Page "Communards' Wall" Paragraph 6

The memory of the Commune remained engraved in the people's memory, especially within the workers ' movement which regenerated itself in a few years time.

The first march before the Wall, at the call of Jules Guesde, took place on May 23, 1880, two months before the Communards ' Amnesty: 25, 000 people, a symbolic " immortal " red rose in their buttonholes, stood up against police forces.

From that time on, this " ascent to the Wall ", punctuated French labor force political history.

Every year since 1880, the organizations of the French left have held a demonstration in this symbolic place during the last week of May.

Jean Jaurès -- although a child in the provinces at the time of the Commune, hence with no direct memory —- made the ascent several times, accompanied by Édouard Vaillant, Jean Allemane, and by thousands of socialist, syndicalist, and anarchist militants.