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The Daily Bleed Detail Reference Page for the month of August

The Daily Bleed Calendar in full, & access to the pages for this month, are accessible at http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/calmast.htm





1875 --

[August 1] François-Henri Jolivet lives (1875-1955), Paris. French working poet, anarchist & pacifist songster.

Jolivet joined the revolutionary singers, "La Muse Rouge" (at age 17), participated in the worker festival, "Vache Enragée" of Montmartre, the pacifist "La Patrie Humaine", etc.

In the 1920s he frequented the "Musée du Soir" of Henry Poulaille, who wrote the preface to his collection, Chansons Sociales et Satiriques (1956).

Encouraged by Edith Piaf, Jolivet continued appearing in the cabarets of Montmartre until the end of his life, on October 31, 1955.

"PAPIERS A CUL

Un jour souffrant et tout pâle
D'une colique autoritaire,
Je me suis servi de mon livret militaire.
N'allez pas m'accuser ici
De façon trop peu délicate,
Ils usent à peu près ainsi
De leurs traités, les diplomates." (...)

http://ytak.club.fr/aout1.html#1


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1907 --

[August 1] Angelo Sbardellotto

Angelo Sbardellotto
Angelo Sbardellotto (1907-1932), is executed at 5:45 am, June 17, 1932.

Italian anarchist & antifascist, he was executed by a fascist firing squad, having admitted to the Tribunal Spécial (fasciste) his plan to assassinate Mussolini.

   Anarchico bellunese, è condannato a morte e fucilato avendo confessato l'intenzione di uccidere Mussolini.
Viene fucilato anche il genovese Domenico Bovone per alcuni attentati dimostrativi in varie parti d'Italia.
Mussolini in Big Boots; source www.anarca-bolo.ch/a-rivista/268

[Source: Crimini e Misfatti]

Background materials, in Italian, see, http://www.anarca-bolo.ch/a-rivista/268/50.htm http://www.romacivica.net/anpiroma/antifascismo/antifascismo16a.html

In French, http://ytak.club.fr/decembre3.html#mualdes

In English, see The London Plot to Kill Mussolini, (implicating Emidio Recchioni) suppressed by the British government for over 60 years.

http://ytak.club.fr/juin3.html#sbardelletto


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1917 --

[August 1] The murder of Frank Little by Coal Company vigilantes

Years later the writer Dashiell Hammett would recall his days in Butte as an armed mercenary being paid by the Pinkerton detective agency & the mine companies. One night, as he sat in a Butte bar, Hammett said he was approached by a mine company representative who offered him five-thousand dollars to kill Frank Little. Beating Wobblies with clubs was one thing. . .murder was another, & Hammett said he quit on the spot.

But five thousand dollars was a lot of money.

Early in the morning of August 1st, less than two weeks after he arrived in Butte, Frank Little was dragged from his bed in a rooming house by six masked men. A rope was thrown around Little, & he was dragged behind a car to the edge of town. Little's already bloody body was beaten to pulp. The rope was tied around his neck, & he was hung from a railroad trestle. The next morning, as workers crossed the trestle to begin their workday, the body of Frank Little was discovered with a sign around the neck. "Others take notice. . .first & last warning. . .3-7-77"

It was an old Montana vigilante warning . . . 3-7-77 were the required measurements for a gravesite.

Helena Independent:

"Good work! Let them continue to hang every I.W.W. in the state. The time has come. It is beyond the comprehension of the average citizen why the war department has not ordered certain leaders arrested & shot. The people will not stand for much more."

"He became a martyr like all martyrs. Not for what he was, but because of what he represented. You know, the victim. . . the working man murdered by the capitalist bosses. He became a symbol of that ... & he remains so today."

Lynching, historically is a popular American sport, especially in the south. See, for example, partial listing of African Americans lynched since 1859:
http://ccharity.com/lynchlist.php

Montana has a nice record: see,for example, Montana Gold Camp Vigilantes, who lynched 22 people in two months.
http://montana-vigilantes.org/

http://www.lehnherr.com/butte/

Frank Little Remembered, http://www.iww.org/culture/biography/FrankLittle1.shtml
http://www.kued.org/productions/fire/photos_stories/gibraltar.html

http://www.iww.org/
Jon Jackson, novelist of Go By Go, the story of the murder in 1917 by Pinkerton agents of I.W.W. organizer Frank Little in Butte, Montana,
http://www.dennismcmillan.com/catalog.htm


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1919 --

[August 1] Alexander Nakov lives, Kosatcha, Bulgaria. Anarchist militant & Bulgarian esperantist.

Alexander Metodiev Nakov engages in militant actions in 1937 & takes part in the formation of an anarchist group.

In 1941, Nakov & five others were arrested & received prison sentences of 6 to 8 years. Released after 3 years, in 1944 he resumed activity, founding the "Elisee Reclus" group (with Dimitri Vassiliev, Bojan Alexev, Laserman Asenov Minev, Maria Duganova, Kotze Zacharinov & others).

L'Union Anarchiste du sud-ouest bulgare named him to head their organization, but the anarchist movement was outlawed & repressed when the Communists siezed power.

In December 1948, Nakov & over 600 anarchists were arrested & sent to a work & re-education camp. Released on August 10, 1953, & still the recalcitrant anarchist despite his ill-treatment, Nakov immediately resumed his anarchist & esperantist activities, opposing the existing powers, & demonstrating solidarity with his companions despite constant police surveillance.

A small biography published by the review "l'Arc" in 1984 reads like the digest of a rap sheet from the Bulgarian political police.

http://flag.blackened.net/ksl/bullet9.htm
http://ytak.club.fr/aout1.html#1
http://libcom.org/library/alexander-metodiev-nakov-his-life-and-crimes


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1923 -- [ August 1 ]

Spain: Regional Plenary Session of the Catalunya CNT.


llí se propone a Manresa como nueva sede del C.R. de Catalunya quedando dimitido el anterior comité y con los nuevos cargos pendientes de elección, a nombrar en una próxima reunión a celebrar antes de un mes.

Source: Barcelona 1917- 1923; Crònica, by Manel Aisa


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1938 --

[August 1] Hilo Massacre

Aug. 1, 1938 Striking Hilo dock workers faced an Inter-Island Steamship Company vessel run by armed strikebreakers. Picketers were attacked with tear gas, fire hoses, & finally, buck shot & bird shot. At least 50 strikers were wounded. Although the strike was broken, the "Hilo Massacre" helps build labor solidarity in Hawaii.

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On August 1st, 1938 over two hundred men & women belonging to several different labor unions attempted to peacefully demonstrate against the arrival of the SS Waialeale in Hilo. They were met by a force of over seventy police officers who tear gassed, hosed & finally fired their riot guns into the crowd, hospitalizing fifty of the demonstrators. This is the story of that bloody confrontation & the events that led up to what has come to be known in the annals of Hawaiian labor history as the Hilo Massacre.

