Magdeleine Paz was one of the leading left-wing intellectuals in the interwar period.
16 Facts About Magdeleine Paz
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Magdeleine Paz was the driving force in the campaign to have Victor Serge released from prison in Russia and allowed to return to the west.
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Magdeleine Paz wrote a number of books, and translated several others.
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Magdeleine Paz was a member of the Ghilde Les Forgerons.
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Magdeleine Paz organized a conference of the Forgerons on 13 May 1917, Aux femmes qui ne sont pas en guerre, where she spoke with great effect to an audience of 300 people.
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Magdeleine Paz Marx was one of the contributors to La Voix des femmes, founded in 1917 by Louise Bodin and Colette Reynaud.
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In 1919, Magdeleine Paz Marx wrote an article in La Voix des femmes in which she argued that women had only themselves to blame for their inferior position, since they had not done anything to stop the war, had not suffered from the war and ignored the sacrifice the men had made.
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Magdeleine Paz joined the Clarte movement that was founded in May 1919 under the direction of Henri Barbusse.
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Barbusse wanted to keep his organization above party politics, but a minority that included Magdeleine Paz Marx wanted to orient the group towards revolutionary action.
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Magdeleine Paz Marx became a member of the central women's committee of the French Communist Party.
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Magdeleine Paz was part of the left-wing group that was responsible for the November 1924 issue of the review Clarte.
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When Leon Trotsky arrived in Turkey early in 1929, Maurice and Magdelaine Magdeleine Paz were among his well-wishers in France who sent him letters of support.
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Magdeleine Paz was concerned that the Communists had taken over the campaign in France and refused to involve the socialists or the trade union group the Confederation Generale du Travail,.
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Magdeleine Paz asked members of the support committee she had organized for Thomas Mooney, an imprisoned American socialist, to take part in the Scottsboro campaign, including Bertrand Russell and Henri Barbusse.
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Magdeleine Paz organized a meeting that was attended by 4,000 people.
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Magdeleine Paz died in Paris on 12 September 1973, aged 84.