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Sometimes the world tries to tell you that your union is not a good idea. These people at Cimetière Monparnasse did not listen:

Putting the P in PCF etc,

Day 2 of the Communist Party to end all communist parties looked a little like this:

These are the communists from my hood in Paris. I quite like the jogging Eiffel Tower on their logo, tres revolutionary. It's perhaps only a minor fact that the Eiffel Tower is not actually in the 13eme.



Artisinal glass blowing is inherently radical as it involves reclaiming the means of production. At least I assume that was what this was about - the man providing the running commentary had one of those regional French accents that sounds like being halfway through swallowing a large piece of sausage.




And finally the obligatory rag tag selection of nutcases playing the Internationale. Note that I actually managed to also capture a man in a beret in the shot. Authenticity oh yes.

Communist Party Parties

Some great moments at the Fête de l’Humanité:


For those who grew up reading Asterix the word 'menhir' never fails to provoke a chuckle:



This little boy was sitting on his father's shoulders clutching his racing car balloon and gggling at Iggy Pop when he came on stage and said "nous sommes les fucking Stooges". French children are definitely the bomb. Alas I have no photos of the tiny Communist children running around in their berets and Che t-shirts.





There's something rather marvellous about all of the PCF (Parti Communiste Français) tents. Each of them have a bar generally serving whatever the local liquid specialty is, a restaurant or food counter selling anything from grilled andouillette to local oysters to paella made in giant paella pans to foie gras to wild boar salami and so on through all of the regional specialties of France. It's partially this regional flavour that makes the whole affair feel so dynamic and alive but it's also the defeat of the left in the last election that seems to have shaken them all up a bit.. should be interesting to see what happens from here.

And I love this slogan:



Politics can be beautiful. I like that.

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Duh

The NSW Liberal George Souris says: "NSW is not Paris" and this is why licensing laws should not change.

Thankfully the divine Ms Clover Moore knows that we can aspire to something.. ;)

Who would you choose to run the country?

I thought the ALPs had conquered cool in politics with the preselection Peter Garrett. He is rather dapper and certainly has enough lefty cred to sometimes satisfy me..

But Russia has lifted the Iron Curtain to reveal the smouldering eyes and penchant for checks of the Elvis of Chess.

They're both well suited to politics in their very different ways but I bet Kasparov would scare the bejeezus out of whoever he was sitting across from in parliament..

He could be thinking about anything with that steel-trap mind. He's probably even friends with Uri Geller.

More power to him.