On this day in 1848, more than 40,000 French workers initiated the June Days Uprising after the state closed National Workshops that provided work to the unemployed, causing 10,000 casualties and 4,000 workers to be deported to Algeria.
The National Workshops had only been formed a few months earlier, when, on February 25th, a group of armed workers interrupted a session of the provisional government to demand "the organization of labor" and "the right to work".
In late June, the Second Republic began planning to close the workshops, leading to a national uprising. In sections of the city, hundreds of barricades were thrown up. The National Guard was sent in to quell the rebellion, and workers seized weapons from local armories to fight back.
The violence, which lasted just three days, resulted in more than 10,000 casualties and 4,000 participants to be deported to Algeria. Among the dead was Denis Auguste Affre, Archbishop of Paris, killed while trying to negotiate peace with an angry crowd.
The rebellion was successfully crushed, and the episode put a hold on revolutionary ambitions of radical Republicans at the time. In its aftermath, the French Constitution of 1848 was adopted, mandating that executive power be wielded by a democratically elected president.
The first president under this framework was Napoleon Bonaparte, who dissolved the constitution during his first term in office.
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For anyone in PSL, what's the onboarding process like? I'm terrified of organizing from the social aspect, but I don't want that to be an excuse to not commit to making the world a better place. I have a few questions:
What's the onboarding process generally like? I know it depends on local chapters, but is it super in-person, more online, etc?
What works are generally in the training list? Are there tests, etc?
What's the weekly expected commitment in terms of hours? I'm at a very busy time in my life, I may just end up as a volunteer rather than a cadre, but I'd love to be a committed member of a good org if I can.
Any thoughts? I know I can't expect answers for everything, but just a general idea would be nice.
At least by my Instagram is a big part of their organizing but my local chapter seems kinda slow. So it probably depends on where you are. I know I have been to the region next to mine and they are always doing stuff.
I can tell you my experience! I'm in one of the larger west coast branches so YMMV in a small branch, or in the handful of branches even bigger than ours. I applied online August of last year, then what followed was:
nuts and bolts of onboarding, kinda long
I followed the Alienated Too Online Communist to Touch Grass pipeline, but a lot of people are recruited through pre-existing organizing and the path might look ever-so-slightly different there (I think they probably skip the phone call screening?) Also in smaller branches/before streamlining some back end stuff, online applications were falling through the cracks a bit more often - if that happens to you, check out your local's Instagram and hit up an irl volunteer meeting to express interest there!
As far as workload expectation, while you can't be an "on-paper" member, there is a lot of flexibility in terms of what regularly showing up looks like for you. They understand that as a working class party, we have busy lives outside organizing just in terms of the daily hustle to survive. As long as you communicate about availability you should be good - I almost didn't join because I was scared of the commitment level, but A) a few comrades assuring me there's no quota and that there's flexibility and B) just realizing I was showing up as regularly as a volunteer as plenty of full members, made me decide membership was right for me (I still have intermittent self doubts though, that is extremely normal!!)
And as far as social anxiety, that is an incredibly common social hurdle many of us face and a muscle that is built through practice and the collective support of your comrades. Social anxiety and other types of neurodivergence are insanely common in my local, I can't speak for everyone but I've always felt the Party is good at providing the structure and support systems to help build this skillset. And if you were to be around for the long haul, while I believe you'd definitely build a baseline aptitude with this, you may also find a more behind-the-scenes niche that plays to your more organic strengths.
Hope that was all helpful! Feel free to hmu with any questions and I'll try to answer to the best of my abilities and social capacity.
Thanks a bunch! Looks like for now, starting as a volunteer and feeling it out is best, hopefully it will grow from there in time. I appreciate it! And yea, I'd probably be a part of the "Alienated Too Online Communist to Touch Grass pipeline" too, haha.
best of luck comrade
and nothing wrong with the pipeline, it's an increasingly common story among newer members. it means PSL's online reach/cred is growing, and hexbear, r/trueanon, and r/deprogram types need to be reached & activated too!!
Yep! Seems like a common story and a good sign of increasing shifts. The quantitative buildup will result in a qualitative leap!