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In 1968, Benjamin Stora joined Pierre Lambert's Trotskyist activist group "Alliance des Jeunes pour le Socialisme – Organisation Communiste Internationaliste" (AJS-OCI, lit. "youth's alliance for socialism – internationalist communist organisation"). In 1986, Stora made a biography about Algerian nationalist and independentist leader Messali Hadj (Algerian National Movement).