Did you know? A fire had devastated the City Hall—here's what it looked like before the blaze.

On May 24, 1871, right in the heart of Paris, the City Hall was destroyed by a fire set during the Paris Commune. Before it ...
The Nation

Living and Learning in the Shadow of the Paris Commune

Kristin Ross’s The Commune Form traces a political tradition—based on reimagining class relations—that stretches from the 1871 uprising to the modern-day struggles of ZAD. A man walks past a statue of ...
Artnet

Here’s What Bothers Me About How ‘Paris in Ruins’ Rewrites Impressionist History

Sebastian Smee’s Paris in Ruins is an addictively good read, weaving as it does the lives of several important Impressionist painters into the traumatic and bloody events of 1870-71 in France: the ...
Libcom

Marx, Trotsky and the Party

In No. 1 of RÅDSMAKT there was an article on Marx's and Trotsky's views on the Paris Commune. Trotsky, as a representative of the general Bolshevik and Leninist attitude to the Commune, but also to ...
Hyperallergic

Anarchism on Film, From the Paris Commune to Emma Goldman

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 ...