{"title":"Paris Commune","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFor two months in 1871, the workers of Paris took control of Europe’s most celebrated capital city. When they established the world’s first workers’ democracy—the Paris Commune—they found no ready-made blueprints, and no precedents to study for how to run their city without princes, prison wardens, or professional politicians. All they had was the boundless revolutionary enthusiasm of Paris’s socialists, communists, anarchists, and radical Jacobins, all of whom threw their energies into creating a new society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAs the city’s bakers, industrial workers, and other “\"ruffians” built new institutions of collective political power to overturn social and economic inequality, their former rulers sought to thwart their efforts by any means necessary, —ultimately deciding to drown the Communards in blood.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-women-incendiaries","title":"The Women Incendiaries","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor 72 days in 1871, the working class took control of Paris and began to run it for themselves. In that time, the world got a glimpse of what socialism would really look like—that the emancipation of the working class must be the act of the working class itself. The role women played during the Paris Commune 1871 is one of the most heroic chapters in the history of working-class struggle. Thomas' book recounts the incredible stories, supplemented with many first-hand references, of the courageous perseverance and ingenuity of women of Paris both fighting in defense of the Commune and actively developing a new society as equal participants within it. The inspirational story of women who played a leading role in the Paris Commune, one of history’s greatest moments of social upheaval. This is the first paperback edition of this vital, remarkable book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Edith Thomas\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-931859-46-2\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 274 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Haymarket Books\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175042363485,"sku":"9781931859462","price":22.4,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_403_womenincendiaries3_0.jpg?v=1654986987"},{"product_id":"we-do-not-fear-anarchy-we-invoke-it","title":"We Do Not Fear Anarchy - We Invoke It","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom 1864 to 1880, socialists, communists, trade unionists, and anarchists synthesized a growing body of anticapitalist thought through participation in the First International—a body devoted to uniting left-wing radical tendencies of the time. Often remembered for the historic fights between Karl Marx and Michael Bakunin, the debates and experimentation during the International helped to refine and focus anarchist ideas into a doctrine of international working class self-liberation. An unprecedented analysis of an often misunderstood history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This book is a breath of fresh air in a stuffy room. At long last, anarchists enter the history of socialism by the main door!\" - Davide Turcato, author of \u003cem\u003eMaking Sense of Anarchism: The Experiments with Revolution of Errico Malatesta, Italian Exile in London, 1889-1900\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Brimming with thought and feeling, richly textured, and not shy of judgment, Graham’s book marshals a compelling argument and issues a provocative invitation to revisit—or perhaps to explore anew—the story, the struggles, and the persisting ramifications of this pioneering International.\" - Wayne Thorpe, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Workers Themselves: Revolutionary Syndicalism and International Labour, 1913-1923\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"With impressive and careful scholarship, Robert Graham guides us on a complex journey that reflects his command of the material and his ability to express it in a clear and straightforward way. If you were to think this is some dry history book, you couldn’t be more wrong.\" - Barry Pateman, historian and archivist with the Kate Sharpley Library\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“For leading anarchist thinker Peter Kropotkin, modern Anarchism arose in the International Working Men’s Association, yet for too long it has been overlooked. At long last, here is a book that shows the crucial role the International played in the development of anarchism and, correcting Marxist myths, the crucial role libertarians played in the organization.\" - Iain McKay, editor of \u003cem\u003eDirect Action against Capital: A Peter Kropotkin Anthology\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Robert Graham is noted for his path-breaking anthology of the history of anarchist thought and social action. His new book has the same virtues: lucidity, scrupulous attention to the record, and a fast paced narrative. This account of the rise and fall of the First International and the dawn of a self-conscious anarchist movement will be of immense help to students, academics, and the general public.”