attempts to clarify some hidden aspects of the history of the French labor and trade union movement in the Sidi Bel Abbas region in the period between 1889-1939, and it is certain that the Sidi Bel Abbas region was one of the most active regions in Algeria at the labor and trade union level, but it had a priority in the union agenda.

French, and perhaps the reason for this interest and preference is due to the dominant character of the European colonialists in that period, especially with the presence of the large European population in other cities.

A study of the history of the labor movement and trade unionism in the Sidi Bel Abbas region during the colonial era will find that the beginnings of union activity in it were in the agricultural field by establishing the Agriculture Syndicate and the Irrigation Syndicate.

Those unions have emptied of their real meaning, which is a defense of workers' rights, but this situation will change in the region after the beginning of the twentieth century after the revolutionary communist movement took control of it.

Where will trade unions appear aiming to defend the interests and rights of workers, which gave birth to a great link between the communist movement and the trade union movement, until Sidi Bel Abbas became known as the communism of its workers.

In summary, we tried to present what is new in terms of the historical material on this subject, especially with regard to the political association of the workers of the region through the control of the communist movement over political and trade union life in Sidi Bel Abbas, in the ence of previous studies that affected this aspect of the labor movement in the region of Sidi Bel Abbas In the colonial period.