La Vieille Taupe

La Vieille Taupe is a publishing house and bookshop in Paris, France. Between 1965 and 1972, it had a politically ultra-left slant. Since the late 1970s, it became renowned for publishing antisemitic and Holocaust denial literature.[1][2][3][4][5]

History

The name means Old Mole and comes from a communist conception of the maturation of social forces beneath the surface of society which eventually erupt in revolutionary movements. The bookshop was founded in 1965 in Paris. It was the major source for texts by the Situationist International, Amadeo Bordiga and other ultra-left groups. Marx's Theses on Feuerbach were available as a poster thanks to Guy Debord. The Situationists did much of the fly-posting, and along with the Pouvoir Ouvrier group, who turned up for the opening party.

In 1966, the Situationists fell out with La Vieille Taupe and withdrew their publications. The bookshop continued as a focus of ultraleft activity until its closure in 1972. In 1973 La Vieille Taupe published La gauche allemande: Textes du KAPD, de L'AAUD, de L'AAUE et de la KAI (1920-1922) with La Vecchia Talpa (Naples) and Invariance.

References

  1. ^ Butler, Declan (April 23, 1998). "French research agency to seek ruling on Holocaust sceptics". Nature. 392 (6678): 745–745. doi:10.1038/33750. ISSN 0028-0836. Retrieved March 12, 2026.
  2. ^ Yakira, Elhanan (October 30, 2009). Post-Zionism, Post-Holocaust: Three Essays on Denial, Forgetting, and the Delegitimation of Israel. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511813214.002. ISBN 978-0-521-11110-2. Retrieved March 12, 2026.
  3. ^ Reid, Donald (2022). "Holocaust denial, Le Vicaire , and the absent presence of Nadine Fresco and Paul Rassinier in Jorge Semprún's La Montagne blanche". French Cultural Studies. 33 (3): 227–241. doi:10.1177/09571558221078450. ISSN 0957-1558. Retrieved March 12, 2026.
  4. ^ "Muere Robert Faurisson, uno de los mayores promotores de la negación del Holocausto". RFI (in Spanish). October 22, 2018. Retrieved March 12, 2026.
  5. ^ Vidal-Naquet, P. (1992). Assassins of Memory: Essays on the Denial of the Holocaust. European Perspectives: a Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism Series. Columbia University Press. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-231-07458-2. Retrieved March 12, 2026.


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