The Invisible Committee

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The Invisible Committee is the nom de plume of an anonymous author or authors who have written French works of literature based on far-left politics and communization. The identity of the Invisible Committee has been associated with the Tarnac Nine, a group of people including Julien Coupat who were arrested "on the grounds that they were to have participated in the sabotage of overhead electrical lines on France's national railways." [1] [2]

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The Invisible Committee is classified as ultra-left by the Ministry of the Interior of the second Fillon government. [3] Denying the label of "author", this committee claims to be an "instance of strategic enunciation for the revolutionary movement". [4]

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References

  1. Coming Insurrection, p. 5.
  2. Smith, Aaron Lake (2 April 2010). "Vive Le Tarnac Nine!". Vice.
  3. Clarini, Julie (17 October 2014). "L'insurrection qui revient" [The returning insurgency]. Le Monde (in French). Retrieved 12 June 2022.
  4. "Die Wut gewinnt an Boden" [Anger gains ground]. Die Zeit (in German). Vol. 17. 8 May 2015. Retrieved 12 June 2022.

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