See William J. Puette, THE HILO MASSACRE: Hawaii’s Bloody Monday, August 1st, 1938 (University of Hawaii, Center for Labor Education & Research, 1988).
http://homepages.uhwo.hawaii.edu/~clear/Lhistory.html


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1986 --

[August 1] Jeanne Humbert (1890-1986), French pacifist & anarchist militant who devoted her life to fighting for sexual freedom & birth control rights.

Companion of Eugène Humbert. Jeanne collaborated with Eugene on "Génération consciente", a neo-Malthusianism newspaper which he began publishing in 1908. The movement closely identified with the struggle for women's liberation & sexual freedom. It was repressed by the government for decades & both went to prison & were fined for spreading neo-Malthusian propaganda.

Jeanne wrote a novel & numerous biographies, including one of Eugene's godson, the anarchist filmmaker Jean Vigo, & one of her life with Eugene. She herself is the subject a a film by Bernard Baissat, Ecoutez Jeanne Humbert, (1981).

See Roger-Henri Guerrand & Francis Ronsin, Le Sexe apprivoisé. Jeanne Humbert et la lutte pour le contrôle des naissances, (Paris: Editions de la Découverte, 1990) or the new edition, Jeanne Humbert et la lutte pour le contrôle des naissances., (Paris, Spartacus 2001).


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1893 --

[August 2] Régis Messac lives, (1893-1943?) Champagnac (Charente). Militant & writer, pacifist, anarchist, resistance member.

Book coversSeriously wounded in WWI, after the war Messac then worked & taught in various universities in England & in Canada. He returned to France in 1929, teaching at a college in Montpellier, & obtaining his doctorate with a thesis on police literature, Le detective Novel et l'influence de la Pensée Scientifique (1929 & republished many times), the first ever treatment published on the detective novel.

An anarcho-syndicalist & pacifist, he called into question the standard pedagogy & dogmas of official teaching & as an active militant became, in 1936, secretary of the Fédération générale de l'Enseignement (General Federation of Teachers).

A writer & poet, Messac publishes, in 1935, two science fiction novels Quinzinzinsili & La Cité des asphyxiés, as well as articles for libertarian reviews or for proletarian literature. In all, his work includes 30 books.

During the German occupation in WWII, Messac was a member of the resistance. This led to his arrest on May 10, 1943, & he was sent to various concentration camps, from which he never returned.

"In one of the remarkable 'konvoluts' of his arcades project, Benjamin notes a 'remarkable association of flânerie & the detective novel at the beginning of Les Mohicans de Paris, by Alexandre Dumas, 1863'. Regis Messac, in Le detective novel et l'influence de la pensee scientifique, bodily transports the habits & even the inhabitants of the prairie into a Parisian setting: we have a marvellously endowed dog called Mohican, a duel of hunters, a l'Americaine in the suburbs of Paris, & a redskin named Towah who kills & scalps four of his enemies in a Hackney cab right in the heart of Paris with such dexterity that the driver never even notices. 'Nothing forbids us from supposing that the tribes we call savages are the debris of great civilisations.' (Baudelaire)."

http://www.physicsroom.org.nz/log/archive/2east.htm

(...) un universitaire, Régis Messac, traitait déjà (lu problème dans L'Université nouvelle avant de publier en 1934 un pamphlet destiné à faire le point sur la question : À bas le latin! Dans cet ouvrage, Régis Messac démontre notamment la faiblesse du fameux argument selon lequel l'étude du latin développe l'esprit de synthèse : " À mesure que la pensée devient plus complexe, écrit-il, elle exige un instrument de plus en plus souple, mais aussi de plus en plus simple, dépouillé de toutes les fioritures ornementales qui nuiraient à un usage intensif, rationalisé et rationnel ".

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1913 --

[August 3] Suggestions for further reading relating to the "Wheatland riots" when, on this date, police fire into a crowd of California farmworkers...

See Out of Work: A Study of Unemployment by Frances A. Kellor (NY: G.P. Putnam's, 1915): http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/kerr6/courses/History563/fk1-33.htm

See also:

  • Liebman, E. 1983. California Farmland: A History of Large Agricultural Landholdings. Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Allanheld.
  • Daniel, Cletus E. Bitter Harvest: a History of California Farmworkers, 1870-1941. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University, 1981.
  • Chan, Sucheng. This Bittersweet Soil: the Chinese in California Agriculture, 1860-1910. Berkeley: University of California, 1986.
  • McWilliams, C. 1939. Factories in the Fields. Boston: Little Brown. (also Santa Barbara: Peregrine Smith, 1976 edition.)
  • Ruiz, Vicki. Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization, & the California food processing industry, 1930-1950. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico, 1987.
  • Taylor, Ronald B. Chavez & the farm workers. Boston: Beacon Press, 1975.
  • Galarza, Ernesto. Merchants of labor: the Mexican bracero story: an account of the managed migration of Mexican farm workers in California, 1942-1960. Charlotte: McNally & Loftin, 1964.
  • Goldschmidt, W. 1947. As You Sow: Three Studies in the Social Consequences of Agribusiness. Report 1978. Monclair: Allanheld, Osmun.
  • Gregory, J. 1991. American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration & Okie Culture in California. New York: Oxford University.
  • Henderson, G. 1992. Regions & Realism: Social Space, Regional Transformation & the Novel in California, 1882-1924. Doctoral Dissertation, Geography. University of California, Berkeley.

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1943 --

[August 3] André Arru, an anarchist organizer in the French underground during WWII, is arrested:

Julia, Chauvet & I were arrested on 3 August. In personnel terms, the damage was none too great, just the three of us. I was on my own when the police came. I was immediately placed in handcuffs. That must have been somewhere between 3 & 6 o'clock in the afternoon. Julia turned up. I immediately showed her the cuffs & told her (in Spanish): "Not a word! Not one! You don't know a thing! Not a thing!" One of the cops barked "Shut up, you!" but he was too late by then. Chauvet arrived later & promptly bumped into the policemen.

They had just found the rubber stamps, handbills, birth certificates & now things were out of their hands.

Julia was committed to the Présentines prison: then a while later, having been taken ill, she was moved to the Conception Hospital. Chauvet & I were committed to the Chave prison & initially placed in a one-man cell together. There were six of us in it. The walls were stained with blood — the blood of fleas squashed on a daily basis. We were thrown in among the criminal offenders. We were then moved to the political wing with the Gaullists & communists. Neither was inclined to forgive us our anti-patriotism & when the National Liberation Movement orchestrated a breakout in March 1944, the communists refused to open our cell on the grounds that "we were not patriots". After that we were moved to Aix-en-Provence in handcuffs, each of us cuffed to a gendarme & escorted by a GMR vehicle which followed us with its guns cocked. On the night of 24-25 April 1944, the Franc Tireurs et Partisans (FTP) resistance group organised an escape with assistance from inside the prison. This time we were included.

