[lbo-talk] The Paris Commune was proclaimed 136 years ago today...

Mike Ballard swillsqueal at yahoo.com.au
Mon Mar 26 05:48:16 PDT 2007


B. wrote: Deja vu -- was reading about the Paris Commune recently and especially Marx & Engels' correspondence about it. Marx even went so far as to say, "Paris armed is the revolution armed," apparently.

And let's not forget Louise Michel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Michel

The amount of working class organization, which included paupers, the unemployed, housewives, etc., was remarkable, and it did end in a horrible, tragic bloodbath, one of history and humanity's great shames of the past few centuries. I think it's indeed worth remembering. **************************

Wobs will be reading out loud and passing out flyers in front of the French Consulate in Melbourne today. ********************************

Another important date coming up soon is April 24, Martyr's Day, the date to commemorate the victims of the 1915 genocide waged against Armenian. Even my friend of Armenian descent, however, refuses to claim the Armenian genocide as the 1st genocide of the 20th century, preferring instead to state that the 1st genocide of the 20th century was the ongoing war against Native Americans in N. America that began in 1492 and continued into the 20th.

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There's April 26th too, the anniversary of the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl in 1986.

Best, Mike B)

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