- Carl Levy, author of \u003cem\u003eGramsci and the Anarchists\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"For anyone who wants to know about the history of anarchism this is an excellent account. I highly recommend it.” - Peter Marshall, author of \u003cem\u003eDemanding the Impossible: A HIstory of Anarchism\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRobert Graham is the editor of the three-volume anthology of anarchist writings from ancient China to the present day,\u003cem\u003eAnarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas\u003c\/em\u003e. He has been writing about anarchism for over thirty years, beginning with his work on the anarchist newsjournal, \u003cem\u003eOpen Road\u003c\/em\u003e, which was the largest circulation English language anarchist paper of the late 1970s and early 1980s. He has published numerous articles on the development of anarchist theory, including the introduction to Proudhon's \u003cem\u003eGeneral Idea of the Revolution in the 19th Century\u003c\/em\u003e, and essays on the role of contract in anarchist ideology, Marxism and anarchism, social ecology, \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzODMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/murray-bookchin\" title=\"Murray Bookchin\"\u003eMurray Bookchin\u003c\/a\u003e, Noam Chomsky, and Colin Ward.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Anarchism Before the International\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2: The Founding of the International\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3: The Debates on Property\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4: Bakunin and the Alliance\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5: The 1869 Basel Congress and the Syndicalist Consensus\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6: The Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7: From Out of the Ashes: The Defeat of the Commune and the Rise of the International in Italy and Spain\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8: Very Real Splits in the International\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9: The Anti-Authoritarian International and the Emergence of the Anarchist Movement\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10: From Collectivism to Communism and Propaganda by the Deed\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 11: The End (of the International) and the Beginning (of the anarchist movement)\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Robert Graham\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781849352116\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 319 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: AK Press\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"AK Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175222325341,"sku":"9781849352116","price":29.4,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/wedonotfearanarchy9781849352116.jpg?v=1654987928"},{"product_id":"communist-insurgent-blanquis-politics-of-revolution","title":"Communist Insurgent: Blanqui's Politics of Revolution","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the revolutionary tradition, the name of Louis Blanqui is either remembered with derision or as a noble failure. Yet during his lifetime, Blanqui was a towering figure of revolutionary courage and commitment as he organized nearly a half-dozen failed revolutionary conspiracies and spent half of his life in jail. This is Blanqui's story.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175279931485,"sku":"9781608464722","price":26.6,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/communistinsurgent.jpg?v=1654988200"},{"product_id":"after-the-commune-the-anti-colonialism-of-louise-michel-in-exile","title":"After the Commune: The Anti-Colonialism of Louise Michel in Exile","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom Salvage magazine:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003eIn 1871, the French military slaughtered approximately 25,000 people in the streets of Paris. Ferociously repressing the 72-day long revolutionary civil war known as the Paris Commune, the French government intended to obliterate and make examples of the socialist, anarchist, and feminist movements that sparked and sustained the insurrection. Of those escaping the massacre, over 35,000 were arrested, approximately one-third of whom were condemned by court martial. To ensure the eradication of the revolutionary stain, France deported nearly 4,500 of the insurgents to New Caledonia, its South Pacific penal colony one thousand miles off the Australian coast, confining the convicts to cages during the four-month sea voyage. Once in the archipelago, the Communards experienced harsh living conditions, pitiless guards, physical deprivation, psychological and emotional isolation, and intense boredom. Most lived in a “prison without walls” on the arid Ducos Peninsula, exiled by their government to an unforgiving carceral world more than 10,000 miles from their homes.\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003eFive years into these former revolutionaries’ internment, allied tribes of New Caledonia’s indigenous Kanak population rose up against the French colonial authority. Nearly every Communard sided with France and against the Kanak. Dozens of deportees voluntarily took up arms to defend the same government that had slaughtered their comrades, crushed their revolution, flattened their neighborhoods, demonized their communities, and sent them into exile. The vast majority of the others stayed silent or expressed support for France. Abandoning the radical politics for which they had risked everything and sacrificed their freedom in 1871, these deportees instead prioritized whiteness, Frenchness, and the idea of civilization. Embracing a racialized nationalism and imperialism, these condemned revolutionaries now defended the conservative, monarchist-led French government and its brutal colonial policies and actions.