 The OS sought the support of all the different Algerian political organizations to create the Front de Liberation Nationale (FLN) after launching the Algerian War of Independence in 1954.Messali Hadj had completely lost control of the movement in a process that began more than two years earlier when he refused to compromise with the mainstream in the MTLD.In 1955, he created his own so-called resistance group, by the name of the Algerian National Movement ("Mouvement National Algérien")(MNA).