Recorded Fragments

<p><strong>Recorded Fragments - Twelve reflections on the 20th century </strong><strong style=color: rgb(34 34 34);>with </strong><strong>Daniel Bensaïd</strong></p><p><br></p><p>These interviews with Daniel Bensaïd were a project broadcast on the radio station 'Fréquence Paris Plurielle' (106.3 FM).</p><p> </p><p>During recording sessions in 2007 and 2008 Daniel Bensaïd proposed further interviews on twelve events associated with key dates of the workers' movement.  In these he gives his insight into events such as the October Revolution the Spanish Civil War the assassination of Lumumba the 1973 coup in Chile the fall of the Berlin Wall. </p><p><br></p><p>These twelve events - milestones of the 'short twentieth century' - are necessarily a biased and partial choice. In the interviews one hears or rather one reads in this book some of the main analyses that structure Daniel Bensaïd's thinking but also that of part of the radical left at the very beginning of the 21st century.</p><p> </p>