Rimbaud and Verlaine in the Panthéon? ‘A completely sentimental and macabre idea’
An interview with Kristin Ross and Denis Saint-Amand, decrying the call to place the two rebel poets into the France's national memorial.
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The Crisis of European Social Democracy
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.
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Politics, Power, and Promises
Jacques Rancière explains the temporality of the promise and how it shapes our political reality.
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The Paris Commune and the Poetics of Martyrdom
Published to mark the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune, Owen Holland discusses socialist poetics in the time of the Commune.
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Islamophobia, ‘Islamo-leftism’, (post)fascism
In an interview with Lucion Nanni, historian Enzo Traverso looks at the current rise of Islamophobia and fascism in Europe today.
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Badiou and Cassin, two kinds of philosopher
Alain Badiou and Barbara Cassin, longstanding friends, reflect on the relationship between philosophy and gender, and the differentiated paths and visions this can generate.
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The road to neoliberal autocracy
Bruno Amable, author of forthcoming The Last Neoliberal, explores how the ‘visionary’ speeches of the current French leaders to reveal an authoritarian turn.
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‘I hope feminists don’t stay polite. In this society that’s absolutely useless.’
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
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Secularism and the Freedom of Believers
Emmanuel Terray, showing the contradictions in the Western tradition between religious freedom and the rule of law, warns how the Republic's enforcement of secularism promotes violence.
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A Long Republican Winter
Alain Brossat on how the reaction to the murder of Samuel Paty exposes the divisions and inequalities at the heart of the French Republicanism, and how the violence is doomed to repeat itself.
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On the Current Conjuncture
Alain Badiou gets to grips with the current political moment, and proposes that we are on the cusp of a new epoch: a new mass communism.
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Wars Don't Solve the Problem: they Make it Worse
A response to the debate on terrorism and war: the need to avoid escalating forms of repression in the face of attacks by using justice and the rule of law rather than violence.
