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	The Communards: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more \|\|\| Music.com
		Somerville's spirited duet with Sarah Jane Morris on a cover of Thelma Houston's "Don't Leave Me This Way" helped push the record into the Top Ten on the U.K. charts, and a decent blend of other dancefloor fillers with Richard Coles-centric piano ballads lends variety for the ears that can't take… More »
		Despite the inability of the music to live up to the high standards of Jimmy Somerville 's ridiculously skilled falsetto voice, the Communards ' first album achieved platinum status in several countries.
		Both "Breadline Britain" and "Reprise" continue Somerville's activist ideals; the latter has to be one of the sharpest dissections of Margaret Thatcher.
	www.music.com /release/the_communards/1 (264 words)

	Amazon.com: The Communards: Music: The Communards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		If you already have the original FULL LENGTH CD, the 12" vinyl single of "Don't Leave Me This Way", and "Very Best of the Communards and Jimmy Sommerville" (which has the same exact slightly shorter version of the 12" as its own free standing track), then you DO NOT WANT THIS.
		If you're looking for something more than was available on the Communards "Heaven" CD, you'll be somewhat disappointed to find the best tracks on "The Communards" also appear on...
		With their screeched falsetto singing and synth based disco beats, it's obvious where the Communards roots lay.
	www.amazon.com /Communards/dp/B00004RKIJ (620 words)

	The Communards CD Singles, The Communards CDs, Buy Rare The Communards CDs
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	AE book review search
		Portrayed as the essential anticivilized savages by the government of Adolph Theirs, the socialist Communards who survived the cleansing of Paris by the French military in the bloody weeks of March — May of 1871 were deported to New Caledonia.
		Both sets of “savages” suffered from moral ineptitude that could be rectified by an intense encounter with nature, in the case of the Communards, and an intense encounter with Europeans, in the case of the Kanaks.
		Focusing as she does on the Communards, her analysis of the colonization of New Caledonia does not capture the complexity of the event, and she omits significant discussion of the variety of colonial and imperial agents (free settlers, convicts, missionaries, and administrators) who were involved in France’s appropriation of the islands.
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	The Communards
		The Communards were a British pop group of the 1980s.
		The Communards had a number of hits in the British charts in the latter half of that decade.
		The Communards were formed in 1985 after singer Jimmy Somerville left his earlier band Bronski Beat, and joined with classically trained pianist Richard Coles to form the Communards.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/th/The_Communards.html (200 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Communards
		The Communards were the supporters/members of the short-lived 1871 Paris Commune formed in the disturbed period immediately after the Franco-Prussian War.
		According to historian Benedict Anderson, roughly 20,000 Communards were executed in one week, 7,500 jailed or deported, while thousands fled abroad during the Semaine Sanglante (Bloody Week).
		Then Versailles seized the moment to attack and, in one horrifying week, executed roughly 20,000 Communards or suspected sympathizers, a number higher than those killed in the recent war or during Robespierre’s ‘Terror’ of 1793–94.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/The_Communards (328 words)

	Communard Information
		The Communards were the supporters/members of the short-lived 1871 Paris Commune formed in the disturbed period immediately after the Franco-Prussian War.
		According to historian Benedict Anderson, roughly 20,000 Communards were executed in one week, 7,500 jailed or deported, while thousands fled abroad during the Semaine Sanglante (Bloody Week).
		Then Versailles seized the moment to attack and, in one horrifying week, executed roughly 20,000 Communards or suspected sympathizers, a number higher than those killed in the recent war or during Robespierre’s ‘Terror’ of 1793–94.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Communard (295 words)

	The Paris Commune told in pictures
		The Communards allowed the departure, though the troops could have been won over; and the city's rich who swarmed out of Paris should have been held as hostages.
		The Communards, fighting valiantly, were driven to a last stand in one small section of Paris.
		A part of "The Wall of the Communards" still stands; and the sculptured faces that peer from it are at once a challenge to capitalist rule and a monument to the martyrs of the Commune.
	www.katardat.org /marxuniv/2002-COMPARIS/comparis-text/comparis-strip.html (841 words)

	The Communards - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Communards were a British pop duo of the 1980s.
		They formed in 1985 after singer Jimmy Somerville left his earlier band Bronski Beat to team up with classically-trained musician Richard Coles.
		The following year they had their biggest hit with an energetic cover version of Thelma Houston's soul classic Don't Leave Me This Way which spent four weeks at number one and became the UK's biggest selling single of 1986.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/The_Communards (238 words)

	The Communards - TvWiki, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Communards were a British pop duo of the 1980s.
		Though mainly a pianist, Coles played a number of instruments and had been seen previously performing the clarinet solos on the Bronski Beat hit "It Ain't Necessarily So." Jimmy was well-known for his falsetto singing style, and the fact that he was openly gay.
		Later that year The Communards had another UK Top 10 hit with the single "So Cold the Night." In 1987 they released an album called Red which featured a cover version of the Jackson 5's hit "Never Can Say Goodbye" (in a version inspired by Gloria Gaynor's cover), which the Communards took to Number 4.
	www.tvwiki.tv /wiki/The_Communards (211 words)

