Podcast appearances and mentions of victor serge

Today Mitch Abidor joins me to discuss Victor Serge: acclaimed novelist, anarchist, Bolshevik, anticommunist, and all-around 20th century contradiction. Mitch and I discuss the legend of Serge, what's true about it, and the ways that Serge fails to live up to the legend.You can find Mitch's writing all over the place, but here's a good place to start: https://jewishcurrents.org/author/mitchell-abidor And here's the NYRB page for Serge's work: https://www.nyrb.com/collections/victor-serge

« En 1917, l'autocratie s'est effondrée sans que ses légions de mouchards, de provocateurs, de gendarmes, de bourreaux, de sergents de ville, de cosaques, de juges, de généraux, de popes, puissent retarder encore le cours inflexible de l'histoire. » Dans cette citation, l'opposant au régime Victor Serge acte l'échec de la Russie tsariste, mais surtout de sa police politique, l'Okhrana, chargée de protéger la Sainte Russie face aux divers courants révolutionnaires, communistes, anarchistes et nihilistes, et insiste sur le caractère inéluctable de cet échec. Alors, ce combat était-il vraiment perdu d'avance ? Comment cette organisation menait-elle son combat, notamment en France, le cœur des opposants en exil ? Au-delà des échecs de l'Okhrana et de son impuissance à endiguer la marche de l'histoire, l'auteur s'interroge sur sa postérité au sein même du système répressif bolchevique du FSB, et jusqu'au fameux KGB. L'invité : Alexandre Sumpf est historien, maître de conférences à l'université de Strasbourg, auteur de plusieurs monographies remarquées sur l'histoire de la Russie et de l'URSS, dont De Lénine à Gagarine. Une histoire sociale de l'Union soviétique, et Raspoutine. Nous le recevons pour son dernier ouvrage, Okhrana. La police secrète des Tsars, 1883-1917 (CERF, 443 pages, 24 €).

Doug Greene is an independent communist historian from the Boston area. He has written biographies of the communist insurgent Louis Auguste Blanqui and DSA founder Michael Harrington. Stalinism has left a complex and controversial legacy throughout history. How have interpretations of Stalinism been shaped by debates between anti-communists, Soviet defensists, and various figures of Western Marxism? Join us for an in-depth conversation with our guest, Doug Green, as we navigate the tangled history of Stalinism and its influence on Trotskyist and Maoist movements, as well as the resurgence of interest in socialism today.We'll unpack the intricate web of anti-communist sentiment that has shaped interpretations of Stalinism in Soviet history, from the contributions of Trotsky's biography of Stalin and Marx's 18th Brumaire to the right-wing anti-communist arguments that don't hold up to current scholarship. Doug offers invaluable insights into the Sino-Soviet split, the role Stalin played in it, and the Maoist critiques of Stalin, which often lack historical details. We also explore the fascinating figure of Arthur Koestler and his seminal work Darkness at Noon, analyzing how his views on historical necessity evolved over time.Finally, we delve into the trajectories of controversial figures such as Victor Serge, David Horowitz, Tony Cliff, and Sydney Hook, discussing how their interpretations of Stalinism have been influenced by anti-communist sentiment. We'll examine the various interpretations of Neo Kowskyism, Lars Lee Leninism, Mike McNair's Marxian Republicanism, and Eric LeBlanc's Social Democracy, among others, to assess the potential for a revived Marxist approach to the Soviet Union and Maoist China. This episode will leave you with a deeper understanding of the many facets of the complex legacy of Stalinism and its ongoing impact on contemporary politics. Support the showCrew:Host: C. Derick VarnAudio Producer: Paul Channel Strip ( @aufhebenkultur )Intro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake.Intro Video Design: Jason MylesArt Design: Corn and C. Derick VarnLinks and Social Media:twitter: @skepoetYou can find the additional streams on Youtube

