The Commune Form

What is the Commune? A leading radical historian looks at the global resurgence of the commune and asks how they can become sites of liberation.
When the state recedes, the commune-form flourishes. ...

What is the Commune? A leading radical historian looks at the global resurgence of the commune and asks how they can become sites of liberation.
When the state recedes, the commune-form flourishes. This was as true in Paris in 1871 as it is now whenever ordinary people begin to manage their daily lives collectively. Contemporary struggles over land - from the zad at Notre-Dame-des-Landes to Cop City in Atlanta, from the pipeline battles in Canada to Soulèvements de la terre - have reinvented practices of appropriating lived space and time. This transforms dramatically our perception of the