http://www.ceca.org.br/edgar/BrasilAn.html
http://www.anarca-bolo.ch/vanza/archivio/d.htm
12- 25 -1953 -- France: Anarchist Federation & the Libertarian Communist Federation founded by the FAF (French Anarchist Federation). http://federation-anarchiste.org/
2- 17 -1954 -- Ernest Ernestan (aka Ernest Tanrez) dies, Brussels, Belgium. Militant, writer, theorist of libertarian socialism, & a significant figure of Belgian anarchism.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/sinners/ErnestanErnest.htm
10- 28 -1954 -- Enrique Flores Magon (1877-1954), Mexican revolutionary anarchist & brother to the better known Ricardo Flores Magón, dies. http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/worldwidemovements/mexicobiblio.html
http://www.brownpride.com/murals.html
http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/mexico/history.html
11- 4 -1954 -- Sweden: Stig Dagerman, (1923-1954) 31, dies. Playwright, novelist, poet, anarcho-trade unionist. Created a review "40-tal ", & wrote for the libertarian newspaper "Arbetaren". Wrote The Snake (1945), & Island of the Condemned. Deeply pessimistic, he committed suicide: "Our need for consolation is impossible to satisfy."
HERE RESTS
A SWEDISH AUTHOR
FALLEN FOR NOTHING
THE CRIME WAS INNOCENCE
FORGET HIM OFTEN By the time he was 26, he was editor of the Syndicalist youth paper, & author of 4 novels, 4 plays, a book of short stories, a travel journal & hundreds of poems & pieces of journalism.
"Je crois que l'ennemi héréditaire de l'homme est la macro-organisation, parce que celle-ci le prive du sentiment, indispensable à la vie, de sa responsabilité envers ses semblables.(...)
Car qu'est-ce que le pouvoir si ce n'est le sentiment de n'avoir pas à répondre de ses mauvaises actions sur sa propre vie mais sur celles des autres?" http://flag.blackened.net/liberty/sac.html
http://hem.passagen.se/iblis/dagerman.html
http://www.littlebluelight.com/dagermanlinks.html
11- 21 -1954 -- Chicago: Late this month [exact date unknown -- ed.] The anarchist Catholic nun Dorothy Day notes: When one is travelling it is often only possible to write a chronicle like a Pepys diary & there is not much room for comment. So here is the bare bones of my trip during this last month in the way of a letter to our readers, which, thanks to Ammon Hennacy’s street selling campaign, is increased by some thousands... My last two meetings in Chicago were at Wilmette, in the basement of the rectory of St. Joseph’s church of John Mella’s promotion, & with a group of young anarchists led, if they can be said to be led, by Joffre Stewart, in the vicinity of the University of Chicago.
http://www.catholicworker.org/dorothyday/reprint.cfm?TextID=679
12- 20 -1954 -- American novelist Sandra Cisneros lives. Cisneros, the author of The House on Mango Street & Woman Hollering Creek & Other Stories, is a poet & fiction writer. Self described as a "terrorist," "anarchist," & a "Chicana feminist," she has said, "I’m trying to write stories that haven’t been told. I feel like a cartographer. I’m determined to fill a literary void."
3- 25 -1955 -- Russian US Customs confiscate 520 copies of Allen Ginsberg's Howl as they enter the US. It will then be published by City Lights publishers in San Francisco, leading to the arrest of anarchist/poet/publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Customs also seized & destroyed another shipment of Ginsberg's poetry sent from Canada in the 60s.
The day after the poet's 36th birthday—520 copies of a book his press had published were confiscated by US Customs, acting under the order of Chester McPhee, US Collector of Customs. McPhee called the book "obscene": "you wouldn't want your children to come across it," he groused. The book was "Howl & Other Poems."
http://www.charm.net/~brooklyn/People/AllenGinsberg.html
http://www.popsubculture.com/pop/bio_project/allen_ginsberg.html
http://www.yourpain.com/shiva/poetry/howl2.html
5- 22 -1955 -- Roger Noel, aka Babar, of "Alternative Libertaire", Belgian-French critical magazine, lives.