Puntata 455 di Border Nights - La Notte ai Confini, in onda ogni settimana alle 22 su Web Radio Network. Ospiti della puntata Enrica Perucchietti autrice de "Gli oligarchi di Davos", tra transumanesimo e grande reset e Giò Fumagalli che ha curato la pubbilcazione di "Saper Tacere" di Victor Serge, con il quale parleremo di tecniche di repressione e controllo.Con la partecipazione di Paolo Franceschetti e Stefano Re.Questo show fa parte del network Spreaker Prime. Se sei interessato a fare pubblicità in questo podcast, contattaci su https://www.spreaker.com/show/654467/advertisement

La literatura penitenciaria vuelve a estar de actualidad con la publicación de 'Hombres en prisión', un libro de 1930, de Victor Serge. Con Use Lahoz nos encerramos en su historia. Escuchar audio

On this episode of Victor's Children Anti-Girlboss Socialist Club hosts Paniz Khosroshahy and Tamsyn Riddle join the show to discuss topics covered in two previous episodes of AGSC: the “Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Industry” and sexual violence programs at universities. The podcast is named after Victor Serge, a Russian revolutionary Marxist, novelist and historian and critic of the Stalinist regime. The show's Winnipeg-based host David Camfield is a member of the editorial board at socialist online magazine Midnight Sun. Find out more at https://www.midnightsunmag.ca/hatching-plans-for-daybreak/ and subscribe to Victor's Children wherever you get your podcasts. To learn more sources on this episode include: Jack Fiorito, "Human Resource Management Practices and Worker Desires for Union Representation" (2001) Journal of Labour Research 22:2 https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA73064849&sid=googleScholar&v=2.1&it=r&linkaccess=abs&issn=01953613&p=AONE&sw=w&userGroupName=anon%7E36766bd Janet Halley, Prabha Kotiswaran, Rachel Rebouché, and Hila Shamir, Governance Feminism: An Introduction (University of Minnesota Press, 2018) https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/governance-feminism-1 Sara Ahmed, Complaint (Duke Press, 2021), What's the Use (Duke Press, 2019), On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life (Duke Press, 2021). https://www.saranahmed.com/books-1 Robin D. G. Kelley, "What is Racial Capitalism and Why Does It Matter?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--gim7W_jQQ&ab_channel=KODXSeattle John Kilcoyne, "The Politics of Policies: Responding to Sexual Harassment on Campus" (1994-1995) 3 Canadian Labour and Employment Law Journal 33 Sara Ahmed, "Against Students" https://thenewinquiry.com/against-students/ Breakdown of reported sexual assault cases at U of T: https://thestrand.ca/campus-safety-uofts-handling-of-sexual-assault-reveals-the-cracks-in-our-academic-system/ Sara Ahmed, "Uses of Use: Diversity, Utility and the University" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avKJ2w1mhng Sarah Jaffe, Work Won't Love You Back (Hurst Publishers, 2021) https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/work-wont-love-you-back/

On this episode of Victor's Children Anti-Girlboss Socialist Club hosts Paniz Khosroshahy and Tamsyn Riddle join the show to discuss topics covered in two previous episodes of AGSC: the “Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Industry” and sexual violence programs at universities. The podcast is named after Victor Serge, a Russian revolutionary Marxist, novelist and historian and critic of the Stalinist regime. The show's Winnipeg-based host David Camfield is a member of the editorial board at socialist online magazine Midnight Sun. Find out more at https://www.midnightsunmag.ca/hatching-plans-for-daybreak/ and subscribe to Victor's Children wherever you get your podcasts. To learn more sources on this episode include: Jack Fiorito, "Human Resource Management Practices and Worker Desires for Union Representation" (2001) Journal of Labour Research 22:2 https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA73064849&sid=googleScholar&v=2.1&it=r&linkaccess=abs&issn=01953613&p=AONE&sw=w&userGroupName=anon%7E36766bd Janet Halley, Prabha Kotiswaran, Rachel Rebouché, and Hila Shamir, Governance Feminism: An Introduction (University of Minnesota Press, 2018) https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/governance-feminism-1 Sara Ahmed, Complaint (Duke Press, 2021), What's the Use (Duke Press, 2019), On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life (Duke Press, 2021). https://www.saranahmed.com/books-1 Robin D. G. Kelley, "What is Racial Capitalism and Why Does It Matter?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--gim7W_jQQ&ab_channel=KODXSeattle John Kilcoyne, "The Politics of Policies: Responding to Sexual Harassment on Campus" (1994-1995) 3 Canadian Labour and Employment Law Journal 33 Sara Ahmed, "Against Students" https://thenewinquiry.com/against-students/ Breakdown of reported sexual assault cases at U of T: https://thestrand.ca/campus-safety-uofts-handling-of-sexual-assault-reveals-the-cracks-in-our-academic-system/ Sara Ahmed, "Uses of Use: Diversity, Utility and the University" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avKJ2w1mhng Sarah Jaffe, Work Won't Love You Back (Hurst Publishers, 2021) https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/work-wont-love-you-back/

