The Algerian Communist Party sided with French settlers rather than Muslim nationalists

Evidence

With Europeans comprising the large proportion of its membership (which was only 12,000), the P.C.A. tended to support the petits blancs rather than the Muslims, and, not without reason, Algerian nationalists had come to regard it as being tarred with the racist and anti-religious brush of Stalinism. It was closely associated with the French Communist Party and aligned to Moscow, where the acquisition of the soul of the French worker (who had only the most meagre natural sympathy for the Algerian, seen either as an immigrant worker threatening his own job, or as a rebel killing and mutilating working-class pieds noirs) clearly rated a higher priority than the national aspirations of a few million non-Communist Algerians. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 423 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

When it broke out on November 1, 1954, the Algerian Revolution was suddenly to reveal our ambivalence. We had pronounced ourselves in favor of the right of the Vietnamese people and the Tunisian people to their independence. These positions were purely theoretical, however, as the total absence of political life in our community afforded no opportunity for concrete attitudes. As for the rights of the Algerian people, the question did not even arise, and we took refuge by comfortably and magically denying the problem. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 544 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Algerian Communist Party prioritized French workers over Algerian nationalist aspirations — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 423; Leftist Europeans supported distant decolonizations while denying Algeria’s own independence question — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 544; No genuinely independent left existed among Algeria’s European democrats before the revolution (+1 more)

Related

• The Algerian Communist Party prioritized French workers over Algerian nationalist aspirations (similarity 0.92)
• Leftist Europeans supported distant decolonizations while denying Algeria’s own independence question (similarity 0.87)
• No genuinely independent left existed among Algeria’s European democrats before the revolution (similarity 0.86)
• Algeria’s liberal European third force collapsed once the French Left aligned with settler fascism. (similarity 0.84)
• The French Left’s inaction eliminated any liberal alternative for Algeria’s Europeans (similarity 0.84)
• French colonialism denied that Europeans could genuinely support Algerian independence (similarity 0.83)
• The European settler minority is the central obstacle to ending the Algerian war (similarity 0.83)
• French republicans denied Algerians the very liberty they taught them (similarity 0.82)
• A liberal colonia could have kept Europeans in independent Algeria. (similarity 0.81)
• Algerians credited France’s Algerian achievements as benefiting French settlers, not natives. (similarity 0.81)
• Communism exerted little influence on the F.L.N. war effort (similarity 0.80)
• Most Algerian colons were not ethnically French at all. (similarity 0.80)
• Communists and the Algiers lobby made any liberal Algerian policy impossible in the Assembly. (similarity 0.80)
• Algeria’s Europeans grew conscious of Algerian nationality during the Revolution (similarity 0.80)
• Algeria’s war was primarily anti-colonial, not religious. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• The Algerian Communist Party prioritized French workers over Algerian nationalist aspirations #corroborates (0.90) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 423
• Leftist Europeans supported distant decolonizations while denying Algeria’s own independence question #expands (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 544
• No genuinely independent left existed among Algeria’s European democrats before the revolution #corroborates (0.60)