Jasper Bernes spoke to Judy Cox about workers’ councils, the process of revolution, how to win a communist society and why we ...

They could not hold out, however, when more troops retook the city and massacred 30,000 workers in bloody revenge. The Paris Commune is often said to be the first example of working people taking ...

The Paris Commune was a defining moment for the European left: the first self-consciously socialist uprising — as opposed to the liberal nationalist revolutions of 1830 and 1848 — that aimed ...

Ross begins, of course, with Karl Marx on the Paris Commune of 1871, that moment when the revolutionary Communards built an actually existing new social and political organization for a little ...

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 ...

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 ...

This was the week that the Paris Commune died. Books in Review The Paris Commune: A Brief History By Carolyn J. Eichner Buy this book The Commune was one of the most radical political experiments ...

Today on the Academic Minute: Carolyn J. Eichner, professor of history and women’s and gender studies at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, examines how the Paris Communes can help us gain a ...

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 ...