Reference for Daily Bleed
http://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/bulletin/issues/kslb31.htm#arru

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1986 --

[August 3] Beryl Markham

There are all kinds of silences & each of them means a different thing. There is the silence that comes with morning in a forest, & this is different from the silence of a sleeping city. There is silence after a rainstorm, & before a rainstorm, & these are not the same. There is the silence of emptiness, the silence of fear, the silence of doubt. There is a certain silence that can emanate from a lifeless object as from a chair lately used, or from a piano with old dust upon its keys, or from anything that has answered to the need of a man, for pleasure or for work. This kind of silence can speak. Its voice may be melancholy, but it is not always so; for the chair may have been left by a laughing child or the last notes of the piano may have been raucous & gay. Whatever the mood or the circumstance, the essence of its quality may linger in the silence that follows. It is a soundless echo.

* * *

Somebody with a flair for small cynicism once said, "We live & do not learn." But I have learned some things.

I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in & loved & where all your yesterdays are buried deep — leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back & never believe that an hour your remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance. The cloud clears as you enter it. I have learned this, but like everyone, I learned it late.

I left the farm at Njoro almost the slowest way, & I never saw it again.

— - Beryl Markham, "West With the Night"

[Many thanks to Robert Braunwart who provided these excerpts]]

http://www.karenblixen.com/gale.html


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1872 --

[August 4] Italy: National conference in Rimini (August 4-6), A.I.T.


Dal 4 al 6 agosto si riunisce a Rimini la conferenza dei delegati di 21 sezioni internazionaliste, in maggioranza romagnole e marchigiane. La conferenza presieduta da Cafiero costituisce la "Federazione delle sezioni italiane dell'Internazionale".

In settembre, al congresso dell'A.I.L. (Associazione internazionale dei lavoratori) viene deciso di spostare la sede del "Consiglio generale" da Londra a New York. Nel corso dell'anno ci sono stati 64 scioperi.


The conference ends on August 6, having created an Italian Federation within the First International & adopting its constitution, but in opposition to the general council in London (Marxist), & refusing to take part in the Congress of the Hague planned for September 2.

In so doing, the Italian Federation presages the future split of the First International between the authoritarian (Marxists/statist) & antiauthoritarian (anarchist/antistatist) wings. In aligning with the latter, the A.I.T. lays the groundwork which gives rise to a vast organized anarchist movement for many decades to come.

The Conference was presided over by Carlo Cafiero. Delegates, representing 21 cities, include Andrea Costa, Giuseppe Fanelli, Friscia, Errico Malatesta, etc.

In Italian see the detailed page, L’Internazionale di Rimini, 1872, by Antonio Montanari,
http://digilander.libero.it/monari/arch/arch.497.html

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1878 -- [Summer 1878] Spain: Kropotkin visits the country for six weeks during this summer, meeting up with the anarchist José García Viñas in Barcelona. [I''m unable to determine dates or month(s) of this visit — ed.]

During this year Kropotkin spent much of this year working with to strengthen the Jura FederationAccording to the anarchist historian Max Nettlau, Kropotkin derived a new inspiration from his rediscovery of the revolutionary spirit of the old International in Spain, the revolutionary potential of trade unionism, & after his visit began to urge a more clearly defined policy of revolutionary action — both inside & outside the trade unions — on the Jura Federation. .

In turn, of course, Kropotkin exerted much influence in Spain, & his book The Conquest of Bread was well & widely received amongst radical workers.

Sources: http://nefac.net/node/291
http://www.veuobrera.org/01biogra/1biogr-j.htm


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2000 --

[August 4] Salvador Clement (1916-2000) dies, Montélimar, Drôme, France. Spanish militant anarcho-syndicalist, born in Canal de Navarrés, Valencia.

Autodidact & revolutionist, Clement was active with the CNT. In Barcelona, during the Spanish Revolution, he was in charge of programming for the Vallespir cinema. The revolution of July 1936 raises an immense hope, broken soon by the war & treasons. Clement takes refuge in France. The authorities contain the thousands of antifascists crossing the Pyrenees in concentration camps. Clement eventually settles in Ardeche as a mine worker & raises a family. He continues his militant activity in France within the CNT & was a subscriber to the newspaper "Cénit" until his death following a lingering illness.

http://ytak.club.fr/aout1.html#4


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1910 -- [August 5] Constant Marie, "Le Père Lapurge" (Ste-Houvrince, August 26, 1838 - 1910), French Communard, militant & anarchist songster

A bricklayer's mate & shoemaker, he was wounded at the height of the battle of Vanves in the Paris Commune.

Marie was a composer-songwriter of revolutionary songs, the best-known being "Dame Dynamite", (source of his nickname) & "La Muse Rouge" (source of the name taken in 1901 by a famous group of poets & revolutionary chansonniers which produced songs which are now part of a great French legacy).

As an active propagandist Constant Marie participated in a many of festivals put on by anarchist groups where he delights the audiences. But the virulence of his remarks draws the wrath of the police, who constantly spy on him & harrass him.

On July 1, 1894, for instance, his residence is searched, books & texts of his songs are taken, & he is arrested as part of a "criminal conspiracy", & spends several weeks in prison.

"Je suis le vieux Père Lapurge,
Pharmacien de l'Humanité;
Contre sa bile je m'insurge
Avec ma fille Egalité.
J'ai ce qu'il faut dans ma boutique
Sans le tonnerre et les éclairs
Pour bien purger toute la clique
Des affameurs de L'Univers..."

— "Le Père Lapurge",
excerpt, published in 1886 in the Calais anarchist newspaper, "La Révolte des Affamés."

Source: Ephéméride anarchiste,
http://ytak.club.fr/aout1.html#5


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1925 -- [August 5] Georges Palante (1862-1925)

Palante was victim of a rare hormonal & disfiguring disease as a teenager.

He became a professor of philosophy in 1885. Influenced by the work of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche & the anarchist Max Stirner, Georges Palante develops a radical individualist philosophy & "une morale désespérée, mais élégante, de la résistance". Georges Palante; source http://ytak.club.fr/

Among his books are Précis de sociologie (1901), Combat pour l'individu (1904), La sensibilité individualiste (1909), Les antinomies entre l'individu et la société (1912), Pessimisme et individualisme (1914).

Palante founded, in 1911, the philosophical chronicle, "Mercure de France".

In 1916 he becomes acquainted with the writer Louis Guilloux, who provides the inspiration of life for Palante in his novel Le sang noir (1935; Blood Noir).

In 1925, pessimism taking the upper hand in his struggles, Georges Palante put an end to his life.


http://perso.orange.fr/selene.star/
http://www.edition-grasset.fr/chapitres/ch_onfray3.htm
http://ytak.club.fr/aout1.html#5
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Palante


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1926 -- [August 5] Per Wahlöö & Maj Sjöwall sought to "use the crime novel as a scalpel cutting open the belly of the ideological pauperized & morally debatable so-called welfare state of the bourgeois type."