anarchist http://users.skynet.be/AL/
6- 8 -1955 -- "A poem from 1955 that I sent to Kenneth Rexroth & I thought it was good because it was a dream & it had this illumination of a dream & it was about William Burroughs’s late wife..."anarchist A drunken night in my house with a
boy, San Francisco: I lay asleep:
darkness:
I went back to Mexico City
& saw Joan Burroughs leaning
forward in a garden chair, arms
on her knees. She studied me with
clear eyes & downcast smile, her
face restored to a fine beauty
tequila & salt had made strange
before the bullet in her brow. --- Allen Ginsberg, “Dream Record, June 8, 1955”:
& this is about the last poem I wrote before “Howl.” http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/olv1n4.html |
10- 13 -1955 -- American poet Allen Ginsberg organizes poetry reading at Six Gallery, SF (featuring also Michael McClure, Philip Lamantia, Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen, Kenneth Rexroth) & brings down the house by reading "Howl" publicly for the first time. 36. GINSBERG, Allen. Howl for Carl Solomon. Mimeographed sheets, 17 pages, 8 1/2 x 11 inches, stapled (original staple removed). (San Francisco: Privately printed, 1956). $37,500.00 First edition of Ginsberg's epochal poem, the most famous & influential poem of our time. One of only 25 mimeographed copies according to Morgan
A1. Dowden p. 7 (giving the number of copies as 50 & erroneously dating the "pamphlet" 1955, in addition to misspelling Marthe Rexroth's first name).
The first printing of Howl was mimeographed by Marthe Rexroth, using the version typed by Robert Creeley, for Kenneth Rexroth's poetry class at San Francisco State College in May 1956. The mimeo includes the title-page, with quotation from Walt Whitman, the dedication to Kerouac, Burroughs, Cassady & Lucien Carr, in addition to 15 numbered pages of poetry, including "Howl", "A Supermarket in California", "Sunflower Sutra" & "America", all unexpurgated. "Howl" is dated at the end of the poem on p.9 "San Francisco 1955-1956"; (the next three poems are dated Berkeley 1955 & the last poem is undated).
On May 18, 1956, having been told by Rexroth that Eberhart was "writing an article on S.F. Poetry & asked for a copy of my MSS", Ginsberg wrote a long analytical letter about Howl to Eberhart which provided the critical basis for Eberhart's enthusiastic article on the San Francisco Poetry Renaissance, "West Coast Rhythms", published in the New York Times. — Barry Miles, Howl, facsimile edition (N. Y.: Harper & Row, 1986), Appendix I.
http://www.literaryfirsts.com/catalog/48-2.htm
On-stage, the poets were seated in a semicircle behind the podium. Kenneth Rexroth, dressed in a bow tie & a cutaway pinstripe suit, opened the evening with a few brief introductory remarks. Taking notice of the mixture of literary & political interests represented by those in attendance as well as by those on-stage, Rexroth compared the climate of San Francisco to that of Barcelona at the time of the Spanish anarchists, where culture survived despite an oppressive national political environment.
Also in attendance was Will Petersen
http://www.interlog.com/~mushroom/howl.html
http://www.connectotel.com/marcus/beatchr1.html
10- 31 -1955 -- François-Henri Jolivet (1875-1955) dies. 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 his death.
"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://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/aout1.html#1
10- 25 -1956 -- Hungary: Councils continue to form, despite Russian crackdown, opposing the "dictatorship of the proletariat" & Russian intervention.anarchist
For Castoriadis, future revolutions would necessarily strive for the takeover of the management of all production by the workers, themselves organized into workers' councils; the federation of the councils into a central assembly; the expropriation of the capitalists; the dissolution of the police & the army, & the arming of the proletariat; & the issuance of what Castoriadis refers to as a "call on the workers of other countries . . . [that would] explain to them the content & meaning of these measures," which "contain all that is essential to the process of building socialism." Otherwise, these revolutions would be doomed to failure, precisely because they were partial or restricted in their fields of action. — "Workers' Councils, Cornelius Castoriadis & the SI" ("NOT BORED!, " #26, 1996)
http://burn.ucsd.edu/~anow/world/eu/hungary/hungary56.html
"Of the tendencies toward regroupment that have appeared over the last few years among various minorities in the workers movement in Europe," an unsigned text pronounces, "only the most radical current is worth preserving: that centered on the program of workers councils." — Internationale Situationniste #6 (August 1961).
http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/6.insurrection.htm
See also Peter Fryer, The Hungarian Tragedy; Andy Anderson, Hungary '56; & The Hungarian Workers' Revolution by the Syndicalist Workers' Federation.
http://www.geocities.com/WallStreet/9973/council.html
11- 23 -1956 -- Millie Witkop Rocker (1877-1955) dies. Anarchist, labor organizer, lifelong companion of Rudolf Rocker .
