Archive of Kristin Ross
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Communal Luxury: Kristin Ross
To mark May Day 2017, we bring you a selection of May Day Reading from the Verso Archive covering care work, sex work, black liberation & more; from Angela Davis, Gail Lewis, Melissa Gira Grant, Isabell Lorey, and Kristin Ross. Read them all here.
We also have 50% off all our May Day reading until May 2 at midnight: see the reading list here.
The following essay is taken from Communal Luxury by Kristin Ross. Kristin Ross’s highly acclaimed work on the thought and culture of the Communard uprising of 1871 resonates with the motivations and actions of contemporary protest, which has found its most powerful expression in the reclamation of public space. This original analysis of an event and its centrifugal effects brings to life the workers in Paris who became revolutionaries, the significance they attributed to their struggle, and the elaboration and continuation of their thought in the encounters that transpired between the insurrection’s survivors and supporters like Marx, Kropotkin, and William Morris.
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Survival of the Paris Commune: an interview with Kristin Ross
The Paris Commune - the great liberation of Paris for 72 days in 1871 - began on this day 145 years ago. But, what can this momentous event teach us politically today?
To celebrate the history of the Commune and the launch of the brand new ROAR Magazine Issue 1: Revive la Commune, we bring you this interview with Kristin Ross. ROAR issue 1 features essays from George Ciccariello-Maher, Jerome Roos, George Katsiaficas, and more, on the history of the commune from Paris to Gwangju and beyond.
To first issue of ROAR is available now, and you have until this Sunday (20th March) to subscribe and be sure of being one of the first to recieve your issue. To subscribe, click here.