The first three novels, Roseanna (1965), The Man Who Went Up in Smoke (1966) & The Man on the Balcony (1967) were straightforward police procedural novels, introducing the central characters: solid, methodical detective Martin Beck with his failing marriage, ex-paratrooper Lennart Kollberg, who hates violence & refuses to carry a gun, Gunvald Larsson, wildman & drop-out from high society, Einar Rönn from the rural north & patrolmen Kristiansson & Kvant, the necessary comic pair.

The Laughing Policeman (1968) & The Fire Engine That Disappeared (1969) introduce in the series social themes & weak points of Swedish society. In Cop Killer (1974) Lennart Killberg resigns because of his socialist world view. The later novels, & especially the last, The Terrorist, is a bitter analysis of the welfare state, & openly sides with criminals-as-revolutionaries.

The Laughing Policeman won the best novel Edgar Award in 1971 from the Mystery Writers of America.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sj%C3%B6wall_and_Wahl%C3%B6%C3%B6
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/sjowall.htm
http://www.swedishbookreview.com/old/2001s-sjowallwahloo.html


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1982 -- [August 5] Albert Guigui-Theral (1903-1982) dies.
The content previously located is incorported into a page at the Anarchist Encyclopedia at http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/Guigui-TheralAlbert.htm


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1881 -- "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, these three; but the greatest of these is Liberty. Formerly the price of Liberty was eternal vigilance, but now it can be had for fifty cents a year."

So writes Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1854-1939) on the first page of the first issue of the publication "Liberty", issued August 6, 1881.

Benjamin Tucker, anarchist

Benjamin Tucker, an American individualist anarchist, publisher & bookseller, publishes Liberty for the next 25 years, until 1907. Tucker was influenced by Ezra Heywood, William Greene, Stephen Pearl Andrews, Lysander Spooner, & Josiah Warren, & "Liberty" serves as a voice of individualist anarchism, opposed to the major anarchist communist & anarchist syndicalist wings of the movement (as personified by Michael Bakunin, Peter Kropotkin, Alexander Berkman, etc).

On Warren & early utopians in the US, Kenneth Rexroth has four chapters of interest in his book Communalism (online).

See also,
http://www.lib.umich.edu/spec-coll/ishill/tucker.html
http://www.zetetics.com/mac/topics.html



1859 -- [August 7] Emile Hugonnard (aka Michel) French militant anarchist

Militant & member of fédération révolutionnaire de l'Est until the congress of 1881 (marking the final split between the statist Socialists, Marxists, & antistatist anarchists), & active in the emerging anarchist movement.

Arrested on November 19, 1882 & implicated in the famous "Lawsuit of the 66". On January 19, 1883, in Lyon, Hugonnard was sent to prison for 6 months. He was also a member of the "groupe de la Guillottière" in Lyon.

Source:
http://ytak.club.fr/aout1.html#7


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1897 -- [August 7] Albert Perrier (1897-1977), aka Germinal, militant French revolutionary syndicalist

Perrier's parents returned to France from Argentina in 1900. Albert, an illiterate, taught himself to read by reading revolutionary journals. He joined the Socialist Party, then the Communist Party in 1921, from which he was booted in 1922. He joined "l'Union Anarchiste", & became secretary of the fédération du Nord-Pas-de-Calais, & here he fought the influence of the Communist Party in his union.

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1900 -- [August 7] The Mexican anarchist periodical "Regeneration"/ Regeneracion begins publishing

"Regeneration", published by the Flores Magón brothers (Jesus & Ricardo, along with Licenciado Antonio Horcasitas), first appears on August 7, 1900.

Suppressed by authorities, "Regeneration" temporarily suspended publication, eventually resurfacing in the US after Ricardo & Enrique went into exile there (January 3, 1904).

"Regeneration" resumed publication in San Antonio, Texas, on November 5, 1904. It was smuggled into Mexico clandestinely & continued to remain an annoying thorn in Mexican dictator Diaz's side. "Regeneration" was influential enough that Diaz worked repeatedly to have it shut down, where "freedom of speech" in the United States proved deceptively false.

"Regeneration"'s circulation grew to 30,000 in this year. In fact, even moderates like the Governor of Yucatan & Madero were receiving "Regeneracion" & later, when Ricardo's anarchism was more apparent, prominent anarchists, such as Voltairine de Cleyre became involved in the Mexican paper. (Familiar with the works of Kropotkin, Bakunin, Grave, & Malatesta as early as 1900, Ricardo didn't openly advocate anarchism until 1907.)


The town in rivers of pulque sails, while the bells repican & rockets resound & centellean the knives between the flare lights.

Crowds swarm the tree-lined avenue & other prohibited streets, sagrada zone of the ladies of corsé & the gentlemen of jaqué, with the Virgin in you walk. From their high boat of lights, the wings of the Virgin protect & guide.

Today is the day of Our Lady of Los Angeles, for Mexicans signalling a week of verbenas, &, on the brink of madness, the violent joy of the town, like wanting to deserve it, is born a new newspaper. It is called Regeneration. It inherits the fervors & the debts of the Democrat, closed by the dictatorship.

Jesus, Ricardo & Enrique Flores Magón write it, they publish it & they sell it.

As a result the brothers Flores Magón are the often caged jailbirds. Ever since their father died, they come alternating the jail with their studies, the trabajitos of occasion, the peleador media & the pedradas street manifestations against shots.

eduardo.galeano/memoria.del.fuego/19000807.htm
http://www.patriagrande.net/mexico/ricardo.flores.magon/


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**Shortly after the founding of "Regeneracion" (August 7, 1900), by Jesus & Ricardo Flores Magón, along with Licenciado Antonio Horcasitas], on August 30, 1900, Camilo Arriaga published the "Invitacion al Partido Liberal manifesto" in San Luis Potosi. This document started a movement that eventually formed the Partido Liberal Mexicano (PLM) five years later — Ricardo's main vehicle for organizing the anti-Diaz struggle & then for spreading the ideals of anarchism throughout Mexico. Ricardo formally joined the emerging Liberal movement at the Congreso Liberal on February 5, 1901.

Background, see Jason Wehling's, "Anarchist Influences on the Mexican Revolution",
http://struggle.ws/mexico/history/anarchism_1910.html
Mexico: The periodical Regeneration appears, edited by the anarchist Jesus Flores Magón & Eugene L. Arnoux.

That year was decisive for the later development of which we can call the liberal resistance against the regime of Porfirio Diaz, since the forces opposed to the dictator begin to organize themselves. This can be verified to the light of two fundamental facts: & the Lic. Eugene L. Arnoux & the publication, in the city of San Luis Potosí, of the Manifest Invitation to the Liberal Party whose complete text written up by Ing. Camilo Arriaga, we published next.



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1921 -- [August 7] West Virginia coal fields

During this year West Virginia miners have been fighting with mine guards, police, hired thugs, & federal troops in a dispute over organizing unions to improve their living conditions, a battle they have been fighting for over the past decade in places like Matewan, Mingo County, Logan County, Blair Mountain & elsewhere, despite the collusion of business & government, their hired goon squads & army troops. Martial law is delcared three separate times, & many labor radicals & militants provided what support they could, including Mother Jones, who visited the area often in support of the striking miners.

