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A Maoist in France: Jacques Vergès and Revolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

François Fejto
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What mild men revolutionaries are! That is the impression I jotted down after a talk late in March 1964 with Jacques Vergès, managing editor of the review Révolution. This periodical, No. 9 of which was published in May, is the best-produced and most effective publication of the pro-Chinese movement in France. Thanks to its English edition and forthcoming Spanish edition, the review's field of action stretches from France to Africa and even to the American continent. Révolution, with its articles contributed from all parts of the world, is looking more and more like a liaison journal for the groups and movements of the Maoist International now coming into existence.

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Recent Developments
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The China Quarterly , Volume 19 , September 1964 , pp. 120 - 127
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Copyright © The China Quarterly 1964

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References

1 The review's Digest in English runs to 20,000–25,000 copies.Google Scholar

2 See the curriculum vitae of Vergès, J. in Est-Ouest, 10 16–31, 1963.Google Scholar

3 See the article by Vergès, J. in France-Observateur of 09 5, 1963Google Scholar and the essay on “Le P.C.F. et le problème colonial” in Révolution, No. 8.Google Scholar

4 Révolution, No. 8.Google Scholar

5 Leader of the non-China sympathisers in the Angola movement.Google Scholar

6 07 1964—I understand that the review Revolution has discreetly left its premises in Rue Francois Premier, without leaving an address. Apparently the editorial and administrative offices, together with M. Vergès, have moved to Geneva, where as we know, the review has always been printed. In left-wing Parisian circles the reason for this unexpected departure—coming a few days after the arrival of the new Chinese ambassador to Paris—is thought to be the desire of the Chinese to abstain in Paris from those activities that might give the appearance of interference in French political life.Google Scholar