2025
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236
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Ernest Mandel
Author · 16 books
Ernest Ezra Mandel was a German born Belgian-Jewish Marxian economist and a Trotskyist activist and theorist. He fought in the underground resistance against the Nazis during the occupation of Belgium and he became a member of the Fourth International during his youth in Antwerp. Mandel is considered to be populariser of marxism.
Alain Geismar
Author · 1 books
Scholar and politician.
André Barjonet
Author · 1 books
Trade unionist.
Gilles Martinet
Author · 1 books
Journalist, politician and leftist intellectual. He co-founded the PSU before joining the Socialist Party.
Andre Gorz
Author · 14 books
André Gorz, pen name of Gérard Horst, born Gerhard Hirsch, also known by his pen name Michel Bosquet, was an Austrian and French social philosopher. Also a journalist, he co-founded Le Nouvel Observateur weekly in 1964. A supporter of Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialist version of Marxism after World War Two, in the aftermath of the May '68 student riots, he became more concerned with political ecology. In the 1960s and 1970s, he was a main theorist in the New Left movement. His central theme was wage labour issues such as liberation from work, just distribution of work, social alienation, and Guaranteed basic income
Waldeck Rochet
Author · 1 books
Communist politician
Jacques Sauvageot
Author · 1 books
Professor of higher education, former student unionist. He was with Alain Geismar and Daniel Cohn-Bendit, a leader of the period of May 68, the name given to all revolts occurred in France in May-June 1968. He was vice-president of the National Union of Students of France (UNEF).
