In her new book Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune, Kristin Ross argues that a rich legacy of ideas and practices developed during the Commune – the workers’ democracy that ...
DuringDuring seven days beginning on May 21st 1871, the Paris Commune, the revolutionary regime which had managed the French capital in an insurrection since March 18th that year, was put down in a ...
The center-west regional meeting of the Communard Union (Unión Comunera) took place on January 24 to 26 in Las Lomas farmstead, Villanueva, Morán Municipality, Lara State. The event was attended by ...
A cemetery of a French communist leader, located near The Communards' Wall. ZHANG ZHOUXIANG/CHINA DAILY Unlike the somber, desolate image often associated with burial grounds, many European cemeteries ...
Bruno Braquehais, "Toppled bronze statue of Napoleon from the Vendôme Column" (1871), albumen print (all images courtesy Getty Research Institute) This year marks the 150th anniversary of the Paris ...
The catalyst for the Paris Commune was France’s crushing defeat in the 1870-71 Franco-Prussian War – “La Débâcle”, as Émile Zola christened it in his renowned 1892 novel. France’s Emperor Napoleon III ...
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The vicar has opened up about the grief he felt after losing his husband REV Richard Coles rocketed to fame as a member of The Communards and has enjoyed a long career on British TV. The TV star and ...