On this episode of Victor's Children Anti-Girlboss Socialist Club hosts Paniz Khosroshahy and Tamsyn Riddle join the show to discuss topics covered in two previous episodes of AGSC: the “Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Industry” and sexual violence programs at universities.The podcast is named after Victor Serge, a Russian revolutionary Marxist, novelist and historian and critic of the Stalinist regime. The show's Winnipeg-based host David Camfield is a member of the editorial board at socialist online magazine Midnight Sun. Find out more at https://www.midnightsunmag.ca/hatching-plans-for-daybreak/ and subscribe to Victor's Children wherever you get your podcasts.To learn more sources on this episode include:Jack Fiorito, "Human Resource Management Practices and Worker Desires for Union Representation" (2001) Journal of Labour Research 22:2https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA73064849&sid=googleScholar&v=2.1&it=r&linkaccess=abs&issn=01953613&p=AONE&sw=w&userGroupName=anon%7E36766bdJanet Halley, Prabha Kotiswaran, Rachel Rebouché, and Hila Shamir, Governance Feminism: An Introduction (University of Minnesota Press, 2018)https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/governance-feminism-1Sara Ahmed, Complaint (Duke Press, 2021), What's the Use (Duke Press, 2019), On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life (Duke Press, 2021).https://www.saranahmed.com/books-1Robin D. G. Kelley, "What is Racial Capitalism and Why Does It Matter?"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--gim7W_jQQ&ab_channel=KODXSeattleJohn Kilcoyne, "The Politics of Policies: Responding to Sexual Harassment on Campus" (1994-1995) 3 Canadian Labour and Employment Law Journal 33Sara Ahmed, "Against Students"https://thenewinquiry.com/against-students/Breakdown of reported sexual assault cases at U of T:https://thestrand.ca/campus-safety-uofts-handling-of-sexual-assault-reveals-the-cracks-in-our-academic-system/Sara Ahmed, "Uses of Use: Diversity, Utility and the University"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avKJ2w1mhngSarah Jaffe, Work Won't Love You Back (Hurst Publishers, 2021)https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/work-wont-love-you-back/

Lansarea romanelor „Despre Grace“ de Anthony Doerr (traducere de Cornelia Dumitru) și „Portofoliul fugii“ de Julie Orringer (traducere de Alina Cârâc), recent apărute în colecția „Raftul Denisei“, colecție coordonată de Denisa Comănescu, cărțile verii 2021

