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Despite Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s strong showing in the recent presidential campaign, France’s left was defeated again by the neoliberal center and far right. The roots of that weakness lie in the Mitterrand government’s capitulation to neoliberalism in the 1980s.
France has once again come out of a (...)
Research shows the decline of religious influence in the 18th century explains the puzzle of lower fertility rates.
I know the rows over fish and migration mean we’re not talking to the French these days, but pondering their history is still allowed.
A huge historical puzzle is why France, (...)
Introduction
The Paris Commune of 1871 only lasted from March 18 to May 28, just 72 days, yet it is one of the most celebrated events in socialist history. It is a legend. Yet, what was it? What is it for us today? A model for socialists? A heroic failure? Negation of the state? Or the first (...)
An interview with Enzo Traverso by Andrea Brazzoduro. Originally published by Zapruder [[http://storieinmovimento.org/2021/05/07/la-retata-intervista-con-enzo-traverso]. Andrea Brazzoduro :On 28 April, seven militants of the 1970s Italian revolutionary left were arrested in France, in the (...)
The Paris Commune ended on this day [28 May] in 1871, after just two months in power. How do we explain the longevity and freshness of the memory of a fleeting revolutionary government?
There is a paradoxical discrepancy between the meteoric rise and fall of the Paris Commune, whose life did (...)
An interview with historian Mathilde Larrère on the role of women in the Paris Commune.
Yohann Emmanuel – What can we say about the role of women during the events of 18 March 1871 which marked the beginning of the Paris Commune? Can we draw a parallel with other revolutionary days where the (...)
On 18 March 1871, in Paris besieged by Prussian troops, the people took control of their city and for 72 days conducted the first experiment of life under popular control.
There is a wall at the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris, known as “Le Mur des Fédérés”. It was there that the last fighters of (...)
On this day in 1871, the working class of Paris seized control of the capital and established the Commune. Though it ruled for just two months, the world’s first workers’ government still stands as a vivid example of the kind of society workers themselves can create, according to their own vision (...)
On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune, our comrades Olivier Besancenot and Michael Lowy have published Marx a Paris, 1871: le livre blanc de Jenny. We talked to Olivier Besancenot on this occasion.
Julien Salingue – For this book, you have chosen a rather original (...)
18 April 1934: “Trotsky had not kept his promise to remain neutral when he was granted the hospitality of France,” said the French minister of the Interior
The French Government, at its meeting to-day, decided to expel Trotsky from France. Commenting on this decision, M. Sarraut, the Minister of (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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, (...)
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. (...)
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 (...)
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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