	ROCK: THE COMMUNARDS - New York Times
		AS the lead singer of Bronski Beat, and now with his new band the Communards, Jimmy Somerville has one overriding theme: that homosexual love is legitimate and romantic.
		Where Bronski Beat was a fairly conventional electro-pop band with a fondness for disco rhythms, the Communards are determinedly eclectic.
		Somerville sang with palpable conviction, the Communards are long on concept and short on execution.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DE3DE1E38F931A15751C1A960948260 (218 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Very Best of Jimmy Somerville: & Bronski Beat/the Communards: Music: Jimmy Somerville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Communards rise also coincided with HIV/Aids entering popular consciousness, resulting in a unique mix of socialism, disco and torch songs ("For a Friend", "You Are My World" and "So Cold the Night").
		The Communards had a UK number one hit with Don't leave me this way, a cover of a song that had been a hit in the seventies for two different singers - Thelma Houston and Harold Melvin.
		The Communards had one other UK top five hit - another cover, this time Never can say goodbye, originally a hit for Gloria Gaynor - and one other UK top ten hit, the original song, So cold the night.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Very-Best-Jimmy-Somerville-Communards/dp/B00005O0Q6 (1319 words)

	The Commune: Paris 1871 P. Guillaume and M. Grainger
		The measures taken by the Communards to prevent the emergence of a bureaucracy from within their own ranks were to he taken up again by the Budapest workers in 1956.
		In his 'Civil War in France', written as the last Communards were being slaughtered by the forces of the victorious Versaillese, Marx does not once attribute the defeat to the absence of a 'strong Party leadership'.
		Nearly a century after they were first put forward by the Communards, they still form the basis of all genuinely revolutionary struggles.
	geocities.com /cordobakaf/solidarity_commune.html (4959 words)

	www.myspace.com/thecommunards
		As soon as Bronski Beat hit, and the tensions associated with such pressure hit the three of them, he wanted out.
		With Richard Coles, he formed the Communards, named after the Paris commune of 1878.
		Later that year The Communards had another UK Top 10 hit with the single "So Cold the Night." In 1987 they released an album called Red, which featured a cover version of the Jackson 5's hit "Never Can Say Goodbye" (in a version inspired by Gloria Gaynor's cover), which the Communards took to Number 4.
	profile.myspace.com /index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=88686056 (349 words)

	The Paris Commune (1871)
		As one communard asked on voting day "What does legality mean at a time of revolution" This search for a return to legality brings out the moderation of the revolutionaries so far.
		On Tuesday night the Communards began to burn down any buildings that threatened the safety of the barricades by sheltering snipers.
		However many of the communards knew this was to be their last stand and were pleased to take Paris with them.
	flag.blackened.net /revolt/talks/paris.html (4360 words)

	Paris: Sacre-Coeur/Montmartre
		They were not exactly go-along-to-get-along types, and they were, for example, all for burning down Notre Dame except for the fact that their nearby hospital probably would have gone up in flames as well.
		They were surrounded by troops loyal to the (old) government, rounded up, lined up against the cemetery walls, and shot on the spot (women and children included).
		The feeling on the religious right was that France's defeat in the war and subsequent suffering was a mark of divine displeasure, that the athiest communards were particularly abhorrent, and that a large public apology to the Supreme Being was in order.
	www.msg.ku.edu /~dave/pages/sacrecouer.htm (840 words)

	Bronski Beat/The Communards - Nostalgia Central
		While the songs continued to address gay issues, the lyrics became vague and subtle enough to be overlooked by casual listeners.
		Meanwhile, Somerville formed the Communards with classically trained pianist Richard Coles, and many assumed the new group would take an even more determined political stance than the Bronskis' gay activism.
		The first Communards release was an over-the-top remake of Don't Leave Me This Way (a 1977 hit for Thelma Houston).
	www.nostalgiacentral.com /music/bronski.htm (267 words)

	The Alternative
		I had originally planned to conduct an informal interview with some of the communards, having brought with me a list of questions which I thought would more or less, cover what the commune was about.
		Many communards foresee that the communizing now taking place will eventually result in a nationwide network of communes in both the cities and the country.
		One of the communards stated that there was hardly any sex going on, at least in the communal room.
	www.motherearthnews.com /top_articles/1970_September_October/The_Alternative (3669 words)

	iranian.com: Siavash Daneshvar, France, Why the confrontation on the hijab
		Despite this move, removing the influence of religion from the social lives of people both in France and elsewhere as well as surpassing the pseudo and human-made concepts of nationality, race and replacing them with 'long live humanity' still remain the task of today's Communards.
		The issue of banning the hijab and other religious symbols in France is an important one and is not confined to the defence of secularism.
		The slogan of the Communards: 'long live humanity' must be realised.
	www.iranian.com /Opinion/2005/August/Hijab/index.html (3815 words)

