The main benefit for the F.L.N., however, was to be derived, unexpectedly and indirectly, rather from the methods used in breaking the strike than from anything achieved by it.

QUESTION: What specific repressive methods turned the strike's failure into an organizational advantage for the F.L.N.? This seems to hinge on how the French response radicalized or mobilized Algerians.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 573