THE AREA STAYS LEFT

 "THE PAST ISN'T DEAD AND GONE.

IN FACT, IT ISN'T EVEN GONE."

-- William Faulkner

The hammer and sickle over 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

MONDAY JUNE 19 . 19h30  LA BELLEVILLOISE
"Let's get rid of Macron and the patrons" "Facing capitalism, LET'S ORGANIZE"

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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Next,

Preliminary fracas: The mad "Descent from La Courtille"