Archive of A History of the Barricade

Eric Hazan, the famed French historian and publisher whose book Le Tumulte de Paris, a wander through the streets of this city that he both adores and abhors, was published earlier this year in French, welcomes us to his home in Belleville.

The third installment of a new text by Stathis Kouvelakis on the development, events and legacy of the Paris Commune, published in three parts across the week.

The second installment of a new text by Stathis Kouvelakis on the development, events and legacy of the Paris Commune, published in three parts across the week.

The first installment of a new text by Stathis Kouvelakis on the development, events and legacy of the Paris Commune, published in three parts across the week. 

Henri Lefebvre's account of the ideology of the Paris Commune, newly translated into English 

Gustave Lefrançais has been unfairly overlooked in accounts of significant actors in the Paris Commune, argues Daniel Bensaïd.

Lizzie O'Shea reflects on the revolutionary vision of the Communards, 150 years after the establishment of the Paris Commune. 

Key titles on activism and global resistance, from movements for Black liberation and climate justice to labor organizing and anti-colonial struggles.

Our essential titles on radical histories.