See Milly Witkop-Rocker, by Rudolf Rocker (Berkeley Heights: Oriole Press, 1956.) Also March 1, 1877.
http://flag.blackened.net/rocker/
12- 22 -1956 -- Manuel Devaldes (aka Ernest-Edmond Lohy) dies. Anarchist, pacifist & neo-Malthusian. Manuel Devaldes was involved in the "Revue Rouge" in 1895, which included Felix Feneon, Verlaine, Tailhade, etc. In 1912 he was a member of "l'Action d'art". Opposed to WWI, he found refuge in England which granted him conscientious objector (CO) status in 1914. Devaldes participated in many newspapers & libertarian reviews, & wrote several books & booklets (La chair à canon (1908), Contes d'un rebelle (1925), La maternité consciente (1927), Anthologie des écrivains réfractaires (1927), etc.
http://www.cafemo.com/wanda/feneon.html
http://palissy.humana.univ-nantes.fr/labos/cht/biblio/auteurs/auteur1805.htm
3- 25 -1957 -- Land of Freedom US Customs again seizes Allen Ginsberg's book of poetry, Howl, this time the second printing published by City Lights Books in Frisco; US District Attorney decides not to pursue, & the printing is released. But in August Officer Friendlies from the Frisco Juvenile Dept raid City Lights Bookstore & charge the owner, anarchist & poet Larry Ferlinghetti with obscenity for selling copies of Howl. http://www.alsopreview.com/foley/jfnorthbeach.html
whole intellects disgorged in total recall for seven days
& nights with brilliant eyes, meat for the
Synagogue cast on the pavement... |
4- 19 -1957 -- Ian Heavens lives (1957-2000); Scottish anarchist, co-founder of the punk/samba band Bloco Vomit. A cofounder of the online Spunk Archives. See the Anarchist Encyclopedia page, http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/HeavenIan.htm
6- 30 -1957 -- José Oiticica (1882-1957) dies. Brazilian lawyer, student of medicine, teacher, & an influential figure in the Brazilian anarchist & labor movement.alt; Jose Oiticica; Helio Oiticica Grandfather of the Brazilian artist & anarchist, Hélio Oiticica (1937-1980).
8- 30 -1957 -- Spain: José Luis Facerias (Josep Lluís i Facerias, aka Petro or Petronio Face [1920-1957]) assassinated by the police in Barcelona. The ‘implacable fighter’ dies riddled with bullets in an ambush laid by the police at the intersection of Urrutia & Verdun Streets. He was a veteran leader of anarchist urban guerilla groups, fighting the fascist regime, which had been operating since the end of the civil war.
[Details, click here]
10- 6 -1957 -- Alphonse Tricheux dies, Toulouse. French militant anarchist, anarcho-syndicalist & pacifist.
http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/octobre.html#6
3- 12 -1958 -- Bulgaria: Manol Vassev (1898-1958), true name Yordan Sotirov, dies. Poisoned by prison guards one day before his scheduled release. A popular Bulgarian militant anarcho-trade unionist & a living symbol of resistance of both fascism & Bolshevism. He also spent several years in Stalinist concentration camps before his prison years.
5- 3 -1958 -- Gerard de Lacaze-Duthiers (1876-1958) dies. French Individualist anarchist, friend of the arts, pacifist intellectual, Professor of Letters. member of l'Union Anarchiste & the Groupe "l'Action d'Art". Involved with the review "L'action d'art" with Andre Colomer & Devaldes. President of l'Union des Intellectuels pacifistes, responsible for the Parti Pacifiste Internationaliste, president of Syndicat des journalistes et écrivains. Collaborated on the Anarchist Encyclopedia of Sebastien Faure, & author of over 40 books & pamphlets, mostly involving literature & pacifism.