\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003eLouise Michel did not. The notorious, celebrated anarchist feminist veteran of the Commune supported the Kanak. Famously, she tore in half the red Commune scarf that she had managed to hide through her arrest, imprisonment, trial, and deportation, and gave one piece to two Kanak as they headed to battle. Writing later of her fellow French exiles, Michel explained that she “had the greatest esteem for them, but at that point, they disgusted me.”\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis pamphlet tells the story of Michel's anti-colonial politics, after the commune.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Tower","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175300870237,"sku":"atc","price":6.75,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/afterthecommune.jpg?v=1654988381"},{"product_id":"louise-michel","title":"Louise Michel","description":"\u003cp\u003eTranslated from the French by Penelope Williams\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRevolutionary on the barricades of the Paris Commune, tried before the War Council of France, deported to a penal colony, received by enthusiastic crowds upon her return, briliant lecturer throughout Europe, continuously followed by the police, participant in spectacular trials and demonstrations, threatened by assassins, imprisoned time and again, Louise Michel, writer, teacher, poet, feminist, is one of the most extraordinary legends in the literature of freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEdith Thomas has written the first complete biography of this famous anarchist with passion and with a critical balance. The author's research took her through the Historical Archives of the French Prefecture of Police to the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A very complete and very attractive biography of the heroine... We cannot close this book so richly written without concluding that human beings are more difficult to define and classify than is assumed by history books who line them up against each other.\" \u003cem\u003eLe Monde\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Although the Commune remains a controversial phenomenon, one of its best-known figures, Louise Michel, won great sympathy in almost all quarters. She was admired by men as different in their political outlook as Victor Hugo, with whom she maintained a lifelong correspondence... henri Rochefort, Clemenceau, and Maurice Barrès, Verlaine himself was inspired to write a Ballade for her. ... The book`s first part, up to the return to France, is well done, especially the account of Louise's adaptation to life in New Caledonia ... the woman was sui generis and matches rthe legend because of her courage, her limitless generosity, and her single-minded devotion to the cause she made hers ...\" \u003cem\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eGlossary of Translated Titles\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTranslator's Preface\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter I - Mademoiselle Demahis\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter II - \u003cspan\u003eMademoiselle Michel\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter III - The Growth of Louise Michel\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter IV - Paris is cold, Paris is hungry\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter V - Long live the Commune\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter VI - Louise and Theophile\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter VII - The Verdict\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter VIII - The Great Voyage\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter IX - New Caledonia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter X - Triumph\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter XI - Snares and Delusions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter XII - Work of Bread!\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter XIII - More Prisons\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter XIV - Politics and Literature\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter XV - The Chouan's Revenge\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter XVI - May 1, 1890\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter XVII - England the Free\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter XVIII - The fight has just begun\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter XIX - For society tolls the bels\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter XX - Comes the Revolution\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eResearch Sources\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWorks by Louise Michel\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFootnotes to Chapters\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Black Rose Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175327608925,"sku":"0919619082","price":35.