Peter Clenott

At the end of 2018, with the invective, common sense, intellectual and social authoritarian regression under way increasingly identified with the five-year period of Sarkozy, Hollande and Macron, the real progressives, that is to say, trade unionists and revolutionaries, as enemies to be defeated, -at least in regard to morality and expression-, it is urgent to face this attempt to ideologically crush the portraits of those who have shown us the way to make our society other than a financial market or a feudal state. Mademoiselle Louise Michel is one of these extraordinary characters. I call her Mademoiselle - as her publisher did in 1886 - out of respect and to keep in mind as well the common observation that Louise Michel was not a revolutionary, certainly but also a sensitive and engaging person who said of herself: "I do not deserve it, since I follow my inclinations like all beings and all things do, but I am not a monster either. We are all the product of our times, that's all. Each of us has his qualities and defects, it is the common law, but no matter what we are, if our work is great and covers us with its light; it's not about us in what we start, it's about what will leave for humanity when we are gone. " ...