A meeting to mark the centenary of the Kronstadt rebellion, crushed by the Bolsheviks. What are the lessons to be learned for today? In this meeting we look at the circumstances that led up to the Revolt, and examine the idea of an aborted Third Revolution intended to carry out the true revolutionary aims of the Russian masses. We look at the implications of what happened and how the truth about Kronstadt needs to be revealed to expose the dangers of Leninist vanguardism, which still has a detrimental effect on our struggles today. The sailors at the naval base of Kronstadt were at the forefront of the Russian Revolution of 1917. They formed one of the first soviets in summer of that year. They were among those who stormed the Winter Palace in October. They took an active part in the defence of Petrograd against the White advance. Yet by 1921 they were disillusioned with the Bolshevik government, with War Communism, the lack of free speech, the exactions of the Cheka, the Bolshevik political police, and the brutal grain requisitioning in the countryside. On March 1st, 1921 they held mass meetings of up to 15,000 on various ships and garrisons and demanded immediate new elections to the Soviet by secret ballot; freedom of speech and the press for all left and anarchist parties and groups; freedom of assembly for trade unions and peasant organizations; abolition of Communist political agencies in the Army and Navy; immediate withdrawal of all grain requisitioning squads, and re-establishment of a free market for the peasants.” For this they were denounced as agents of the Whites. In reply, they broadcast the following radio message: “Comrade workers, red soldiers and sailors. We stand for the power of the Soviets and not that of the parties. We are for free representation of all who toil. Comrades, you are being misled. At Kronstadt all power is in the hands of the revolutionary sailors, of red soldiers and of workers. It is not in the hands of White Guards, allegedly headed by a General Kozlovsky, as Moscow Radio tells you.” Trotsky ordered the Red Army to attack. Fierce fighting followed and the revolt was brutally crushed. Victor Serge wrote: “The final assault was unleashed by Tukhachevsky on 17 March… Some of the rebels managed to reach Finland. Others put up a furious resistance, fort to fort and street to street; they stood and were shot crying, “Long live the world revolution! Hundreds of prisoners were taken away to Petrograd and handed to the Cheka; months later they were still being shot in small batches, a senseless and criminal agony. Those defeated sailors belonged body and soul to the Revolution; they had voiced the suffering and the will of the Russian people”.

Victor's Children is named after Victor Serge, so in this first episode David introduces the podcast and interviews Suzi Weissman, author of the political biography Victor Serge: The Course is Set on Hope, about this socialist fighter and writer and why Serge matters today. https://www.versobooks.com/authors/1615-susan-weissman

In an encore presentation, Kate and Medaya talk with award-winning screenwriter and novelist Charles Yu about his book, Interior Chinatown; an experimental, yet eminently enjoyable, novel-in-the-form-of-a-screenplay, which won the 2020 National Book Award for fiction. Charles discusses how he came to write such a formally challenging book, in which the central character's world is defined by, and limited to, the horizons available to Asian and Asian-American characters in popular film and television. Also, J Hoberman, author of Make My Day: Movie Culture in the Age of Reagan, returns to recommend Victor Serge's recently discovered Notebooks from 1936-47, in which the great communist writer lived in exile, from Paris to Mexico.

In an encore presentation, Kate and Medaya talk with award-winning screenwriter and novelist Charles Yu about his book, Interior Chinatown; an experimental, yet eminently enjoyable, novel-in-the-form-of-a-screenplay, which won the 2020 National Book Award for fiction. Charles discusses how he came to write such a formally challenging book, in which the central character's world is defined by, and limited to, the horizons available to Asian and Asian-American characters in popular film and television. Also, J Hoberman, author of Make My Day: Movie Culture in the Age of Reagan, returns to recommend Victor Serge's recently discovered Notebooks from 1936-47, in which the great communist writer lived in exile, from Paris to Mexico.

Kate and Medaya talk with award-winning screenwriter and novelist Charles Yu about his new book, Interior Chinatown; an experimental, yet eminently enjoyable, novel-in-the-form-of-a-screenplay. Charles discusses how he came to write such a formally challenging book, in which the central character's world is defined by, and limited to, the horizons available to Asian and Asian-American characters in popular film and television. Also, J Hoberman, author of Make My Day: Movie Culture in the Age of Reagan, returns to recommend Victor Serge's recently discovered Notebooks from 1936-47, in which the great communist writer lived in exile, from Paris to Mexico. This is the sixth episode in our series on LA and Southern California writers, artists and filmmakers. This episode of the LARB Radio Hour is supported in part by the California Arts Council, a state agency. Learn more at www.arts.ca.gov. Any findings, opinions, or conclusions contained herein are not necessarily those of the California Arts Council.

