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Anarchists, certain Socialists, the so-called Communards, and finally the vast mass of the sullen, teeming faubourgs.
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On this spectacular, Morris-curated gig featuring her old Communards partner Jimmy Somerville, Marianne Faithfull sideman Joe Cang, quirky acoustic pop newcomer Kate Daisy Grant, jazz musicians Mark Lockheart and Annie Whitehead and many more, the ever-formidable singer says thank you to Brixton, the locality she lived in for 16 years.
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Once upon a time, yes, there was a philosopher and poet who, when he said "France", brought to mind a people of the Communards, the Dreyfusards, the Maquisards whose uncrushable grandeur another of our friends, Pierre Goldman, whose biography he would write, evoked.
Bernard-Henri Lévy: In Cairo. DSK's Golden China. A Film on Sollers. My Friend Dollé. The Jardin Case. Whither Pakistan? Ahab or Musil? Bernard-Henri Lévy 2011
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Once upon a time, yes, there was a philosopher and poet who, when he said "France", brought to mind a people of the Communards, the Dreyfusards, the Maquisards whose uncrushable grandeur another of our friends, Pierre Goldman, whose biography he would write, evoked.
Bernard-Henri Lévy: In Cairo. DSK's Golden China. A Film on Sollers. My Friend Dollé. The Jardin Case. Whither Pakistan? Ahab or Musil? Bernard-Henri Lévy 2011
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Sarah Jane Morris, the British singer who had a global pop hit with the Communards on disco anthem Don't Leave Me This Way in the 1980s, and soon after found herself banned by the BBC for her lesbian take on Me And Mrs Jones, is the greatest British jazz and soul singer never to have become a household name.
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In La Commune, the actors, many residents of working-class neighborhoods not dissimilar from the ones that bred the Communards, break character to discuss their roles.
He Saw It Coming 2008
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In La Commune, the actors, many residents of working-class neighborhoods not dissimilar from the ones that bred the Communards, break character to discuss their roles.
He Saw It Coming 2008
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As Karl Marx wrote of the Paris Commune, the French Communards at least had stormed the heavens.
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Red Wedge included Weller and The Communards lead singer Jimmy Somerville, they put on concert tours and appeared in the media, adding their support to the Labour Party campaign.
Archive 2007-04-22 Newmania 2007
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Red Wedge included Weller and The Communards lead singer Jimmy Somerville, they put on concert tours and appeared in the media, adding their support to the Labour Party campaign.
Kill Bill (-y Bragg) Newmania 2007
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