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New International @newintermag.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mary Clare O'Donnell writes about the recent elections in Germany: “The world watches anxiously as Germany redraws its political map. State elections on September 20th showcased a stark dual rejection of the German political establishment.” www.newintermag.com/germanys-pol...
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Germany’s Political Rift
State elections on September 20th showcased a stark dual rejection of the German political establishment.
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New International @newintermag.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Mary Clare O'Donnell reflects on the 2026 World Cup: 'our collective passions, solidarity, and joy are being systematically harvested by corporations, FIFA, and betting syndicates.' www.newintermag.com/bread-and-ci...
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Bread & Circuses
The creeping inkling that mass sporting spectacles primarily function as political distraction has never entirely disappeared.
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New International @newintermag.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Fouad Baker writes about the dissolution of Gaza's government and what comes next for the strip: "The deep divisions unfolding today are not merely about who governs Gaza, but about the very nature of governance itself." www.newintermag.com/gazas-govern...
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Gaza's Governance Crisis
The deep divisions unfolding today are not merely about who governs Gaza, but about the very nature of governance itself.
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New International @newintermag.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Francis Parny writes on LFI's municipal success: “Ten cities won, totaling around 600,000 inhabitants, and several villages as well : 400 communes in which there will be Unbowed city councilors, impacting 16 million people. And above all a political victory.” www.newintermag.com/a-step-forwa...
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A Step Forward for LFI
The 2026 municipal elections marked a frank success for the France Unbowed.
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Finch 🇵🇸 🇪🇭 @finchowar.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
I wrote about the two separate occasions @newpersonalism.bsky.social visited Delaney Hall in solidarity with those imprisoned and to minister to their families waiting to see them. It struck me how banal the guards were in their cruelty there, and how there will soon be more, bigger prisons like it.
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New International @newintermag.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Jaime Pettit writes about ICE and the New Personalist intervention in New Jersey: “The nation has built the Gates of Hell [...] All that we can do is push back against the inferno in whatever way we can.” www.newintermag.com/notes-from-a...
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Notes from an ICE Camp
The nation has built the Gates of Hell and our representatives of both parties preside over them with corporate banality.
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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
One of my translations was just published in New International magazine. Amin’s “Syria After Assad” reflects on how Syria is being reckoned with after the regime’s collapse. Translating it meant staying close to a very tangible grief that I cannot pretend to understand.
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New International @newintermag.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Azzam Amin writes about the social composition of Syria and the stakes of this precarious moment: “For the moment, Damascus’s new leaders have presented no clear vision for what power will look like after the transition period.” www.newintermag.com/syria-after-...
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Syria After Assad
Syria faces a last chance to avoid a second civil war.
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New International @newintermag.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Jean-Luc Mélenchon spoke at a rally in Paris against US attacks on Venezuela: “At this hour, there is nothing but manifest aggression by the empire, meant to secure its domination over the Americas and over Europe. That is all.” www.newintermag.com/servility-pr...
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Servility Produces War
There is no good empire and there are no good invasions—only evil.
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New International @newintermag.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Henry Wallis invites us to consider the last speech Jean Jaurès ever gave before his assassination and the outbreak of the First World War in a new translation. Happy New Year! www.newintermag.com/jaures-last-...
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Jaures’ Last Plea for Peace
There is no better chance to keep the peace and save civilization than for the proletariat to assemble all its forces.
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New International @newintermag.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Alexey Sakhnin writes about Russia’s increasing repression of the left: ‘Now “crime” is no longer limited to taking action in the street or posting on social media, but includes merely talking in a factory smokeroom or posting in a group chat [...]’ www.newintermag.com/putins-terro...
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Putin’s Terror Turns Left
“Enemies of the people” are everywhere. They might even be the majority.
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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Delighted that my latest translation for @newintermag.bsky.social is now live. Arnaud Le Gall argues the new U.S. National Security Strategy treats Europe as a subordinate to be disciplined through NATO & technological dependence. He calls for European strategic independence via non-alignment.
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Washington is no Ally
US imperialism no longer pulls punches: Europe is a vassal to be re-educated.
