The Paris Commune has become a battlefield for French politicians contesting next year’s elections. The anniversary has likewise united the country’s equally fragmented right, whose denizens come not ...

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 ...

For two months in 1871, the people took over the city, and photos by Bruno Braquehais depict the drama — and destruction — of the period.

The Paris Commune: A Contested Legacy. The Paris Commune of 1871 and its Impact. Here Organise! presents two different Anarchist approaches to the Paris Commune, which flowered briefly one hundred and ...

The Paris Commune, 1871: a short account - Workers Solidarity Movement A short history of the Paris Commune, weak on details of the revolution and working class organisation but with good information ...

The Paris Commune received more worldwide media attention than probably any other event of the period except the American Civil War.

Paris Commune, written by Steven Cosson and J. Michael Friedman, directed by Steven Cosson, and performed by The Civilians at the Public Lab Series Workshop at the Public Theater in New York City ...

At the Paris City Council on Tuesday, Raphaëlle Primet, a Communist councilor, said her party would “perceive this move as a profound attack against the action of the Commune members and our ...

My discussion of the Paris Commune’s relevance, and of the relevance of Marx and Engels’s reflections on it, will revolve around three key points. First, the worldview through which Marx and ...

Sebastian Smee and his book “Paris in Ruins.” W. W. Norton/Amber Davis Tourlents You wouldn’t know it from their luminous canvases, featuring idyllic pastoral scenes and vignettes of urban life.