Komunumo de Parizo en 1871 - Paris Commune of 1871
The Paris Commune of 1871, Thinking about the Commune today by Jeanne-Patrick Annequin The Paris Commune of 1871 is the reference in the labour movement for the formation of a government and the promises it made. To realise the desired social and democratic republic, it created new methods on the terrain of workers democracy and organisation. I am truly convinced that the principle proclamations of the Paris Commune are still relevant today - and that they are more so now than at any other time - because its outline of a truly new egalitarian and fraternal society remain a concrete utopia. Fundamentally it is necessary that we have a clear awareness of those great principles which cannot be corrupted, and apply them in the spirit desired by the Communards. Let's just stick with the two big tasks that the Paris Commune set itself. Firstly the installation of direct democracy. That of the Communal delegates rested on the imperative and recallable mandate. Th...