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New International @newintermag.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Arnaud Le Gall analyzes Trump’s National Security Strategy: ‘The newly unabashed U.S. imperialism no longer targets “only” South America. The NSS pulls no punches: Washington officially views Europe as a vassal to be re-educated.’ www.newintermag.com/washington-is-no-ally/
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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
I wrote this piece for @newintermag.bsky.social in June after Israel’s lawless aerial bombardment of Iran. Watch this space as we see tensions between the IAEA and Iran are likely to heat up in the coming weeks.
The Israeli strikes may have inadvertently weakened the very safeguards they were intended to reinforce. By attacking Iranian nuclear facilities, Israel has disrupted the IAEA’s ability to inspect and monitor key sites such as Natanz and Fordow. Surveillance has been suspended or significantly reduced, limiting international visibility into Iran’s nuclear activities.8 In response, Iranian officials have threatened to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty—a move that would dismantle the last formal mechanisms of international oversight. Meanwhile, political discourse within Iran has begun to shift. Figures who once adhered to the country’s long-standing taboo against nuclear weapons are now publicly questioning that restraint. The previous posture of maintaining technical capacity without pursuing a weapon may give way to a more openly confrontational stance. Rather than halting Iran’s nuclear ambitions, Israel’s campaign has obscured them further and expanded the domestic political space for weaponization.
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New International @newintermag.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Thomas Necchi writes: “[...] the IDF have been openly working with gangs in Gaza to steal aid from the Palestinians, to undermine the effort to relieve the famine.” www.newintermag.com/israels-narc...
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Israel's Narcotic War
The IDF have been openly working with gangs in Gaza to steal aid from the Palestinians and undermine the effort to relieve the famine.
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New International @newintermag.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
A.M. Gittlitz writes about Zohran Mamdani’s inspiring win: “Mamdani’s victory, while a clear demand for the Democrats to get up and join the fight, also communicates the understanding that it will more likely be against them.” www.newintermag.com/our-time-is-...
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Our Time is Now
The slogan keeps alive a concept that the counterrevolutionary terror of the past years has sought to kill entirely—that history can, if we fight, belong to us.
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New International @newintermag.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Kate Burgos writes on the contradictions of contemporary political memory: “It is difficult to square the liberal notion of suffragettes as respectable ladies sewing banners with the reality of women who actively encouraged violence.” www.newintermag.com/the-pankhurs...
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The Pankhurst Reign of Terror
It is difficult to square the liberal notion of suffragettes as respectable ladies sewing banners with the reality of women who actively encouraged violence.
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New International @newintermag.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Ross Wolfe concludes his critique of Losurdo's “worthless” work: “Its influence in the current online Stalinist revival attests to the extent to which defeat can be repackaged and sold as victory.” newintermag.com/revisionism-...
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Revisionism Revisited
Losurdo revised Marx, Engels, and Lenin whenever their theories did not conform to the faits accompli of actually-existing socialism.
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New International @newintermag.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Ross Wolfe untagles Domenico Losurdo's supposedly decolonial critiques of Western Marxists: "Losurdo’s specific accusations against them feel haphazard. The only consistent feature throughout is his dishonesty." newintermag.com/losurdos-lies/
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Losurdo's Lies
His readings are so tendentious as to strain credibility.
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New International @newintermag.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Ross Wolfe tackles Domenico Losurdo's work as "a new school of falsification, all in service of justifying the course history has taken. Everything he wrote had to align with the geopolitical interests of [a] few nominally socialist states" newintermag.com/against-losu...
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Against Losurdo
His intellectual output constitutes nothing less than the (re)entry of Stalinism into the realm of philosophy.
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New International @newintermag.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
James Holmes writes about the notion of choice in contemporary liberal democracy: “Genuine freedom is not like selecting a dish from a menu; instead, it’s more like the ability to create a new dish and perhaps to prepare a whole other menu.” newintermag.com/choice-is-no...
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Choice is Not Freedom
Genuine freedom is not like selecting a dish from a menu.
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New International @newintermag.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Meriem Hadjal recounts her experience of the Global March to Gaza: “June 12, 2025, was a historic date. More than 4,000 people from around the world gathered in Cairo for an unprecedented act of solidarity with the Palestinian people.” newintermag.com/the-global-m...
