A workers' cooperative during the Paris Commune - Robert Tombs

Article about a workers' co-op during the Paris commune uprising. We need to learn from the limitations of the Paris Commune as well as its achievements.

(See Robert Tomb's book: The Paris Commune 1871 for more on the co-ops and the repressive aspects of the Commune)

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