UNIONS AND STRIKES REPLACE REVOLT
In France, the terrible repression of La Commune brought
the end of insurrections and the start of the struggle between
capital and labor, which was deeper and more bitter than elsewhere.
It brought the Popular Front of 1936-1939,
the only collaborationist government
to be legally elected in Europe (the Vichy government),
the largely left-wing Resistance,
and because the right-wing leaders
were in hiding, in prison or shot,
the generous social safety net that largely remains.
Please read on.
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