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/louise_michel_medium_8dfd52dc-784a-4c26-9e28-35d25329d939.jpg?v=1654988587"},{"product_id":"my-trials","title":"My Trials","description":"\u003cp\u003eLouise Michel was an anarchist, writer, teacher, poet, and feminist. She was a revolutionary on the barricades of the Paris Commune, tried before the War Council of France, deported to a penal colony, received by enthusiastic crowds upon her return, briliant lecturer throughout Europe, continuously followed by the police, participant in spectacular trials and demonstrations, threatened by assassins, and repeatedly imprisoned.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis small pamphlet brings together transcripts of several of Louise Michel's statements during her trials.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e","brand":"Commune Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175351431261,"sku":null,"price":2.7,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/mytrials.jpg?v=1654988786"},{"product_id":"marx-in-paris-1871-jennys-blue-notebook","title":"Marx in Paris, 1871: Jenny's ”Blue Notebook”","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune, leftist writers Olivier Besancenot and Michael Löwy offer a deeply informed, and eminently enjoyable, imagined history of what might have been if Karl Marx and his eldest daughter, Jenny, had travelled to Paris during the heady weeks of April 1871. In disguise, employing imperfect but serviceable French, Karl and Jenny encounter and debate many important figures of the movement, including Leó Frankel, Eugène Varlin, Charles Longuet, Elisabeth Dmitrieff, and Louise Michel, eventually returning to England with a profoundly changed sense of political possibility.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Far more than most dare admit, history and historians mix fact and fiction. The two were and are always inseparably intertwined. The 1871 Paris Commune – when a proletariat took political power from a bourgeoisie – transformed the social movement to do better than capitalism. Marx assessed the strengths and weaknesses of that transformative moment to advance that movement. Inspired by Marx’s analysis, Lenin did likewise. This book adds to the tradition evolving since Marx and Lenin. Remarkably accessible, it refreshes, provokes, and thereby develops that movement still further.” —Richard Wolff, author of Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjIwMzcxIn0=\" href=\"\/fr\/collections\/all\/michael-lowy\" title=\"Michael Löwy\"\u003eMichael Löwy\u003c\/a\u003e and Olivier Besancenot ‘discovered’ a manuscript written by Jenny, Marx’s daughter, revealing a secret visit of her father to Paris as it was besieged during the fateful weeks of the Commune. Their book is not an exercise in counter-factual history – a ‘what if...’ – but rather an original and inventive form of history writing. They describe the Commune by emphasizing its greatness, pointing out its limitations, and assessing its historical legacy in a pleasant and vigorous literary account. Thus, Marx dons the habit of a hidden observer who, alongside the voice of his daughter, guides us through the labyrinth of a revolutionary experience in the making. Marx becomes a ‘witness’ and the Commune a living experience. This fictional account is a remarkable piece of historical criticism and revolutionary imagination.” —Enzo Traverso, author of Revolution: An Intellectual History\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The authors embarked on an imaginary visit to the Paris Commune seen through the eyes of Karl Marx and his daughter Jenny, and the result is as true as real. Readers will learn more – and with great pleasure at that – from reading this well-researched little book of historical fiction than they would learn from reading a thick academic volume.” —Gilbert Achcar, author of Marxism, Orientalism, Cosmopolitanism\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40366316847197,"sku":"9781642595888","price":22.4,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/9781642595888-f_medium-7e5976be8ebb1ae218f3736344ac6df9.jpg?v=1659470923"},{"product_id":"communards-and-other-cultural-histories-essays-by-adrian-rifkin","title":"Communards and Other Cultural Histories: Essays by Adrian Rifkin","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the travails of art critical language in the late eighteenth century to the upheaval of the Paris Commune of 1871, from neo-classical art criticism to the Paris Commune of 1871, from Bizet’s Carmen and Edith Piaf’s song to the culture of gay cruising, this collection of Rifkin's essays map a work beyond any one discipline.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAdrian Rifkin\u003c\/strong\u003e was Professor of Fine Art at the University of Leeds, then Professor of Visual Culture at Middlesex University and Professor of Art Writing at Goldsmiths London, and is currently visiting Professor in Art at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSteve Edwards\u003c\/strong\u003e (editor) is Professor in the Department of Art History at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of several books on art and photography; an editor of the Oxford Art Journal and of the \u003cem\u003eHistorical Materialism\u003c\/em\u003e Book Series.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40744834302045,"sku":"9781608468249","price":35.