People of the Revolution and the USSR

National Liberation Front (FLN, Algeria) National liberation and anti-colonial movements 1925–1961 ○ Illness

The psychiatrist who diagnosed colonialism itself as the disease

“For Europe, for ourselves and for humanity, comrades, we must set afoot a new man.” — The Wretched of the Earth, 1961

Psychiatrist and anti-colonial revolutionary from Martinique. His Black Skin, White Masks (1952) dissected the psychological violence of colonialism; The Wretched of the Earth (1961) theorized the liberation struggle. Joined the Algerian FLN and died of leukemia at thirty-six.