Natacha Michel

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Natacha Michel is a French political activist, militant and writer, born in 1941. She has published a dozen novels and a growing body of literary criticism.

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Michel was program director at the College International de Philosophie (1995–2001). She is the daughter of French film director and screenwriter André Michel.

L'Organisation Politique

Following the student uprisings of May 1968 in France, Michel was a founding member of the Union des communistes de France marxiste-léniniste  [ fr ] (UCFml). To quote Alain Badiou, the UCFml is "the Maoist organization established in late 1969 by Natacha Michel, Sylvain Lazarus, myself and a fair number of young people". [1] Michel's commitment to political intervention did not waver in the following decades. She is a founding member (along with Badiou and Lazarus) of the militant French political organisation Organisation politique  [ fr ] [2] which called itself a post-party organization concerned with direct popular intervention in a wide range of issues (including immigration, labor, and housing). In addition to numerous writings and interventions since the 1980s, L'Organisation Politique has stressed the importance of developing political prescriptions concerning undocumented migrants (in France referred to as les sans papiers) and stresses that they must be conceived primarily as workers and not immigrants.

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References

  1. Badiou, Alain (2010). "Part I: "We Are Still the Contemporaries of May '68"". The Communist Hypothesis (pbk). Translated by David Macey; Steve Corcoran. Verso. p.  58. ISBN   978-1-84467-600-2.
  2. The following was the organisation's website at "L'Organisation Politique". Archived from the original on 2007-10-28. Retrieved 2007-10-28.. According to the above linked French Wikipedia page, this organization dissolved in 2007