Magdeleine Paz

Magdeleine Marx (1889-1973) is writer, journalist and militant of left and feminist.

Militant of left, opposed to the Stalinist Communist regime

Magdeleine Marx takes part in Ghilde the Blacksmiths, a community of friends born in 1911 among former students of the Chaptal college with Paris. Dedicated “the Action of Art”, composed of young people of socialist or anarchistic tendencies has, it is animated by Luc Mériga and plays in the pacifist mediums a big role during the First World War, by taking many cultural initiatives and in particular by publishing the review the Forging mill. The unit of the group does not resist the conflict which divides the Socialisme French into 1920.

With Helene Brion and Madeleine Furrier, Magdeleine Marx belongs to the French handle who managed to achieve the “adventurous voyage” in Russia (1920-1922). Magdeleine Marx marries Maurice Paz, one of the founders of the French Communist party become leading of the left opposition, near to Leon Trotski, before separating some with strength. It strongly engages in favor of the threatened writers, like the Russian Victor Serge. Trotski, which had been annoyed with the Paz couple, will make him credit of it, writing in Victor Serge: “Magdeleine Paz fought for your release: it is the only action worthy of praise that it made its life”.

Magdeleine Paz takes part in the international Congress of the writers for the defense of the culture, chaired by the French writer André Gide, which is held in Paris, the palate of Reciprocity from June 21st to 25th 1935. June 25th, during the last meeting of the congress, Magdeleine Paz succeeds, in spite of the attempts at obstruction of the Soviet writers, to raise the case of Victor Serge and to claim his release. Following the interventions of Andre Gide and Romain Roland near the ambassador of Soviet Union in Paris, Victor Serge will obtain the authorization to leave the Soviet territory.

A feminist writer, sensitive to the situation of the blacks

In September 1938, Magdeleine Paz founds with Yvonne Hagnauer and Jeanne Alexandre the League of the women for Peace, in reaction to the tensions caused by the meeting of Munich.

Writer, it proposes the feminist topics in his work. It also sticks to the situation of the American Blacks.

In 1947, she divorces Maurice Paz.

Magdeleine Paz will translate many books, in particular of English, and some films.

Sources

Trotski (Leon): Letter with Victor Serge, April 29th, 1936, in Works, volume 9, EDI, Paris, 1980
Desanges (Paul) Chronic of a militant community: The Blacksmiths (1911-1920) the Social movement, No 91, Culture and militancy in France: Beautiful Time with the Popular front (spring 1975),
Correspondence of Henry Marx, 1932-1934
CulturesFrance: Andre Gide, engagement
Mathieu (Anne): Magdeleine Paz journalist: a woman against all oppressions, in ADEN, number October 6th, th and th 2007, interdisciplinary Group of studies nizaniennes, Paris

Works

Woman, Flammarion, Paris, 1919, foreword of Henri Barbusse
It is the final fight! (Six months in Soviet Russia), De Communistische Gids 3,1924
a great strike in the United States: Passaic, 1926,
black Brother, Flammarion, Paris, 1930
Only one flesh, Corréa, 1933
Women to be sold, Rieder, Paris, 1936

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