Abane forced Abbas to dissolve his party and join the F.L.N.
Evidence
It marked a long march from Abbas’s oft-quoted statement of 1936 — “I will not die for the Algerian nation, because it does not exist.” A few weeks later, Abbas had an “exploratory” meeting with Abane, Krim and Ouamrane in Algiers. With outright frankness, Abane told him: “The revolution has been unleashed, and it is the work of neither Messali, nor the U.D.M.A. All that is out of date. Your duty is to join the Front.” When Abbas asked Abane what precisely he should do, he was told: “Dissolve the U.D.M.A., and announce that you are going over to the Front.” — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 434
Categorization
- XREF: Caps Abbas’s arc from assimilationist to nationalist — a trajectory echoing his 1936 denial of an Algerian nation. — connects to: The revolution forced even arch-moderate Abbas to abandon gradualism; The moderationist Ferhat Abbas relinquished his party to join the F.L.N.; The moderate Abbas moved to the F.L.N. because reform failed — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 432 (+2 more)
Related
- The moderationist Ferhat Abbas relinquished his party to join the F.L.N. (similarity 0.91)
- The revolution forced even arch-moderate Abbas to abandon gradualism (similarity 0.88)
- The moderate Abbas moved to the F.L.N. because reform failed (similarity 0.84)
- Abane’s 1955 proclamation transformed the F.L.N.’s propaganda and threatened rival factions (similarity 0.81)
- Threats of violence against his family pressured Abbas into the F.L.N. (similarity 0.81)
- Defeated reformism pushed moderate nationalists toward the F.L.N. and total independence (similarity 0.80)
- Abbas’s 1943 Manifesto abandoned assimilation for Algerian self-government demands (similarity 0.78)
- Abbas signalled the F.L.N. might drop the independence precondition for talks (similarity 0.78)
- The F.L.N.’s anti-cult declaration deliberately signaled Abane’s impending removal. (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Threats of violence against his family pressured Abbas into the F.L.N.
#corroborates(0.70) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 435 - F.L.N. power struggles intensified as independence approached.
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