5- 28 -1958 -- US: Catholic anarchist Ammon Hennacy ends 40-day fast against U.S. nuclear weapons tests.
7- 25 -1958 -- England: In London, an International Anarchist Congress meets, July 25 until August 1.
9- 13 -1958 -- US: American immigrant anarchist leader Rudolf Rocker dies, Mohegan, Maine. Anarchosyndicalist, anti-fascist. A Gentile, he became involved in the Jewish anarchist movement. Learned Yiddish, lived in the Jewish community, & became the lifelong companion of Milly Witcop (1877-1953).
10- 29 -1958 -- Boris Pasternak, under intense pressure from the Soviet government & press, wires the Swedish Royal Academy his "voluntary refusal" of the Nobel Prize for Literature. One of his crimes is to have written — in his novel, Dr. Zhivago — too sympathetically of the anarchists, & not kindly enough of the Bolsheviks. http://www.nobel.se/
http://www.rjgeib.com/heroes/pasternak/paster.html
12- 11 -1958 -- Alberto Meschi (1879-1958), Italian anarchist, dies, in Carrara. Meschi is one of the beautiful & beloved figures of the Italian anarchist movement. A self-taught anarchist & worker, he emerged as a highly respected libertarian & trade-union leader. For over 20 years the trade union paper "Il Cavatore" was dedicated to him & the city of Carrara, where he died, has erected a monument in his honor.
See the Anarchist Encyclopedia page,
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/MeschiAlberto.htm
2- 18 -1959 -- Jacques Doubinsky (1889-1959) dies. As a young Russian labor radical he joined the Ukrainian peasant uprising in 1918, fighting with the insurrectionary Makhnovist army.
When betrayed & crushed by their one-time Bolshevik allies, Doubinsky went to Bulgaria, active with the anarchists. Arrested & tortured after the coup d'etat of 1923, he escaped to France & met up with Voline. With his companion Rosa, he directed the Jewish anarchist library "L'autodidacte". Following WWII & Voline's death, he formed the "Friends of Voline", publishing Voline's book The Unknown Revolution (1947) (translated by Fredy Perlman & a group in Chicago; published by Black & Red in Detroit, Free Life Editions in NY & Black Rose Books in Canada.) Jacques Doubinsky was also involved with the Jewish anarchist "La libre Pensée" in Paris & assisting Bulgarian refugees. He is the grandfather of the anarchist & writer, Sebastien Doubinsky:
"He died before my birth; I cannot really speak about him, but I can speak about his heritage which I assert fully. To have an anarchist like him in the family, which did so much for Bulgaria, the Spanish revolution, etc, it is for me the image of insubordination, the image of freedom, & the image of a worthy fight. It is a heritage of freedom, of courage also, because my grandfather suffered in his flesh, especially in Bulgaria, & Russia, where he was tortured several times."
http://www.federation-anarchiste.org/ml/numeros/1137/article_13.html
http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/fevrier3.html#18
2- 28 -1959 -- The playwright most known for his verse tragedy, Maxwell Anderson dies in Stamford, Connecticut. His tragedy Winterset (1935), a poetic drama inspired by the Sacco & Vanzetti anarchist case is his most famous, but Anderson also wrote musicals, such as Knickerbocker Holiday (1938) & Lost in the Stars (1949).
4- 2 -1959 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Rep. Alexander Celia introduces bill for posthumous pardon for the anarchists Sacco & Vanzetti to Massachusetts Legislature. The petition is denied. It is only 50 years after their execution, when Mass. Governor Michael Dukakis proclaims August 23,1977, Sacco & Vanzetti Day, that any stigma is removed from their names.
