Empire's Legacy : Roots of a Far-right Affinity in Contemporary France (9780190875688) by Veugelers John W. P

Author:Veugelers, John W. P.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
Published: 2019-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

After deploring the plight of a people robbed of its own land, the article ends with a cheap shot. The Israeli Army, this columnist writes, is using gas against its enemies, just as Adolf Hitler did.84

To explain the rise in working-class support for the far right, again National hebdo relies on French Algeria. Due to immigration and deindustrialization, the newspaper says, workers are losing their jobs and class-consciousness. Wanting a better future, they are deserting the Communists and Socialists for the National Front. This recalls a precedent:

Bab El Oued and Oran were both bastions of French Algerian resistance. One was a working-class neighborhood, the other a large working-class city. Very often their inhabitants who took up arms were of foreign origin: Spaniards, Italians. Some were veterans of the International Brigades. In Algeria, when their back was up against the wall, their only recourse was the Nation.85

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