The workers of Paris triumph (1)
In 1894 Ernest Belfort Bax, one of the pioneer British Marxists, wrote a long series of articles on the Commune in Justice, the paper of the first British Marxist group, the Social Democratic Federation. We have abridged and adapted Bax’s narrative account of the Commune. The second part will appear in the next issue of Solidarity. The Paris Commune of 1871 occupies a peculiar position in the history of the proletarian movement. It forms the culmination of the first period of modern socialism — a period in which the elements of prior movements were still clinging to it. The distinction between...