What is WeTheComuna?
A short video, stories that deserve more room and a mission: bring overlooked history back into focus.
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The Comuneros: The Revolt Spain Forgot to Brag About
In 1520, Castilian towns pushed back against taxes and power decided far from home. Here’s what sixty seconds couldn’t fit.
Bella Ciao: the song went viral. Its history should too.
More than a Netflix song: antifascist memory, rebellion turned into a product and the cultural struggle Gramsci helps us understand.
Eight Hours: Won, Not Given
From Australia to Chicago and May Day: how workers turned a demand into an international movement.
The city is not for sale
From the 1931 rent strike to housing as a right: history, socialist alternatives and a game about changing the rules.
Picasso and Guernica: the politics outside the frame
The bombers, the Republic's commission and the communist commitment Picasso made public.
The Soviet Union and the Fight for Public Pensions
From workers’ mutual aid to Soviet pension rights and today’s battles over privatisation.
The Paris Commune: 72 Days of Workers’ Power
From Montmartre’s cannons to cooperatives and Bloody Week: when Paris governed itself from below.
The GDR and the Social Gains They Leave Out
Women’s employment, nurseries, housing, polyclinics and the cost of privatising public assets after 1990.
Che Guevara: The Face and the Fight
Behind the famous photograph: socialism in Cuba, internationalism and the U.S.-backed hunt in Bolivia.
Thomas Sankara: independence that could change everyday life
Thomas Sankara’s Marxism, women’s emancipation, food sovereignty and the struggle for an Africa in control of its resources and future.
17 October 1961: the colonial massacre in Paris
Algerians defied a racist curfew in the heart of the colonial capital. French police answered with one of Western Europe’s deadliest police massacres since WWII. This is a history too rarely told.
Your history postman. Introductions and dispatches from WeTheComuna.
History and class struggle. People. Struggle. Change.
Rights. Organisation. Revolution.
Culture. Power. Resistance. Gramsci breaks down myths and brings back the context.
Antiracism and anticolonialism. Freedom. Equality. Solidarity.
Art. Identity. Resistance.