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/communardsandotherculturalhistories.jpg?v=1669404354"},{"product_id":"voices-of-the-paris-commune","title":"Voices of the Paris Commune","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Paris Commune of 1871, the first instance of a working-class seizure of power, has been subject to countless interpretations; reviled by its enemies as a murderous bacchanalia of the unwashed while praised by supporters as an exemplar of proletarian anarchism in action. As both a successful model to be imitated and as a devastating failure to be avoided. All of the interpretations are tendentious. Historians view the working class’s three-month rule through their own prism, distant in time and space. \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVoices of the Paris Commune\u003c\/em\u003e takes a different tack. In this book only those who were present in the spring of 1871, who lived through and participated in the Commune, are heard.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Paris Commune had a vibrant press, and it is represented here by its most important newspaper, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLe Cri du Peuple\u003c\/em\u003e, edited by Jules Vallès, member of the First International. Like any legitimate government, the Paris Commune held parliamentary sessions and issued daily printed reports of the heated, contentious deliberations that belie any accusation of dictatorship. Included in this collection is the transcript of the debate in the Commune, just days before its final defeat, on the establishing of a Committee of Public Safety and on the fate of the hostages held by the Commune, hostages who would ultimately be killed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFinally, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVoices of the Paris Commune\u003c\/em\u003e contains a selection from the inquiry carried out twenty years after the event by the intellectual review \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLa Revue Blanche\u003c\/em\u003e, asking participants to judge the successes and failures of the Paris Commune. This section provides a fascinating range of opinions of this epochal event.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“The Paris Commune of 1871 has been the subject of much ideological debate, often far removed from the experiences of the participants themselves. If you really want to dig deep into what happened during those fateful weeks, reading these eyewitness accounts is mandatory.” \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwMDQifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/gabriel-kuhn\" title=\"Gabriel Kuhn\"\u003eGabriel Kuhn\u003c\/a\u003e, editor of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAll Power to the Councils! A Documentary History of the German Revolution of 1918–1919\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“The Paris Commune holds a place of pride in the hearts of radicals—heroically created from the bottom up and tragically crushed by the forces of reaction. Yet, as this collection illustrates, the lessons of the Commune, as debated by the Communards themselves, are as enduring and vital as that briefly liberated society was inspiring.” Sasha Lilley, author of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/capital-and-its-discontents-conversations-with-radical-thinkers-in-a-time-of-tumult\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCapital and Its Discontents\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbout the Editor\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMitchell Abidor is the principal French translator for the Marxists Internet Archive and has published several collections of his translations, including \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAnarchists Never Surrender: Essays, Polemics, and Correspondence on Anarchism\u003c\/em\u003e by \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjE4NTI0In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/victor-serge\" title=\"Victor Serge\"\u003eVictor Serge\u003c\/a\u003e. He is currently working on translations of further unpublished works by Victor Serge and Daniel Guérin.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40750462500957,"sku":"9781629631004","price":20.93,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/voicesofthepariscommune-abidor.jpg?v=1669736220"},{"product_id":"revolutionary-affinities-toward-a-marxist-anarchist-solidarity","title":"Revolutionary Affinities: Toward a Marxist-Anarchist Solidarity","description":"\u003cp\u003eBoth a sweeping history of revolutionary struggle and a road map for the future, \u003ci\u003eRevolutionary Affinities\u003c\/i\u003e takes readers from the Paris Commune through the bloody confrontations of the past century to paint a vivid picture of the greatest anarchist and Marxist figures who dared to join forces, from Louise Michel to Subcomandante Marcos, from Emma Goldman to Walter Benjamin.  Authors Olivier Besancenot and Michael Löwy, two of the foremost voices in the French anti-authoritarian radical left, explore the promises—and challenges—of developing a fully sustainable, libertarian Marxist society by examining questions of political organization, economic policy, radical ecology, and more. With the urgent need for a unified front against the far right, there has never been a better time for this inspiring story.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Thanks to the painstaking translation work of David Campbell—by hand, while incarcerated on Rikers Island—the anglophone world is lucky enough to now access this concise yet crucial text. More than a history of two interlocking and conflicting revolutionary traditions, \u003cem\u003eRevolutionary Affinities\u003c\/em\u003e is a welcome invitation to find each other, through our rejection of all forms of oppression, with every tool available to us—a convergent lens of Marxism and anarchism provides invaluable vision.