HERE in Paris, where I live, we are now marking the 150th anniversary of the commune, identified by Karl Marx as perhaps the first workers’ republic established in the history of humanity.
The commune lasted 71 days, beginning on March 18 1871, and ended in a violent repression during what was called the time of the cherries, of the budding of the cherry blossoms, in the bloody week of May 21 to 28.
The commune was a response by the Parisians to the end of a war that the emperor Louis Napoleon had waged to distract the French from the corruption and negligence that characterised the latter stage of the second empire.
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