Natacha Michel

Natacha Michel is a French political activist, militant and writer. She has published a dozen novels and a growing body of literary criticism.
Michel was program director at the College [International de Philosophie]. She is the daughter of French film director and screenwriter André Michel.

L'Organisation Politique

Following the student uprisings of May 1968 in France, Michel was a founding member of the . To quote Alain Badiou, the UCFml is "the Maoist organization established in late 1969 by Natacha Michel, Sylvain Lazarus, myself and a fair number of young people". Michel's commitment to political intervention did not waver in the following decades. She is a founding member of the militant French political organisation which called itself a post-party organization concerned with direct popular intervention in a wide range of issues. In addition to numerous writings and interventions since the 1980s, L'Organisation Politique has stressed the importance of developing political prescriptions concerning undocumented migrants and stresses that they must be conceived primarily as workers and not immigrants.

Selected publications

Ici commence,, Gallimard, 1973.La Chine européenne, Gallimard, 1975.Le repos de Penthésilée,, Gallimard, 1980.Impostures et séparations: 9 courts romans,, Le Seuil, 1986.

"Étude sur les formes de conscience et les représentations des OS des usines Renault". Rapport de recherche. Paris, CNRS, Régie nationale des usines Renault, 1986.Canapé Est-Ouest,, Le Seuil, 1989.Le jour où le temps a attendu son heure,, Le Seuil, 1990.Ciel éteint,, Le Seuil, 1995.L'éducation de la poussière,, Le Seuil, 1998.Autobiographie. Autobiography. Approche de l'ombre, Déploration à quatre voix,, Verdier, 2001.Laissez tomber l'infini, il revient par la fenêtre,, Le Seuil, 2003.Circulaire à toute vie humaine,, Le Seuil, 2004.