The Days of the Commune

The Paris Commune of 1871 was the first example in modern history of an occupation in which working people took over their own neighborhoods and practiced direct democracy. Many different left groups worked together and women played an important part defining and demanding feminist principles that paved the way for our future. Times have changed, OWS faces pepper spray; the Communards were confronted with live ammunition, but their belief in taking their future into their own hands, in standing up to the wealthy in leading by example instead of by force, is as relevant today as it was then.

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