Hay Baykar (« Lutte arménienne »),périodique protestataire arménien dans le sillage de Mai 68

Abstract

This article analyzes Hay Baykar (“Armenian Struggle”), an Armenian leftist periodical, first published in France in the 1970s, from a dual theoretical perspective: social history (here of the Armenian diaspora) and social movements (here of post-’68 mobilizations, according to the latest historiography). The article proposes to read this protest paper as an archetype of connected history. On the one hand, Hay Baykar possesses many typical features of French far-left enteprises – notably high cultural potential participants. On the other hand, Hay Baykar interconnects aspects of the endogenous heritage of the Armenian struggle with the exogenous experience of international radicalism, especially by reappropriating Marxism and Third-Worldism. Piecing together the diasporic, national, local aspects, this diachronic study of Hay Baykar unveils a periodization of the underlying Armenian Liberation movement and therefore reflects on the multiple temporalities that nurture diasporas.

Keywords

• diaspora
• connected histories
• activism
• circulations
• May ’68