Algerian immigrant remittances helped fund the F.L.N.’s war against France.

Evidence

To meet this shortage of industrial manpower, which way did France turn? She increased the intake of Algerian immigrant workers so that their numbers actually rose by over thirty per cent in the course of the war, bringing a curious paradox in its wake. By 1960 the Algerian workers in France were sending home wages equivalent to about one-third of the earnings of the whole agricultural labour force in Algeria, which thus helped France by helping the Algerian economy. But at the same time those higher earnings also enabled the F.L.N. fund-raisers in France to purchase more weapons with which to shoot at the French conscripts whose places they were filling at home. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1637

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s tracking of how the colonial economy sustained the resistance itself. — connects to: European settlers actively aided the F.L.N. and died for the Algerian cause; Algerian Jews joined the F.L.N. as double agents against France.; Algerian migrant wages in France funded F.L.N. weapons against French conscripts (+2 more)

Related

• Algerian migrant wages in France funded F.L.N. weapons against French conscripts (similarity 0.93)
• Algerian workers in France lived in squalor while remitting vital billions home. (similarity 0.93)
• European settlers actively aided the F.L.N. and died for the Algerian cause (similarity 0.88)
• The F.L.N. physically extended its Algerian terror and fundraising methods to metropolitan France. (similarity 0.83)
• French workers’ domestic resistance to capitalism shortened Algeria’s war (similarity 0.82)
• Algerian migrant workers in France returned home carrying radical political ideas. (similarity 0.80)
• Algerians credited France’s Algerian achievements as benefiting French settlers, not natives. (similarity 0.80)
• Algerian Jews joined the F.L.N. as spies against French rule (similarity 0.79)
• French failed counterinsurgency reprisals drove the uncommitted into the F.L.N. (similarity 0.78)
• France made substantial material and infrastructural improvements in Algeria (similarity 0.78)
• The F.L.N. coerced Algeria’s Jews through terrorism and economic sanctions (similarity 0.78)
• Jewish tradesmen in close contact with Algerians supplied the A.L.N. militarily (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Algerian workers in France lived in squalor while remitting vital billions home. #expands (0.75) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1663