Their appeal today is ignored, & martial law is not repealed for over another year, on September 22, 1922.

labor poster

I loaded sixteen tons, I tried to get ahead,
Got deeper & deeper in debt instead.
Well they got what I made, & they wanted some more,
& now I owe my soul at the company store.

CHORUS: I loaded sixteen tons & what do I get
Another day older & deeper in debt.
Saint Peter don't call me cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store.

— George Davis, excerpt, Sixteen Tons (1930s),
a song popularized by Merle Travis (ripping it off by claiming to have written in 1946) & Tennessee Ernie Ford

See George Korson, Coal Dust on the Fiddle (Hatboro: 1965)
http://members.aol.com/jeff560/wv-hist.html

Music, see http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2/sixteen2.html


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1963 -- [August 7] Ramón Vila Capdevila (1908-1963) (aka "Caraquemada" [Burnt-face], "Jabalí" (Wild Boar), "Capitán Raymond".)
alt; "Caracremada"; Ramon Rivas

Ramón Vila Capdevila, a militant Spanish guerilla fighter, an anarcho-syndicalist who fought with the "Iron Column"& the "Column Tierra y Libertad" during the Spanish Revolution.

Active in the French Resistance during WWII & a member of the "Batallón Libertad" (mainly Spanish anarchist guerillas).

Following the war Vila slipped into Spain & began his famed guerilla actions against the fascist Franco regime.

Today, age 55, Ramon Vila Capdevila is shot down & purposely left to die following a shootout with the "Guardia Civil" near Balsareny.

"Ramon, who was also from Berguedà, always has scratches on his face. Sometimes they called him caracremada, or "burnt-face." He was a real peasant, a warrior peasant & woodsman. He was robust, but reserved, perhaps a bit distrustful, & above all quiet. & a bit naive too: a mountain man with a dash of simple-mindedness."

The Permanent Revolution: The Memoirs of Joan Ferrer
http://www.sola-sole.com/revperm.htm

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1973 -- [August 7] Emile Bauchet (1899-1973), French militant anarchist & pacifist.

Bauchet deserted from the Army in 1919, eluding military "justice" for 10 years.

In 1927, he began collaborating with Alphonse Barbé on "Le Semeur" & declares himself a conscientious objector. Arrested for his desertion in 1929, & sent to prison, despite the support of Louis Lecoin, Han Ryner & George Pioch during his trial.

Released in April 1930, Bauchet worked with Alphonse's brother, the anarchist Paul Barbé. Active with the "Ligue Internationale des Combattants de la Paix", & he was also secretary of the national office for the fédération du Calvados.

Bauchet was extremely active in the post-war period, working with various organizations & pacifist groups.


[Source: L'Ephéméride Anarchiste]


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1886 -- [August 8] Emile Aubin (aka Marat) French sailor, electrician, anarchist, songster & antimilitarist.

In July 1908, as a sailor aboard the battleship "Vérité", Aubin's belongings were searched, exposing him as the author of revolutionary songs under pseudonym of Marat. He was sent to disciplinary battalion until 1910.

He then joined "Groupe des libérés des bagnes militaires" which published the poster "Galonnés assassins" (Braided assassins). Aubin delivered a speech October 1, 1910, in Lagny, & was sent to prison for 18 months, for "antimilitarism & insults to the Chief of State" (eventually reduced to 6 months).

In 1912, Aubin began publishing "le Cri du soldat" (Cry of the soldier), proclaiming in the first issue,

"Our goal is to sow hatred for the army among the popular masses ..."

In August 1913, he participated the Paris anarchist congress & helped in the drafting of the "Libertarian," but in 1915 he answered his mobilization orders.

In the 1930s he worked in the town hall of Drancy, where he used his solidarity towards the anarchists.


[Source: L'Ephéméride Anarchiste]


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1910 -- [August 8] Janko Polic Kamov, Croatian futurist author

Kamov died not a full year after the publication of the Futurist manifesto in Le Figaro. He was not yet 24. In just three years, he managed to create prose, poetry, drama & essays of great value.

Although not large in volume, his work changed the course of modern Croatian literature, bringing into it new, challenging, anti-conventional, even crude motifs, as yet unknown in Croatian literature, in which he anticipated ideas that the new-born European avant-garde was yet to shape into art movements.

In barely 40 days which he spent in Barcelona before his death, he met a number of intellectuals at the Lion d'Or café in the Teatro Principal, such as the poet Joan Maragall (1860-1911), the painters Nicolau Raurich (1877-1945), Joan Miró (1893-1983) & others. He died after a madly hectic life.

Janko Polic Kamov was one of the most controversial writers of his time & one of the most mysterious of Croatian literature.

http://cornermag.org/corner01/page14.htm


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1918 -- [August 8] Michel Zevaco (1860-1918), French novelist, professor, publisher, film director, anticleric, anarchist.

Michel Zevaco founded the anarchist weekly magazine "Gueux" on March 27, 1892. A month later he was jailed for 6 months & fined for praising Pini & Ravachol.

Afterwards Zevaco wrote for Sébastien Faure journal, "Libertaire", as well as for the anarchist newspaper "La Renaissance."

In 1898, he edited "l'Anticlérical" (organ of the Anticlerical League of France), & was involved in supporting Dreyfus

Zevaco's famous cloak & dagger novels Les Pardaillanof, began to be serialized in the daily newspapers in 1900 to great popular success.


"Michel Zevaco & the Serial Novel"

The writer of the famous cloak & dagger series of Les Pardaillan, Michel Zevaco (1860-1918) is to-day quite unknown in spite of the new interest aroused by popular litterature.

A former school teacher, then an officer, he became a militant journalist, who wrote for various revolutionary newspapers, of anarchist tendancy. He became famous mainly for the part he played in the anticlerical struggles at the end of the last century. Then, as a writer of serial novels, he published works which had a great success in Jaurès' daily "La Peite République," & he became appointed serial writer for Le Matin from 1906 to his death.

His already well-established poularity was made even greater by his promising beginnings as a film-director of movies in 1917. His novels — first published by Fayard & Tallandier — were republished several times & adapted for the screen. But the latest paperback edition only gives a mutilated version impaired by many cuts.

He is the author of Les Pardaillan, Le Capitan, Borgia, Buridan, L'Héroïne, l'hôtel Saint Pol & Nostradamus, his most famous historical novels. But he also published novels related to his times. Some of his serials have never been published by any publishing house.

— Aline DEMARS DIOT


[Source: L'Ephéméride Anarchiste]

See also:
http://raforum.info/article.php3?id_article=788


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http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8552

1879 -- [August 10] Paul-Eugène Trouiller (or Troullier), anarchist militant & antimilitarist.

Gardener, day laborer, travelling singer, member of the "Fédération communiste révolutionnaire".

Chat cat
Arrested in Hyère in 1904 & sent to prison on February 19 (1904 or 1905?) in Toulon for 15 months for making threatening gestures at soldiers.