4- 25 -1959 -- France: Georges Conchon (1879-1959) dies. Tapestry maker, anarchist & very popular secretary of the "Federation of Tenants" (ancestor of the DAL). See the Anarchist Encyclopedia page, http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/sinners/ConchonGeorges.htm
11- 29 -1959 -- Kenneth Rexroth, in his New York Times Book Review article on Mexico City Blues, attacks Jack Kerouac & his writing. Kenneth Rexroth was generally extremely supportive of the writers associated with the "Beat movement", which he helped usher in. This included high praise for the poet & fellow anarchist Robert Duncan, despite the fact Duncan was involved with his wife. This article was a venomous attack on Kerouac, whom Rexroth met & disliked. Kerouac seemed to serve as a lightning rod for a variety of dislikes, anxieties & other misgivings he had about the rise of the younger writers to national prominence in the US.
1- 4 -1960 -- France: Albert Camus (The Plague) killed at age 46, in an automobile accident near Sens. French-Algerian author who wrote for many years for the anarchist & left wing press in France. http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/1311/camus.html
Albert Camus und der Anarchismus
Select Bibliography for Albert Camus
Colin Ward, Albert Camus & the Algerian Legacy
1- 4 -1960 -- Spain: Spanish anarchist guerilla Francisco Sabater (Sabate; El Quico) wounded as his group has a shoot-out with the Guardia Civil. At dawn, in the neighbourhood of Banolas (Gerona), a fight occurred between the forces of the Guardia Civil & an anarchist commando group which had crossed the frontier six days before. Four members of the commando group died in the gunfire, as well as the officer commanding the Civil Guards, Francisco de Fuentes. The leader of the group, Francisco Sabate , was wounded, & although he managed to escape, was killed the next day in San Celoni by a sometén (Catalan militia). The episode caused a sensation in the country as a survival from the old resistance days.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/SabateFrancisco.htm
http://www.nodo50.org/age/quicosabate/quicosabate2.htm
1- 5 -1960 -- Spain: Anarchist guerilla Francisco Sabate dies after a shoot-out with fasciste garde civile. Wounded yesterday, he escaped & was killed today in San Celoni by a sometén (Catalan militia).
This episode causes a national sensation, a survival of the spirit from the old resistance days. Sabate figures in at least two movies, including Behold The Pale Horse, with Gregory Peck as a character very closely on this anarchist fighter. An excellent biography by Antonio Tellez Sola, Sabaté, guérilla urbaine en Espagne 1945-1960, was translated by Stuart Christie & published in English.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/SabateFrancisco.htm
3- 20 -1960 -- Cuba: Big Belly Ache? Anarchist-syndicalist workers' papers -- including Solidaridad Gastronomico -- forced to cease publishing.
3- 25 -1960 -- Julia Bertrand (1877-1960) dies. French teacher, militant anarchist, feminist & free thinker. See the Anarchist Encyclopedia page,
http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/sinners/JuliaBertrand.htm
5- 26 -1960 -- The Italian political tendency of Bordiga whose arguments we combat here (IL Programma Communista, May 26, 1960) defends the conservative union tactic from the most revolutionary point of view. But many Trotskyist and anarchist groups (if not all) fall into the same error with an opportunist flavor. Even those who claim to be against the unions, like "Socialisme ou Barbarie," in fact fall into the same old routine practices. UNIONS AGAINST REVOLUTION --- G. Munis http://geocities.com/cordobakaf/munis.html
6- 27 -1960 --
Pierre Monatte (1881-1960) dies.
| Pierre Monatte was a central figure of French anarcho-syndicalist movement. Influenced by Emile Pouget, friends with Albert Camus, & former Communist Party member, he fought the Stalinist influence & reformist positions of the trade unions. In 1925, with the help of Robert Louzon, he founded Révolution prolétarienne, an anarchist-syndicalist publication which many anarchists wrote for. See the Anarchist Encyclopedia page,
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/sinners/MonattePierre.htm
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9- 6 -1960 -- | 1960 | Proclamation of the 121 Declaration on the right to insubordination in the war of Algeria September 6, 1960 121 writers, academics & artists make public the following text (in Truth-Freedom, No 4, September-October 1960; this number was seized & its staff accused of provoking soldiers to disobedience). The signatories face severe sanctions... |
anarchist Daniel Guérin, Henri Lefebvre, Jehan Mayoux... [Details, click here]
10- 17 -1960 -- Thierry Maricourt lives. Poet, novelist, anarchist, with numerous reference works to his credit: Histoire de la littérature libertaire en France, Dictionnaire des auteurs prolétariens de langue française, de la Révolution à nos jour & the antifascist Les nouvelles passerelles de l'extrême droite. Poetry/novels include Adèle au-delà de l'ombre, Plaidoyer pour Ravachol (1997).
