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Collective

Showing loyalty to Samuel Paty's actions

[We are repeating the words of the CLN 2022 press release – to which we fully subscribe] Two years ago, on October 16, 2020, Samuel Paty, a history and geography teacher at the Bois-d'Aulne college in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, was heinously assassinated by an Islamist terrorist for having carried out his teaching mission at the school of the Republic. The National Secular Collective salutes the memory and action of

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Mikhail Kostylev

The Midas of ideology

[by Mikhail Kostylev] “Wokism does not exist,” insists Libération, , … after having nevertheless hailed it as a “concept taken up by Black Live Matters” to “claim a combative and uncompromising stance.” We are at a loss! Libération is definitely cultivating art

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Mikhail Kostylev

The French University - this inclusive kolkhoz

by Yana Grinshpun and Mikhail Kostylev In our (Soviet) youth, France was nicknamed the "16th Republic of the USSR". Emigration was a cruel disillusionment: the French hardly read, drink their vodka without snacking (the savages!) and their

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Collective

Racial activists infiltrated the state apparatus

[by Ivar Arpi, translated from Swedish by the Observatory. The original can be found here: https://ivararpi.substack.com/p/rasaktivisterna-som-infiltrerar-statsapparaten]The Stockholm County Administrative Board is lending itself to an extreme ideology that ignores the facts. The idea is spreading throughout the country. It is high time

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Nathalie Heinich

TRACT RETURNS

[by Nathalie Heinich] On May 27, 2021, I published, in the “Tracts” collection at Gallimard, What Activism Does to Research, for which I was invited the next day to the France Inter morning show. This was followed by

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Alexandru Calinescu
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Observers Collective

“Cultural Decolonization”, a Romanian Point of View

[article by Alexandru Călinescu, professor at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, literary critic and writer, published in Romanian on June 18, 2021 on the Ziarul de Iași website] Is literature, to refer to my field of activity, of interest?

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