“Majestic and Strong”: President Tebboune’s Message Calls Algeria to Honor Memory and Build Power

“Majestic and Strong”: President Tebboune’s Message Calls Algeria to Honor Memory and Build Power

✍️ BY: Dr. Hana Saada

Algiers, Algeria |  On the eve of National Mujahid Day, President Abdelmadjid Tebboune issued a stark, stirring call to remembrance and renewal, framing 20 August as both a moral reckoning and a strategic summons. Marking the twin anniversaries of the North-Constantinois Offensive (20 August 1955) and the Soummam Congress (20 August 1956), the Head of State urged Algerians to reaffirm their oath to the martyrs and veterans, and to carry forward the “eternal November message” by building an Algeria that is, in his words, “majestic and strong”—jealously protective of its sovereign will and the independence of its decision-making.

 

A Date That Tests Memory—and Measures Resolve

This commemoration is not ceremonial frill; it is a yardstick of national resolve. Seventy years on, the North-Constantinois Offensive endures as a decisive demonstration of courage and operational audacity—proof that the National Liberation Army (ALN) could seize the initiative, impose the terms of confrontation, and exact heavy costs from a technologically superior colonial army. President Tebboune’s message underscores precisely that: the Offensive’s operational brilliance broke the aura of invincibility that the colonial machine had cultivated and amplified the November 1 Revolution’s echo across the globe.

One year later, the Soummam Congress translated the Revolution’s raw heroism into an organized architecture. It codified structures, hierarchies, and a governing ethos—the primacy of politics over the military, and the precedence of internal leadership—ensuring discipline, coherence, and legitimacy. In recalling Soummam, the President emphasized an essential truth: enduring victories are not only won on the battlefield but are secured through organization, unity of purpose, and principled governance.

Honoring Sacrifice: Between Grief, Grit, and National Duty

President Tebboune’s statement is unflinching about the price paid: immeasurable sacrifices, unfathomable suffering, a people tempered by cruelty yet unbroken in faith. To revisit these chapters is not to wallow in trauma; it is to reaffirm a civic covenant—an oath to the martyrs (chouhada) and the living veterans (moudjahidine) that their struggle would never be trivialized or betrayed. That covenant, the President insists, is honored not by rhetoric but by statecraft: sovereignty guarded, interests clearly defined, and development pursued with uncompromising purpose.

From Memory to Mandate: Sovereignty as a Living Doctrine

“Majestic and strong” is more than a flourish; it is a governing doctrine. Sovereignty—as articulated in the President’s message—is not a talismanic word but a living system: the independence of national decision-making, the insulation of strategic choices from external pressure, and the discipline to align public power with the people’s aspirations. It is a reminder that the Revolution’s legacy demands results—security, stability, and the tangible well-being of citizens—delivered by institutions that act with competence and moral clarity.

The November Ethos, Operationalized

The President’s call to “renew our oath” is, at core, an injunction to operationalize November’s ethos in today’s Algeria:

• Strategic Clarity: Define national priorities with precision; resist drift, distraction, and dependency.

• Institutional Vigilance: Uphold merit, probity, and efficiency across the state apparatus—because weak institutions betray strong ideals.

• Social Cohesion: Safeguard unity through justice, opportunity, and dignified living—because national strength is indivisible from social equity.

• Development with Dignity: Pursue sustainable development not as a slogan but as a structured, measurable pathway to prosperity—energy transition, diversified industry, food and water security, knowledge capital, and digital sovereignty.

• International Poise: Engage the world without forfeiting autonomy, amplify Algeria’s voice where its principles and interests converge, and translate diplomatic credibility into concrete partnerships that serve the nation’s long-term strength.

The Moral Imperative of Continuity

By invoking the North-Constantinois Offensive and Soummam in a single breath, the President binds courage to order, sacrifice to stewardship. The message is crystalline: the memory we honor must be the future we build. A strong Algeria is not an aspiration to be admired from afar; it is a program to be executed—through rigorous governance, principled diplomacy, and a relentless focus on the public good.

A Closing That Commands Action

President Tebboune’s tribute to the martyrs and salute to the moudjahidine is not only elegiac. It is a command to the living—to citizens and institutions alike—to rise to the stature of their inheritance. Fidelity to November is tested in the real world: in how Algeria protects its decision-making, defends its sovereignty, and advances a development model worthy of its history.

National Mujahid Day thus becomes more than remembrance; it becomes mandate: to keep the nation’s compass fixed on dignity, to secure prosperity without dependency, and to ensure that the sacrifices that purchased freedom are honored by the power, integrity, and prosperity of the Republic.

Glory to the martyrs. Duty to the living. Strength and sovereignty to Algeria.

 

 

 

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