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In the many forms it took throughout 2020, the movement challenging statues is irreversible and that is why it is under attack. It is part of the global challenge to a modernity that shaped the world according to racial and sexist criteria that destroyed cultures, silenced voices, erased knowledge, and pillaged to fill its museums and palaces.

A defensive fortress, a monastery, a concentration camp, an NKVD prison, a psychiatric hospital – this small island near Kazan has seen it a

Why was the Commune important? For just 72 days – from 18 March to 28 May 1871 – a revolutionary government ran Paris, and espoused a great number of radical causes: decent conditions for workers; free universal education; separation of Church and state; the abolition of child labour; equality between men and women; citizenship for foreigners. Although it was soon put down with remarkable ferocity, the Paris Commune inspired socialist movements around the world. Karl Marx described it as th...

The Untold Truth Of Pere Lachaise, The Worlds Most Visited Cemetery Shutterstock By Kathy Benjamin/Feb. 8, 2021 12:57 pm EDT/Updated: March 23, 2021 10:23 pm EDT If you never went through an emo phase, you might think its weird that people like to visit cemeteries. And sure, some can be sad, uncared for, and small, but there are other cemeteries that are basically a combination art gallery and beautiful park. Pere Lachaise in Paris might be the most stunning of them all. As th...