The New Babylon 1929 The film The New Babylon (Novyy Vavilon) was directed by Kozintsev and Trauberg in 1929. It is a sympathetic account of the history of the Paris…
Eugene Varlin (1839-1871) A short biography of the Parisian worker Eugene Varlin, staunch member of the First International and martyr of the Paris Commune
History of the bourses du travail - Fernand Pelloutier First published in France in 1901, this seminal classic of revolutionary syndicalism, now available…
Luce, Maximilien, 1858-1941 Short biography of Neo-impressionist painter and anarchist Maximilien Luce.
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…
Theses on the Paris Commune - Situationist International The Situationists reflect on the strengths and weaknesses of a great revolutionary moment; "the…
Karl Marx and the state David Adam addresses Marx’s concept of a socialist society in relation to various concepts of the state.
What is the Left? This excerpt from Alain Badiou's important essay on the Paris Commune in Polemics argues that radical politics always requires a break with the left - it always requires a decision for people to take things into their own hands.
Montels, Jules, 1843-1916 A short biography of anarchist, Paris Communard and tutor to Leo Tolstoy's children, Jules Montels.
Bastelica, André, 1845-1884 A short biography of First International member, brilliant agitator and organiser of the Marseilles working class, André Bastelica.
Pindy, Jean Louis, 1840-1917 A short biography of Jean Louis Pindy: Paris Communard, anarchist and inventor of the Paindy.
Brocher-Rouchy, Victorine, 1838-1921 Biography of French anarchist Victorine Brocher-Rouchy, who fought in the Paris Commune and, in making her escape from the repression, was forced…
