1) The Despotic Plan of Capital vs. the Cooperation of Freely Associated Labor Marx had begun his analysis of capitalism some three decades before the establishment of the Paris commune in 1871. Labor ...

The Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections Department has seven posters that were displayed publicly during the events of the 1871 Paris Commune. The collection includes posters ...

We generally don’t see Paris as a city scarred by war. It is not like London and Berlin, where the drab modern architecture of the urban centers offers silent reminders of past aerial bombardment. It ...

The first part of Peter Watkins’ six-hour docudrama focuses on the euphoric rise of the Paris Commune, and part two tells the story of its quick decline. The commune was a sort of aftershock of the ...

On Saturday, the World Socialist Web Site marked the 150th anniversary of the 1871 Paris Commune, the first time in world history that the working class took state power, with an international online ...

Pope Francis shares a word with his aide Piergiorgio Zanetti at the end of his weekly general audience in the Paul VI Hall the Vatican, Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2021. (Credit: Andrew Medichini/AP.) Listen ...

On March 18, 1871, workers in Paris rose up to stop an attempt by the French army to steal cannons that had been purchased for the city’s defense in the 1870-1871 Franco-Prussian war. The French ...

This past fall, Richard Porton's celebrated text Film and the Anarchist Imagination was re-released in a new and expanded edition. To celebrate, Anthology Film Archives has collaborated with Porton ...

On Paris' Rue Haxo, a white-brick church commemorates dozens of Catholic clergy who fell victim to one of modern Europe's bloodiest uprisings. Its 150th anniversary will be marked in the last week of ...

People carry crosses into Sacré-Cour Basilica on Montmartre in Paris before taking part in a Good Friday procession April 2, 2021. Ground was broken for the construction of the Sacré-Cour Basilica in ...

The basilica, which sits atop the hill of Montmartre, is the second most visited site in the capital, after Notre-Dame. By Constant Méheut PARIS — For more than a century, the Sacré-Coeur Basilica has ...