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The Global March to Gaza
The Sisi government blocked life-saving aid from reaching starving Palestinians.
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New International @newintermag.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Foucauld Giuliani writes that Trump’s theology: “[...] resolves to the legitimation of war, deification of force, and sanctification of death; it is a theology of power and violence; a non-Christian and anti-evangelical heresy.” newintermag.com/donald-trump...
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Donald Trump’s Idolatrous Ideology
Trump honors a god made for measure: one of war.
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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
I joined @josiahwsutton.bsky.social on “Fruitless” to talk about what’s going on in Iran.
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New International @newintermag.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Keanu Heydari writes about the Iran-Israel conflict: "The architecture of escalation, therefore, is not a disruption of the international order; it is its method." newintermag.com/iran-israel-...
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Iran, Israel, & the Logic of Escalation
The substance of the international order is state violence with impunity.
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New International @newintermag.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
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Nagarjuna's Middle Finger | VarnVlog @varnvlog.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
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Radical Engagements: "Abundance: Big Tech's Bid for the Democratic Party" by Kate Willett
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New International @newintermag.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Alice Celik writes about the dissolution of the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK): “[...] armed struggle is over; now is the time for a political strategy. A risky but calculated move, in response to a profound popular aspiration.” newintermag.com/ocalans-last...
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Öcalan’s Last Call
The dissolution of the PKK should not be viewed as a surrender or as a victory for the Turkish state.
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New International @newintermag.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Adam Jones (@sanktmaxtci.bsky.social) reads “AI” politically: “Data centres function as an increasingly central part of the nervous system of an imperial, techno-capitalist order. Democratic politics holds the right to question their present and future existence.” newintermag.com/ai-as-class-...
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‘AI’ as Class Warfare
So-called ‘AI’ does not reduce, but rather diffuses and renders labour practically invisible.
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New International @newintermag.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Joe Gallagher (@joedgallagher.bsky.social) writes about how UK cuts to healthcare paired with end-of-life legislation threaten the disabled: “For many it will be coercive euthanasia, an expansion of quotidian violence” newintermag.com/assisted-sui...
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Assisted Suicide, or Social Murder?
The UK cuts welfare and offers death.
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New International @newintermag.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Mary Clare O'Donnell (@maryclareod11.bsky.social ) writes about Pope Francis' legacy: “Francis continuously returned his focus to the margins [...] he would kneel before women, Muslims, and prisoners, washing their feet, as Jesus did in the New Testament.” newintermag.com/the-peoples-...
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The People’s Pope
Francis’ small but radical acts embodied a theology of closeness: the conviction that Christ is found not in power, but in proximity to those the world forgets.
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Tom O'Shea @tomoshea.org · 21/04/2025
My essay on the life and thought of James Connolly is now up at New International, just in time for the 109th anniversary of the Easter Rising.
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James Connolly, Socialist Republican
His thought and his life stand as compelling exemplars of a figure he would rightly praise: “the Socialist, enthusiastic in the cause of human freedom”.
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Olly H @ollyhaynes.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Read my review of Mélenchon and Hollande's new books!
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New International @newintermag.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Francis Parny calls for mobilization on May Day against Trump and the war-mongering capitalist class that he serves: “Only the people can rise up and make themselves heard, opposing this global chaos” newintermag.com/workers-of-t...
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Workers of the Word, Unite!
In all our efforts, we must convince people that no positive change is possible without a rupture with capitalism.
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New International @newintermag.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Olly Haynes reviews Jean-Luc Mélenchon and François Hollande's new books: “Where Hollande identifies himself with the state, Mélenchon identifies himself with the people—the mass of humanity organised as a collective actor.” newintermag.com/melenchon-vs...
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Mélenchon vs. Hollande
Where Hollande identifies himself with the state, Mélenchon identifies himself with the people—the mass of humanity organised as a collective actor.
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New International @newintermag.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Tom O'Shea (@constantartifice.bsky.social) writes about James Connolly on this anniversary of the Easter Rising: ‘His thought and his life stand as compelling exemplars of a figure he would rightly praise: “the Socialist, enthusiastic in the cause of human freedom” newintermag.com/james-connol...
