Algerian Independence and the British Left

Mélanie Torrent is Professor of British and Commonwealth History at the Université de Picardie Jules Verne, France, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, UK and was a junior member of the Institut universitaire de France. She is the author of Diplomacy and Nation-Building: Franco-British Relations and Cameroon at the End of Empire (2012).

Preface by Martin Evans
Acknowledgments
List of acronyms
List of illustrations
A note on aims, sources and terms
Introduction
Chapter 1. Putting Algeria on the anticolonial map: North Africa and the politics of empire in post-war Britain
Chapter 2. Algeria in anticolonial and pro-peace networks in Britain: self-determination, world security and early appraisals of Algerian nationalist movements
Chapter 3. Searching for socialism under Guy Mollet: French socialists, Algerian nationalists and a divided British left
Chapter 4. A world of military force? France, Algeria and Labour’s internationalist policies at the time of Suez
Chapter 5. Labour and Algeria’s first unofficial diplomats in Britain: testing anticolonial ideas, practices and networks
Chapter 6. ‘No longer domestic’: Labour activism and the British debate for rights, peace and justice in Algeria
Chapter 7. Democracy under threat? The British left and the Algerian birth of the Fifth Republic
Chapter 8. Meeting the FLN in Africa: new international forces, new Labour perspectives?
Chapter 9. Beyond the politics of war? H-bomb protests, refugee relief and the limits of anticolonialism in British society
Chapter 10. Algeria in the year of Africa: winds of change for the British left?
Chapter 11. Individual freedoms and collective security: reassessing violence and diplomacy at the end of empire
Chapter 12. Independence at long last: a victory for socialism?
Chapter 13. After Algeria’s independence: perspectives and limits of a Labour government in waiting
Conclusion
Sources
Index