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  1. An Army of Amateurs
    The Story of the SOE Resistance Movement in France

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1961
    A first-hand account of the resistance in Nazi-occupied France.
  2. The Beginning of an Era
    On the May 1968 revolt in France

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1969
  3. The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume I
    Economic Writings 1

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2013
    This first volume in Rosa Luxemburg's Complete Works, entitled Economic Writings 1, contains some of Luxemburg's most important statements on the globalization of capital, wage labour, imperialism, and pre-capitalist economic formations.
  4. A Distant Mirror
    The calamatious 14th century

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1979
  5. Documents from the Anti-CPE Uprising in France (February-April 2006)
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2006
  6. The Dreyfus Affair and the Millerand Case
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1899
    For in the Dreyfus case four social factors make themselves felt which give it the stamp of a question directly related to the class struggle. They are: militarism, chauvinism-nationalism, anti-Semitism, and clericalism. In our written and spoken agitation we always combat these direct enemies of the socialist proletariat by virtue of our general tendencies. It would thus be totally incomprehensible to not enter into a struggle with these enemies exactly when it is a question of unmasking them, not as abstract clichés, but through the use of living current events.
  7. Execution of Paris Communards Foreshadowed Mass Murders of 20th Century
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The short-lived Paris Commune of 1871 lasted only a little more than two months before being ruthlessly crushed. A new book by Yale Professor John Merriman, "Massacre: The Life and Death of the Paris Commune," provides a remarkably detailed account of an armed uprising that rejected oligarchical government.
  8. French Army Mutinies (1917)
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Involved nearly half of the French infantry divisions stationed on the western front.
  9. French Revolution of 1848
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    One of a wave of revolutions in 1848 in Europe.
  10. General Strike France 1968
    A factory-by-factory account

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    Andre Hoyles analyses the development, organisation and end of the mass strike in France, 1968, with reference to case studies of particular factories.
  11. Graffiti from the Anti-CPE Uprising in France (February-April 2006)
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2006
  12. The Great Transformation
    The political and economic origins of our time

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
    Polanyi analyzes the social and political upheavals that took place in England during the rise of the market economy. Polanyi contends that the modern market economy and the modern nation-state should be understood not as discrete elements, but as a single human invention he calls the "Market Society".
  13. The History of Democracy
    A Marxist Interpretation

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2013
    Roper traces the history of democracy from ancient Athens to the emergence of liberal representative and socialist participatory democracy. He argues that democracy cannot be understood separately from the social and economic contexts in which democratic states operate.
  14. In Russian and French Prisons
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    Kropotkin's criticism of the penal system, and an inside look into the horrors and realities of what life in prison entails.
  15. Joan of Arc
    Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    A peasant girl born in what is now eastern France who claimed divine guidance, she led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years' War.
  16. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
    Volume II: The Politics of Social Classes

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
    Draper ranges through the development of the thought of Marx and Engels on the role of classes in society.
  17. La Vie en Bleu
    France and the French Since 1900

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
    A study of recent French history.
  18. Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 11
    Marx and Engels 1851 - 1853

    Resource Type: Book
    Includes Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany and The Eighteenth Brumaire
    of Louis Bonaparte and Revelations Concerning the Communist Trial in Cologne
  19. Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 22
    Marx and Engels 1870 - 1871

