Algerian migrant wages in France funded F.L.N. weapons against French conscripts

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 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Undelivered Moroccan weapons crippled the F.L.N.’s Oran operations; West Germany’s unregulated arms trade funneled weapons to the F.L.N.; Algerian immigrant remittances helped fund the F.L.N.’s war against France. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1637 (+7 more)

Related

• Algerian immigrant remittances helped fund the F.L.N.’s war against France. (similarity 0.93)
• Algerian workers in France lived in squalor while remitting vital billions home. (similarity 0.87)
• The F.L.N. physically extended its Algerian terror and fundraising methods to metropolitan France. (similarity 0.85)
• European settlers actively aided the F.L.N. and died for the Algerian cause (similarity 0.84)
• Undelivered Moroccan weapons crippled the F.L.N.’s Oran operations (similarity 0.81)
• French failed counterinsurgency reprisals drove the uncommitted into the F.L.N. (similarity 0.79)
• French workers’ domestic resistance to capitalism shortened Algeria’s war (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Algerian immigrant remittances helped fund the F.L.N.’s war against France. #corroborates (0.90) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1637