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Something New for Revolutionary Politics
Garvey, John http://insurgentnotes.com/2018/12/something-new-for-revolutionary-politics/
Publisher: Insurgent Notes
Date Written: 15/12/2018
Year Published: 2018
Resource Type: Article
A review of Kristin Ross's provocative article on the “The Long 1960s and 'The Wind from the West.'"
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Ross notes the fact that while images of May were hard to avoid in Paris early this year, most efforts to commemorate the explosive events "seemed to drain those references of any compelling interest."
The one exception to that emptiness was the turn, early in 2018, of public attention to the ten-year struggle that had unfolded in an area in central France known as the Larzac. In 1971, 103 local sheepherding farmers organized to block the French government's plan to seize their lands for the construction of an army training ground. Over the course of the decade-long struggle, hundreds of thousands of people from France and elsewhere travelled to the Larzac to support the farmers. The farmers won.
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