Kate and Medaya talk with award-winning screenwriter and novelist Charles Yu about his new book, Interior Chinatown; an experimental, yet eminently enjoyable, novel-in-the-form-of-a-screenplay. Charles discusses how he came to write such a formally challenging book, in which the central character's world is defined by, and limited to, the horizons available to Asian and Asian-American characters in popular film and television. Also, J Hoberman, author of Make My Day: Movie Culture in the Age of Reagan, returns to recommend Victor Serge's recently discovered Notebooks from 1936-47, in which the great communist writer lived in exile, from Paris to Mexico. This is the sixth episode in our series on LA and Southern California writers, artists and filmmakers. This episode of the LARB Radio Hour is supported in part by the California Arts Council, a state agency. Learn more at www.arts.ca.gov. Any findings, opinions, or conclusions contained herein are not necessarily those of the California Arts Council.

Writer, translator, and historian of the revolutionary left Mitch Abidor joins Andy and Sean to discuss the life, legacy, and relevance of "The Bolshevik's Pet Anarchist" Victor Serge! An illegalist anarchist turned anarcho-syndicalist, turned Bolshevik, turned left-oppositionist before being completely blackpilled, Serge is a rare example of a revolutionary who jumped from tendency to tendency while still maintaining his principals. Abidor and Richard Greenman recently translated Serge's 1936-1947 notebooks, written mostly while in exile in Mexico watching the dream of proletarian revolution unravel. Find more Abidor's work at Marxists.org and the New York Review of Books

El próximo 15 de junio se cumplirán 99 años del natalicio de Vladimir Kibalchich Rusakov, mejor conocido como “Vlady”. Junto con su padre, el escritor ruso Victor Serge, llegó a México huyendo de las convulsiones políticas y sociales de su país para convertirse en uno de los referentes de la "Generación de La Ruptura" durante la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Conoce más sobre el pintor y grabador a través de las entrevistas que nos brindaron el fundador del Centro Vlady de la UACM, Claudio Albertani, y la documentalista Fabiana Medina, realizadora del documental “Alejandra o la inocencia de Vlady”, que se exhibió por primera vez en nuestra ciudad dentro del programa Punto de Encuentro.

El próximo 15 de junio se cumplirán 99 años del natalicio de Vladimir Kibalchich Rusakov, mejor conocido como “Vlady”. Junto con su padre, el escritor ruso Victor Serge, llegó a México huyendo de las convulsiones políticas y sociales de su país para convertirse en uno de los referentes de la "Generación de La Ruptura" durante la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Conoce más sobre el pintor y grabador a través de las entrevistas que nos brindaron el fundador del Centro Vlady de la UACM, Claudio Albertani, y la documentalista Fabiana Medina, realizadora del documental “Alejandra o la inocencia de Vlady”, que se exhibió por primera vez en nuestra ciudad dentro del programa Punto de Encuentro.

Alan Minsky, producer of Jacobin Radio, is the guest on this episode. He wears multiple hats and one of them is Executive Director of Progressive Democrats of America (PDA). We talk about the Democratic primary field, and Alan reports on conversations he had on his recent trip to the European Parliament as part of a contingent of the American left. Then, a conversation with Mitch Abidor, translator of Victor Serge's just-published Notebooks, about the Belgian-Russian anarcho-Bolshevik and lifelong Left Oppositionist, who was one of the great writer-thinker-activists of the twentieth century. Serge's contribution is especially attractive today because he never compromised his commitment to the creation of a society that defends human freedom, enhances human dignity, and improves the human condition — and insisted that democracy was at the heart of the socialist project. This makes him both a contemporary as well as a man for our future. Serge’s life as a maverick and renegade relegated him to the margins. He was always poor. His last exile was in Mexico, and a rich trove of his daily writings, his notebooks, were discovered in Mexico in 2003. They were published in France in 2012, and NYRB has just published the English translation. We are fortunate today to speak to the translator, Mitch Abidor.