The police deemed him a very dangerous anarchist antimilitarist: in October 1910 during the strike of the railwaymen he recommended violent action, & was suspected of taking part in attacks made at the time. Trouiller, with his extreme views, stood out even at anarchist meetings during 1911. His criminal record by then numbered eight cases, the last being on October 21, 1910, when he was sent to jail for carrying an illegal weapon.

http://ytak.club.fr/aout2.html#10


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1937 -- [August 10] The Revolution in Spain reduced to a "civil war".

Finally, when the advance guard of the Revolution in Barcelona had been crushed in May 1937, the coalition government went so far as to liquidate agricultural self-management by military means. On the pretext that it had remained "outside the current of centralization," the Aragon "regional defense council" was dissolved by a decree of August 10, 1937. [Ephéméride anarchiste indicates this occurred on the 11th.]

Its founder, Joaquim Ascaso, was charged with "selling ; .. 1,7~~ which was actually an attempt to get funds for the collectives. Soon after this, the 11th Mobile Division of Commander Lister (a Stalinist), supported by tanks, went into action against the collectives. Aragon was invaded like an enemy country, those in charge of socialized enterprises were arrested, their premises occupied, then closed; management committees were dissolved, communal shops emptied, furniture broken up, and flocks disbanded. The Communist press denounced "the crimes of forced collectivization." Thirty percent of the Aragon collectives were completely destroyed.

Even by this brutality, however, Stalinism was not generally successful in forcing the peasants of Aragon to become private owners. Peasants had been forced at pistol point to sign deeds of ownership, but as soon as the Lister Division had gone, these were destroyed & the collectives rebuilt.

As G. Munis, the Spanish Trotskyist, wrote:

"This was one of the most inspiring episodes of the Spanish Revolution. The peasants reaffirmed their socialist beliefs in spite of governmental terror & the economic boycott to which they were subjected."

http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1931/guerin/AnSpain.html
http://www.spunk.org/texts/places/spain/sp001780/chap1.html
http://recollectionbooks.com/anow/history/spain/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Revolution
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism_in_Spain


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1882 -- [August 11] Voline, Russian revolutionary & anarchist historian, lives.

In 1907 Tsarist tribunal banished him...& he escaped to France & the US. In NY, he joined the "Union of Russian Workers in the United States & Canada," a formidable organization with about 10,000 members. He was on the editorial staff of "Golos Truda" (The Voice of Labor), a weekly paper of the Federation, & was one of its most gifted lecturers.

Voline returned to Russia when revolution broke out, doing similar educational writing & distribution, & joined the revolutionary army of Nestor Makhno.

Arrested January 14, 1919, Trotsky had ordered his execution. Voline escaped death only by sheer accident: the Red Trade Union International was meeting in 1921 just as the anarchists in the Taganka prison went on hunger strike, causing a scandal at the Congress, & forcing the Bolsheviks to release them all (on condition they leave Russia — the first political prisoners deported from the vaunted Red Fatherland of the Proletariat).

alt; Nestor Machno; Vsevolod Mikhailovich Eichenbaum

http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_archives/bright/voline/index.html

http://www.spunk.org/texts/places/russia/sp001861/bolintro.html


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1921 -- [August 11] Léon Prouvost, "the libertarian Philanthropist"

Anarchist militant, antimilitarist & anticlerical. Businessman who made his fortune & settled in St-Raphaël in 1904 & discovered anarchist ideas.

Published journals (La Revue sociale, L'Idée Libre) & sponsored a mobile library. He also collaborated with Jules Vignes' "La Feuille", in the "Réveil de l'esclave" & with Pierre Chardon's "La Mêlée".

Harrassed on several occasions for antimilitarist propaganda & inciting desertion or disobedience amongst soldiers (in 1915 he was sent to prison for a year), Prouvost was raided on July 27, 1921. A few days later, he put an end to his life after having bequeathed part of his fortune to André Lorulot.

[Source: L'Ephéméride Anarchiste]



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1964 -- [August 11] Stuart Christie & Fernanado Carballo Blanco arrested in Madrid. Christie is suspected of supplying explosives to blow up Franco. On September 2, 1964, Carballo is sent to prison for 30 years & Christie for 20 years.

1967 -- Protests in response to Christie's imprisonment leads to the machine-gunning of US Embassy by the First of May Group, protesting US collaboration with Franco. In the following month Christie (but not Carballo) is unexpectedly released, it being stated Franco was responding to a plea by his mother, surprising hundreds of Spanish mothers who had been severely punished for making just such pleas for their own sons & daughters.

Agustin Garcia Calvo forms Acratas at a Madrid University, influenced by new protest movement amongst students abroad, but anarchist rather than Marxist.

Albert Meltzer & Christie soon re-start the Anarchist Black Cross. http://www.spunk.org/library/writers/meltzer/sp001591/app1.html
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bright/meltzer/meltzer.html


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1894 -- [August 12] The "Procès des trente" (Trial of the Thirty), comes to a close.

This was simply a political show trial, intended to justify repressive measurements ("lois scélérates") against anarchists & to reassure the public opinion after recent attacks.

The prosecuting attorney Bulot failed to prove a criminal conspiracy between the various anarchists charged, as alleged, but this did not prevent the court from exacting heavy sentences on them, some with sentences of 20 years. A few fled the country, others went to prison, but all (except Paul Reclus) were exonerated after an amnesty.

Among those charged were militants, theorists, writers & publishers, artists, etc, including Charles Chatel, Sébastien Faure, Félix Fénéon, Jean Grave, Louis Armand Matha, Maximilien Luce, Emile Pouget, Paul Reclus, Alexander Cohen, Gabriel-Constant, Louis Duprat, etc.

alt; "Proces des trente" "Lawsuit of the Thirty", Trial of the 30, "lois scelerates"


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1871 -- [August 13] Austria: Hippolyte Havel (1871-1950) lives (appears to be some question of exact date), Thabor. A scholarly & notorious anarchist — the original "anarchist dandy" — companion to Emma Goldman, a founder & participant in the first American "Modern School" (based on ideas of the Spanish educator Francisco Ferrer), & adopted the now famous photographer Berenice Abbott.

Havel wrote for Goldman's Mother Earth, & wrote biographies of fellow anarchists such as the walking she-devil, Emma Goldman (he was one of her lovers), Harry Kelly & Voltairine de Cleyre, along with various reviews & booklets.

Havel also edited "Revolt", the "Revolutionary Almanac", & also "Open Vistas", with Joseph Ishill.

Just before WWI he opened, with his anarchist companion Polly, a restaurant in NY City's Bohemian Greenwich Village which was a great meeting place for artists & intellectuals.

  • Proletarian Days
    http://ytak.club.fr/aout2.html#13


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  • 1917 -- [August 13]

    Spain: General Strike throughout the country.


    In Madrid the strike committee is composed of members of the Socialist Party & the UGT: Francisco Largo Caballero, Daniel Anguiano, Julián Besteiros, Angel Saborit. They are eventually taken prisoner.

