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DESCRIPTION:  The Anarchist Library in collaberation with the campus French Club (Cafe  
 Muse), the Foreign Language Deptartment and Cultural Affairs invite you to  
 an evening celebration of the 1871 Paris Commune.  Cafe Muse has put 
 together a  slideshow with original artwork from and  inspired by the 1871 
 Paris Commune.  Barry Pateman PH. D. ( Emma Goldman Archivist, currator of 
 Kate Sharpley  Library) will be the keynote speaker for the evening.  Free 
 French snacks.  Wed. May 4th (Haymarket Aniversary)  7-9 PM  Upper Level 
 Student Union, room 208, Phelan Campus, City College of San  Francisco    
 Hear what the critics have to say about the Paris Commune:   " I am a 
 supporter of the Paris Commune, which for all the bloodletting  it suffered 
 at the hands of monarchical and clerical reaction, has  nonetheless grown 
 more enduring and more powerful in the hearts and minds  of Europepis 
 proletariat. I am its supporter, above all, because it was a  bold, clearly 
 formulated negation of the State. "    -Mikhail Bakunin   "the political 
 form, at last discovered, under which to work out the  economic 
 emancipation of labour," and its use of delegates "at any time  revocable 
 and bound by the mandat imperatif (formal instructions)."    - Karl Marx  
 "I do not wish to defend myself, I do not wish to be defended. I belong  
 completely to the social responsibility for all my actions. I accept it  
 completely and without reservations. I wished to oppose the invader from  
 Versailles with a barrier of flames. I had no accomplices in this action.  
 I acted on my own initiative.  I am told that I am an accomplice of the 
 Commune. Certainly, yes, since  the Commune wanted more than anything else 
 the social revolution, and  since the social revolution is the dearest of 
 my desires . . . the  Commune, which by the way had nothing to do with 
 murders and arson.  . . . 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!"    -Louise 
 Michel  Engels called it the first example of the "dictatorship of the 
 proletariat."    "On March 18, 1871 , the people of Paris rose against a 
 despised and  detested government, and proclaimed the city independent 
 free, belonging  to itself.  This overthrow of the central power took place 
 without the usual stage  effects of revolution, without the firing of guns, 
 without the shedding of  blood upon barricades. When the armed people came 
 out into the streets,  the rulers fled away, the troops evacuated the town, 
 the civil  functionaries hurriedly retreated to Versailles carrying 
 everything they  could with them. The government evaporated like a pond of 
 stagnant water  in a spring breeze, and on the nineteenth the great city of 
 Paris found  herself free from the impurity which had defiled her, with the 
 loss of  scarcely a drop of her children's blood."    -Peter Kropotkin  
 MORE INFO AT anarchistlibrary.org\n 
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SUMMARY:Anarchist Celebration of The Paris Commune
LOCATION:  Wed. May 4th (Haymarket Aniversary)  7-9 PM  Upper Level Student Union, 
 room 208, Phelan Campus, City College of San  Francisco
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