French Section of the Workers' International

The Party did not exhibit genuine concern for the Scottsboro defendants by exploiting their loved ones. Most of the families were shocked and aghast that white men asked them to do something, instead of ordering them around (57). Approximately all mothers would desperately search for any means that could allow their sons to live. Franticly attempting to save their sons and shocked at new, positive attention from whites, the families of the Scottsboro boys transformed into collateral for communist ideologies. The American Communist Party embraced the families’ publicity and urged them to travel on international, grueling trips. The Party prepared speeches that spewed communist propaganda for presumably, uneducated women to speak (144). Women that just wanted to save their sons, later traveled across the globe to support the communist cause. The American Communist Party’s actions concerning the families indicate apathy for the defendants themselves and empathy for communist…

As we have seen from the last chapter, Russian women under the Bolsheviks and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom could not reconcile their goals and create a WILPF section. The ideals and goals of the Soviet government and WILPF were too divergent, too different to develop a national section. Russian women were forced to look to other organisations to forge international connections with women of other nationalities; the defining characteristic of these organisations was that…

Western Democracies Respond to Crisis Western democracies responded to the Great Depression and the spread of radical ideologies by enacting laws, creating programs, and leading revolts. Nevertheless, their actions proved futile because what ended the Great Depression was an even worse crisis: World War II. On October 24, 1929, the American stock market crashed. On this day, known forever as Black Tuesday, the American economy plummeted into debt. Furthermore, international trade collapsed as…

Section one of the Coffee Book delivers a detailed account on the coffee history. It opens with Islamic legends, which link the coffee bush to Ethiopia from where coffee seeds were collected and cultivated in Yemen. At the beginning, coffee was eaten for energy and medicament before being made a drink by Islamic monks. The authors take the reader on a journey of Coffee drink from the Arab world to Europe and America where coffee houses opened and became meetings places for political and economic…

From this statement, in 1798 the French Academy dictionary ‘Terrorism as a system or regime of terror’ and ‘Terrorist as an agent or partisan of the Terror that arose through abuse of revolutionary measures ’. Edmund Burke, British politician and philosopher, published in 1796 Letters on a Regicide Peace in which he used the word ‘terrorist’. It marks the first time that the word entered the English language. Consequently, the repressive system of Robespierre introduces into the political…

To this day, one of the most significant periods would be the French Revolution, which lasted for ten years from 1789 to 1799. This was one of the first in a series of events that brought about the end of absolute monarchy and religious hegemony in Europe and paved the way for constitutional monarchies and representative government (French Revolution) The revolution hit its peak in 1789, which is why it is also called the Revolution of 1789. At the time France was one of the most dominant…

Senegal started as a French colony, and was one of the oldest. It started off with a strong and equal trading relationship with multiple other nations in Europe, and continued until the full realization of colonization in the late 19th century. The history of the independence era was markedly lead by Leopold Sedar Sengor, who would eventually become independent Senegal’s first democratically elected president. Much of its economy relies upon its agriculture, specifically peanuts and gum trees.…

as a “symbol” that highlighted the many fundamental issues with the French republic, such as the rights of an individual and in the polarisations it provoked between those who believed the rights of an individual should be the utmost concern (the left) even if it meant a reprehended state system such as Zola who announced “There is no Dreyfus Affair any longer. There is only one issue: is France still the France of the Revolution and the Declaration of the Rights of Man? The France that gave the…

become great, not because of their power, but because of their power to empower others.” John Maxwells’s words perfectly describe how Leopold Senghor became a successful and constructive leader for his people in French West Africa. Through his commitment to justice, his strong creativity and vision, and his service with and for others, Leopold Senghor served as an Ignatian leader in his fight for Africa’s independence. Leopold Senghor was born on October 9, 1906 in Joal, French West Africa,…

Tens of millions of people in the world are unemployed nowadays, this can be seen as a social and economical danger for the society. According to the ILO, International Labour Organisation, the world will have more than 212 millions of unemployed person in 2019. It is a threat for the individual but also for the country which need to deal with this phenomenon in order to avoid the detrimental consequences. First of all we need to define the unemployment, according to the ILO, the International…