Ultra-Sinister

08Feb10

New at Not Bored! Jean-Patrick Manchette: Gas Alert! (Contribution to the Critique of an Ultra-Sinister Ideology). On Faurisson and the ultra-gauche “Faurissonists”. Previous: Trop Loin; Ultra-leftism and softcore negationism; .

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Tags: Jean-Patrick Manchette, Robert Faurisson, ultra-gauche, ultra-left

Trop Loin on the Jewish Question

15Jan10

Following up the material on Gille Dauve and negationism (1, 2, 3, also Contested Terrain), this is a text by Trop Loin, the group Dauve is now involved in, on Israel/Palestine, which I strongly recommend.

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Tags: Gilles Dauve, Israel, Israel/Palestine, Palestine, Trop Loin, ultra-left

More notes on ultra-leftism and softcore negationism

13Jan10

At Contested Terrain: The French ultra-left and Holocaust negationism, noting my post on French Bordigist negationists: AGT also notes some problematic texts written by [Gilles] Dauvé (including under the pseudonym Jean Barrot), such as “Fascism/Anti-Fascism” and “The perplexities of the Middle Eastern conflict” (the latter just added to the Libcom archive), as well as Amadeo […]

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Tags: Against Sleep and Nightmare, Alfredo Bonanno, Alfredo M. Bonanno, Amadeo Bordiga, Elephant Editions, Gilad Atzmon, Gilles Dauve, holocaust denial, insurrectionary anarchism, Jay Knott, Jean Barrot, La Vielle Taupe, Mary Rizzo, Pacifica Forum, Wildcat

Variousness 20

10Jan10

Israel/Palestine Joint Struggle Focuses on Gaza. Migrant workers join Histradrut. Critique and theory Crash Course: new text by Krisis, on the financial crisis. I’ve been going through Letters Journal lately (see also blog). Some text well worth reading, including: Manifesto Against Labour by Gruppe Krisis, Invaders From Marx by Michael Heinrich. More texts from Ifinsiturcon: […]

Filed under: Anti-anti-Zionism, critique and theory, Fascism and antisemitism, Israel/Palestine, ultra-left   |  Leave a Comment
Tags: anti-zionism, Arbeit Macht Frei, Auschwitz, Gaza, George Galloway, Histradrut, Israel, Israel/Palestine, Palestine, Zionism

Additional materials on Gilles Dauvé and negationism

07Jan10

, Additional materials on Gilles Dauvé, Jean Barrot, Guy Dauvé, La Vielle Taupe, Pierre Guillaume, Amadeo Bordiga, Didier Daeninckx, Not Bored and LibCom. Includes John Gray’s introduction to La Guerre Sociale‘s “La Question de l’Etat”, French wikipedia on the ultra-gauche and negationism, part of Pierre Vidal-Naquet’s A Paper Eichman, and further reading.

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Tags: Amadeo Bordiga, Didier Daeninckx, Faurisson affair, Gilles Dauve, Guy Dauvé, holocaust denial, Holocaust negationism, Holocaust revisionism, Jean Barrot, John Gray, La Guerre Sociale, La Vielle Taupe, Libcom, negationism, Not Bored, Paul Rassinier, Pierre Guillaume, Pierre Vidal-Naque, revisionism, Robert Faurisson, Serge Thion, ultra-gauche, ultra-left

Gilles Dauvé, Jean Barrot, Guy Dauvé, La Vielle Taupe, Pierre Guillaume, Amadeo Bordiga, Didier Daeninckx, Not Bored and LibCom

05Jan10

The US-based Situationist grouplet, Not Bored!, published a text entitled “1981: the French FBI against Coluche . . .” on December 25. The text is a translation by Not Bored’s Bill Brown of a French article by left-wing author Didier Daeninckx about Guy Dauvé, a right-wing French intelligence officer.* Guy Dauvé is the father of […]

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Tags: Amadeo Bordiga, anti-fascism, Didier Daeninckx, Faurisson affair, Gilles Dauve, Guy Dauvé, Guy Debord, holocaust denial, Holocaust negationism, Holocaust revisionism, Jean Barrot, La Vielle Taupe, left communism, Libcom, Noam Chomsky, Not Bored, paedophilia, Paul Rassinier, Pierre Guillaume, Robert Faurisson, Serge Quadruppani, Serge Thion, Situationism, ultra-left