Gustave Boulanger (1824-1888). "Episode de la Commune, place de la Concorde". Huile sur toile. Paris, musée Carnavalet. (all images courtesy Wikimedia Commons) Louise Michel, leader of the Montmartre ...
In France, historical anniversaries tend to divide rather than unite. This year, which marks the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune and the bicentennial of Napoléon Bonaparte’s death, certainly ...
On Saturday, the World Socialist Web Site marked the 150th anniversary of the 1871 Paris Commune, the first time in world history that the working class took state power, with an international online ...
IN 1871, the working class in Paris rose up against their rulers and proclaimed the Paris Commune. It was the first example in history of ordinary people taking control of society and running it ...
Solidarity with Commune veterans on the part of British working-class movements was usually more symbolic than ...
1) The Despotic Plan of Capital vs. the Cooperation of Freely Associated Labor Marx had begun his analysis of capitalism some three decades before the establishment of the Paris commune in 1871. Labor ...
On the 150th anniversary of the Commune of Paris, a revolutionary and anticlerical government that took control of the French capital for 72 days, the Church is seeking to honor the memory of the ...
Kristin Ross’s The Commune Form traces a political tradition—based on reimagining class relations—that stretches from the 1871 uprising to the modern-day struggles of ZAD. A man walks past a statue of ...
Today is the 150 th anniversary of the beginning of the Paris Commune. The Commune (Council) was formed as result of what should be considered the first uprising and revolution led by the working ...
Recently, the Sussex University library dedicated part of its space for a small exhibition on the Paris Commune. At first this came with some surprise: how was it that, in the midst of the boredom of ...
The essay below by Leon Trotsky was first published in French as a preface to the book by C. Talès, La Commune de 1871. It was written in the town of Zlatoust, on February 4, 1921, in the lead up to ...
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