\" Natasha Lennard, author of \u003ci\u003eBeing Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“David Campbell’s highly accessible translation sheds new light on the deep, complex relationship between the revolutionary labor movement’s two ideological drivers—Marxists and anarchists—during a moment in which understanding that history could not be more essential. It is a timely effort to illuminate our bloody, brilliant, shared history, and to inspire today's revolutionaries to keep pushing forward in the struggle, together.” Kim Kelly, journalist and author of \u003cem\u003eFight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjIwMzcxIn0=\" href=\"\/fr\/collections\/all\/michael-lowy\" title=\"Michael Löwy\"\u003eMichael Löwy\u003c\/a\u003e is unquestionably a tremendous figure in the decades-long attempt to recover an authentic revolutionary tradition from the wreckage of Stalinism.\" Dominic Alexander, \u003cem\u003eCounterfire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eRevolutionary Affinities\u003c\/i\u003e is a compelling read. Its timely and convincing arguments lead us to reevaluate the relationship between the anarchist and Marxist tradition: this remarkable book is inviting us, indeed I would say obliging us, to reconsider the elective affinity between them.\" \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjEzNzMyIn0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/andrej-grubacic\" title=\"Andrej Grubacic\"\u003eAndrej Grubacic\u003c\/a\u003e, Professor of Anthropology and Social Change (CIIS-San Francisco), editor of the Journal of \u003ci\u003eWorld-Systems Research\u003c\/i\u003e, and author of \u003ci\u003eWobblies and Zapatistas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Before 1920, connections between anarchists and socialists flourished everywhere, despite differences and disagreements. After 1920, the vision of a liberating transformation faded and with it, anarchist influence almost everywhere. Moments in the New Left revived the promise of mutual learning and struggle, moments after 1991 as well. Eco-crisis makes a new engagement mandatory. This invaluable book explains why and how it can happen.\" Paul Buhle, author of over a dozen books including A People’s History of American Empire\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"With a deep knowledge of the Marxist and anarchist tradition, \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjIwMzcxIn0=\" href=\"\/fr\/collections\/all\/michael-lowy\" title=\"Michael Löwy\"\u003eMichael Löwy\u003c\/a\u003e and Olivier Besancenot attempt to reconnect the seemingly cut-off black and red thread which interlinks Marxism and anarchism, thus driving the red and black stars of revolution to shine again in the darkened sky of our planet.\" Costas Despiniadis, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Anatomist of Power. Franz Kafka and the Critique of Authority\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“To say that exchanges between anarchists and Marxists have not always been cordial would be euphemistic. Yet, anticapitalist libertarians and libertarian Marxists have a lot in common as this brief account by two libertarian Marxists demonstrates, offering a historical panorama of the relations between the two currents and a comradely contribution to their debate.” Gilbert Achcar, author of a dozen books including, \u003cem\u003ePerilous Power\u003c\/em\u003e (co-authored with Noam Chomsky) and \u003cem\u003eMorbid Symptoms\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Recent popular upsurges in the US and across the globe have underscored the emergence of a daring new politics, defined by brazen illegality, communal risk-taking, bold experimentation, and, above all, a skeptical eye to the ‘-ists’ and ‘-isms’ that continually haunt the revolutionary imagination. Löwy and Besanceno's volume, translated deftly by former political prisoner David Campbell, represents a laudable and necessary attempt at political theory that catches up with social developments long underway, by bridging a historical division that has made both sides weaker and worse. As the authors demonstrate, sectarianism between Marxism and anarchism is best left in the nineteenth century, with efforts like this showing the way into understanding the twenty-first.” Jarrod Shanahan, author of \u003cem\u003eCaptives: How Rikers Island Took New York City Hostage\u003c\/em\u003e and co-author of \u003cem\u003eStates of Incarceration: Rebellion, Reform and America's Punishment System\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjIwMzcxIn0=\" href=\"\/fr\/collections\/all\/michael-lowy\" title=\"Michael Löwy\"\u003eMichael Löwy\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in Brazil, has lived in Paris since 1969, and is a member of the Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire (French section of the Fourth International). His books and articles, including\u003cem\u003e the Theory of Revolution in Young Marx\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eFranz Kafka: Subversive Dreamer\u003c\/em\u003e have been translated into thirty languages. He is emeritus research director of the CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research), Paris.