The Left’s abortive strike showed it could not mount a counter-coup

Evidence

On 18 May Guy Mollet—for once out of harmony with his party—decided to back de Gaulle, provided he were to receive his authority from the Assembly, and not from the Algiers “rebels”. The next morning a completely abortive general strike called by the Left showed just how ill-organised it would be if it came to mustering any counter-coup. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 891

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: France’s moderate Left chose de Gaulle as lesser evil than the paras. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 902

Related

• The moderate French Left chose de Gaulle over facing civil war with paratroops (similarity 0.84)
• France’s moderate Left chose de Gaulle as lesser evil than the paras. (similarity 0.84)
• Communists and the Algiers lobby made any liberal Algerian policy impossible in the Assembly. (similarity 0.82)
• De Gaulle’s 1958 elections crushed Communist representation in the Assembly (similarity 0.80)
• Algeria’s liberal European third force collapsed once the French Left aligned with settler fascism. (similarity 0.79)
• De Gaulle’s conciliatory gestures angered the army while winning no concessions from the F.L.N. (similarity 0.78)
• OAS believed attacking French Communists would trap de Gaulle politically, but miscalculated. (similarity 0.78)
• The French Left’s inaction eliminated any liberal alternative for Algeria’s Europeans (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• France’s moderate Left chose de Gaulle as lesser evil than the paras. #corroborates (0.70) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 902