    Resource Type: Book
    Includes The Civil War in France and other materials on the Franco-Prussian War.
  20. A Marxist History of the World part 44: Wars of empire
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    The English Revolution transformed Britain into a capitalist economy engaging in geopolitical competition. Neil Faulkner looks at how Britain became the dominant global superpower of the 19th Century.
  21. A Marxist History of the World part 45: The Enlightenment
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    What gave the Enlightenment its subversive, politically corrosive character was its critique of institutions and practices which appeared comparatively irrational in the light of modern thinking, argues Neil Faulkner.
  22. A Marxist History of the World part 47: The French Revolution - Storming of the Bastille
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    In the latest of his series on the Marxist understanding of history, Neil Faulkner explores revolution and counter-revolution in 18th-Century France.
  23. A Marxist History of the World Part 48: The French Revolution - The Jacobin Dictatorship
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    In his latest instalment, Neil Faulkner explores the rise of the Jacobin dictatorship and the ever-present threat of counter-revolution in 18th Century France.
  24. A Marxist History of the World part 49: The French Revolution - Themidor, Directory and Napoleon
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    In his third chapter on the French Revolution, Neil Faulkner discusses the contradictions of bourgeois revolution - but celebrates the gains it won.
  25. A Marxist History of the World part 59: The Franco-Prussian War
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    In this week's chapter of the Marxist History series Neil Faulkner looks at how Germany’s ruling elite brought about a bourgeois revolution ‘from above’.
  26. A Marxist History of the World part 60: The Paris Commune: the face of proletarian revolution
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    The Franco-Prussian war produced the first proletarian revolution in history, and showed to the world for the first time what a workers’ state looks like.
  27. A Marxist History of the World part 68: 1914: descent into barbarism
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    In the summer of 1914 capitalism tipped humanity into an abyss of barbarism that would leave millions dead. Neil Faulkner looks at the First World War.
  28. A Marxist History of the World part 85: June 1936: the French general strike and factory occupations
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    In the mid-1930s French workers launched a wave of strikes and occupations. Neil Faulkner explains how the Stalinised Communist Party worked to contain this resistance.
  29. May 1968 in France
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    May 1968, referring to the period when the events occurred in France, saw the largest general strike that ever stopped the economy of an advanced industrial country,[1] the first wildcat general strike in history,[1] and a series of student occupation protests.
  30. November 1918: Red Revolution in Strasbourg
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    In the context of the revolution that erupted in Germany as the country suffered defeat in November 1918, a revolutionary situation also arose in Strasbourg, capital of Alsace, a province that still belonged to the Reich at that time.
  31. Paris and London in the 18th Century
    Studies in Popular Protest

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
    Articles relating to popular protests and revolts breaking out in Paris and London during the eighteenth century.
  32. The Penguin Atlas of Modern History (to 1815)
    Resource Type: Book
  33. The Penguin Atlas of World History - Vol. 1: From the Beginning to the Eve of the French Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
  34. The Penguin Atlas of World History - Vol. 2: From the French Revolution to the Present
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
  35. A People's History of the World
    From the Stone Age to the New Millennium

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
  36. The Political Testament of Cardinal Richelieu
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1965
  37. Reflections on the Revolution in France: 1968
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
    In May 1968 France was on the threshold of something entirely new. In this 'pre-revolutionary situation' nothing went unquestioned. The writers, trade unionists and students who contribute to this volume all believe our future is foreshadowed in the events of May. And they explain why, after this shock to a regime of seemingly impregnable strength, things can never be the same again.
  38. Resistance in Vichy France
    A Study of Ideas and Motivation in the Southern Zone, 1940-1942

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
  39. Revolutionary France
    Resource Type: Article
    Documents on revolutionary France 1789 -
  40. Rosa Luxemburg
    Abridged Edition

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    A biography of Luxemburg by a British academic.
  41. St. Bartholomew's Day massacre
    Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia

    Resource Type: Article
    A wave of Roman Catholic mob violence, directed against the Huguenots (French Calvinist Protestants).
  42. The Scramble for Africa
    White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    Describes the brief vicious scramble by Europe's imperial powers to seize colonies throughout the continent of Africa. Pakenham strips the impresarios of imperialism of their veneer of Victorian heroism and reputations for statemanlike vision, to reveal them as men with bloated and often vicious egos.
  43. Seeds of Fire
    A People's Chronology

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Recalling events that happened on this day in history. Memories of struggle, resistance and persistence.
  44. Social France at the Time of Philip Augustus
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1967
  45. The Socialist Crisis in France
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1901
    "The Republic is in danger! That is why it was necessary for a socialist to become the bourgeois Minister of Commerce. The Republic is in danger! That is why the socialist had to remain in the cabinet even after the massacre of the striking workers on the Island of Martinique and in Chalon. The Republic is in danger! As a result, inquiries into the massacres had to be blocked, the parliamentary investigations of the horrors perpetrated in the colonies had to be discarded, and the amnesty law accepted."
  46. The Socialist Register 1981
    Volume 18: A Survey of Movements & Ideas

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1981
  47. Working Class Communism
    A Review of the Literature

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971

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