Paul Signac worked actively over his lifetime to spread his anarchist ideas. One of his illustrations for the anarchist cause, <em>Les Demolisseurs</em>, appeared in the journal <em>Temps Nouveaux</em> in October 1896. The painting shows two labourers knocking down a building using an axe and a crowbar. The demolition of a stone city building through the hard work of a working-class member indicated the virtuous victory of the proletariat over the bourgeoisie.<br><br>This iconographical tradition probably originated from Courbet and his painting <em>The Stone Breakers</em> (1849), which iconises the worker as a symbol of hard work, in contrast to the fat and indolent bourgeoisie who benefits from the former’s toil. As for the title of Signac’s artwork <em>The Demolishers</em>, there is the suggestion that the two protagonists are tearing the building apart, as if they were tearing apart the “old, useless structure of the State”<sup>1</sup>. <br><br>Other artists like Pissarro, Steinlen and Luce also produced radical anarchist pieces at the time, alongside other more modest artists like Seurat, who conveyed his message in more subtle ways.<br><br>However, Signac remained a leading figure of anarchist art, with many works that brought the awakening of the proletariat to the attention of Parisian society, within the spirit of hope for a better world.<br>