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Internationale
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Internationale
- Object:
Poster
- Place of origin:
United Kingdom (made)
- Date:
ca. 1976 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Poster Film (designers)
- Credit Line:
Gift of the American Friends of the V&A; Gift to the American Friends by Leslie, Judith and Gabri Schreyer and Alice Schreyer Batko
- Museum number:
E.665-2004
- Gallery location:
Prints & Drawings Study Room, level C, case 3G, shelf DR26
The "Internationale" was written in Paris, in June of 1871 by Eugène Pottier (1816 - 1887). He was a member of the Central Committee of the Commune, a political body formed by Parisians who opposed the National Assembly and the new Thiers-led government at the close of the Franco-Prussian War. The Commune was eventually violently crushed by Versailles troops with the help of Prussian forces.
Nonetheless Pottier's "Internationale" and the radical economic and social reforms proposed by the Commune have become popular symbols for radical throught and action up to the present. This poster links the efforts of the Paris Commune to the spirit of other labour-related, socialist and communist uprisings which were to follow.
