THE AREA STAYS LEFT

"THE PAST ISN'T DEAD AND GONE. IN FACT, IT ISN'T EVEN GONE."

     -- William Faulkner

The hammer and sickle announces a powerful workers' cooperative, Communist after 1924:

Now

Plaque honoring members of the Libération Nord (Socialist) Resistant group fallen during the Libération of Paris.

Today

Another progressive bookstore, a few steps from that shown above.

Posters for an independent union and help to migrants 

Poster of the non-Communist left

"MEETING

We don't know whether art still lets us HOWL

(more inside!)"

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Poster on a Belleville wall:

"Behind Fascism capitalism lurks"

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