Today In Labor History April 4, 1866: Russian revolutionary, Dmitry Karakozov attempted to assassinate Czar Alexander II. He failed and the government executed him. Some believe that Karakozov chose the year 1866, since that was the year in which a character in Chernyshevsky’s “What Is To Be Done?” planned to launch a revolution. In the book, the protagonist, Vera Pavlovna, escapes a controlling family, and an arranged marriage, to start a socialist cooperative and a truly egalitarian romantic partnership. She starts a seamstress commune, with shared living quarters, profit-sharing and an on-site school to further the women’s education. Chernyshevsky wrote the novel in response to Turgenev’s “Fathers and Sons.” He wrote the book while imprisoned in the Peter and Paul fortress. The book inspired generations of Russian radicals, including the nihilists, anarchists and even many Marxists.

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📕FORMATION/DISCUSSION SUR L’ÉTAT
➡️4ème séance : La Commune de Paris (1871)
🔴jeudi 9 avril à 20h au Patronage Laïque Guérin à #Brest

La #Commune n’a duré que 72 jours mais a accompli des avancées considérables, peut-être davantage par les promesses qu’elle portait en germe et qui inspirèrent #Lénine et les révolutionnaires russes de 1917, ainsi que le socialisme international jusqu’à nous jours.

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« Que se passe-t-il au Venezuela ? » par Craig John Murray

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Les féminismes populaires contre la guerre néocoloniale en Amérique latine

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Today in Labor History March 23, 1871: Far left workers proclaimed communes in Lyon and Marseilles. The Paris Commune began March 18. Workers, including Cluseret and Mikhail Bakunin and other anarchists and left socialists of the International Workingmen’s Association, had tried to create a commune in Lyon in 1870, as well. Prior to this, Cluseret fought the bourgeois moderates during the 1848 Paris uprising. And in 1860, he joined Garabaldi in his fight for Italian independence. In 1860, when William Sewell made a plea for European generals, he joined Union army with letters of support from Garibaldi, serving as a colonel, commanding troops in Shenandoah Valley. He eventually rose to the rank of general, but eventually quit when he was accused of insubordination for complaining about the abuse of civilians by Union troops. After that, he joined the Irish Republican cause, managing to escape a death sentence by the British. During the Paris Commune, Cluseret served as Minister of War. However, when he refused to arrest Monsignior Darboy, Archbishop of Paris, he was arrested for collusion with the enemy.

Cluseret once said, “the U.S. presents that strange anomaly of enslaved labor in a free nation. Politically free, the worker is socially the capitalists’ serf.”

Marx called him an opportunist and an overambitious babbler.

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L’Edito de Raphaël Legendre : Municipales, l'échec des extrêmes

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Aujourd’hui 18 mars, 155e anniversaire du déclenchement de la #Commune de Paris, un moment de réaffirmation de la souveraineté populaire, face à la résignation et à la soumission, alors réfugiée à Versailles. Il y eut aussi des "communes" en Isère. N'oublions pas !

Affiche de l'Exposition de la BEP de #Grenoble réalisée à l'occasion du 150e anniversaire.