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Pictures of the iconic red sails, normally part of the windmill mounted on the roof of the famous cabaret venue, have been pictured lying on the city street below.

Vol. II of Peter Weiss’ novel and documentary history, The Aesthetics of Resistance, laments struggles lost as Nazism and WWII take hold.

PARIS, 1871 — In the aftermath of the Prussian invasion of France, and the collapse of the Second Empire, two rival governments arise.  One of them is the Paris Commune. Its headquarters: the city streets, the blazing foundry of radical democracy. The defense of the Paris Commune will depend on its citizens, the soliders of the National Guard.  The other government is based in Versailles. Its headquarters: the old seat of royal power, that infamous abode of aristocrats. ...

Genderquake: socialist women and the Paris Commune Women in our history Monday 8 March 2021, by Judy Cox On 11 April 1871, three weeks into the life of the Paris Commune, a poster appeared on the walls of France’s capital: Citizenesses, we know that the present social order bears within itself the seeds of poverty and of the death of all liberty and justice… At this hour, when danger is imminent and the enemy is at the gates of Paris, the entire population must unite to defend the Commun...