French labour unions united across party lines against the Algerian war

Evidence

In a remarkable summer entente, the Communist and non-Communist trade unions had joined together to plead for successful peace negotiations, with threats of a general strike “as an answer to any insurrection or coup d’état that might tend to impede the Algerian peace”, and the government had actually had to ban all demonstrations in favour of peace. … Among the youth of France the Algerian war was coming to be known as “The Hundred Years’ War” — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1272

Categorization

• XREF: Connect to the Melun failure discussed earlier and to later escalation; the phrase Hundred Years’ War parallels how colonial wars resist decisive endings. — connects to: French workers’ domestic resistance to capitalism shortened Algeria’s war; The ‘Algeria is France’ consensus spanned nearly the whole French political spectrum — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 317

Related

• French workers’ domestic resistance to capitalism shortened Algeria’s war (similarity 0.88)
• A broad front of ex-ministers formed around Algérie française in 1960. (similarity 0.79)
• Algerian ultras refused to reckon with metropolitan France’s reaction (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• The ‘Algeria is France’ consensus spanned nearly the whole French political spectrum #corroborates (0.65) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 317