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Sylvie Wieviorka
Sylvie Wieviorka (born February 3, 1950, in Paris), is a French psychiatrist, academic, and politician. Family Wieviorka is the sister of historian Annette Wieviorka, sociologist Michel Wieviorka, and historian Olivier Wieviorka. Her paternal grandparents, who were Polish Jews, were arrested in Nice during World War II and murdered in Auschwitz. Her grandfather, Wolf Wiewiorka, was born on March 10, 1896, in Minsk, Belarus. Her grandmother, Rosa Wiewiorka, née Feldman, was born on August 10, 1897, in Siedlce, Poland. Their last address in Nice was 16 rue Reine Jeanne. They were deported in convoy No. 61, dated October 28, 1943, from the Drancy internment camp to Auschwitz. They were detained before at Camp de Beaune-la-Rolande. Her father, a refugee in Switzerland, and her mother, a refugee in Grenoble, survived the war. Medical and academic career Wieviorka is a psychiatrist, and the medical director of a Parisian drug addiction center. She is the author of several books ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvie Wieviorka
Sylvie Wieviorka (born February 3, 1950, in Paris), is a French psychiatrist, academic, and politician. Family Wieviorka is the sister of historian Annette Wieviorka, sociologist Michel Wieviorka, and historian Olivier Wieviorka. Her paternal grandparents, who were Polish Jews, were arrested in Nice during World War II and murdered in Auschwitz. Her grandfather, Wolf Wiewiorka, was born on March 10, 1896, in Minsk, Belarus. Her grandmother, Rosa Wiewiorka, née Feldman, was born on August 10, 1897, in Siedlce, Poland. Their last address in Nice was 16 rue Reine Jeanne. They were deported in convoy No. 61, dated October 28, 1943, from the Drancy internment camp to Auschwitz. They were detained before at Camp de Beaune-la-Rolande. Her father, a refugee in Switzerland, and her mother, a refugee in Grenoble, survived the war. Medical and academic career Wieviorka is a psychiatrist, and the medical director of a Parisian drug addiction center. She is the author of several books ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
May 68
Beginning in May 1968, a period of civil unrest occurred throughout France, lasting some seven weeks and punctuated by demonstrations, general strikes, as well as the occupation of universities and factories. At the height of events, which have since become known as May 68, the economy of France came to a halt. The protests reached such a point that political leaders feared civil war or revolution; the national government briefly ceased to function after President Charles de Gaulle secretly fled France to West Germany on the 29th. The protests are sometimes linked to similar movements that occurred around the same time worldwide and inspired a generation of protest art in the form of songs, imaginative graffiti, posters, and slogans. The unrest began with a series of far-left student occupation protests against capitalism, consumerism, American imperialism and traditional institutions. Heavy police repression of the protesters led France's trade union confederations to call ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominique Strauss-Kahn
Dominique Gaston André Strauss-Kahn (; born 25 April 1949), also known as DSK, is a French economist and politician who served as the tenth managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and was a member of the French Socialist Party. He was a professor of economics at Paris West University Nanterre La Défense and Sciences Po, and was Minister of Economy and Finance from 1997 to 1999, as part of Lionel Jospin's Plural Left government. He sought the nomination in the Socialist Party presidential primary of 2006, but was defeated by Ségolène Royal. Strauss-Kahn was appointed managing director of the IMF on 28 September 2007, with the backing of then–President of France Nicolas Sarkozy. He served in that capacity until his resignation on 18 May 2011, in the wake of an allegation that he had sexually assaulted a hotel maid; the charges were later dismissed. Other sexual allegations followed, and resulted in acquittals. These accusations were seen as controver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Monetary Fund
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a major financial agency of the United Nations, and an international financial institution, headquartered in Washington, D.C., consisting of 190 countries. Its stated mission is "working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world." Formed in 1944, started on 27 December 1945, at the Bretton Woods Conference primarily by the ideas of Harry Dexter White and John Maynard Keynes, it came into formal existence in 1945 with 29 member countries and the goal of reconstructing the international monetary system. It now plays a central role in the management of balance of payments difficulties and international financial crises. Countries contribute funds to a pool through a quota system from which countries experiencing balance of payments problems can borrow money. , the fund had XDR 477 billion (a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martine Aubry
Martine Louise Marie Aubry (; née Delors; born 8 August 1950) is a French politician. She was the First Secretary of the French Socialist Party (''Parti Socialiste'', or PS) from November 2008 to April 2012, and has been the Mayor of Lille (Nord) since March 2001; she is also the first female to hold this position. Her father, Jacques Delors, served as Minister of Finance under President François Mitterrand and was also President of the European Commission. Aubry joined the PS in 1974, and was appointed Minister of Labour by Prime Minister Édith Cresson in 1991, but lost her position in 1993 after the Right won the legislative elections. However, she became Minister of Social Affairs when Lionel Jospin was appointed Prime Minister in 1997. She is mostly known for having pushed the popular 35-hour workweek law, known as the "Loi Aubry", reducing the nominal length of the normal full-time working week from 39 to 35 hours, and the law that created Couverture maladie universelle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurent Fabius
