Georges Labica (1930–2009) taught philosophy at the University of Algiers after liberation and at the 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, violence, and co-edited with Gérard Bensussan the Dictionnaire critique du Marxisme.