Helotage

I wrote an article about Jean Jaurès for New International, and I recommend all my readers read it and my subscribers subscribe to that magazine. Here's an excerpt:

Jean Jaurès is not well-known or much-translated in English. The hero of turn-of-the-20th-century French socialism was revered across the international left following his assassination in 1914. He was dining with friends when a nationalist shot him dead.

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