''La Cause du peuple'' was a French newspaper. The newspaper was founded on May 1, 1968 by
Roland Castro
Roland Castro (born 16 October 1940) is a French architect and political activist.
Biography
Roland Castro was born on 16 October 1940 in Limoges.
By the end of 1966 he was a member of the editorial committee of ''Melp!'', the École Normale Su ...
and was the press organ of the party
Gauche prolétarienne.
When the GP was banned by the Gaullist state in 1970, promoting ''La Cause du peuple'' and selling it on the street became a badge of honor for left-leaning intellectuals such as
Jean-Paul Sartre,
Simone de Beauvoir
Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir (, ; ; 9 January 1908 – 14 April 1986) was a French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist. Though she did not consider herself a philosopher, and even th ...
,
Claude Lanzmann,
Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard ( , ; ; 3 December 193013 September 2022) was a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic. He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the French New Wave film movement of the 1960s, alongside such filmmakers as Franà ...
and
François Truffaut
François Roland Truffaut ( , ; ; 6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984) was a French film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film critic. He is widely regarded as one of the founders of the French New Wave. After a career of more tha ...
.
See also
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May 1968 events in France
*
Mao-Spontex
References
Bibliography
* Collectif, ''Les nouveaux partisans : Histoire de la gauche prolétarienne'', Éditions Al Dante, 2015, .
External links
History of the Gauche prolétarienne
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French-language communist newspapers
Defunct newspapers published in France
Newspapers established in 1968
Publications disestablished in 1978
Maoism in France
May 1968 events in France