http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/1997/09/VIDAL/9060.html
11- 7 -1960 -- Charles d'Avray, (1878-1960) dies. Poète et chansonnier anarchiste; à Sèvres décédé le 7 Novembre 1960 à Paris XXe, il est enterré au cimetière du Père-Lachaise. En 1950 dans Histoire du Mouvement Anarchiste en France, Jean Maitron, grand historien du mouvement ouvrier français, écrivait:
http://www.teaser.fr/~cperrin/cda/chdavray.htm
http://www.morgane.org/biblio3.htm#chansons
1- 30 -1961 -- Dorothy Thompson, one of the most famous journalists of the 20th century, dies in Lisbon, Portugal. Married author Sinclair Lewis. Close friend of the right-wing individualist anarchist & author, Rose Wilder Lane.
http://lilt.ilstu.edu/separry/dorothy.htm
http://www.blancmange.net/tmh/articles/lane.shtml
3- 13 -1961 -- US: Labor organizer Elizabeth Gurley Flynn is elected chair of the National Committee of the Communist Party, U.S.A. One-time IWW & anarchist in her youth. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAflynn.htm
3- 22 -1961 -- Ettore Bonometti (1872-1961), Italian anarchist militant, dies in Brescia. Bonometti first went to prison in March 1892 where, to the delight of many — & the consternation of certain others — he regaled everyone with his anarchist songs & anti-monarchist views. Obviously he won the adoration of his jailors, as they insisted on his presence numerous times, & he again graced Italy's jails in August 1892, November 1893, February 1894, & April 1895.
They sought to have him back many other times over the years, forcing him into exile in France, England & Switzerland. He did make a prison debut in Italy during WWII, but was eventually allowed to live under "house arrest" — during which time he used his home for clandestine anti-fascist activities & the recruitment of fighters for the underground partisan movement.
See the Anarchist Encyclopedia page,
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/BonomettiEttore.htm
3- 29 -1961 -- Armand Robin dies. French poet, translator, anarchist. "Que m'importe qu'on m'abatte au coin de la rue, j'écrirai des poèmes jusqu'à ce qu'on me tue".
See Anarchist Encyclopedia page at http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/sinners/ArmandRobin.htm
1- 14 -1962 -- Justin Olive (1886-1962) dies. French militant anarchist & revolutionary syndicalist. http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/octobre4.html#olive
2- 1 -1962 -- US: Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over Cuckoo's Nest is published. The book was a vehicle for Kesey’s anarchist rant against the oppressive conformism imposed by society’s institutions, particularly the dehumanising social conformity of the 1950s.
2- 19 -1962 -- E. (Ernest) Armand (1872-1962), individualist anarchist, free love activist, dies. Wrote Poésies composées en prison, l'Initiation individualiste anarchiste" (1923) & La révolution sexuelle et la camaraderie amoureuse (1934). See also 31 October 1858. http://www.blancmange.net/tmh/articles/revintro.html
3- 4 -1962 -- Discovered today in the Family Planning Association archives: Guy Aldred, 4 Mar 1962 to John Peel (who was writing a history of FP) re: Sanger: 'Her work was very important but I believed that she liked to be patronised too much by the great & the rich. I had no time for that sort of thing.' [Aldred] & his partner Rose Witcop published a cheap UK edition of Sanger's "Family Limitation" & were prosecuted for obscenity. He was an anarchist & it would seem something of a Puritan (certainly from this letter, written when he was quite old) about matters of sex. Obviously writing with some degree of hindsight, but it's interesting that Stella Browne, writing to Havelock Ellis about her break with Sanger, said rather the same things.
