Paris Commune
Revolutionary commune
Paris Commune leans hardest toward Local, Secular and Democracy.
The 12 axes, with receipts
Wanted France rebuilt as a federation of free communes.
Elected delegates who could be recalled at any time.
Proclaimed civil freedoms, though it closed hostile newspapers under siege.
Internationalist: foreigners served in its government.
Replaced the standing army with a citizens’ National Guard.
Treated foreign workers as fellow citizens.
Handed abandoned workshops to workers’ cooperatives.
Froze rents and banned night work in bakeries.
Too short-lived and besieged to have a trade policy.
Decreed the separation of church and state.
Women organised and fought; equal pay was proposed.
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