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Paris Commune

Paris Commune

The ‘Fall of Paris’ 150 years ago – Counter-revolution massacres Communards

May 21, 2021 CWI

“Working men’s Paris, with its Commune, will be forever celebrated as the glorious harbinger of a new society. Its martyrs are enshrined in the great heart of the working class. Its exterminators’ history has already […]

Paris Commune

“Of worldwide significance” – The Paris Commune at 150

March 28, 2021 Theo Sharieff from The Socialist (weekly paper of the Socialist Party - CWI England & Wales)

The birth of the Paris Commune marked the first time in history when the working class took political power directly into its own hands. Karl Marx at the time described it as a “new point […]

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Lessons of the Paris Commune by Leon Trotsky

March 28, 2021 Leon Trotsky, 1921

The following article by Leon Trotsky was written in 1921 on the 50th anniversary year of the Paris Commune. It is a brilliant analysis of the Commune which draws the most essential lesson from its […]

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28 March CWI rally broadcast: 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune

March 26, 2021 socialistworld.net

The Paris Commune – ‘storming heaven’ The lessons for today Sunday 28th March 2021, 15-00 (GMT) Speakers: Cécile Rimboud, Gauche Revolutionnaire, France Peter Taaffe, CWI and Socialist Party England, and Wales Steve Hollasky, Sozialistische Organisation […]

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The first proletarian revolution – 150 years of the Paris Commune

March 26, 2021 Alex, Jophiel, Matthias, Rachel and Yohann from L’Égalité (No. 204) paper of Gauche Révolutionnaire (CWI France)

A hundred and fifty years ago, on 18 March 1871, the armed proletarians of Paris set out to “storm heaven” (as Marx put it) and created the very first embodiment of a state ‘by and […]

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The Paris Commune: 18 March – 28 May 1871

March 23, 2021 A Gauche Révolutionnaire (CWI France) pamphlet, by Pascal Grimbert [first published in March 2011]

The following text by Pascal Grimbert was published as a short pamphlet by Gauche Révolutionnaire (CWI in France), in March 2011, to mark the 140th anniversary of the Paris Commune. socialistworld.net  Historical and political summary […]

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‘History of the Paris Commune of 1871’ – Oliver Lissagaray’s classic eyewitness account

March 20, 2021 socialistworld.net

“It is time people understood the true meaning of this Revolution, and this can be summed up in a few words. It meant the government of the people by the people. It was the first […]

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18 March 1871 – “the Paris Commune as government”

March 18, 2021 Niall Mulholland, CWI

Today, 18 March, is the anniversary of what is regarded as the start of “the 1871 Paris Commune as government”. An insurrection of workers took place to prevent the French army from seizing the cannons […]

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Women fighters of the 1871 Paris Commune

March 5, 2021 Cécile Rimboud, Gauche Révolutionnaire (CWI France)

This year marks the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune when for a brief but heroic few weeks the working class took power for the first time. In the immortal words of Karl Marx, the […]

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