Green Shoots community centre, Besson Street, London SE14 5AS
"The cry of 'social republic', ushered in by the Paris proletariat, did but express an aspiration after a republic that was not only to supersede the monarchical form of class rule, but class rule itself. The Commune was the positive form of that republic." - Marx
The circus surrounding the Royal Wedding on the April bank holiday weekend will be unbearable. Don't just grind your teeth! As a contribution to protesting against this nonsense, and as part of a series of events to celebrate the 140th anniversary of the Paris Commune, we will be holding a dayschool about the lessons of the Commune - the first time in history the working class, inspired by the revolutionary republican tradition, created a government of its own.
Sessions will include:
* The Commune, democracy and the state
* Revolution without a revolutionary party?
* Women in the Commune: lessons in workers' revolution and women's emancipation
Followed by a revolutionary/republican social to replace the wedding as the social event of the season!
Facebook event here