Directory of Paris Commune Resources

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Revolutionary government formed in Paris in 1871.

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• CLR James on the Paris Commune

  http://www.marxists.org/archive/james-clr/works/1946/03/paris-commune.htm
  Appeared under a pseudonym in the 18 March 1946 issue of Labor Action, newspaper of the Workers Party of the United States.

• English Historical Review: The Paris Commune, 1871

  http://ehr.oxfordjournals.org/content/116/465/258.full.pdf+html
  John M. Roberts reviews the book by Robert Tombs in the February 2001 issue. Requires a subscription or payment to view.

• Franco Prussian War and the Paris Commune

  http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelpsubject/history/francoprussionwar/franceprussian.html
  Background information as well as a guide to documents held by the British Library.

• History of the Paris Commune

  http://www.marxists.org/history/france/paris-commune/
  History of the first workers government ever created. Timeline of events, image gallery, overview of how the Commune operated and works on the Paris Commune by Karl Marx, Jenny Marx and Henri Lissagaray.

• Last Stand of the Paris Commune

  http://www.metropoleparis.com/2002/726/726reds.html
  Article published in Metropole Paris.

• Lessons of the Paris Commune

  http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1921/02/commune.htm
  February 1921 article by Leon Trotsky.

• Martyrs of the Paris Commune

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04168a.htm
  Article from the Catholic Encyclopedia on the priests who were killed in Paris in May 1871.

• Northwestern University Library: The Siege and Commune of Paris

  http://digital.library.northwestern.edu/siege/
  The McCormick Library collection of 1200 pictures and numerous documents related to the Prussian siege and the civic unrest of 1870-1.

• One Day Under the Paris Commune, 1871

  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1871leighton-commune.asp
  Contemporary article written by a journalist who was in Paris during the uprising.

• Paris Commune

  http://www.mltranslations.org/France/pariscom.htm
  March 1998 article from La Forge, organ of the Communist Party of the Workers of France.

• Paris Commune Archive

  http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/pariscommune/Pariscommunearchive.html
  Contemporary articles and documents, analysis, bibliography and images from the Commune.

• Paris Commune: Myth vs. Reality

  http://www.revleft.com/vb/showpost.php?p=573879&postcount=69
  Anarchist critique of Marxist views on the Paris Commune.

• The Paris Commune

  http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/anarchism/writers/anarcho/commune.html
  Anarchist essay and critique of Karl Marx's views on the Paris Commune.

• The Paris Commune (1871)

  http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/talks/paris.html
  Article from the Workers Solidarity Movement.

• Theses on the Paris Commune (Debord, Kotanyi & Vaneigem)

  http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/Pariscommune.htm
  Situationist theses on the Paris Commune of 1871

• Wikipedia: Paris Commune

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Commune
  Article on the revolutionary government formed in Paris in 1871.

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