#louisemichel

Today in Labor History January 9, 1905: French anarchist Louise Michel died. Michel was a leader in the Paris Commune and cofounder of the Women’s Battalion. She also cofounded the journal “Le Libertaire,” with Sebastien Faure. 100,000 mourners attended her funeral. Before the Commune, she was a school teacher. After the Commune, while in prison, she wrote children’s books.

During the Commune, workers took over all aspects of economic and political life. They enacted a system that included self-policing, separation of the church and state, abolition of child labor, and employee takeovers of abandoned businesses. Churches and church-run schools were shut down. The Commune lasted from March 18 through May 28, 1871. Michel was elected head of the Montmartre Women’s Vigilance Committee. She also participated in the armed struggle against the French government.

Ultimately, the French Army quashed the commune, slaughtering up to 20,000 men, women and children. The authorities forced Michel to turn herself in by threatening to kill her mother. When asked if she had anything to say in her defense, she replied: “Since it seems that any heart which beats for freedom has the right only to a lump of lead, I too claim my share. If you let me live, I shall never stop crying for revenge and l shall avenge my brothers. I have finished. If you are not cowards, kill me!”

They deported her to New Caldonia, where she lived for the next seven years, working as a teacher for the children of both the French colonists and the indigenous Kanak people. Her ongoing struggle against French colonialism and her support for the Kanak people, including participation in their 1878 revolt against the French colonialists, is remembered today in their local museum of anarchism.

You can read my longer bio of Michel here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/20/louise-michel/

#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #LouiseMichel #paris #commune #Revolution #teacher #books #author #writer #prison #indigenous #school #children @bookstadon

🔥 Lorsqu'on parle des engagements de #LouiseMichel, on élude souvent sa lutte constante et déterminée pour les animaux non-humains.

Cette #citation extraite de ses Mémoires, #antispéciste avant l'heure, rappelle les liens qu'elle percevait entre l'exploitation des humains et celle des autres animaux.

#LuttesSociales #sentience #sentientisme

Today in Labor History March 18, 1871: The Paris Commune began on this date. It started with resistance to occupying German troops and the power of the bourgeoisie. They governed from a feminist and anarcho-communist perspective, abolishing rent and child labor, and giving workers the right to take over workplaces abandoned by the owners. The revolutionaries took control of Paris and held on to it for two months, until it was brutally suppressed. During Semaine Sanglante, the nationalist forces slaughtered 15,000-20,000 Communards. Hundreds more were tried and executed or deported. Many of the more radical communards were followers of Aguste Blanqui. Élisée Reclus was another leader in the commune. Many women participated, like Louise Michel and Joséphine Marchais, including in the armed insurrection. Nathalie Lemel, a socialist bookbinder, and Élisabeth Dmitrieff, a young Russian exile, created the Women's Union for the Defence of Paris and Care of the Wounded, demanding gender and wage equality.

Read my complete biograph of Louise Michel here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/20/louise-michel/

#workingclass #LaborHistory #paris #commune #anarchism #communism #execution #massacre #feminism #ChildLabor #Revolution #wageequality #socialism #agusteblanqui #ÉliséeReclus #womenshistorymonth #louisemichel

Statement from the MV Louise Michel staff and crew: “Free Movement! Open Borders. End Deaths.”

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We want to raise our voices together, as loud as possible, to break the normalization of migrants’ deaths. We mourn our brothers and sisters, and we refuse to accept that these deaths continue! We want to make visible the continuous struggles for the right to move and stay, to come and to go! We may be a minority in increasingly racist societies, but we exist, and together we can fight back against racism and fascism!
We want to come together, and through common struggle, create a space for joy and hope in these dark times. Struggling in solidarity with people on the move must be a central component of the struggle against fascism today!
With this vision of struggle we want to invite all refugee and migrant autonomous organizations, all networks of solidarity and support, to join and to prepare a transnational chain of decentralized activities throughout the coming summer and culminating in September 2025.
https://antidotezine.com/2025/02/06/the-summer-of-migration-ten-years-on/

#migration #borders #NoBorders #Frontex #ICE #FuckICE #LouiseMichel

Ce qui est bien en venant sur Mastondon, c'est que je peux me faire plaisir à (re)montrer nos sérigraphies.
Pour la collection Rebelles, revolté.e.s et hors la loi, @emreorhun a choisi de représenter Louise Michel au combat.
"Je suis plus que jamais communeuse et prête à recommencer la lutte contre tout ce qui doit disparaitre d'erreurs et d'injustice "
Sérigraphie format 30 x30, tirage limité, numérotée et signée.
#serigraphie #screenprint #louisemichel #revolte #revolution #communedeparis🍒