Archive of France

The 1968 revolts in France live in popular memory as the country's most significant political moment in the twentieth century. In this extensive interview, Grey Anderson urges us to turn our attention instead a decade earlier to 1958 and the fall of the Fourth Republic. Anderson argues that the Fourth Republic's demise was a coup that allowed de Gaulle to seize power and crush his oppostion.

Eric Hazan, the famed French historian and publisher whose book Le Tumulte de Paris, a wander through the streets of this city that he both adores and abhors, was published earlier this year in French, welcomes us to his home in Belleville.

An interview with Kristin Ross and Denis Saint-Amand, decrying the call to place the two rebel poets into the France's national memorial.

Why have parties of the centre-left come unstuck across Western Europe since the turn of the century, asks historian Donald Sassoon in an extract from his new book, Morbid Symptoms: Anatomy of a World in Crisis.

Jacques Rancière explains the temporality of the promise and how it shapes our political reality.

Published to mark the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune, Owen Holland discusses socialist poetics in the time of the Commune.

In an interview with Lucion Nanni, historian Enzo Traverso looks at the current rise of Islamophobia and fascism in Europe today.

Alain Badiou and Barbara Cassin, longstanding friends, reflect on the relationship between philosophy and gender, and the differentiated paths and visions this can generate.

Bruno Amable, author of forthcoming The Last Neoliberal, explores how the ‘visionary’ speeches of the current French leaders to reveal an authoritarian turn.

In an interview Christine Delphy relives the formation of the MLF, the women's liberation movement in France, in 1970, and demands that the struggle continue