Survivre et vivre

Survivre (Survive), later renamed Survivre et Vivre (Survive and Live), was a political group founded on 27 July 1970 in Montreal, with the goals of promoting pacificism, ecology, and a new kind of science.

The group's purpose, as Alexander Grothendieck put it, was "the struggle for the survival of the human species, and even of life itself, threatened by the growing ecological imbalance caused by the indiscriminate use of science and technology and by suicidal social mechanisms, and also threatened by conflicts related to the proliferation of military devices and arms industries".

Grothendieck, a celebrated mathematician, was frequently invited to give talks in which he would combine mathematics with a discussion of the group's goals.

He promoted a New Science which would focus on the needs and desires of the people, involve non-specialists who perform research at their primary occupations, and would employ a holistic methodology in communion with nature.

[1] The journal was originally issued monthly starting from August 1970, then announced a bimonthly rhythm in June 1971, and finally adopted an irregular rhythm until its final issue (number 19) in 1975.