3- 14 -1962 -- Giovanna Caleffi Berneri dies. Italian anarchist, married to Camillo Berneri (murdered by the Communists in Spain), mother of Marie Louise Berneri, Giliana Berneri (all anarchists).
alt; Maria Luisa Berneri http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/sinners/BerneriCamillo.htm
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/sinners/BerneriMarieLouise.htm
http://www.mercatiesplosivi.com/famber.html
http://www.municipio.re.it/manifestazioni/berneri/gilberneri.htm
5- 26 -1962 -- René Darsouze dies (1876-1962). French typographer. Co-founder, in 1908, of a community, "Le Phalanstère du Clos-des-Brunes," near Limoges. Member of the l'Association des Fédérations Anarchistes founded by Sebastien Faure & from 1929 to 1932 a writer for that organization's newspaper, "La Voix Libertaire". http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/mai4.html#26
8- 9 -1962 -- Hermann Hesse dies. German poet/novelist, depicted the duality of spirit & nature, body versus mind & individual's spiritual search outside restrictions of the society. Winner of the 1946 Nobel Prize for Literature. Worked in several jobs, as a bookshop clerk, as a mechanic & as a book dealer in Tübingen, where he joined literary circle called Le Petit Cénacle. There is a scene in Herman Hesse's novel, Steppenwolf, where protagonist Harry Haller is invited to attend an:
"Anarchist Evening at the Magic Theatre
For Madmen Only
Price of Admission Your Mind" John Lion, a Graduate student at U.C. Berkeley working under the tutelage of Professor Jan Kott, directs Ionesco's The Lesson at the Steppenwolf Bar in 1967. From this passage the company takes its name, "Magic Theatre".
The dadaist & Daily Bleed Saint Hugo Ball (February 22) wrote an early critical biography
http://www.levity.com/corduroy/hesse.htm
8- 16 -1962 -- Anarchist publications & public activities banned in Cuba. Tis the way it is for anarchist under capitalist/communist regimes. As part of a concerted drive against political & social dissenters, the Cuban government force the Libertarian Association of Cuba to cease publishing its journal El Libertario & suspend public activity because they had voiced minor criticisms of the Communist role in the government & their domination of the labor unions.
Noam Chomsky on Cuba, http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/other/lbbs9408-cuba.html
See also suggested references, "Anarchism in Cuba," http://www.tigerden.com/~berios/cuba.html
9- 12 -1962 -- Jackson Mac Low (1922-) reaches age 40. American poet & anarchist pacifist involved (1944-54) with Why? & edited(?) Resistance. "He reaches the age of forty
At anything less than that age
he is not even a possible for a Sagittarius"
Me Virgo Man You Sagittarius Woman
Orgone radiation flimmers between us
our curious safety light
— Jackson Mac Low, excerpt "58TH LIGHT POEM: FOR ANNE TARDOS — 19 MARCH 1979"
http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/testing/html/mss0180e.html
http://www.spunk.org/library/copyrite/poetry/light_du/sp000056.html
12- 25 -1962 -- Serge Gregoire dies. Writer, pacifist, free thinker. Wrote for many anarchist publications ("Le semeur", "La voix libertaire", "L'idée libre", "L'unique", "Ce qu'il faut dire", "Défense de l'homme", etc). Founder of the Parti Pacifiste Internationaliste, president of the Libre Pensée of the north coast. Author of a number of books, including Anthologie des écrivains pacifistes (1933).
3- 9 -1963 -- In a "New Yorker" review of Oscar Wilde's letters W. H. Auden writes: "From the beginning Wilde performed his life & continued to do so even after fate had taken the plot out of his hands." "I think I am rather more than a Socialist. I am something of an Anarchist, I believe..."
3- 11 -1963 -- André Lorulot (1885-1963) dies . French anarchist, lecturer & propagandist. Andre Lorulot, a leading French individualist before WWI & a leading freethinker for half a century. — Nicolas Walters
4- 3 -1963 -- France: Achille Daude dies. Trade union activist, anarchist, &, especially, an advocate of cooperatives. Daude contributed to Sebastian Faure's Anarchist Encyclopaedia as well as writing numerous works on cooperatism, food & social questions.
See the Anarchist Encyclopedia page
http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/sinners/AchilleDaude.htm
5- 11 -1963 -- Antonio Soto Canalejo (1897-1963) dies. Militant anarchist & anarcho-syndicalist.
http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/octobre2.html#11
7- 29 -1963 -- Spain: Bombs go off, destroying a pump in the Main directorate of Seguridad (DGS) of Madrid -- "symbol of Franco torture" -- & another in the National Delegation of Unions.
