Another aspect of the Europe-trip I am preparing for is a project for Centre College's French department I was selected to do. With the Voltaire Fund I will be provided with a stipend to do a project that involves some aspect of French culture or society, thus making it a very open-ended experience. I have decided to make my project a political one, I will interview at least three groups or organizations among the French Left to learn their histories, ideologies, tactics, successes/failures, and their plans for the future. To be diverse I am planning on interviewing members of three different parts of the French Left: social democrats/centre-left; communists; and libertarian Leftists/anarchists. I have already found groups for the first two, the Jean-Jaures Fondation is a centre-left group tied to the ruling Socialist Party and the Association Nationale des Elus Communistes & Republicains is tied to the Communist Party/Left Front. I'm still looking for a group to represent the libertarian/anarchist Left, but I still have time, plus there is no guarantee I will be able to interview the other two organizations but we shall see what happens.
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