Beyond the Tricolour

Internationalism and the French Left from Dreyfus to Algeria
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-73478-4
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers

Buch, Englisch, Band 349, 376 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 791 g

Reihe: Historical Materialism Book Series

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Birchall, Ian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.