 The other important political event of that era was the Algerian War of Independence, to which the young Foucault, Derrida and Frantz Fanon went.While the PCF had a problematic role to play, dissident Marxist-Leninists of that era went there to help rebelling Algerians.Undoubtedly, for the next generation, the great political upheaval was the student-worker protests of May 1968.