offered an important contribution as an historical account from the Cuban point of view. Bleitrach's 2006 Les États-Unis de mal empire, co-authored with Viktor [Dedaj] and Maxime Vivas, continued to "observe North-South relations from Latin America," discussing the emerging resistance from various South American countries to the policies of the "American empire"; Le Monde Diplomatique praised the book as "bountiful". In 2008, with Jacques-François Bonaldi, she published a third text related to these questions, called Cuba, Fidel et le Che; ou, l'aventure du socialisme. Cuba, Fidel et Le Che engages Fidel Castro and Che Guevara's critiques to examine the different phases of history in Cuba, and the lessons they might offer other Latin American countries in the present. In 2015, Bleitrach's attention turned to nazism. She co-authored, with Richard Gehrke, an essay called Bertolt Brecht et Fritz Lang. Le nazisme n’a jamais été éradiqué. The book analyzes Lang's film based on a story by Bretcht, Hangmen Also Die! The same year, she co-authored, with Marianne Dunlop, URSS vingt ans après : retour de l'Ukraine en guerre, a book reporting the testimonies of interviewees in Odessa and Crimea after the Maidan Revolution. Bleitrach is among the 378 French scholars in human and social sciences listed with their respective bibliographies in Serigne Magaye Cissé's Recueil bibliographique en sciences humaines et sociales (2013). Political and journalism career Bleitrach joined the French Communist Party, or PCF, at the age of fifteen. She was a member of the Central Committee, then the National Committee of the party from 1981 to 1996, when she resigned on the basis of her belief that the conditions for participating in the government had not been met. As assistant editor-in-chief of the Communist Party's daily publication, Révolution, her articles linked sociology and journalistic intervention. In 2003, Bleitrach left the PCF. While still considering herself a communist, she refrained from joining any party until January 2016 when she decided to apply again for membership. Other projects Bleitrach wrote an about intellectuals Music hall des âmes nobles (Music Hall of the Noble Spirits), a memoir about her husband Un bouquet d'orties (A Bouquet of Nettles), and two novels: L'infortune de Gaspard (Gaspard's Misfortune) and Les enfants du mauvais temps (Children of the Bad Weather). In her retirement, Bleitrach maintains a personal blog, Histoire et société, after creating an earlier one called Changement de société in the 2000s. Bibliography Books and book chapters