    In Barcelona the committee is formed by cenetistas (anarchosyndicalist CNT members): Seguí, Pestaña, Minguet, Aragó, Viadiu, Miranda, Barrera, Valero & Herreros.

    Source: Barcelona 1917- 1923; Crònica, by Manel Aisa


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    1890 -- [August 14] Rafael Farga Pellicer (1840[about]-1890). Typographer, advocate of cooperativism & federalism, an anarchist

    He joined the International Alliance of Socialist Democracy" (Bakuninist) & on August 1, 1869, began the newspaper "Federacion." In September, he was a Spanish congressional delegate at the A.I.T. in Basle. He was also delegated by the "Federation of the Area Espagnole"(F.R.E.) to the Congress of the International at the Hague (Netherlands) of September 2, 1872, & rejected the charges formulated by the general council of London (Marxist) against Bakunin & Guillaume &, a little later attends St-Imier (Swiss), for the founding congress of the Anti-authoritarian International.

    In 1881 he participated in founding the new anarcho-collectivist "F.T.R.E." (Federation of the Workers of the Spanish Area) which opposes the insurrectionists like Anselmo Lorenzo. From 1886 to 1888, he publishes the review "Acracia" (he invents the word) & helps found the newspaper "El Productor."

    Rafael Farga Pellicer wrote several works, including Garibaldi, Historia Liberal del Siglo XIX, Biografía de M. Bakounine: sus ideales y tácticas. http://agora.ya.com/barricada36/1936/anarquismo.html


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    1901 -- [August 14] Mercedes Comaposada Guillen (1901-1994) Spanish militant, teacher, anarchist


    Daughter of a self-educated socialist shoe-maker, Comaposada became invovled in a cinema production company & joined the C.N.T. Sensitized by the condition of women, she became a teacher, providing private courses to victims of the misery of machismo.

    From her meeting with the poet & painter Lucia Sanchez Saornil came the idea to create a specific women's group within the libertarian movement, & thus, Mujeres Libres (MM.LL) was founded (with the aid, also, of Amparo Poch y Gascon) in April 1936, which also began publishing a review of the same name. This publication was illustrated by Composada's companion, sculptor Baltasar Lobo.

    With the outbreak of revolution, in July 1936, she joined another group of women in Barcelona, working to create a national federation.

    Of fragile health, during the conflict she ardently continued her educational activities, participation in Mujeres Libres, & in writing for the libertarian press.

    Mercedes Comaposada took refuge in Paris with Lobo following defeat of the revolution, where they gained the protection of Pablo Picasso from French authorities hostile to all Spanish refugees. She became his secretary, then took up translations work & was devoted to the artistic work of of Lobo.

    http://ytak.club.fr/fevrier2.html#11


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    2001 -- [August 14]

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    Tuesday, August 14, 2001 (SF Gate)
    Blacklisted/G8 protesters & performers remain detained in Italy
    by Neva Chonin, special to SF Gate

    "A state must never lose the monopoly on the use of force."
    -- Italian Interior Minister Claudio Scajola

    Does anyone reading this own a black bra? If so, don't wear it on a trip to northern Italy, where possession of women's black undergarments is punishable by beating & imprisonment. & if you are beaten & jailed by Italian polizia for said offense, don't expect the US government to help you.

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    1894 --
    Anarchism Rejects Indiscriminate Violence

    The following portion of text is from An Anarchist "Rabbi" - The Life & Teachings of Rudolf Rocker, by Mina Graur. It deals with the subject of "propaganda by deed," otherwise known as terrorism, though specifically within the context of advancing one's political goals.

    [O]n December 9, [1893, French anarchist] Auguste Valliant hurled a bomb from the gallery into the full Chamber of Deputies. [...]

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    1925 --
    Sources on Canadian Jazz
    • Mark Miller's Jazz In Canada: 14 Lives, Nightwood Editions, 1988 (revised paperback edition). Chapters are on: Trump & Teddy Davidson, Paul & P.J. Perry, Chris Gage, Herbie Spanier, Wray Downes, Larry Dubin, Nelson Symonds, Guy Nadon & Claude Ranger, Sonny Greenwich, Brian Barley & Ron Park.

    • Mark Miller's Boogie, Pete, & the Senator — Canadian Musicians in Jazz: the Eighties, Nightwood Editions, 1987. Shorter takes on some 40 musicians including: Jean Derome, Paul Bley, Kid Bastien, Jim Galloway, Hugh Fraser, Nelson Symonds, Sonny Greenwich, Guy Nadon & Claude Ranger.

    • John Gilmore's Swinging in Paradise: The Story of Jazz In Montreal, Vehicule Press.

    • Jack Litchfield's Canadian jazz discography: 1916-1980, University of Toronto Press, 1982.

    • Gene Lees' Oscar Peterson: The Will To Swing, Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1988.

    • Gene Lees' Jazz Lives contains some Canadians.

    • The Encylopedia of Music In Canada, University of Toronto Press.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Peterson
    http://www.oscarpeterson.com/



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    1902 -- [August 16] Jean Barrue (1902-1989). Professor of mathematics, militant revolutionary anarchosyndicalist

    Active during the 20s & 30s in revolutionary trade unionism, following WWII Barrue joined the "C.N.T. Française" & "Fédération Anarchiste", of which he was a seminal figure in the "Groupe Sébastien Faure" of Bordeaux. Wrote for "Monde Libertaire," the review "La Rue" & the German review "Befreiung."

    In the early 1980s Barrue broke with the "Fédération Anarchiste", joining "l'Union des anarchistes" & their newspaper "Le Libertaire."

    Barrue translated several works from the German, including Bakunin's "La réaction en Allemagne," Arthur Lehning's "Anarchism & Marxism in the Russian Revolution" & various texts on education by Max Stirner. His own book, L'Anarchisme aujourd'hui (Anarchism Today), has been translated into Italian & Dutch.

    "Si nos idées ont une valeur pour l'avenir, elle doivent en avoir une aussi pour le présent et nous devons favoriser ou créer tout groupement d'individus décidés à produire ou à consommer en dehors du cycle capitaliste"

    [Source: L'Ephéméride Anarchiste]

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    1919 -- [August 16] Conchita Guillen Bertolin (1919-), militant anarchist & member of Mujeres Libres.

    Orphaned by her father, while living in "Las Corts" district of Barcelona, in 1936 she joined "Jeunesses Libertaires" (JJ.LL; Libertarian Youths) & was active with "l'Athénée Libertaire" (Libertarian Athenaeum). She discovered the feminist movement Mujeres Libres, at a conference given by Soledad Estorach & joined the movement, working with the secrétariat à la propagande & with Lucia Sanchez Saornil". She also took nursing courses to help the combatants.

    In 1939, with the rout of the Republican forces, she was forced into refuge in France. After various adventures during WWII, she continued her militancy in exile, always faithful to the movement Mujeres Libres.

