This coming week is the anniversary of the Paris Comune. Here we reproduce a short pamphlet to remind working people of our world history. It is being produced by some members of the Melbourne Branch of the Industrial Workers of the World, PO Box 145, Moreland VIC 3058.

Hard copies will be distributed at a commemoration organised by the @narchist Age Weekly and the www.seditioncharter.org crew outside the French Consuls Melbourne Office 150 Queen Street, Melbourne (cnr- Bourke & Queen Sts) 12.30pm Wednesday 28th March 2007. Roll up and collect your own copy!!

A brief history of the world's first socialist working class uprising.

The workers of Paris, joined by mutinous National Guardsmen, seized the city and set about re-organising society in their own interests based on workers' councils. They could not hold out, however, when more troops retook the city and the rich ordered the massacre of 30,000 workers in bloody revenge.

Union Solidarity has issued the following request "Urgent update: Management at Preston Motors has threatened to sue striking NUW (National Union of Workers) members. Union Solidarity will not put up with this sort of intimation of ordinary rank and file members. We urge all of our supporters to attend future community assemblies. Over 30 workers working in the spare parts/stores section of Preston Motors began a strike on Tuesday, 13 March, over the company’s continued refusal to negotiate a fair wage increase" There is a community assemlby on tomorrow, Thursday the 22nd of March from 8-11am at Preston Motors; 1551 Sydney Rd, Campbellfield, Melbourne.