Crispin Sartwell

Voltairine de Cleyre

Sharon Presley

Brings the writings of de Cleyre out of undeserved obscurity.

The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius

Exquisite Rebel

William Morris

Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin

Peter Kropotkin

Alexander Berkman

Maurice Brinton

Louise Michel

On 18 March 1871, the Parisian working class began a rebellion that shook the foundations of European society. Laborers seized direct control over their city, expelling their government and capitalist rulers. These revolutionary men and women declared Paris an independent municipality and commune where they would collectively manage their society through new institutions of their own creation, providing for their own welfare and defense. The Commune was annihilated 71 days later in one of the deadliest campaigns in French military history, La Semaine Sanglante, "The Bloody Week," during which over 30,000 men, women, and children were murdered for their revolutionary aspirations. Despite the brutality of its destruction, the Paris Commune uprising inspired revolutionaries the world over. In the near century-and-a-half that has passed since the Commune's destruction, anarchists and libertarian-socialists across the generations have looked to the 1871 Paris Commune, seeking to learn from its example--both its strengths and its limitations. The Commune: Paris, 1871, is a new collection of writings and critical reflections on the Paris Commune by classic anarchist and libertarian-socialist authors like Louise Michel, William Morris, Mikhail Bakunin, Peter Kropotkin, Voltairine de Cleyre, Alexander Berkman and Maurice Brinton.

Paris 1871

The Commune

This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by Mother Earth Publishing Association in New York, 1914.

Edited by Alexander Berkman

Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre

Emma Goldman tenait Voltairine de Cleyre (1866-1912) pour « la femme anarchiste la plus douée et la plus brillante que l’Amérique ait jamais produit », et ce jugement avancé il y a près d’un siècle n’a toujours pas été infirmé. Pionnière du féminisme américain, poétesse, musicienne, celle qui se définissait comme une « anarchiste sans qualificatif » propose une réflexion originale qui touche à un très large éventail de sujets – notamment l’économie, la libre pensée, la philosophie, la religion, la criminologie, la littérature et l’action directe non violente. L’œuvre d’envergure de cette militante passionnée expose les raisons de sa révolte, témoigne de son espérance d’un monde meilleur et demeure, aujourd’hui encore, d’une brûlante actualité. Cet ouvrage, réalisé sous la direction de Normand Baillargeon et de Chantal Santerre, réunit 16 essais majeurs qui couvrent l’ensemble de son parcours ainsi que 14 poèmes.

Écrits d'une insoumise

Voltairine de Cleyre

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