Wednesday, October 28, 2015

This Day In Anarchist History - October 28th, 2015

Today is October 28th, 2015. Here are the past events of importance to anarchist history for this calendar day:

1902 – American anarchist feminist journalist Kate Austin (b. 1864) dies
1913 – Radical film co-operative Le Cinéma du Peuple is created by Parisian anarchists
1954 – Enrique Flores Magón (b. 1877), Mexican revolutionary, journalist and publisher of Regeneración, dies in Mexico City
1984 – Sicilian anarchist Pippo Scarso is arrested and sentenced to a year in prison for refusing Italian military service

Monday, October 26, 2015

This Day In Anarchist History - October 26th, 2015

Today is October 26th, 2015. Here are the past events of importance to anarchist history for this calendar day:
1888 – Nestor Makhno, renowned anarchist-communist military leader of the Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine, is born in Huliaipole.

Sunday, October 25, 2015

This Day In Anarchist History - October 25th, 2015

Today is October 25th, 2015. Here are the past events of importance to anarchist history for this calendar day:

1806 - Max Stirner was born in Bayreuth, Bavaria.
1878 - Spanish anarchist Juan Oliva Moncasi attempted to shoot Alfonso XII of Spain, but was disarmed by the crowd, and executed several weeks later.
2003 - The 22nd Anarchist Bookfair was held in London, England.

Saturday, October 24, 2015

This Day In Anarchist History - October 24th, 2015

Today is October 24th, 2015. Here are the past events of importance to anarchist history for this calendar day:

1868 – Belgian-French explorer, anarchist, spiritualist, Buddhist and writer Alexandra David-Néel (pictured) is born in Saint-Mandé
1870 – Mikhail Bakunin stays one step ahead of his persecutors, sailing from Marseilles to Locarno
1886 – A letter by French anarchist militant Clément Duval of the Panther of Batignolles justifying the group's activities appears in Le Révolté
1924 – Italian anarchist militant Ernesto Bonomini is sentenced to eight years hard labor for killing fascist Nicola Bonservizi
1970 – A bomb explodes in a government office in Greenford, England during, one of a series of bomb attacks during a Council workers' strike that are credited to the Angry Brigade
1975 – Spanish anarchist and CNT activist Cipriano Mera dies in Saint-Cloud, France

Friday, October 23, 2015

This Day In Anarchist History - October 23rd, 2015

Today is October 23rd, 2015. Here are the past events of importance to anarchist history for this calendar day:

1894 - Marcel Body b. Typographer, Bolshevik, translator, and later, anarchist.
1921 - Massive demonstrations all over Europe in support of Sacco and Vanzetti.

Thursday, October 22, 2015

October 22nd, 2015 - This Day In Anarchist History

Today is October 22nd, 2015. Here are the past events of importance to anarchist history for this calendar day:

1851 – French anarchist communist Joseph Dejacque receives a sentence of to two years imprisonment for Lazaréennes: Socialist Fables & Poems, a volume of his poetry.
1921 – French anarchist musician Georges Brassens is born in Sète
1956 – During the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, proletarian workers begin to refuse to obey their managers, calling instead for workers' self-management

Wednesday, October 21, 2015

October 21st, 2015 - This Day In Anarchist History

Today is October 21st, 2015. Here are the past events of importance to anarchist history for this calendar day:

1894 – French anarchists incite a revolt on the penal colony of Île Saint-Joseph, French Guyana
1920 – Anarchist general Kim Jwa-jin draws Japanese forces into an ambush, leading to the victory of Korean nationalists in the Battle of Chingshanli
1921 – Europe sees mass protests (pictured) in support of the imprisoned anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti
1949 – Spanish anarchist and anti-fascist insurgent Miguel García is arrested, later to be tried and sentenced to death for resisting the Franco regime
1981 – Black anarchist Kuwasi Balagoon is finally captured by the state following the Brinks robbery