, by WILLSHER Kim
The president has admitted to French brutality during the Algerian war of independence. Michèle Audin speaks of the fight for justice.
Michèle Audin was three years old and fast asleep with her two younger siblings when French paratroopers burst into her family’s flat on the third floor of an (...)
, by CHRISAFIS Angelique
Emmanuel Macron also recognises role of state in 1957 death of dissident Maurice Audin.
France has officially acknowledged for the first time that it carried out systematic torture during Algeria’s independence war – a landmark admission about conduct in the conflict which ended 56 years ago and (...)
, by HUSSEY Andrew
In the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo shooting, we must address France’s long war with its Arabs. Andrew Hussey reports from Paris..
On one of my first ever visits to Paris, I was confronted by a massacre, an attack on Jo Goldenberg’s deli on 9 August 1982. Goldenberg’s was at the heart of the (...)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
Decades since the spring of 1934 when the Communists first proposed the Popular Front as their strategy for fighting fascism and even longer since the summer of 1939 when it was suddenly terminated by the Hitler-Stalin Pact, the Popular Front—the alliance of the Communists with Socialists, (...)
, by Commission d’Enquête Citoyenne, GEOUFFRE de la PRADELLE Géraud de
Self-présentation of the CEC taken form the website of the association Survie.
For Survie, the 1994 Tutsi genocide in Rwanda was a truly shocking event which had a decisive influence on the association’s activities. The Rwandan affair gave a clear indication of Françafrique’s criminal mechanisms. (...)
, by RUSCIO Alain
For Alain Ruscio, historian of colonialism, the rehabilitation of France’s colonial past is fraught with danger for the cohesion of French society. Huma: Many historians and teachers have expressed their indignation in relation to Article 4 of the Law of 23 February 2005 which sings the praises (...)
, by RUSCIO Alain
For the historian Alain Ruscio, “a paternalistic racism” was manifested in 1931. Interview with Alain Ruscio, author of 1931: L’apogée de la bonne conscience morale" (La Dispute editions, 2005).
L’HUMANITE: What was the social political context of the era?
ALAIN RUSCIO: In 1931 there was a major (...)
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