Tony Judt

The Social Question Redivivus

The little town of Longwy has a ghostly air. For many years it was an important center of iron and steel manufacturing in the industrial basin of the northern Lorraine and a proud stronghold of socialist and communist unions. Since 1975, however, the local industry, like steelworking everywhere in Western Europe, has been in trouble. Today the steelworks are gone, and so, at first sight, are their workers. At noon on a working day the town is quiet, with empty shops, a few sad-looking bars, and a deserted railway station occupied by a gaggle of drunks. The erstwhile steelworkers, grown old, wait out their lives in bars and caf?s, or else stay at home with the television. Their wives and daughters have part-time, nonunion work either in new factories and offices distributed in the fields outside the town or else at com mercial centers deposited optimistically at crossroads some 20 miles away. Their sons have no work at all and mill around at these same commercial centers looking at once menacing and pitiful. There are towns like Longwy all over Europe, from Lancashire to Silesia, from the Asturian mountains to the central Slovakian plain. What makes the shattered industrial heartland of northeastern

Resistance and revolution in Mediterranean Europe, 1939-1948

Introduction Tony Judt 1 The Comintern and Southern Europe 1938-43 Geoffrey Swain 2 Communism and Resistance in Italy 1943-8 David Travis 3 The Parti Communiste Francais and the French Resistance in World War Two Lynne Taylor 4 Pariahs to Partisans to Power: The Communist Party of Yugoslavia Mark Wheeler 5 The Greek Communist Party: Resistance or Revolution? Haris Vlavianos Appendix: Chronologies Note on Contributors Index.

Une historiographie pas comme les autres: The French Communists and their History

As I write this, in the winter of 1982, the secretary of the Conf6d6ration G6n6rale du Travail (CGT), Henri Krasucki (a leading member of the Bureau Politique of the French Communist Party, PCF), has just congratulated himself publicly upon boycotting a strike in France to protest against the Polish military coup. In this display of solidarity with the Polish generals, Krasucki was joined by Georges Marchais, secretary-general of the PCF. Marchais denounced the ’adventurism’ of the would-be strikers and applauded the communists’ role in contributing to the failure of their plans. In the very same week, the Italian Communist Party (PCI) publicly condemned the Polish coup and declared that the militarization of

The Rules of the Game

ᴥ Shuffle the cards, then put them on their space on the gameboard face-down. During the game, discarded cards are stacked face-up next to the gameboard. ᴥ Each player takes: ̴ 1 Travel Journal. ̴ 1 Hat pawn in the color corresponding to the symbol on their Travel Journal. ̴ 3 Rumor cards that they place on the page on the right side of their Travel Journal. (the remaining Rumor cards are returned to the box) ̴ A total of 80 £ that they take into their hand:1 × 30 £ / 1 × 15 £ / 2 × 10 £ / 2 × 5 £ / 1 × 3 £ / 2 × 1 £.

Reviews: Nancy L. Green, The Pletzl of Paris: Jewish Immigrant Workers in the Belle Epoque, New York and London, Holmes & Meier, 1986; ix + 270pp.; npg:

German urban Reformation and shows how magistrates successfully strove to contain and channel the potentially revolutionary grass-roots movement in favour of reform. Brady also voices some scepticism as to whether the official Reformation message actually reached the urban population as a whole. The peculiar transformation which early Reformation theology underwent on the village level is examined in a lively