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Olivier Besancenot \u003c\/strong\u003ewas born near Paris in 1974 and worked for many years as a postman. In 2002 and 2007 he was the Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire candidate in the French presidential elections, getting some 1.5 million votes. He was also the founding spokesperson for the New Anticapitalist Party. His works include \u003cem\u003eChe Guevara: His Revolutionary Legacy \u003c\/em\u003e(with \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjIwMzcxIn0=\" href=\"\/fr\/collections\/all\/michael-lowy\" title=\"Michael Löwy\"\u003eMichael Löwy\u003c\/a\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Campbell\u003c\/strong\u003e is a writer, translator, funeral director\/embalmer, and former antifascist political prisoner. His writing has appeared in \u003cem\u003eSlate\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHuffington Post\u003c\/em\u003e, CUNY Law Review’s \u003cem\u003eFootnote Forum\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eHard Crackers\u003c\/em\u003e, and his translations have appeared in \u003cem\u003eBateau\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePost-[blank]\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eBarricade\u003c\/em\u003e. Originally from Virginia, he lived in New York City for ten years before relocating to Paris to pursue a master’s in translation in 2021.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41053397221469,"sku":"9781629639697","price":26.53,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/large_1293_9781629639697_FC.jpg?v=1695850843"},{"product_id":"towards-a-dialectic-of-philosophy-and-organization","title":"Towards a Dialectic of Philosophy and Organization","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePhilosophically engaging, and practically oriented, this book asks whether philosophic clarity can account for effective revolutionary organizational practice.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThis work takes as its starting point the question “What Philosophic-Organizational Vantage Point is Needed for Revolutionary Transformation Today?” Gogol offers an answer by exploring organizational practices in the Paris Commune, the 2nd International, the Russian Revolutions, and several other epochal struggles, as well as the theoretical-organizational concepts of such thinkers as Lenin, Trotsky, and Luxemburg.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eToward a Dialectic\u003c\/i\u003e ought to be taken as an important contribution to an on-going project to reveal the logic of the development of emancipatory organizations … for Marxists, the detailed tracing of the forms of working class organization from its inception up to today is a precondition for solving the deep conundrums facing emancipatory projects today. And for bringing this to our attention and making a first attempt, Gogol deserves considerable praise.\" —Andy Blunden, \u003ci\u003eMarx and Philosophy Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eEugene Gogol is a Marxist-Humanist activist-writer. 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Defeat can feel overwhelming at times, but it has to be endured. How then do the people on the front line keep going? To answer that question and to help readers roll with the punches, Hannah Proctor draws on historical resources to find out how revolutionaries and activists of the past kept a grip on hope.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBurnout\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e considers former Communards exiled to a penal colony in the South Pacific; a young Bolshevik fleeing the city in despair; an ex-militant on the analyst’s couch relating dreams of ruined landscapes; a trade union organiser seeking advice from a spiritual healer; and a group of feminists padding a room with mattresses to scream about the patriarchy. Jettisoning therapy talk and its stranglehold on our language, Proctor offers a different way forward - neither denial nor despair. Her cogent exploration of the ways militants make sense of their own burnout demonstrates that it is possible to mourn and organise at once, and to do both without compromise.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch5 aria-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv aria-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\"Hannah Proctor is one of the best writers on the left today, and this is an extraordinary and extremely timely book – a kaleidoscopic work of revolutionary history on what happens when our day doesn’t come and we have to cope with the consequences. Refusing both the easy temptations of left melancholia and forced ‘just another push, comrades!’ optimism, this is a book full of unromantic communist longing, deadpan humour and hard-won wisdom.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eOwen Hatherley, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Ministry of Nostalgia\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Not since Freud first described war neurosis have we been treated to such an astonishing taxonomy of the human mind. In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBurnout\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Hannah Proctor takes that feeling we all have, and names it again and again, helping us to resee the past and present of revolutionary struggle. A must-read.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eHannah Zeavin, Founding Editor,\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eParapraxis\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Achieves commendable synthesis between its argument and sources ... The more people are writing books like \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBurnout\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the better we might overcome our pains, and remain in the struggle.