Aired Tuesday, 5 February 2019, 5:00 PM ESTThe Yellow Vests vs. Vested Interests – A People’s UpwisingAn Interview with American Ex-Pat and Marxist-Humanist Scholar Richard Greeman“We have a deeply-divided body politic. Half the people believe our system is broken, the other half believe it is fixed.” — Swami BeyondanandaWe are living in what Tom Paine would have called “soul-trying” times.While progressives are still baffled as to how Donald Trump became President and continue to be pulled into the very “resistance” that energizes Trumpism, a growing number of Americans are awakening to the political “shell” game. Regardless of which party wins, when it comes to the fundamental focus and rules of governance, those who already have too much money, power and influence seem to have the final say.Consider that under Obama (and Hillary as Secretary of State) we had the same neocon / neoliberal foreign policy as under Bush and Cheney. And even the Huffington Post has had to admit that income inequality became worse under Obama than it was under George W. Bush.The narrative playing on the mainstream is still about the growing list of “hopefuls” for the 2020 Presidential campaign, while the condition of the body politic remains “hopeless” unless we do a mass detox off of “hopium” and “deniatol.” What is needed is a true “2020 vision” to help we the people overgrow our corrupt and dysfunctional system, from the grassroots up instead of the top down.Fortunately, there is true hope on the horizon and it comes from the folks who helped us with the first American Revolution — France. You’ve probably been hearing about the Yellow Vest movement, which has been presented as one of those nationalistic, xenophobic “right wing” movements that seem to be sweeping Europe and the rest of the world.Not so fast, says my Wiki guest this week, Richard Greeman, an American expatriate living in France and a bona fide leftist. What he has observed first-hand is a movement of ordinary people tired of being told, “Let them eat cake” by a Marie Antoinette sound-alike Emmanuel Macron, who is an investment banker disguised as a “socialist.” As Greeman tells us in the interview, this is a from-the-ground-up movement that has rejected any affiliation with any party, right and left. This is the true “peoples upwising.”Richard Greeman is a self-described “Marxist-humanist, libertarian socialist and anarchist revolutionary”. He calls himself a red diaper grandbaby because his maternal grandfather was an admirer and follower of socialist presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs. When labeled a communist by a classmate as a child, Richard replied, “I’m a commonist — I am for the common people”. A graduate of Yale, Richard was one of the founders of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). After the fall of the Soviet Union, he traveled to Russia where he deepened his studies of Victor Serge, a Marxist anarchist internationalist novelist. In 1997, he helped establish the Victor Serge Public Library in Moscow and in 1998 co-founded the Praxis Research and Education Center in Moscow. Long story short, he brings a lifetime of awareness and perspective to a vexing movement … the Yellow Vest uprising in France … and the “vested interests” that are looking to dis-inform and misinform us on that topic.The mainstream press has painted it as a right wing movement, and indeed the press has cherry-picked right wing extremists to interview to “represent” the movement. Tune in this Tuesday, and get a more balanced picture of what is happening in France — and what COULD happen hear if progressives and populists ever got together for a generative conversation.If you’re feeling that currently the American body politic is stuck inside an unworkable system called “Futilism,” please catch this broadcast to discover how an angry uprising has led to an “upwising” where French citizens are working together for a change, to challenge a toxic and unworkable system that makes the elites richer and richer and the rest of us … not so much.Tune in this Tuesday, February 5th at 2 pm PT / 5 pm ET: http://omtimes.com/iom/shows/wiki-politiki-radio-show/You can listen right here: http://wikipolitiki.com/archives/To find out more about Richard, please go here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_GreemanOne more thing… How YOU and WE Can Make a DifferenceHave you noticed that regardless of which of the two political parties you vote for, neither of them seem to be willing to confront Monsanto and agribusiness? Are you disgusted and frustrated by the stonewalling by the two-party duopoly? Are you ready to empower a truly effective “third-way” movement that can move the dial? Are you ready for … oxymoron alert … FUNCTIONAL POLITICS?If so, go here to find out more: https://wikipolitiki.com/functional-politics-an-idea-whose-time-has-come/Support Wiki Politiki — A Clear Voice In The “Bewilderness”If you LOVE what you hear, and appreciate the mission of Wiki Politiki, “put your money where your mouse is” … Join the “upwising” — join the conversation, and become a Wiki Politiki supporter: http://wikipolitiki.com/join-the-upwising/Make a contribution in any amount via PayPal (https://tinyurl.com/y8fe9dks)Go ahead, PATRONIZE me! Support Wiki Politiki monthly through Patreon!

