La Commune 1871

https://cwc.im/LaCommune1871

For the 150-year anniversary of the revolutionary Paris Commune, we revisit the experimental film Peter Watkins made summoning the spirit of the Commune—a bold challenge to the role of media and an example of historical memory as a weapon.

We've embedded the film here as well, in order to keep it widely available. We invite you to watch and discuss it, to reflect on the events of the real Paris Commune, and to participate fiercely and bravely in the struggles of our own time.

The focus on Derek Chauvin's trial in Minneapolis is just the latest step in an ongoing concerted effort to make us forget the events of summer 2020, to make us forget everything that we can do together to stop police violence directly.

https://cwc.im/endpolice

The courts will never deliver justice. The trial is only a matter for national conversation in the first place because of the #GeorgeFloydRebellion.

The youth of Minneapolis showed us how to abolish the police.

In the early 2000s, a filmmaking collective set out to tell the story of the Kronstadt rebellion, involving arguably the largest cast of trans actors in the history of cinema.

We interviewed the director about the resulting masterpiece, Maggots and Men.

https://cwc.im/MaggotsandMen

For April first, we invite you to revisit our text "Put the Bots in Charge," a set of demands composed entirely via predictive text generated on the basis of our early book, Recipes for Disaster.

https://cwc.im/bots

Towards the abolition of human authorship!

#BotBloc

Following up our interview with Cary Cronenwett, director of the 2009 film Maggots and Men, we analyze how Maggots and Men builds a queer and trans utopia from the memory of the Kronstadt uprising.

https://cwc.im/KronstadtUtopia

#BeGayDoCrimethInc.

150 years ago today, on April 6, 1871, armed participants in the revolutionary Paris Commune seized the guillotine that was stored near the prison in Paris, smashed it into pieces, and burned it in a bonfire.

http://cwc.im/guillotine

The guillotine is not a symbol of liberation.

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world, with nearly 1 out of every 100 adults imprisoned. Republicans want to imprison far more people—and CNN is helping them craft a narrative to justify it.

https://cwc.im/StormtheGates

Abolish prisons. Abolish police.
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