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 ...

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 ...

A brief history of the world's first socialist working class uprising. The workers of Paris, joined by mutinous National Guardsmen, seized the city and set about re-organising society in their own ...

The uprising, long mythologised by the far left, is increasingly becoming part of the national conversation, but not without controversy. By Ido Vock To be a communist is to be, often, on the ...

2021 marks the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune. Some look upon the Commune as a great leap forward for democratic rights, to others it’s a failed anarchist experiment that proves that "mob rule ...

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 ...

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 ...