Tag: working class

• Remembering the Paris Commune and its unsung anarchist heroine, Louise Michel: an interview with historian, Naomi Clifford

  

  Support Politika News on Patreon. INTERVIEW As 2021 commemorates the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune, historian Naomi Clifford turns her investigative eye to the life of an unsung anarchist heroine from France’s Haute-Marne: Louise Michel. Following her recent lecture on Michel (in collaboration with Tate South Lambeth Library) Naomi managed to pluck time out […]

  Georgio Konstandi

  27th Apr 2021

  France, UK

  anarchism, French history, history, Louise Michel, Naomi CLifford, Paris Commune, socialism, women, working class

• Neglected state schools and far-right rhetoric: Macron’s legacy will be defined by his vanity politics

  

  OPINION The quality of state schools in France has become so poor that working-class parents are turning to bursaries at Catholic private schools for their children’s education. As the government passes its ‘Islamist separatism’ law, these parents from France’s quartiers are battling a festering yet seemingly unacknowledged form of socio-economic segregation that threatens their children’s educational […]

  Olivia Dean

  22nd Mar 2021

  France

  education, Emmanuel Macron, equality, extremism, far right, Front National, ghettoisation, inequality, integrated education, Islamophobia, Macron, Marine Le Pen, Rassemblement National, social justice, working class