This month marks the 100th anniversary of the start of the German Revolution. Never heard of it? Don’t worry, most people haven’t, even though the revolution—or rather its failure—is arguably one of the most significant events of the 20th century, with consequences ranging from the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany to the triumph of Stalinism over the Russian Revolution. But there’s more to learn about the German Revolution beyond the fact of its ultimate failure. It’s also the closest socialism has gotten to winning in an advanced industrialized capitalist country, and it’s full of rich lessons even a century later. This week we have a conversation with Sean Larson, a PhD student in German Studies at NYU who is currently working on a dissertation on the German revolution. Sean recently wrote an excellent article in Jacobin about the first year of the revolution, and if all this information is new to you, read his article (see the link below) after you listen to the interview. For our opener, Eric joined Jen and Danny to talk about the return of anti-Semitism as a force in mainstream American politics. We discuss how the return of this racist ideology is rooted in the rise of far-right white supremacist groups as well as the urgent need to rebuild a fight against anti-Semitism. Links about the German Revolution Sean’s excellent piece in Jacobin about the first year of the German revolution (http://bit.ly/RedGermany). Alex Fair-Schulz also has this excellent piece in Socialist Worker on the same subject (http://bit.ly/GermanyRev). For longer works on the history of the German Revolution, Haymarket Books has published/republished a number of invaluable books, including: Chris Harman’s The Lost Revolution (http://bit.ly/HarmanGermany) Eyewitness to the German Revolution (http://bit.ly/SergeGermany) by the Russian-born revolutionary Victor Serge who himself was a participant in the German revolution Ralf Hoffrogge’s study of the revolutionary shop stewards movement (http://bit.ly/HoffroggeGermany) and Pierre Broué’s masterpiece The German Revolution 1917-1923 (http://bit.ly/BroueGermany) Links for our opener Our producer, Eric Ruder, has written an extensive article for Socialist Worker in which he examines the rise and fall and rise of anti-Semitism in the United States (http://bit.ly/RuderAntiSemitism) This statement by the International Socialist Organization (ISO) calls for a broad-based, urgent, united response to the far right (http://bit.ly/FightRightISO) Haymarket Books has published a collection of essays by Jewish Voice for Peace about the uses and abuses of anti-semitism (http://bit.ly/HaymarketJVP) Music in this episode The Boy & Sister Alma, “Lizard Eyes” (Dead Sea Captains Remix) FKJ Live at La Fée Electricité in Paris Sevdaliza, “Shahraman” L’indécis, “Soulful" Anohni, "Manta Ray"

À propos du livre : "Capitaine" paru aux éditions Stock Le 24 mars 1941, le Capitaine-Paul-Lemerle quitte le port de Marseille, avec à son bord les réprouvés de la France de Vichy et d'une Europe en feu, les immigrés de l'Est et républicains espagnols en exil, les juifs et apatrides, les écrivains surréalistes et artistes décadents, les savants et affairistes. Temps du roman où l'on croise le long des côtes de la Méditerranée, puis de la haute mer, jusqu'en Martinique, André Breton et Claude Lévi-Strauss dialoguant, Anna Seghers, son manuscrit et ses enfants, Victor Serge, son fils et ses révolutions, Wifredo Lam, sa peinture, et tant d'inconnus, tant de trajectoires croisées, jetés là par les aléas de l'agonie et du hasard, de l'ombre à la lumière. Ce qu'Adrien Bosc ressuscite c'est un temps d'hier qui ressemble aussi à notre aujourd'hui. Un souvenir tel qu' il brille à l'instant d'un péril. Adrien Bosc est né en 1986 à Avignon. En 2014, il reçoit pour son premier roman, Constellation, le Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française, ainsi que le Prix de la Vocation. Fondateur des éditions du sous-sol, il est par ailleurs éditeur au Seuil. Les coups de coeur de Barbara Lambert : Federica Ber  Mark Greene chez Grasset, et La Neuvième Heure de Alice McDermott chez Quai Voltaire