    Residing in the south of France, in 1999 she participated in the collected work Mujeres Libres, will luchadoras libertarias, translated into French by the Ascaso-Durruti Center of Montpellier in 2000 & published by "Los Solidarios".

    "(...) des femmes qui avaient des connaissances idéologiques solides, qui s'y connaissaient en pédagogie, et autres sciences s'offrirent bénévolement pour instruire le groupe de jeunes qui n'avaient rien d'autres que leur bonne volonté."

    [Source: L'Ephéméride Anarchiste]


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    1920 -- [August 16] Alexander Berkman & Emma Goldman travel through Russia.

    In Poltava they meet with the leader of the Revkom, a non-soviet ruling body. They meet the writer Vladimir Korolenko who speaks to them about his disenchantment with the Bolsheviks. Also meet with local Zionists who, although critical of anti-Semitism of the Bolsheviks, report no evidence of Bolshevik pogroms against the Jews.

    In Fastov they collect historical materials on pogroms, including the Sept. 1919 pogroms led by General Denikin of the White Army. During this period the Polish army gains strength, beginning a counteroffensive against the Bolsheviks.

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    1924 -- [August 16] The body of Giacomo Matteotti is found outside Rome.

    A socialist & outstanding opponent of the Fascist regime during its early days. A member of parliament, his murder by Fascist hirelings precipitated a parliamentary crisis that Mussolini overcame by disavowing the murder & tightening police control. With the crushing of the opposition aroused by Matteotti’s assassination, Mussolini’s dictatorship may be said to have begun. The murderers & their accomplices received only nominal sentences.

    http://www.polyarchy.org/basta/crimini/sette.html


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    1997 -- [August 16] Robert Lynn (1924-1997), Scottish anarchist, militant trade unionist & Stirnerite.

    Blackballed by his union & the Stalinist communists for his militancy, Lynn joined the merchant marines & travelled.

    Returning to Glasgow in 1950, he became, with Frank Leach, Jimmy Raside & Eddie Shaw, an active member of the Glasgow Anarchist Group (adherents of Max Stirner). Libertarian athenaeums were organized in Renfrew Street, & over the years Lynn initiated a number of events, especially the Glasgow Anarchist Summer School which now attracts libertarian socialists from all over Britain.

    Lynn died just before the 1997 school was to begin & his last immortal words were:

    "Oh fuck, now I'll miss the summer school."

    http://struggle.ws/ws/ws50_r_lynn.html


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    Józef Edward Abramowski, Polish anarchist; source republika.pl/klasycy/
    1868 -- [August 17] Józef Edward Abramowski, Polish philosopher, psychologist, sociologist, anarchist.

    Influenced by Leo Tolstoy, Abramowski called himself a "state-rejecting socialist". In his most important work developed his concept of a "stateless Socialism".

    His thought tended increasingly towards an anarcho-syndicalist position in politics, emphasising the importance of co-operative organization of the masses. Abramowski is considered the founder of the Polish co-operative movement, promoting economic associations & initiatives.

    Alongside this politico-social theorising, he also conducted an intense research activity in the field of experimental psychology, showing particular interest in the subconscious. This gave him a certain notoriety abroad & in 1916 he was given a chair in Experimental Psychology at the University of Warsaw, which he occupied until his death.


    The best known theoreticians of Polish anarchism were Edward Abramowski, Waclaw Machajski & the anarcho-sydicalists Dr Jozef Zielinski & Augustyn Wroblewski.

    Edward Abramowski claimed to be a non-state socialist. However it should be noted that the word "socialism" at that time did not have such a limited meaning as it has nowadays & a majority of groups of liberation, leftist groups & struggles for independence identified with it.

    Abramowski presented his views in works such as "Ethics & Revolution", "Republic of Friends " & "A Public Collusion Against Government". As an alternative to the state system were , in his opinion, gratuitous ????? trades set up by rules of common affairs & mutual services associated in bigger co-operatives. Only they are a support of a real freedom, give welfare, order, justice and brother hood to the individual. Furthermore they are organised from the grassroots, spontaenaeously without compulsion.Existing associates should form on a specified territory a free commune without authority & police.

    However the lack of a supposedly indispensable repression machinery does not mean the eruption of chaos into human life art all. The reverse happens- it releases energy & fervour that were being reduced in a system so far & that make people wanting to create the surrounding reality & to find themselves in it. An example of a big growth of social consciousness in the big solidarity days & then the repression of 13/12 ?????? is the best evidence of an enormous potential in people who have realised that they can change something in their life & surroundings at last.

    But let's return to Abramowski's theories. An unquestionable authority of those days, Tolstoy, had a considerable influence on his views. Follwoing him he advocatied non-paymnet of taxes & refusing to join the army. At the same time as being against the church as an institution he referred to Jesus' sermons which in his opinion denied statehood & authority.

    In his book "A public collusion against government" he gave some instructions about how people should struggle with the Tsar for thier own national maintenance. It certainly did not mean promoting another dictatorship which statehood is. Abramowski was also ( as every anarchist) opposed to national socialism. He prophetically warned,

    "The politics of modern socialism is not a politics of strengthening & extending national authority that tends not towards setting people free but towards towards authorising everything which can be authorised only in their life."


    Abramowski's writings include: Ethics & the Revolution, The Republic of Friends, & The General Conspiracy against the State.

    See "A Short History of Polish Anarchism,"
    http://recollectionbooks.com/anow/world/eu/poland/ http://www.fmag.unict.it/~polphil/PolPhil/Abramo/Abramo.html

    http://recollectionbooks.com/anow/world/eu/poland/
    http://flag.blackened.net/blackflag/212/212pol.htm
    In Polish,
    http://alteree.hardcore.lt/anarchoflash/1918.htm
    http://republika.pl/klasycy/abramowski/
    http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Abramowski
    http://sierp.tc.pl/abram.htm


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    1963 -- [August 17] Franco executes the anarchists Francisco Granados & Joaquín Delgado for crimes they did not commit


    Their protests of innocence & their deaths were hardly noticed, overshadowed by the earlier international commotion created by the dramatic deaths of the communist Julian Grimau, on April 20, & the anarchist guerrilla Ramon Vila Capdevila ("Caraquemada") on the 11th of this month.

    Granados & Delgado were accused of blowing up a pump on July 29, in the Main directorate of Seguridad (DGS) of Madrid — "symbol of the pro-Franco torture" — & another in the National Delegation of Unions.

    They were brutally interrogated & condemned to death in a field court martial behind closed doors marked by legal irregularities.

    Almost 33 years later, the actual authors of those explosions publicly testified to their responsibility for the attacks, revealing the sentences of both anarchists today as nothing more than legalalized murder by the dictatorship.


    http://flag.blackened.net/ksl/bullet25.htm#Granados%20And%20Delgado
    http://www.espacioalternativo.org/node/view/524
    http://www.cgt.es/granadoydelgado/giraexposicion/palencia.html
    http://www.nodo50.org/haydeesantamaria/docs_ajenos/gyd_apoyo.htm