A comment piece from the UK Guardian newspaper, making some valid if slightly oversimplified points about the difference between a ‘revolution’ that topples a regime, and the work of constructing a changed future. Perhaps most interesting is the stream of comments which follow after, revealing both how discussion of ‘revolutionary crowds’ still animates present-day internet folk, and the savage disagreement about what makes a ‘good’ or ‘bad’ revolution this can produce.

A piece by our colleague Charles Walton, available in both French and English, comparing issues of economic justice and redistribution in the French Revolution and the current situation in Egypt.

“Et si l’économie était la grande oubliée des révolutions ?…”

I’ve just posted here a keynote talk I gave last year, relevant to the themes of comparative revolution.

Peter McPhee has posted an article for the Guardian questioning the use of his own research to justify the claims made about Robespierre’s appearance that caused a media storm in France last December. Some of that earlier coverage can be reviewed below:

Rue89/Nouvel Obs

Le Figaro

L’Humanité

An intervention from Jean-Luc Melenchon