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

It Could Happen Here

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Mitterrand's Plan to Stop the Riots

The first of these riots, there's an attempt by the French left to organize these people. The problem with this is that instead of... Okay, so Mitterrand does some reforms kind of to put money into these communities,. But again, these people are being structurally disenfranchised by a combination of French racism, the physical urban geography of these suburbs and capitalism in general.

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