Beyond the Tricolour

Internationalism and the French Left from Dreyfus to Algeria

Ian Birchall (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

400 Seiten

2025
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-73478-4 (ISBN)

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This book examines the theme of internationalism, in the form of opposition to nationalism, racism and war, in the context of French history between the Dreyfus case in the 1890s and the end of the Algerian war in 1962.

This book examines the theme of internationalism, in the form of opposition to nationalism, racism and war, in the context of French history, and in particular of the French socialist and working-class movement. Beginning with the defence of Dreyfus against anti-Semitism, it covers antimilitarism before 1914, opposition to the First World War, the advent of Communism, then the rise of Stalinism, fraternisation with German soldiers during the Nazi occupation, and support for national independence in Indochina and Algeria. It looks at individuals and political organisations, many of them neglected by mainstream history, who argued against nationalism and took practical action in defence of internationalist principles.

Ian Birchall, formerly of Middlesex University, is an independent writer, who has written extensively on the history of socialism, including books on Babeuf, Sartre and Tony Cliff, and has translated Victor Serge and Alfred and Marguerite Rosmer.

Preface: The Struggle for Internationalism

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Some Key Dates

1 The Myth of France

2 Precursors

3 Laïcité and Its Critics

4 Dreyfus: The First Test Failed

5 In The Shadow of War

1 Antimilitarism

2 Le Sou du Soldat

3 La Vie ouvrière

4 Impending War

6 From Slaughter to Mutiny

1 Romain Rolland

2 Zimmerwald

3 Trench Warfare

4 The Home Front

5 Mutiny

6 Revolution in Russia

7 Naval Mutinies

7 A Time For Hope

1 Founding of the PCF

2 The Baku Congress

3 Rosmer and the RILU

4 Anti-Colonialism

5 Le Paria

6 Occupation of the Ruhr

7 Hadj-Ali Abdelkader

8 The Rif War

9 Lamine Senghor

10 Clarté

8 Midnight in the Century

1 Popular Front

2 The Colonial Exhibition

3 Indochina

4 The Rise of Fascism

5 The Spanish War

6 Victor Serge

7 In Defence of Immigrants

8 Impending War

9 World War II

1 Nazi Occupation

2 Resistance

3 The Communist Party

4 International Resistance

5 Trotskyism

6 Martin Monath

7 Nazi Camps

8 Liberation

10 War in Indochina

1 Sétif

2 Vietnamese Independence

3 Claude Lefort

4 SFIO Youth

5 Cold War

6 Anti-War Action

7 Henri Martin

8 André Marty

9 French Troops

10 Boudarel

11 Dien Bien Phu

11 Carrying Suitcases for Algeria

1 The FLN

2 Guy Mollet

3 Special Powers

4 Anarchists

5 Trotskyists

6 Lyotard

7 PCI

8 La Voie communiste

9 Francis Jeanson

10 Suitcase-Carriers

11 Renault

12 Conscript Revolt

13 Settlers

14 Fernand Iveton

15 Henri Alleg

16 De Gaulle’s Return

17 The Manifesto of 121

18 The October Massacre

19 Independent Algeria

Conclusion: The Struggle Goes On

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	25.06.2025
Reihe/Serie	Historical Materialism Book Series ; 349
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	791 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	90-04-73478-3 / 9004734783
ISBN-13	978-90-04-73478-4 / 9789004734784
Zustand	Neuware