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Articles by Gavin Bowd
On the Paris Commune: Part 1
The first installment of a new text by Stathis Kouvelakis on the development, events and legacy of the Paris Commune, published in three parts across the week. Here follows a translation by David Broder of Stathis Kouvelakis’s introduction to a new selection of texts on the Paris Commune by Marx and other figures, published under the title Sur la Commune de Paris, Textes et controverses, précédé de Événement et stratégie révolutionnaire.
Remembering Gustave Lefrançais
Gustave Lefrançais has been unfairly overlooked in accounts of significant actors in the Paris Commune, argues Daniel Bensaïd. Though less famous than Varlin, Vallès, Flourens or Rossel, Gustave Lefrançais was the first president of the Paris Commune and the dedicatee of Eugène Pottier’s L’Internationale.
Savages - The Wedding
is the first book in French author Sabri Louatah’s Saint-Ettienne Quartet. Originally written in 2011, the subject matter is if anything more relevant now than it was then, given the terrorist attacks in France over the last few years. Savages opens on the campaign trail for an Algerian candidate for the French presidency. Idder Chaouch has brought in American campaign advisors to help him turn around a campaign that is potentially sinking.
Amazon.co.uk: Gavin Bowd: 9781780270524: Books
Since previous reviewers have praised this book, I'll begin with its major failing. It is surprising that Cormack's Protestant Action - and in Bowd's own words, PA "was the closest Scotland got to a mass fascistic movement" - is mentioned only in the passing. Now it is true that PA is well-covered in other books, but those are rather more dry, academic works (take that Tom Gallagher!) while this book appears to have been intended as a general survey for a mass readership.
Why can’t he be loved?
Michel Houellebecq’s The Map and the Territory tells the story, from the standpoint of a future art history, of a canonical artist of the early 21st century, a Frenchman with the curiously American-sounding name Jed Martin. Such a backward-gazing Künstlerroman invites comparison with the trajectory of the author himself.
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