"ALL POWER TO THE WORKING PEOPLE!" — 155 years of the "Internationale" — the anthem that changed the world Exactly 155 years ago, in June 1871, right on the still-smoking barricades of the #Paris Commune, the poet and communist Eugène Pottier wrote the poem "L'Internationale". The Commune fell, thousands of its defenders were shot, but the lines survived. Pottier hid the manuscript, and in 1887 published it in the collection "Revolutionary Songs". A year later