Mitchell Abidor is a leftist writer and translator. He is the principal French translator for the Marxist Internet Archive; Abidor has translated hundreds of texts, in multiple different languages, and published numerous collections from a myriad of radical political writers, from 17th Century France to Revolutionary Russia. His books include anthologies of the anarchist writings of Victor Serge, on the propagandists of the deed, the Paris Commune, the left of the French Revolution, and French anarchist individualists. He is also the author of, among other works, "Voices of the Paris Commune".  Find his profile on the Marxist Internet Archive here: https://www.marxists.org/admin/volunteers/biographies/mabidor.htm Topics Include: The Paris Commune, French Napoleonic Imperialism, Marx and Engels, Anarchism, The Communards, Factions within the Commune, the role of Women in the Commune, The French Revolution, and much more!  Our Intro Music is by The String-Bo String Duo, which you can find here: https://tsbsd.bandcamp.com/releases Our Outro Song is "This is Class War" by The String-Bo String Duo, you can find that here: https://www.facebook.com/thestringbostringduo/?hc_ref=ARQA71ZejnRbSyy-vgEA-UpvPdZZyJtgYVEPAak6ZbfvcUJ0P9qLvLempRW0_u5DQPI Please follow us on Twitter @RevLeftRadio and donate to our Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/RevLeftRadio   This podcast is officially affiliated with the Nebraska Left Coalition and the Omaha GDC. 

Olivier Bréchard, ancien directeur du World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) explique ce qui fait pour lui de Blaise Cendrars un auteur exceptionnel : "il est peu de livres qui, comme ceux de Cendrars, m'ont procuré la sensation de vivre plus intensément, plus pleinement que jamais. Des livres qui, plus qu'au lecteur et à son esprit en éveil, s'adressent à l'homme tout entier, le prennent aux tripes et en viennent à le marquer en profondeur". Frédéric-Louis Sausser, dit Blaise Cendrars (1887-1961), né à La-Chaux-de-Fond, fut d'abord apprenti horloger à St Pétersbourg en 1904. Après études de médecine interrompues en Suisse, Cendrars s'installa à New York où il vécut dans une bibliothèque, lisant nuit et jour... Il se lança dans l'écriture comme on rentre en transe : pour lui, l'acte de création artistique a lieu lorsque le poète est tel une braise, qui se consume au cours de la création, puis s'éteint pour se transformer en cendres (raison pour laquelle il choisit son pseudonyme Blaise comme braise, et Cendrars comme cendre). De retour en Europe, engagé dans la Légion étrangère pendant la guerre de 1914-1918, il fut amputé du bras droit en septembre 1915 et devint le "poète de la main gauche"... Son œuvre (poésie, romans, reportages et mémoires...), est placée sous le signe du voyage, de l'art, de l'aventure et de la célébration d'un monde où l'imaginaire se mêle au réel de façon souvent inextricable. Aux côtés de Blaise Cendras, Olivier Bréchard dévoile le panthéon de ses auteurs favoris (Maxime Gorki, Jack London, Henry de Monfreid, Victor Serge, George Orwell, Curzio Malaparte, Ernest Hemingway, B. Traven, Joseph Kessel, Henry Miller, Panait Istrati, Nikos Kazantzaki, Jean Malaquais, Louis Calaferte, Jacques Yonnet, Julien Blanc...). Autant d'écrivains qui, selon Olivier Bréchard, "témoignent d'un grand courage devant la vie, prenant des risques, allant au bout de leurs rêves, vie et rêves étant inextricablement liés. Ils ont une vaste expérience du monde, ayant exercé toutes sortes de métiers plus ou moins avouables ; connu à eux tous la guerre, la misère, la prison ; sillonné la planète et fréquenté tous les milieux ; écrit sans cesse, avec passion, aiguillonnés par la nécessité de partager leurs folles aventures et leur connaissance chèrement payée des hommes, qu'ils aiment parfois envers et contre tout..."