La Guerre Sociale

Texts by or about La Guerre Sociale, a French ultra-left journal, published between 1977 and 1985. The journal was rightly denounced for its "negationist" ideas and support for holocaust denier Robert Faurisson.

History and personal narrative of the last fifteen years

La Banquise's history and personal narrative of the French ultra-left from 1968-1983. Including May 68 and its aftermath, the hot Autumn in Italy, the state killing of Puig Antich, economic crises, the production of a fake issue of le Monde Diplomatique newspaper, the Faurisson affair and holocaust revisionism.

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Psychedelic Bordiguism: Invariance and Fictive Capital – La Guerre Sociale

A critique of the ideas of Jacques Camatte and the journal Invariance originally published in French…

John Gray - Introduction to The Question of the State

Anonymously published introduction on the now-defunct John Gray website, this is written as an introduction to La Guerre Sociale's 'The Question of the State', discussing the history of the article and its relation to the Faurisson affair where some French ultra-left groups including La Guerre Sociale supported Robert Faurisson's negationism (holocaust revisionism).

Abundance and scarcity in primitive societies – La Guerre Sociale

A 1977 text reviewing recent scholarship on social anthropology and its implications for…

The Question of the State – La Guerre Sociale

This article from La Guerre Sociale No.2, March '78, was based on one written by Dauvé, who did not wish to become directly involved with LGS, but offered two texts for possible inclusion and said they could do as they wished with the texts. It was rewritten without Dauvé's participation – "completed, drastically cut and profoundly corrected and revised" according to LGS, but they also stated about 70% of the result…

Toward the human community - La Guerre Sociale

A 1982 article first published in the journal La Guerre Sociale on the prospects for a communist movement, with discussions of politics,…