Paris Commune Proclaimed March 18, 1871

The Commune "will be forever celebrated as the glorious harbinger of a new society. Its martyrs are enshrined in the great heart of the working class. Its exterminators history has already nailed to that eternal pillory from which all the prayers of their priest will not avail to redeem them." - Karl Marx, The Civil War in France

The Paris Commune, the first attempt by the modern working class to seize power in history, was proclaimed March 18, 1871.

Image: Stamp issued to honour the centennial of the Commune, 1971, USSR

To learn more about the Commune see: The Paris Commune: The first proletarian revolutionary political power in the history of humanity (theleftchapter.com) and When the workers first held power: Joanny Berlioz on the Paris Commune (theleftchapter.com)