She is known for having denounced the dissolution of the Islamic Salvation Front, being outspoken in favor of reconciliation and, along with other parties, signed the Sant'Egidio platform "for a political solution to the Algerian crisis". During the period of newly independent Algeria, Hanoune formed her political ideals: "The whole country was still pulsing from the war of liberation, everybody was talking about socialism, of justice, of progress. Algeria was at the height of its anti-imperialist battle... we were completely united with the Palestinians, their cause was also ours. We were against apartheid in South Africa, we talked about Vietnam, I grew up like all my generation in this militant atmosphere, of struggle".