Genderquake: socialist women and the Paris Commune - International Viewpoint
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 Commune, which stands for the annihilation of all privilege and all inequality. All women who were prepare...