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Their Voice Is Fire: The Banlieues And The New Uprising in France

It Could Happen Here

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The Rise of the French New Right in the 80s

The anti-racism movement fails. There's an undocumented workers movement that sort of comes that like splinters off from it. But it's completely destroyed by the French business class. And you know, France in this point period still has some very strong unions. And the unions just like, we're like, no, fuck you, like die. The communist party is really fucking part of what was happening here too.

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