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 ...
Exactly 150 years after the Paris Commune, rival passions are flaring again over how to remember the city's brief and much-romanticised experiment in power to the people. The first act of the city's ...
On March 18, 1871 , the people of Paris rose against a despised and detested government, and proclaimed the city independent free, belonging to itself. This overthrow of the central power took place ...
One hundred and fifty years ago today, on March 18, 1871, the working class districts of Paris rose up to prevent the French army from stealing the cannons of the Paris National Guard. This ...
A revolt of the working class, the Paris Commune was the most radical subversion of France's social order since the Revolution of 1789. Passionate and divisive, just like their subject matter, this ...
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 ...
People carry crosses into Sacré-Cour Basilica on Montmartre in Paris before taking part in a Good Friday procession April 2, 2021. Ground was broken for the construction of the Sacré-Cour Basilica in ...
In the early morning of Monday, April 9, French police began an invasion of the ZAD (Zone à Defendre, or “Zone to Defend“) in an attempt to clear about 300 activists from the site of an abandoned ...
The 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune of 1871 has struck a chord, reviving calls for better political representation and highlighting economic inequalities. By Constant Méheut PARIS — On a recent ...
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