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eJuliet Jacques, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eArtReview\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Brilliant ... an invigorating reader experience. Activists will find strange comfort in knowing that burnout is a collective affliction that has loomed large over our social movements for centuries ... 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Mieux que l''étude d''une réalité dramatisée pour la fiction, l''analyse de ces reportages vécus donne de véritables clés pour qui veut réellement connaître ce « socialiste malgré lui ».\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Editions Aden - Bruxelles","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42370153185373,"sku":"9782960027389","price":32.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/9782960027389-es.jpg?v=1719432822"},{"product_id":"the-future-of-revolution","title":"The Future of Revolution: Communist Prospects from the Paris Commune to the George Floyd Uprising (Hardcover)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"t-rte\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow might a twenty-first-century revolution against class society succeed?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCommunism comes from the future, but its hopes haunt our past. Reading revolutionary history from the Paris Commune to the George Floyd Uprising by the light of communist theory, from Marx to C. L. R. James, \u003ci\u003eThe Future of Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates the possibilities for overcoming class society in the twenty-first century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Marx wrote that the Paris Commune of 1871 showed that “the working class cannot simply lay hold of the ready-made state machinery, and wield it for its own purposes,” he identified a principle that will remain true as long as capitalism and its class antagonism persist. Historical revolutions reveal essential features of our communist horizon, which would-be revolutionaries, then as now, must negotiate one way or another. In chapters that move from a critical history of the workers’ council to a reading of Marx’s theory of value as an inverted description of communism, Jasper Bernes synthesizes from a history of failure the key criteria for success. He defines for our present moment the urgent mission of the world proletariat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJasper Bernes \u003c\/b\u003elives in Oakland and teaches in the English Department at the University of California, Berkeley. 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This is an extremely impressive study of true significance.\" John Merriman, Yale University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A remarkable book—one of the most important to be published in many years on the famous Paris Commune and the other, less famous revolutionary Communes that together constituted one of the most important global events of the second half of the nineteenth century.\" David Bell, Princeton University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A remarkable example of how modern European and global history can come into engagement. His aim is as much to show how using the comparative and connective techniques of global history we can produce a more complex kind of engagement with local historical phenomena, as it is simply to understand the commune. And it is for this reason that it will become a major work of reference for historians working on other questions. There is nothing like this in English.\" Richard Drayton, King’s College London\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In providing this multi-perspective account of the event, this book brings into salience the different dimensions that constitute the time-space of the Paris insurrection.\" Ivan Ermakoff, University of Madison\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In the midst of so many printed pages, one book in particular stands out for the originality of its interpretation and the depth of its proposals: the one Quentin Deluermoz has devoted to the analysis of that revolution of 1870-1871. An impeccably effective example of the potential of \"l'histoire événementielle\", which is regaining its strength.\" Jorge Myers, \u003cem\u003e Prismas - Revista De Historia Intelectual\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Quentin Deluermoz has written a book that brings together everything that has been written about the many revolutions of 1870-1871, and anticipates everything that will be written about them in the years to come.\" Albert Garcia Balana, \u003cem\u003e Revue d’histoire du 19e siècle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Deluermoz's book offers a new interpretation of the Paris Commune, one that goes beyond traditional Franco-French interpretations of events and chronologies.\" Jean-Louis Robert,  \u003cem\u003eRevue d’histoire moderne \u0026amp; contemporaine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"If the idea of an interpretation of the event and its repercussions “at the ground level,” as Deluermoz describes his approach, accurately describes his remarkable archival work and his emphasis on the lived experience of the Commune, his broad geographic and interpretive scope, as well as his rich historical and theoretical interrogations, are just as striking. 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