Alain Krivine’s Last Barricade
In 2016 I traveled around France interviewing participants in the events of May and June 1968 for a book I was preparing, May Made Me, an oral history of the […]
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Mitchell Abidor
Mitchell Abidor is a translator and writer. He has published two books on the Paris Commune, Communards and Voices of the Paris Commune. He has also been a prolific contributor to publications such as The New York Review of Books and The New York Times.Zemmour chrétien
French presidential candidate Éric Zemmour has neither hidden nor made much of his being Jewish. When questioned—and almost exclusively when questioned; he seldom volunteers the information—he describes his Berber Jewish […]
MoreThe Paris Commune: Myth Made Material
Revolutions are materialist events in their essence. The explosive outgrowth of specific circumstances in specific places at specific times, the product of a specific history and a specific society, they […]
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