Mohamed Saïl

The Algerian-French revolutionary Mohamed Saïl, whose full name is Mohand Amezian ben Ameziane Saïl, was born on October 14, 1894, in the village of Taourirt in the commune of Souk Oufella in the province of Béjaia in the Kabylie region, and he died on April 27, 1953, in Bobigny (Seine). As a child, Mohamed was one of the few who were able to attend primary school for a short period, but he managed to become self-taught. He spent the first half of the 1920s as an anti-militarist activist (he rebelled and refused to enlist in the French army during the First World War 1914–1918). He worked in his life as a driver mechanic and then a pottery repairer. He was also an anarchist, anarcho-syndicalist, anti-colonial activist and fierce opponent of nationalism and the Communist state, in addition to being a writer and volunteer in the International Group of the Durruti Column during the Spanish Civil War.

The French writer Jacques Prévert dedicated a poem to him. Provided by Wikipedia