Based on the analysis of files from the Department of Defence, and drawing on interviews with veterans and on their associations’ press, the article focuses on the Algerian War National Memorial in Paris, its long gestation and particularly its double, paradoxical status: that it is at the same time new and old, post-ideological and hyper-ideological. Thanks to its palimpsest configuration, this ‘third millennium memorial’ – as it was described by its creator (the artist Gérard Collin-Thiébaut) – has demonstrated itself to be perfectly tuned to that peculiar mode of relationship to the past that we can define as ‘postmodern’, a mode that is characteristic of what historian François Hartog called the presentist ‘regime of historicity’.
Questo articolo propone un'inedita genealogia della nuova sinistra in Europa occidentale tra la metà degli anni Cinquanta alla metà degli anni Settanta. Discostandosi dalle interpretazio-ni correnti, riafferma l'importanza storica della Guerra d'indipendenza algerina (1954-62), e più in generale del terzomondismo, nella genealogia delle nuove culture politiche che si svi-lupparono nei global 1960s. Una generazione di militanti si riappropriò della memoria della Resistenza declinandola in un registro non semplicemente difensivo ma attivante, sovrappo-nendo il mito della "Resistenza tradita" all'immagine dell'imperialismo come il "nuovo fascismo". La guerra civile europea, identificata da Enzo Traverso come il tratto caratteristico del-la prima metà del ventesimo secolo, veniva così riconfigurata su scala mondiale come "guerra civile globale".
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