	Don't Leave Me This Way by The Communards with Sarah Jane Morris Songfacts
		The Communards decided to cover this as Jimmy Somerville loved Houston's Disco version, while Richard Coles liked the Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes one.
		This was dedicated to the Greater London Council (GLC), London's top administrative body, which was about to be abolished by Margaret Thatcher, a move that was drawing much criticism from left wing quarters.
		The Communards were a UK duo formed in 1985 by ex Bronski Beat singer Jimmy Somerville and classically trained pianist Richard Coles.
	www.songfacts.com /detail.php?id=5917 (241 words)

	Recherchez les Communards: The Anarchist Struggle of Louis Michel \| the defenestrator
		Recherchez les Communards: The Anarchist Struggle of Louis Michel
		Recherchez les Communards: The Anarchist Struggle of Louis Michel
		For her role in the Paris Commune - the largest spontaneous urban revolt in modern Western history - she was sentenced to 8 years imprisonment in New Caledonia.
	www.defenestrator.org /cluster?q=communards (826 words)

	Brandeis Libraries: Honore Daumier Lithographs
		This council became known as the Commune of 1871, and its members as Communards.
		More than 20,000 Communards were slaughtered by government troops.
		The Communards in turn burned numerous public buildings in Paris and shot hostages.
	lts.brandeis.edu /research/archives-speccoll/daumier/about/grantnarrative.html (4428 words)

	Famous Flag Images
		The Communards used the plain red flag, the French tricolour being associated with the provisional government at Versailles which suppressed the Commune.
		Apparently strips torn from Communard red flags became prized relics in 20th century Communist political mythology and one was taken into space by the cosmonauts of Voskhod 1 in 1964!
		The photo shows a young soldier hoisting a red flag on top of the Reichstag and two officers looking at him, and behind, on the street some tanks and a car, and a tram.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/xf-foto.html (989 words)

	The American ideology
		Yet here again, the strengthening of ethnic identities is a process the American system cultivates only in order to recuperate, for it inevitably weakens class consciousness and active citizenship.
		Thus, while the people of Paris were getting ready to "assault heaven" (as the Communards put it in 1871), American cities provided the stage for a series of murderous wars between gangs formed by successive generations of poor immigrants (Irish, Italian, etc.) and cynically manipulated by the ruling class.
		In the US today, there is no workers' party, nor has there ever been one.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article3681.htm (2955 words)

	Foogle Business - Jimmy Somerville Information - Communards - Bronski Beat - Paris Commune, 1871 - Listen to Dont Leave ...
		The Commune was assaulted from April 2 by the government forces of the Versailles Army, and the city was constantly bombarded.
		All captured Communards were shot, against what is now known as the Communards' Wall in the Père Lachaise cemetery.
		Of the more than 30 000 more who were arrested, many were shot and 7 000 were exiled to New Caledonia.
	www.thesahara.net /communards.htm (1302 words)

	Franco-Prussian War & Paris Commune
		147 Communards were shot in the Père Lachaise cemetery, and hundreds of Communards were buried in a ditch there.
		Between 20,000 and 30,000 Communards were killed, and after a further 35,000 arrests, many were deported to New Caledonia in the Pacific.
		As a result of the Treaty of Frankfurt which ended hostilities, most of Alsace and part of Lorraine passed from France to the German Empire, and the French inhabitants could only retain their nationality if they left the area.
	www.bl.uk /collections/westeuropean/francoprussianwar.html (638 words)

	LES ECRIVAINS FACE A LA COMMUNE DE PARIS, PAR SYLVAIN PIVOT
		Renan, qui voit dans l'Allemagne un modèle, estime que « l'essentiel est moins de produire des masses éclairées que de produire de grands génies et un public capable de les comprendre »; l'esprit égalitaire des Communards allait à l'encontre de cette préoccupation élitiste.
		Pour qui connaît un peu l’histoire de la tragédie commencée dans un élan patriotique du peuple de Paris, poursuivie dans la pagaille idéologique et militaire, achevée dans la stupidité criminelle des incendies, dans l'héroïsme des derniers communards et dans une répression sans merci, ce texte n’apparaît pas comme une analyse historique et politique sérieuse.
		La Commune, les communards, les écrivains, ou la haine et la gloire - Sylvain PIVOT
	www.karimbitar.org /sylvainpivot_communedeparis (1650 words)

	Jimmy Somerville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		He had considerable success in the 1980s with the pop groups Bronski Beat and The Communards, and has also had a successful solo career.
		They had a number of hits, including a cover version of Thelma Houston's "Don't Leave Me This Way", which spent four weeks at #1 in the UK charts, and became the biggest-selling single of 1986 in that country.
		The Communards split in 1988, and Somerville launched his solo career.
	www.artistopia.com /jimmy-somerville (786 words)

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