Diving into the Wreckage: Vive La Commune w/ C. Derick Varn & Henry Wallis

Diving into the Wreckage: Vive La Commune w/ C. Derick Varn & Henry Wallis

From This Wreckage by Sean KB and AP Andy

April 10, 2026 · 56 min

About this episode

The episode discusses upcoming commune elections in France and the political strategies of France Unbowed, alongside the economic impacts of the Iran war.

Sean and Varn are joined (eventually) by Henry Wallis, official France correspondent of This Wreckage and Varn Vlog, to talk about upcoming elections on the commune level and France Unbowed's plan to grow from municipal power to a mass political movement. Beforehand we had a brief discussion of the economic fallout from the Iran war which has subsequently went into a tentative two-week ceasefire. For access to this and all our bonus content become a supporter at www.patreon.com/thiswreckage For the video of this episode and lots of great educational material become a supporter of C. Derick Varn over at VarnVlog You can support Henry's work over at the excellent magazine https://newint.org/

People in this episode

Host: Sean

Guests: C. Derick Varn, Henry Wallis

Topics covered

  • French politics
  • commune elections
  • political movements
  • economic fallout
  • Iran war

Keywords

  • France Unbowed
  • commune elections
  • C. Derick Varn
  • Henry Wallis
  • Iran war
  • political movement
  • economic fallout

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: France Unbowed, VarnVlog, New Internationalist

Places: Iran

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