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On January 29, 2014, friends Mariabruna Fabrizi and Fosco Lucarelli posted an interesting article on Socks (check out their new interface!) based on photographs taken by Mike Ma of a map illustrating the chronology of the bloody week (May 21-28 1871) that eradicated the socialist Paris Commune. Seeing this map made me want to, not only retrace it in...

Photograph by André Adolphe Eugène Disdéri (1871) On May 16th 1871, at the core of the Paris Commune, a ceremony is organized to demolish the Vendôme Column, symbol of the Napoleonian imperialism (refer to Raspouteam’s website for more information). Although an important amount of buildings were burnt down (for various reasons) during La Commune, the destruction of...

Le Cri du Peuple by Jacques Tardi (2001) As I wrote earlier, the 1871 Paris Commune is the historical reference of this series of articles. Despite an institutional soft form of censorship, there has been many historical interpretation of this event that saw a new form of governance created. One of them, nevertheless, remains one...

La Commune (de Paris, 1871) by Peter Watkins (see also an old article about Punishment Park) filmed in 1999 is the absolute reference for the NY Commune project as it addresses the question of the Paris Commune through a cinematographic work being itself a democratic construction. This film is basing its plot on a historical...

Almost exactly 140 years ago, in March 1871, Paris was declaring its independence from defeated Napoleon III’s France and creating, for three months, what Karl Marx called the only real socialist society of history. I already evoked this historical event through the writings of Blanqui (see the essay Processes of smoothing and striation of space...

TRANSLATED FROM FRENCH BY LÉOPOLD LAMBERT From the bulldozing of Maghrebi and Portuguese shantytowns in the 1960s to the mass demolition of banlieue social housing starting in the 1980s, the French state and municipalities have countless times evicted and displaced the racialized working class from their homes in a clear continuum of colonial logics. Starting...

Welcome to the 54th issue of The Funambulist. In it, you will read texts about the endurance of colonial structures in western and northern European societies, namely Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Belgium, Portugal, and Italy. A text on Denmark – from its occupation of Greenland to its highly spatialized racialization in the so-called “ghettos”...

A CONVERSATION BETWEEN MILLENNIALS ARE KILLING CAPITALISM AND ORISANMI BURTON In 2017, we interviewed Orisanmi Burton for our 12th issue, Racialized Incarceration (July-Aug 2017). Six years later, he published his research in an important book entitled Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt. In it, he differs from the...

Ireland might not be the first country that comes to mind when thinking about the Algerian Revolution and internationalism. Yet, as Dónal Hassett argues in this text, the Irish Revolution was an inspiration and example for many FLN strategists. In the recent past, it has been the Algerian struggle that has inspired some of those...