The French Anarchist Federation, whose members were well represented among contributors to "Le Libertaire", underwent a breakup of its own during the early 1950s. In May 1953, after the takeover by the and the exclusion or departure of those opposed to it, the residual Anarchist Federation renamed itself as the Federation of Libertarian Communism (FCL) and it was this group within an increasingly fragmented movement that now owned the title "Le Libertaire". Starting with issue 378, dated 3 December 1953, the newspaper's front page featured the subtitle "Organe de la Fédération Communiste Libertaire". By this time, the war in Algeria was rising rapidly up the political agenda and "Le Libertaire" backed independence for Algeria. The FCL now found itself under attack from the government in the courts, and built up a crippling burden of legal indebtedness. Weekly editions of "Le Libertaire" disappeared in July 1956, three years after the anarchist schism that had given birth to the FCL and its control of the newspaper. The national council of the FCL resolved to "suspend" "Le Libertaire" on 17 July 1956. By that time, edition 486, the final edition of the series, had already appeared on 5 July 1956. The newspaper's role would eventually be taken on by "Le Monde libertaire", published by a reconstituted anarchist federation which would take up the torch of "Le Libertaire".