Minority with the council of the Commune

The minority is a political fraction of the Conseil of the Commune during the Commune of Paris.

The Council of the Commune divides on May 1st, 1871 on opportunity of creating a Comité of public Hello intended to reinvigorate the political action of the Commune: 23 members of the Council of the Commune voted against this creation. Essentially they are Internationalistes, but all the Internationalists did not join the minority. It there of Independent and even a blanquist Tridon. May 15th, 1871, the minority publishes a Proclamation which protests against the dictatorship of the Committee of public Hello and announces that its members withdraw themselves in their respective districts. But this proclamation which delights the adversary of Versailles by the Commune, is not included/understood by the Parisian communards. The members of the minority join the majority of the Council of the Commune to the Town hall of Paris.

The minority ones are partisans of social measures and antiautoritaires. For them the Committee of public Hello will be only the dictatorship of a handle of men without any control on behalf of the Council of the Commune, only body elected by the Parisian ones. Moreover the name of this Committee of public Hello too that of 1793-1794 recalls, which had sent to the guillotine Jacques Roux and its partisans (considered as the most authentic representatives its Parisian Sans-Culotte S.

Members of the minority (CPS= opposing to the CSP; M= signatory of Proclamation)

Jules Andrieu (CSP/M); Georges Arnold (M); Arthur Arnould (CSP/M); Augustin Avrial (CSP/M); Jules-Nicolas-Andre Babick (CSP); Charles Beslay (CSP/M); Adolphe Clémence (CSP/M); Victor Clement (CSP/M); Gustave Courbet (CSP/M); Léo Fränkel (M); Eugene Gérardin (CSP/M); François Jourde (CSP/M); Camille Langevin (CSP); Gustave Lefrançais (CSP/M); Charles Longuet (CSP/M); Benoit Malon (CSP/M); François-Charles Ostyn (CSP/M); Jean-Louis Pindy (CSP/M); Paul Philémon Rastoul (CSP); Auguste Serraillier (CSP/M); Albert Theisz (CSP/M); Edme-Louis-Gustave Tridon (CSP/M); Jules Vallès (CSP/M); Eugene Varlin (CSP/M); Auguste-Jean-Marie Vermorel (CSP/M).

Sources

Bernard Christmas, Dictionary of the Commune, Flammarion, collection Fields, 1978
Jacques Rougerie, free Paris 1871 , the Threshold, Political collection, 1971

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