Michele Di Donato

Huge online movie archive of the Communist Party of France by @cine-archives.bsky.social.

With movies about Lenin, the Spanish war, mobilizations against the Indochina war and the Algerian war, demonstrations for Angela Davis, Ben Chavis, Mandela…

www.cinearchives.org

#SocialistSunday #Communism

PAW Goes to the Movies: Professor Sean Wilentz Watches ‘A Complete Unknown’ ‘The facts are all true, the songs are all true. But none of it happened the way that the film depicts it,’ says the Princeton history professor

Sean Wilentz on Bob Dylan's biopic. Worth reading: paw.princeton.edu/article/sean...

#PCF #Archives #communism

Archives départementales de Archives départementales de la Seine-Saint-Denis

Comité central du PCF : une source sonore unique en ligne

archives.seinesaintdenis.fr/actualites/c...

Because Elsevier will start to charge for the use of this website (and I won't pay), you have until March 31, 2025, to download most of my (non-book) publications for free. 👇

A NOTE ON GENERATIVE AI This class helps you to be a better writer and thinker. Generative AI (ChatGPT and other platforms) is neither writing nor thinking. Any use of AI in this class (whether to write, brainstorm, outline, or summarize) will be considered a violation of academic integrity. It undermines your intellectual development, for one: AI content is often inaccurate or hallucinatory and is always boring, banal, and average. This is by design, as generative AI works by predicting the most obvious or basic sequencing of words. Good writing—writing that is persuasive, powerful, lively, funny, surprising, rousing, insightful, transformative, provocative—requires human work. Human creativity is weird and variable and uneven, but it holds the capacity for growth, revelation, empathy, and brilliance. I urge you not to abandon the glorious experiential potential of human messiness and transformation for the tedium of robot sentences. One further reason to abjure generative AI, especially in a class on environmental literature: in addition to its counterproductivity to your work as a writer and thinker, AI is enormously environmentally destructive.

My draft of a syllabus statement on a.i. for my writing class, for what it is worth:

Contributed a chapter, co-authored with Mario Del Pero, on "The Left, Europe and Globalization"

Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli promoted a great volume on the crisis and challenges of the European Left since the late 20th century.

Contributed a chapter, co-authored with Mario Del Pero, on "The Left, Europe and Globalization"

Some years ago I created this list, and it keeps on growing. It includes links to newspapers/journals of socialist parties in the years of the Second International (1889-1914) that are accessible online, for free.

If you know others, let me know!

socialhistoryportal.org/second-inter...

Parlement[s], Revue d'histoire politique 2024/3 (n° 40) Les gauches et l’international au XXe siècle

And, more recently and in French, Les gauches et l’international au XXe siècle, a special issue of Parlement[s], Revue d'histoire politique
shs.cairn.info/revue-parlem...

Leftist Internationalisms This volume offers a new perspective on the political history of the socialist, communist and alternative political Lefts, focusing on the role of networks and…

Leftist Internationalism: A Transnational Political History (Bloomsbury Academic, 2023) www.bloomsbury.com/uk/leftist-i...

Mathieu Fulla @mathieufulla.bsky.social‬ joined BlueSky! A great follow for those interested in the international history of socialism, French politics, and many other topics. Also, a good chance to repost some of the work on leftist internationalism we have coordinated together:

Heureux d'arriver sur #bluesky avec une bonne nouvelle: je suis habilité à diriger des recherches depuis hier midi😄. Une discussion passionnante avec mon jury Emmanuelle Avril, Noëlline Castagnez, Marc Lazar, Kiran Patel, Carlos Sanz Diaz et mon formidable garant Laurent Warlouzet! #HelloESR

Like many other European social democratic parties, Labour is moving right on immigration, certainly driven by the recent success of Reform. We have researched this question for years now. There is an abundance of evidence of why this isn't a good strategy. A thread summarizing some of our research

Colloque « François Mitterrand 1988-1991, session 1, évolutions et évènements politiques » (vendredi 13 décembre 2024), avec la participation des Archives nationales.

www.mitterrand.org/colloque-fra...

Rise and fall of the alternative economic strategy: From internationalisation of capital to ‘globalisation’ The Alternative Economic Strategy (AES) was the focus of the British left's thinking for more than a decade and formed the basis of the Labour party's plans for the economic renewal of Britain as r...

Hi Benjamin, this by John Callaghan raises some very good points www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Von der Leyen to preside over most rightwing European Commission New team reflects growing appeal of conservative and hard-right parties in Europe

Good piece by @andybounds.bsky.social on the make up of the new Commission: “Von der Leyen to preside over most rightwing European Commission” on.ft.com/3Bcrj5L

… Eugénia Palieraki, Marie-Laure Geoffray, @ettorrecos.bsky.social, @constancebantman.bsky.social, @elarabertho.bsky.social, Hilal Mame Fatoumata Diallo, @victorpereira.bsky.social

In this special issue, we look at multiple facets and instances of left-wing internationalism during the 20th Century. With great contributions by Camille Buat, Quentin Gasteuil, Denis Charbit, @judithbonnin.bsky.social …

Parlement[s], Revue d'histoire politique 2024/2 (n° 40) Les gauches et l’international au XXe siècle

Now online: Les gauches et l’international au XXe siècle, a special issue of Parlement[s], Revue d'histoire politique, edited by Mathieu Fulla and myself shs.cairn.info/revue-parlem...

The Anti-War Political Tradition: An Introduction Anti-war politics has a rich historical tradition, one that seems to be in desperate need of revival. New FX contributor Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins begins a monthly series on this critical subject.

This by Danny Steinmetz-Jenkins on the historical “anti-war political tradition” is great: www.foreignexchanges.news/p/the-anti-w...

Transatlantic dialogues, think tanks and the evolution of the Italian Communist Party: Cold War politics and post-1970s transformations - Journal of Transatlantic Studies This article examines the evolution of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) within the context of Cold War transatlantic relations and the global trends of the 1970s. It focuses on the interactions betwe...

Alice Ciulla on The Journal of Transatlantic Studies: Transatlantic dialogues, think tanks and the evolution of the Italian Communist Party link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🧵📚 He creado un hilo con recomendaciones de libros que son útiles para entender la crisis ecosocial. Se trata de una cuidada selección de mi biblioteca sobre temas como la economía ecológica, energía, degrowth, ecofeminismo, economía política, ciencia, recursos naturales... Espero que os guste.

I put together a new starter pack of people who do work on the history of socialism. Encompasses different aspects, tendencies, and eras, including recent years. Let me know if you have suggestions or would like to be added yourself.

Many thanks, this is super useful! Would love to be added, if possible

Au carrefour des internationalismes Le socialisme d’Europe du Sud et l’« apprentissage de l’international » par le Parti socialiste français (1974-1976)

shs.cairn.info/revue-vingt-...

European Integration and the Global Financial Crisis This book explores the years between the 1980s and 1990s when the European Union took shape, offering a fresh take on a crucial phase of European history

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Leftist Internationalisms This volume offers a new perspective on the political history of the socialist, communist and alternative political Lefts, focusing on the role of networks and…

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/leftist-i...

M. DI DONATO, Social Democracy in Transition. An International History of the 1970s When and how did the major social democratic parties perceive, understand, and interpret the crisis of post-war economic equilibrium? What solutions did they develop to address the crisis, and what al...

www.mulino.it/foreignright...

M. DI DONATO, Social Democracy in Transition. An International History of the 1970s When and how did the major social democratic parties perceive, understand, and interpret the crisis of post-war economic equilibrium? What solutions did they develop to address the crisis, and what al...

www.mulino.it/isbn/9788815...