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, by PRINCIPE Michael
REVOLUTION, ENZO TRAVERSO’s impressive engagement with revolutionary theory, practice and imagery, is filled with noteworthy insights and nuanced connections between ideas and events that will cause the reader — even when familiar with the subjects — to pause, reflect and reconsider the (...)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
The first of an occasional series of articles on the lives of figures of the French left.
For more than a decade, from 1936 to 1947, Laurent Schwartz (1915-2002), the famous mathematician, was a Trotskyist in France, though that was only one short period in a long life dedicated to (...)
, by BESANCENOT Olivier, Fourth International, KRIVINE Hubert, KRIVINE Michèle, MERLO Alex, MICHALOUX Charles, TOUSSAINT Éric
Tributes at Alain Krivine’s funeral on 21 March, 2022, Père-Lachaise cemetery, Paris.
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“To hold on as he held on, optimism of the will had to prevail”
MICHÈLE KRIVINE
I wanted to begin this tribute to Alain with a prelude by Bach played by Rostropovich, because he (...)
, by CPB (ML), FI Japan Section, McGROGAN Manus, ROSO Darren, TOUSSAINT Éric
Condolence Message from the Communist Party of Bangladesh-ML(CPBML)
We, Communist Party of Bangladesh-ML(CPBML), belonging to FI Bangladesh Section, are deeply shocked to hear the death news of Comrade Alain Krivine who was a distinguished figure of FI, the Ex- Deputy of France and the (...)
, by CUKIER Alexis, GARO Isabelle, LÖWY Michael
Isabelle Garo and Alex Cukier interviews Michael Löwy about his way into Marxism and the challenges for Marx’s thought in the world today.
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How did you first come across Marx’s thought?
Michael Löwy. Let me start from the beginning. I was born in Brazil in 1938, in the (...)
, by CREMIEUX Léon
Our comrade Alain was, for more than 40 years, at the heart of the life and leadership of our International and its French section, while contributing to the construction of other sections. He was one of the main spokespersons for our ideas and our internationalist struggles, always seeking to (...)
, by PLENEL Edwy
The death of Alain Krivine on 12 March, aged eighty, saw the passing of the last of the leading ‘68ers who had remained faithful to the revolts of his youth, mixing anti-imperialism, anti-Stalinism and anti-capitalism. He combined his fidelity to his cause with a clear integrity, at odds with (...)
, by Sotsialnyi Rukh (Social Movement) Ukraine
On March 12, 2022, Alain Krivine, one of the key characters of the Fourth International and the 1968 Red May protests in France, died.
The 1968 revolt in France started with radical student protests, events rapidly grew into a 10-million worker strike, in which trade unions raised (...)
, by PLENEL Edwy
The death of Alain Krivine on March 12th, at the age of 80, saw the passing of the last of the leading militants of the May 1968 revolts in France who remained faithful to the ideals of his youth, mixing anti-imperialism, anti-Stalinism and anti-capitalism. To this fidelity, writes Mediapart’s (...)
, par NPA
Our comrade Alain Krivine left us today, at the age of 80. We, the comrades of the NPA, join in the grief of his family, his loved ones, and all those who recognised themselves in the struggles he led.
For more than 65 years, Alain was a tireless activist, present in all the struggles (...)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
Alain Krivine, a French revolutionary socialist, died today March 12 at the age of eighty. A leader in the student and anti-imperialist movements of the 1960s, an important figure in the May 1968 upheaval in France, he was for many years one of the best-known figures of the French left. He was (...)
, by Sotsialnyi Rukh (Social Movement) Ukraine
Alain Krivine, one of the key figures of the Fourth International and the 1968 Red May protests in France, died on March 12, 2022. Starting with radical student demonstrations, the events of that time escalated into a 10 million workers’ strike, during which the unions demanded 40-60-1000: the (...)
, by TOUSSAINT Éric
Michel Husson’s decease will leave many comrades all over the world with a deep sense of loss and bereavement.
Michel Husson (1949-2021), who had a solid training as an economist, was a keen observer of the capitalist system and its evolution in order to contribute to its overthrow and to (...)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
It is with great sadness that we learn of the sudden death of Michel Husson, caused by caused by a ruptured aneurysm, during a mountain hike in Corvara In Badia, in the heart of the Dolomites (Italian Alps).
This page will be devoted to tributes in his memory. Many of us owe him a great (...)
, by DUGGAN Penelope, Ensemble !
Many tributes were paid to the Fourth Internationalist and and eminent medical researcher Gérard Chaouat. Here we publish two in translation. Others can be found (in French) on the ESSF site in a dedicated rubric.
Our friend and comrade Gérard Chaouat has just left us. He was a friend that (...)
, by TRAT Josette
It was in 2017, so very late in the day, that I truly discovered the extent of the struggles waged by Gisèle Halimi. Having started to campaign on the eve of May 1968, I have always attached a great deal of interest to the leaders of major social movements. I knew that Gisèle Halimi had (...)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
Pierre Granet was born on 6 Septembre 1949 in Marseilles and died on 2 May 2020 in Toulouse. He became politically active as a high-school student in Cannes from 1963, notably in soldiarity with the Algerian revolution . He rapidly joined the JCR and the PCI, then French section of the Fourth (...)
, by LÖWY Michael
Daniel Bensaïd has the merit of having introduced a new concept into the Marxist lexicon: bifurcation. He has, so to speak, sketched the broad outlines of what one might call a Marxism of bifurcation.
Ten years after his death, the thought of Daniel Bensaïd remains more alive than ever: We (...)
, by LÖWY Michael
Michel Lequenne died on 13 February 2020, at almost 99 years old. He was a singular, atypical Trotskyist, an outstanding character, by the strength of his convictions, his polemical verve, his extraordinary – self-taught! – political, literary, artistic and historical culture, his propensity (...)
, by FRONCZAK Joseph
A Review of Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory by Enzo Traverso
Abstract
Taking up Walter Benjamin’s idea of ‘left-wing melancholy’, yet investing the concept with redemptive qualities, Enzo Traverso argues that melancholy offers the left a resource for mobilising a (...)
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