Friday, January 7, 2011

The little red book that swept France

by John Lichfield from The Independent

A 93 year old French resistance fighter in WWII is fighting back against the system. We must ask ourselves, "am I doing enough?"
Indignez vous! (Cry out!), a slim pamphlet by a wartime French resistance hero, Stéphane Hessel, is smashing all publishing records in France. The book urges the French, and everyone else, to recapture the wartime spirit of resistance to the Nazis by rejecting the "insolent, selfish" power of money and markets and by defending the social "values of modern democracy".