Resistance had begun in the wake of a project

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Corsica valiantly resisted Italian occupation and in 1943 was the first French department to be liberated. But, at the beginning of the sixties, the islanders opted for another resistance, this time not in the name of France but in their own name, the name of Corsica. announced by Paris in 1957 to stimulate tourism and agriculture, a project from which the Corsicans felt themselves to be excluded. Friction increased with the arrival of settlers from Algeria who installed themselves on the island for the purpose of wine and fruit cultivation.

In 1975 the autonomists, led by Edmond Simoni, occupied the cellars of a pied-noir (former French coloniser of Algeria) in Aleria. There was a shoot-out, two gendarmes were wounded, Simeoni imprisoned. A phone number list few months after this incident, the Corsican Liberation Front (F.L.N.C.: Front de Liberation National de la Corse) was founded. The influence of various movements and nationaist parties has obliged Paris to take a decentralist course, but the malaise has not been cured and the island is still sparodically shaken by partisan assaults on public buildings and development projects.

If we use representation in the Corsican Assembly as a yard-stick, the nationalist movement is split into five groupings: Cuncolta Nazionaliste (independence movement), Verdi Corsi (ecologist): these two have come together in a coalition called Corsica Nazione, the A.N.C.-sic (Alliance Nationaliste Corse), the U.P.C. (Union du Peuple Corse), and finally the M.P.A.