Song and poetry have always had a considerable impact on the lives of the Corsicans. Contemporary political history is undoubtedly the perfect example. If the claim to identity emerges from the texts sung by the groups of the last 50 years, some songs have been conceived as true standards of the armed struggle.
The voice of Jean-Paul Poletti who chants the first words on a guitar roll. The author addresses his “shadow brother”loving justice. Everyone will have recognized clandestine of Canta u Populu Corsu defending those who chose to take up arms.
Jean-Paul Poletti on the subject of illegal immigrants: “Instead of criticizing their approach, we had to ask ourselves the right question: why did they get there?”
May 1976. It has been almost a year since the Aleria affair shook Corsica. The fight against the dispossession of agricultural land is only just beginning, at the forefront of which are the vines and their adulterated wine produced by pied-noir owners, the fruit of discord between the state and the nationalists.
On May 5, militants founded the Corsican National Liberation Front (FLNC). Jean-Paul Poletti seizes the event…
