Committee for a workers international

  • Home
  • Around the world
    • Europe
      • Austria
      • Australia
      • Balkans
      • Belgium
      • Britain
      • Bosnia
      • Bulgaria
      • Belarus
      • Czech Republic
      • Chechenya
      • Cyprus
      • Denmark
      • France
      • Finland
      • Germany
      • Greece
      • Hungary
      • Ireland North
      • Ireland Republic
      • Italy
      • Iceland
      • Kosova/Kosovo
      • Latvia
      • Lithuania
      • Macedonia
      • Moldova
      • Montenegro
      • Netherlands
      • Norway
      • New Zealand
      • Oceania
      • Papua New Guinea
      • Portugal
      • Poland
      • Russia
      • Romania
      • Spain
      • Sweden
      • Scotland
      • Serbia
      • Slovakia
      • Ukraine
    • Africa
      • Algeria
      • Central African Republic
      • Cameroon
      • Congo
      • Burkina Faso
      • Chad
      • Ghana
      • Guinea
      • Ivory Coast
      • Kenya
      • Liberia
      • Libya
      • Mali
      • Morocco
      • Nigeria
      • Rwanda
      • South Africa
      • Somalia
      • Sudan
      • Swaziland
      • Tunisia
      • Uganda
      • Zimbabwe
    • Americas
      • Argentina
      • Bolivia
      • Brazil
      • Canada
      • Chile
      • Costa Rica
      • Cuba
      • Colombia
      • Ecuador
      • Guadeloupe
      • Haiti
      • Honduras
      • Latin America
      • Mexico
      • Nicaragua
      • Peru
      • Paraguay
      • Quebec
      • US
      • Venezuela
    • Middle East
      • Bahrain
      • Egypt
      • Israel / Palestine
      • Iraq
      • Iran
      • Jordan
      • Kurdistan
      • Lebanon
      • Saudi Arabia
      • Syria
      • Turkey
      • Qatar
      • Yemen
    • Asia
      • Asia Pacific
      • Aceh
      • Afghanistan
      • Bangladesh
      • Burma
      • China
      • Cambodia
      • East Timor
      • Georgia
      • Hong Kong
      • India
      • Indonesia
      • Japan
      • Kazakhstan
      • Kyrgyzstan
      • Kashmir
      • Korea
      • Nepal
      • Malaysia
      • North Korea
      • Pakistan
      • Philippines
      • South Korea
      • Sri Lanka
      • Singapore
      • Taiwan
      • Thailand
      • Tibet
      • Uzbekistan
  • Comment & Analysis
    • Analysis
    • Economy
      • World economy
    • Theory
      • History
  • Publications
  • Site Related Links
    • Sign Up to become a supporter
    • Banners
    • FAQ Newsletter
    • Privacy Statement
    • About CWI
  • Become a supporter
  • Login
  • CWI-Worldwide
Latest:
  • [ August 6, 2022 ] Britain: Workers can win against weak and divided Tories Britain
  • [ August 5, 2022 ] 1972 – When dock workers faced down the Tory government History
  • [ August 4, 2022 ] Speakers from across the world address CWI London rally CWI
  • [ August 3, 2022 ] Biden backtracks on student debt crisis US
  • [ August 2, 2022 ] A week of strikes in Britain and Northern Ireland Britain

Paris Commune

Paris Commune

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

May 21, 2021 niall

“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 […]

Paris Commune

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 […]

Paris Commune

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 […]

Paris Commune

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 […]

Paris Commune

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 […]

Paris Commune

‘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 […]

Paris Commune

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 […]

IWD 2021

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 […]

Help to Build the CWI

The CWI relies on the donations from working class people around the world to fund our campaigns.Please donate towards building the CWI.




Videos

1/6
Next»
Show more videos»

SEARCH

Categories

Archives

Calendar

August 2022
M T W T F S S
« Jul    
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
293031  

Latest Posts

  • Britain: Workers can win against weak and divided Tories
    August 6, 2022
  • 1972 – When dock workers faced down the Tory government
    August 5, 2022
  • Speakers from across the world address CWI London rally
    August 4, 2022
  • Biden backtracks on student debt crisis
    August 3, 2022
  • A week of strikes in Britain and Northern Ireland
    August 2, 2022
  • Britain: Coventry bin workers defeat strike-breaking Labour council
    August 2, 2022
  • The housing crisis in the United States
    August 1, 2022
  • Dialectical materialism – The philosophy of Marxism to change the world
    July 30, 2022
  • 150 years since the publication of Friedrich Engels’ groundbreaking ‘The Housing Question’
    July 29, 2022
  • Norway: Aircraft engineers, oil/gas workers and SAS pilots take industrial action
    July 28, 2022

Trotsky
  • Leon Trotsky – A Revolutionary Whose Ideas Couldn’t Be Killed
    August 23, 2021
  • 8oth anniversary of Trotsky’s assassination: The revolutionary ideas of a Marxist giant
    August 19, 2020
  • 79 years since the death of revolutionary socialist Leon Trotsky
    August 21, 2019
History
  • 1972 – When dock workers faced down the Tory government
    August 5, 2022
  • The Marxist view of history
    July 23, 2022
  • Britain: 1972 miners’ strike – The battle of Saltley Gate
    February 19, 2022
  • The origins of Christmas and the class struggle
    December 24, 2021
  • 30 years since the end of the USSR – lessons for the workers’ movement
    December 23, 2021
Science & Technology
  • Can green technology and AI save capitalism?
    December 23, 2020
  • 50 years since Apollo 11 – ‘One giant leap’: how political conflict launched the moon landing
    July 20, 2019
  • The growth of artificial intelligence technology
    December 10, 2018
  • Technology: Will robots end capitalism?
    August 14, 2015
Follow us
  • facebook
  • twitter

CWI- Please inform us if you are reproducing any material from this site.