Laurent Fabius (; born 20 August 1946) is a French politician serving as President of the Constitutional Council since 8 March 2016. A member of the Socialist Party, he previously served as Prime Minister of France from 17 July 1984 to 20 March 1986. Fabius was 37 years old when he was appointed and is, so far, the youngest Prime Minister of the Fifth Republic. Fabius was also President of the National Assembly from 1988 to 1992 and again from 1997 to 2000. Fabius served in the government as Minister of Finance from 2000 to 2002 and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2012 to 2016. Early life Fabius was born in the affluent 16th arrondissement of Paris, the son of Louise (''née'' Strasburger-Mortimer; 1911–2010) and André Fabius (1908–1984). He is the younger brother of Catherine Leterrier and François Fabius. His parents were from Ashkenazi Jewish families who converted to Catholicism. Fabius was raised a Catholic; he has three sons, David (1978) with his partner C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Boutault
Jacques Boutault (born 4 January 1961) is a French politician member of Europe Écologie Les Verts (EELV) and the mayor of the 2nd arrondissement of Paris between 2001 and 2020. Biography The son of a Republican Guard and of a seamstress, he co-founded the first high school ''Comité d'action lycéen'', in 1978 at the Joliot-Curie high school in Nanterre, he first campaigned in associations such as ''Droit devant !!'', Greenpeace, ''Les Amis de la Terre'' and Attac. Until 1996, in a close-knit team of amateur journalists, he published ''La Riposte'', a fanzine devoted to politics, sex and drugs. After a graduate diploma at the School of Advanced Studies in Information and Communication (Celsa Paris IV-Sorbonne), he worked for ten years as a journalist (''L'Usine nouvelle'', ''Challenges'', ''Liaisons sociales'', ''Rebondir''…)). In 1995, he was recruited to create the press service of Unédic, then in 1998 he took charge of the Internal Communication Department, which he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arrondissements Of Paris
The Paris, City of Paris is divided into twenty ''Municipal arrondissements of France, arrondissements municipaux'', administrative districts, more simply referred to as ''arrondissements'' (). These are not to be confused with departmental arrondissements of France, arrondissements, which subdivide the larger French departments of France, departments. The number of the arrondissement is indicated by the last two digits in most Parisian Postal codes in France, postal codes (75001 up to 75020). In addition to their number, each arrondissement also has a name, often for a local monument. For example, the 5th arrondissement of Paris, 5th arrondissement is also called "Panthéon" in reference to the Panthéon, eponymous building. The first four arrondissements have a shared administration, called Paris Centre. Description The twenty arrondissements are arranged in the form of a clockwise spiral (often likened to a Gastropod shell#Morphology, snail shell), starting from the middle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Schapira (politician)
Pierre Lionel Georges Schapira (born 10 December 1944 in Algiers) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Île-de-France. He is a member of the Socialist Party, which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Development. He is also a substitute for the Committee on Foreign Affairs and a member of the delegation for relations with Israel and the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly. Career * Diploma as dental surgeon (1971) * Deputy Mayor of Paris with responsibility for international relations and the French-Speaking World * Former Vice-President of the French Economic and Social Council (1984–2004) * Former Commissioner, National Commission for Information Technology and Freedoms (CNIL) (1999–2004) * Officier of the Legion of Honour References External links Official website(in French) European Parliament biographyDeclaration of financial interests(in French; PDF Portable Document Form ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Socialist Party (France)
The Socialist Party (french: Parti socialiste , PS) is a French centre-left and social-democratic political party. It holds pro-European views. The PS was for decades the largest party of the "French Left" and used to be one of the two major political parties in the French Fifth Republic, along with The Republicans. It replaced the earlier French Section of the Workers' International in 1969 and is currently led by First Secretary Olivier Faure. The PS is a member of the Party of European Socialists, Progressive Alliance and Socialist International. The PS first won power in 1981, when its candidate François Mitterrand was elected president of France in the 1981 presidential election. Under Mitterrand, the party achieved a governing majority in the National Assembly from 1981 to 1986 and again from 1988 to 1993. PS leader Lionel Jospin lost his bid to succeed Mitterrand as president in the 1995 presidential election against Rally for the Republic leader Jacques Chirac, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maoism
Maoism, officially called Mao Zedong Thought by the Chinese Communist Party, is a variety of Marxism–Leninism that Mao Zedong developed to realise a socialist revolution in the agricultural, pre-industrial society of the Republic of China and later the People's Republic of China. The philosophical difference between Maoism and traditional Marxism–Leninism is that the peasantry is the revolutionary vanguard in pre-industrial societies rather than the proletariat. This updating and adaptation of Marxism–Leninism to Chinese conditions in which revolutionary praxis is primary and ideological orthodoxy is secondary represents urban Marxism–Leninism adapted to pre-industrial China. Later theoreticians expanded on the idea that Mao had adapted Marxism–Leninism to Chinese conditions, arguing that he had in fact updated it fundamentally, and that Maoism could be applied universally throughout the world. This ideology is often referred to as Marxism–Leninism–Maoism to d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communist
Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered around common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange which allocates products to everyone in the society.: "One widespread distinction was that socialism socialised production only while communism socialised production and consumption." Communist society also involves the absence of private property, social classes, money, and the state. Communists often seek a voluntary state of self-governance, but disagree on the means to this end. This reflects a distinction between a more libertarian approach of communization, revolutionary spontaneity, and workers' self-management, and a more vanguardist or communist party-driven approach through the development of a constitutional socialist state ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
