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 ...

The Situationists reflect on the strengths and weaknesses of a great revolutionary moment; "the biggest festival of the nineteenth century". "...it is time we examine the Commune not just as an ...

The Paris Commune is known for many things, but typography isn’t one of them. Despite the many posters, tracts, and the extensive archive of a daily newspaper that remain, these printed documents do ...

We generally don’t see Paris as a city scarred by war. It is not like London and Berlin, where the drab modern architecture of the urban centers offers silent reminders of past aerial bombardment. It ...

Police descend on protesters at the Concorde square after a demonstration near the National Assembly in Paris, Thursday, March 16, 2023. [AP Photo/Thomas Padilla] In the famous cemetery of Père ...

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 ...

PARIS (Reuters) - Anne Hidalgo souhaite fusionner la commune et le département de Paris en une seule collectivité, redessiner les arrondissements et récupérer une bonne partie des pouvoirs du préfet ...

Nous sommes en mars 1871, tandis qu'un journaliste de la Télévision Versaillaise diffuse une information lénifiante, tronquée, se crée une Télévision Communale, émanation du peuple de Paris insurgé ...

So far as mental fireworks go, the Fourth of July weekend is unlikely to offer anything more spectacular than Peter Watkins’s masterpiece La Commune (Paris, 1871). Dynamic historical reconstruction in ...

On March 18, 1871, workers in Paris rose up to stop an attempt by the French army to steal cannons that had been purchased for the city’s defense in the 1870-1871 Franco-Prussian war. The French ...

L’Église catholique béatifie ce samedi cinq religieux exécutés pendant la Commune de Paris. Les cinq prêtres ont été tués par balle le 26 mai 1871 lors de la « semaine sanglante », au cours de ...

Au lendemain du premier tour des municipales 2026, les résultats dessinent déjà de nouveaux rapports de force dans de ...