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“... from his many successors, including the generation of 1968 and Mélenchon’s La France Insoumise.Mitchell Abidor’s abridged translation of Jaurès’s book reads like a historical novel: the storming of the Bastille; the revolutionary days when the women of Paris marched on Versailles; the king’s flight to Varennes; his arrest and trial; the ...”

“... Mexico​ City, 6 July 1946. Victor Serge had a year to live. He had spent the morning, as he sometimes did, with Trotsky’s widow, Natalia Sedova. They had been writing a joint memoir of Trotsky; in it Natalia recalls her husband pacing up and down in his study at Coyoacán, engaged in heated imaginary conversation with old dead Bolsheviks, arguing about Stalin, and how and why they had been defeated by him ...”