Text written in 1982 In more than one third of the French average cities, the 1977 elections brought political change to the exclusive benefit of left parties. The text analyses the changes brought about by the arrival of a new generation of elected representatives on the basis of a comparative stud...

Do you remember the same logic and passion! The legist spirit is inflexible. It is a curse of humanity. Happiness is in the battle, bad in the tender. Here is the end and that’s nothing! Communism is the living logic of democracy. The excessive reason is not desirable (Montesquieu). Cézanne is the l...

European Socialism and the Third International For Marcel Cachin, 1920 was marked by his trip to Soviet Russia and the dominant issue between the Strasbourg Congress in February and the Tours Congress in December: the problem of the French Socialist Party’s membership of the Third International. It...

September delegation from the Socialist Party and the CGT. London Sunday 15, Monday 16, Tuesday 17, Wednesday 18 September 1918 (hearing of Gompers). Sunday 15 September 1918 Travel Paris-Boulogne. As we approach Amiens, ruins, demolitions, deserted campaigns, not an animal in the fields. In Amiens...

In recent decades many European political parties have broadened the selectorate for the party leadership, often clashing in so doing with their own tradition of decision-making. The article argues that in order to understand what is at stake in the staging of these contests we need to go beyond the...

Anton Saefkow ist eine wichtige Figur des kommunistischen Widerstands gegen den Nationalsozialismus in Deutschland. Im April 1933 wurde der erfahrene Kämpfer der Kommunistischer Partei Deutschlands (KPD) verhaftet. So begann eine Landreise durch abwechselnde Phasen mit Widerstand und Einsperrungen b...

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In December 1966, a strange letter reaches the services of the Central Supervisory Commission of the German Unified Socialist Party (Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands, SED), the ruling party in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). This committee, the supreme disciplinary body within the pa...

the author points to the constant decline of traditional political parties, in particular those representing social democracy. He analysed the increasing divorce between socialist parties and popular groups, but also noted the limits of alternative movements to the exercise of power.

The establishment of the Group on Ecology, Democracy and Solidarity on 19 May 2020 symbolically completed the absolute majority of the LREM Group in the National Assembly. [First paragraph]

National audience The French political parties have gradually incorporated digital into their communication and mobilisation strategies. Several works analyse the use of the Web during election campaigns. But the focus on this intense political moment has often left aside a historical perspective. T...

Interaction inside a national union of teachers between socialist and communist courants.

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‘titrebRésumé’/titrebÉlie Bloncourt, MP for Aisne, a member of the Socialist Party’s leadership during Resistance and Liberation, and leader of several associations of former combatants, was one of the leaders of the main component of French left-wing socialism, unitary socialism, from the 1930s to...

Ann Hader, Kazeten al labourerien-douar e Breiz-Izel is a Breton journal of the beginning of the twentieth century, more specifically 1909-1910. This newspaper is linked to the Sillon movement, which was widely followed in Brittany at the beginning of this century. The editor-in-chief of the newspap...

'pbCreated in 1960, the Unified Socialist Party (USP) has profoundly marked the evolution of the French left in the following decades. With hindsight, the USP appears to be a great laboratory of ideas, which is overlooked today after almost 15 years of ‘managing socialism’, hence the value of this b...

Ça is there. Benoît Hamon announced his candidacy for the presidential election and the Left Primary, organised by the Socialist Party. After casting doubt on his intentions in recent months, he finally clarified them at the French JT 2 this week. If Benoît Hamon is known as a former Minister who ha...

Une des particularités du foncier vietnamien réside dans l’existence d’un « état zéro » desinstitutions foncières, que l’on peut dater approximativement au début des années 1980, à partirduquel l’ensemble des institutions a été mis en place. Cet « état zéro » des institutions ne signifiebien entendu...

In addition to traditional spaces for exchanges (section meetings), virtual communication venues have recently offered members of political parties the opportunity to speak online. On 12 January 2010, the Social Network of the Socialist Party (PS), COOPOl (or Political Coopérative) made itself known...

‘titrebSummary’/titrebThe municipal socialism from 1900 to 1939 is a crucial experience of power by socialists. However, it has long remained an unexplored ground in the history of French socialism. In the municipalities they own, Socialist mayors make their first experience of power, a much more la...

"titrebSummary"/titreb "We have members of the Communist Party, the UMP, the Socialist Party, the centrists, etc. We engage wherever democratic life is open to us. We stand as candidates for all elections in France, regardless of the level of the elections, to remind us that we are actors and not sp...

‘titrebSummary’/titrebIn the day after 21 April 2002, the notabilisation of the Socialist Party was denounced to explain the defeat of Lionel Jospin and the lack of popular mobilisation on its name. In fact, the process will take place under the Fourth Republic, leaving the image of a “strong party...

‘titrebSummary’/titrebCet article aims to analyse the relationship with advertising and secrecy in defining political identities on the basis of the socialist example. This political family has often put forward his belief in a rational, collectively developed policy, to speak loudly, without shame...

This book, published in the Presses du Réel (2015), seeks to capture realistic images of former East Socialist Germany. He referred to the numerous archives in which these images were mentioned and commented, suggesting discussions in party cells, commissions around orders, cultural houses, business...