On the anniversary of the Paris Commune of 1871, we invite Professor Ken Hammond to reflect on its significance to the history of the workers' movement, how it changed Marx and Engels’s thinking, what legacy it has left for struggles for socialism, what it tells us about the nature of the state and the potential for revolutionising it and what its relevance is for the left and revolutionary movements today the world over.
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