Posts tagged: france

For a Radical Refoundation of Europe

Étienne Balibar lays down the political conditions for a historic refoundation of the EU, based on a new type of federation.
The Good Conscience of French Intellectuals: the case of Thomas Guénolé and the French left of Jean-Luc Mélenchon

The case of Thomas Guénolé concerns us as antiracist and anticolonialist Jews because he represents a worrying tendency in leftist political thought, particularly in France.
The Colonial Gas Machine: Teargas Grenades, Secular Humanist Police, and the Intoxication of Racialized Lives

For the privileged, tear gas is an event; for the colonized, it composes a fundamental aspect of life.
Against media lynch mobs and the slurs against anti-racists

An open letter signed by scholars, activists, journalists, and artists in France against a witchhunt targeting political anti-racists.
Against the criminalisation of street harassment in France

An open letter by French feminists and researchers into gender violence in opposition to a proposed law to make street harassment an infraction.
In the Shadow of Frantz Fanon

A profile of Marie-Jeanne Manuellan, assistant to Frantz Fanon from 1958 to 1961.
Everything's Coming Together While Everything's Falling Apart: The ZAD

A documentary video on the ZAD by artist Oliver Ressler.
Constructing a Common Language: A conversation with Razmig Keucheyan

Keucheyan discusses environmental inequality, the past and present of the workers' movement, populism, and the relationship between strategy and theory.
Alain Badiou: "Ultimately it is revolutionaries alone who offer a true balance sheet of revolutions"

With the publication of Que signifie "changer le monde"? [What does 'changing the world' mean?], a new book based on his seminar, Alain Badiou looks back on what attaches him revolutionary hope.
Walking is a Show of Dignity: A conversation with Frédéric Gros

In this interview with Nicolas Truong, philosopher and writer Frédéric Gros analyses how walking can take on a political meaning. Whether individual or collective, the march is the mode of popular expression par excellence.
Making no concessions to the Palestinian people’s rights

Written upon the initiative of Media Palestine, this collective piece was produced in reaction to Emmanuel Macron’s commemoration of the Vel d’Hiv round-up and first published in Mediapart. The authors denounce the position taken by the French president: "Macron is here following in the footsteps of all those who want to criminalise the struggles fighting for justice in Palestine and for Palestinians’ rights."
History Was In a Hurry: Autumn 1956 in Paris

In this excerpt from his memoir, Juan Goytisolo reflects on the early months of his exile from Franco's Spain in France and his encounters with French intellectuals and PCF militants in his effort to launch a Spanish-language political and cultural journal.