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James Connolly, Socialist Republican
His thought and his life stand as compelling exemplars of a figure he would rightly praise: “the Socialist, enthusiastic in the cause of human freedom”.
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New International @newintermag.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Emre Öngün (@emreongun.bsky.social) writes about the revolt in Turkey, the “peace process” with Öcalan and the Kurds, the growing youth movement, and the resurgence of Kemalism. newintermag.com/turkeys-poli...
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Turkey’s Political Crisis & Democratic Movement
Since the stated goal is now an inclusive republic, it becomes necessary to reinvent a past that supports it.
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New International @newintermag.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Kate Willett (@katewillett.bsky.social) considers the groups funding and promoting the "Abundance" faction in the Democratic Party: “Both Klein and the Tech Right agree on one thing: democracy interferes with the market’s ability to generate abundance.” newintermag.com/abundance-bi...
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Abundance: Big Tech’s Bid for the Democratic Party
The Tech Right has gained major influence in Washington by funding Republicans. The Abundance faction has taken a different route: funding Democrats.
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New International @newintermag.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Pierre-Yves Cadalen calls for a new form of politics given the climate crisis: “Ecopower, then, can be rewritten as the form of power from which humankind will decide if our time will be indefinitely transitory, or if it will abruptly end.” newintermag.com/the-defeat-o...
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The Defeat of Biopolitics
Just as the pretension to ideally govern the climate failed, Biopolitics as a project to foster life also failed.
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New International @newintermag.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
John Duncan calls the Left to ‘recognise the divisions hidden by shallow liberal universalist attacks on “woke” and instead build a truly universal movement defined by solidarity.’ newintermag.com/universalism...
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Universalism & The Anti-Woke
Rather than celebrate the death of woke, I say we revive and herald it.
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New International @newintermag.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Youssef Bouchi writes on the importance of American socialism from his perspective as an Arab immigrant in Canada: "Grassroots movements in the U.S. already understand this [...] Our task from the outside is to support them." newintermag.com/the-world-ne...
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The World Needs American Socialism
When the American state makes our lives its business, we have to make its life our business.
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New International @newintermag.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
The France Unbowed responds to the National Rally assistants affair convictions: "Marine Le Pen is the incarnation of the very system she claims to oppose. [...] What the RN wants is impunity for the privileged caste." Translated from @linsoumission.bsky.social. newintermag.com/the-unbowed-...
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The Unbowed Response to Le Pen's Conviction
Marine Le Pen is the incarnation of the very system she claims to oppose.
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Happy Hour at Hippel's @sanktmaxtci.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
The bullshit bubble has burst but these machines and the marketing image of "AI" still serves as a mystification in the service of the diffusion and invisibilization of labour. An extract from 'The New Flesh' for @newintermag.bsky.social newintermag.com/the-labour-o...
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The Labour of Artificial Intelligence
The autonomy of ‘Artificial Intelligence’ is a bourgeois mystification.
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Nagarjuna's Middle Finger | VarnVlog @varnvlog.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
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New International @newintermag.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
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New International @newintermag.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Thomas Necchi takes on Burroughs, addiction, and the "Ugly Spirit" that animates his work. newintermag.com/outlaw-beaut...
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Guadagnino’s “Queer” as Addict Cinema
When it comes to the literature of addiction, Burroughs certainly stands as one of the most controversial and upsetting of its figures.
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Henry Wallis @henryjwallis.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
In this essay I trace the humanist contours of the French radical left as expressed by Robespierre, Jaurès, and @antoine-leaument.bsky.social . newintermag.com/the-great-ja...
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The Great Jaurès
Jean Jaurès was killed because his leadership, politics, and courage posed too great a threat to the powers of this world.
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New International @newintermag.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Jean Jaurès was the great martyr of turn-of-the-20th century French socialism. His vision of communist politics clashed with both Marxist-Leninism and social democracy. What can we learn from him today? newintermag.com/the-great-ja...
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The Great Jaurès
Jean Jaurès was killed because his leadership, politics, and courage posed too great a threat to the powers of this world.
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Finch 🇵🇸 🇪🇭 @finchowar.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
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