In the busyness of university life, save the presence of pride flags briefly blessing the flag masts of select colleges, it’s important to remember that February is LGBTQ+ History Month. And as much ...

May 28, 2026, marks the 155th anniversary of the Communards’ last stand at Père-Lachaise Cemetery and the end of the Paris Commune. A few days ago, the Tricontinental Institute published an article by ...

Just north of Oxford Street, at its eastern end, a dim entry called Newman Passage curves away from the plate glass and glitz into a silent Victorian alley. Wet cobbles gleam; the narrowing walls have ...

THE capture of Napoleon III at Sedan on Sept. 2,1870, ended the Second Empire, but not the Franco-Prussian War. Invested by the German Armies, cut off from the rest of France, without defenders at the ...

A cemetery of a French communist leader, located near The Communards' Wall. ZHANG ZHOUXIANG/CHINA DAILY Unlike the somber, desolate image often associated with burial grounds, many European cemeteries ...

In the final days of the Paris Commune of 1871, a radical experiment in self-governance and insurrection that started after the nation’s humiliating military loss to Prussia, the Communards realized ...

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 ...

In a sign of the times, 1871, the influential Chicago tech incubator that has launched some of the city’s most innovative startups, is vacating its longtime offices at the Mart. The decision, ...

For 72 short days in 1871, workers controlled the city of Paris. After the devastation of the Franco-Prussian War, Parisian workers were fed up with their country’s government. So they united against ...

Mark Steven is a senior lecturer in 20th and 21st century literature at the University of Exeter. He is the author of the forthcoming Class War: A Literary History (Verso). Communards at a Barricade, ...