Georges Labica (1930-2009) taught philosophy at the University of Algiers after liberation and at Nanterre (Paris X) from 1968 onwards. Actively involved in the Algerian anti-colonial struggle in the ranks of the FLN and in struggles in France, he was a member of the PCF from 1954 to 1982 and co-founded the journal Dialectiques in 1973. He wrote important studies on Arab-Muslim thought, Marx and Marxism, Robespierre, and violence, and co-edited with Gérard Bensussan the Dictionnaire critique du Marxisme (1982).  Among other titles, he wrote Théorie de la violence (2007), Robespierre, une politique de la philosophie (1990), Karl Marx. Les Thèses sur Feuerbach (1987) and Le Statut marxiste de la philosophie (1976).