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Read online at https://workersliberty.org/node/36898 The Paris Commune and the Union des Femmes Submitted by AWL on 1 March, 2021 - 1:36 Author: Kelly Rogers 2021 marks the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune; the moment that the working class seized political power for the first time, and held it for 72 days. Thousands of women took part in the events of the Commune and, against a backdrop of deep-rooted sexism, championed a revolutionary vision for the transformation of working class women’s lives. Paris under siege Life was hard for women in Paris in the mid-19th century. They worked long hours in back-breaking jobs and, with onerous domestic chores and squalid, overcrowded housing, homelife was little better. The majority of Parisian women were illiterate, having received little or no formal education other than catechism lessons.

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