May 1968: An Uprising in France

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Breht O'Shea

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🗓️ 7 April 2018

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Mitchell Abidor is the principal French translator for the Marxists Internet Archive. He is a writer and translator living in Brooklyn. His previous books are 'The Great Anger: Ultra-Revolutionary Writing in France from the Atheist Priest to the Bonnot Gang' and 'Communards: The Paris Commune of 1871 as Told by Those Who Fought It'. His newest book is "May Made Me: An Oral History of the 1968 Uprising in France".

Mitchell was on a previous Rev Left Radio episode about the Paris Commune. This time, he joins Brett to discuss the events in France in May of 1968.

You can purchase "May Made Me" here: https://www.akpress.org/may-made-me.html

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0:18.1	Where's the world? You night!
0:48.1	Welcome to revolutionary left radio. I'm your host Ann Comrade, Bredo Shae, and
1:13.2	today we have back on Mitch Abedor from our Paris Commune episode a few months back
1:18.0	to talk about his new book May Made Me in oral history of the 1968 uprising in
1:23.8	France. Mitch would you like to introduce yourself and say a little bit about your
1:27.6	background?
1:28.9	Sure I've been the main point much the only French translator at the Marxist
1:36.4	Internet archive, Marxist.org, for I don't know about it, dozen years, translated
1:42.2	about a thousand documents of also over the last few years produced about ten
1:49.4	between ten and thirteen books. I've got a losing count and in fact May Made Me
1:55.4	comes out officially next week on April 10th and then right after that I have
2:00.7	two more books coming out between April and the end of May. This would be a book
2:05.1	called The Permanent Guillaume, a book on the song called in the French Revolution
2:10.8	like far left of the French Revolution and then a book I worked on with a couple
2:15.4	of Brits collection of writings of August Blonke. So you know that's me.
2:24.4	Well that's awesome I'm particularly excited for the the guillotine French Revolution
2:28.5	book that sounds fascinating and because of our last episode on the Paris Commune
2:33.3	you were actually able to get our our interview up on Marxist.org's website
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