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- ↑ 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.
- ↑ The following was the organisation's website at "L'Organisation Politique". Archived from the original on 28 October 2007. Retrieved 28 October 2007.. According to the (linked above)French Wikipedia page, this organization dissolved in 2007
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- ↑ Les Editions Prolétariennes
