The F.L.N. strike aimed to externalize Algeria’s conflict to the United Nations.

Evidence

The principle of the strike followed as a direct consequence of the priority of externalising the conflict, determined at Soummam the previous September, but specifically, in its timing and duration, it seems to have been the brain-child of Ben M’hidi. It was to coincide with the opening of the United Nations session in New York and was to last eight days. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 569 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Seen purely in overt terms of United Nations votes collected, however, 1957 was a disappointment for the F.L.N. despite the intense activities of their representatives there. French diplomacy had fought a hard struggle to maintain that Algeria was an “internal affair” for France, and therefore the United Nations was not competent to deal with it. … At the February session, to which the F.L.N.’s abortive general strike launching the Battle of Algiers had been geared, the powerful Political Committee, by a narrow vote of 34 to 33 with 10 abstentions, threw out the Afro-Asian resolution, and it was defeated once again in December 1957. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 766 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The FLN’s general strike aimed to internationalize the Algerian conflict at the UN. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 569; The FLN’s general strike aimed to sway the UN debate on Algeria.; France won the 1957 U.N. battle to keep Algeria an internal affair — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 766

Related

• The FLN’s general strike aimed to sway the UN debate on Algeria. (similarity 0.91)
• France won the 1957 U.N. battle to keep Algeria an internal affair (similarity 0.91)
• The FLN’s general strike aimed to internationalize the Algerian conflict at the UN. (similarity 0.89)
• Bandung’s condemnation of colonialism internationalized the Algerian conflict. (similarity 0.88)
• The FLN weighed international opinion when choosing when to use terror (similarity 0.85)
• The Bandung Conference internationalized the Algerian cause and opened the road to the U.N. (similarity 0.84)
• The Algiers defeat exposed a fatal interior-exterior rift in F.L.N. leadership (similarity 0.84)
• The F.L.N.’s Algiers urban operations failed almost entirely on the opening night (similarity 0.83)
• The F.L.N.’s U.N. lobbyists won influence through cosmopolitan charm networks (similarity 0.83)
• Defeat in Algiers pushed the F.L.N. leadership toward internal collapse. (similarity 0.82)
• The eight-day strike proved the FLN’s gravest tactical error of the war. (similarity 0.80)
• F.L.N. leadership regrouped in Tunis after losing Algiers to the French. (similarity 0.80)
• The F.L.N. physically extended its Algerian terror and fundraising methods to metropolitan France. (similarity 0.79)
• The hijacking saved the F.L.N. from an interior-exterior split (similarity 0.79)
• The F.L.N. forced the French to abandon every major negotiating demand in sequence. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• The FLN’s general strike aimed to internationalize the Algerian conflict at the UN. #corroborates (1.00) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 569
• The FLN’s general strike aimed to sway the UN debate on Algeria. #corroborates (0.90)
• France won the 1957 U.N. battle to keep Algeria an internal affair #contradicts (0.85) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 766