This coming week is the anniversary of the Paris Comune. Here we reproduce a short pamphlet to remind working people of our world history. It is being produced by some members of the Melbourne Branch of the Industrial Workers of the World, PO Box 145, Moreland VIC 3058.
Hard copies will be distributed at a commemoration organised by the @narchist Age Weekly and the www.seditioncharter.org crew outside the French Consuls Melbourne Office
150 Queen Street, Melbourne (cnr- Bourke & Queen Sts)
12.30pm Wednesday 28th March 2007. Roll up and collect your own copy!!
A brief history of the world's first socialist working class uprising.
The workers of Paris, joined by mutinous National Guardsmen, seized the
city and set about re-organising society in their own interests based
on workers' councils. They could not hold out, however, when more
troops retook the city and the rich ordered the massacre of 30,000
workers in bloody revenge.
Around 100 people were there including several wobs, Union solidarity, main TV and print media (mainstream and alternative)
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