The Crisis in Algeria

During the final stage of french rule in algeria, there were highly charged debates about whether the longer term gold should be gradual assimilation. Within a year of independence, some 680 thousand pienois had re located to france. They brought with them their bitterness at the french alite for what they saw as the betrayal french algeria. And proved a fertile source of recruitment for jean marie lupin's far right national front party and his anti imigration policies. It is interesting to compare the very different approaches taken in france and in the uk.