Franco's fascist regime wrongly arrest, & within two weeks, execute the anarchists Francisco Granados & Joaquín Delgado.
7- 31 -1963 -- Spain: The anarchists Francisco Granados & Joaquín Delgado are arrested for crimes they did not commit. They will be executed within two weeks in a grand display of justice.
Granados & Delgado were wrongly accused of exploding two bombs 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.
http://www.rebelion.org/hemeroteca/spain/espa024.htm
8- 7 -1963 -- Spain: Ramón Vila Capdevila (1908-1963) dies (aka "Caraquemada", aka "Jabalí" (le Sanglier), aka "Commandant Raymond"). Militant Spanish guerilla fighter.alt;Ramon Vila Capdevila; Ramon Rivas 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.
8- 17 -1963 -- Spain: Franco wrongly executes the anarchists Francisco Granados & Joaquín Delgado in the Carabanchel prison, for crimes they did not commit. Arrested less than three weeks ago for a bombing they did not do, tortured, tried behind closed doors, executed in spite of their protests of innocence... Injustice is swift.
[Details, click here]
10- 16 -1963 -- Scotland: Death of Guy Aldred, Scottish anti-militarist anarchist. http://burn.ucsd.edu/~acf/org/issue42/acbrit.html
11- 3 -1963 -- US: This fall (I don't have exact day -- ed.) sees the formation of Merry Pranksters. Ken Babbs returns from military service in Vietnam & meets Ken Kesey & his circle of friends who are living at Perry Lane in Palo Alto. Together they invent the concept of "pranking," & begin calling themselves "The Merry Pranksters." The group moves out to a cabin in the redwoods near La Honda, 15 miles east of Palo Alto, where Kesey finishes work on his second novel Sometimes a Great Notion.
Kesey's previous novel, One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, was a vehicle for Ken Kesey’s anarchist rant against the oppressive conformism imposed by society’s institutions, immortalised in Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
2- 19 -1964 -- On February 19, the five libertarians still imprisoned out of the twenty-one arrested in September 1963 began a hunger strike at Fresnes prison to draw attention to their situation. A few days later they were all released. Their release coincided with an anti-Francoist campaign launched by the Committee for a Free Spain6, founded during the month of December 1963 by Louis Lecoin, an old defender of solidarity campaigns. An appeal for solidarity with Spanish libertarian youth was also published in Action Libertaire7:
"The editorial group of Action Libertaire (the organ of the French section of the International Federation of Libertarian Youth) appeals to the militants of all countries to draw attention and to request their moral and material assistance to support the activity of the FIJL, which, despite the heavy repression it has been subjected to recently, continues its struggle in Spain against fascism and for the defence of anarchist ideas (...)." http://www.afmltd.demon.co.uk/meltzer/books/spanishanarchy1961-75/64.html
3- 10 -1964 -- Italy: Ugo Fedeli (1898-1964) dies, Ivrea.
Italian anarchist militant, part of the early 'Platformist meetings', fled to uruguay to escape the fascists in the 20s, but was deported back to Italy by the Terra dictatorship c. 1933; imprisoned until 1943; secretary of the Federazione Anarchica Italiana (FAI) c. 1945-1952. Became a librarian in 1951. Author of many publications on anarchism, in particular of bibliographical & biographical studies.
http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/platform/plat_hist_intro.html
http://www.municipio.re.it/manifestazioni/berneri/fedeli.htm
4- 13 -1964 -- Something Else Press founded by Dick Higgins. Its first publication was his Jefferson's Birthday/Postface, two books bound back to back.
[Details, click here] John Cage's anarchist philosophy of integrating art & life influenced Higgins' own artistic & theoretical ideas. Higgins' important concept of "intermedia, " stated in 1965, is a direct outgrowth of Cage's ideas. Higgins identified Happenings & contemporary experiments in theatre & the visual arts as arts that "fall between media."
6- 12 -1964 -- Antoine Bertrand (1877-1964) dies. French anarcho-syndicalist, member of "Free Youth" group. See the Anarchist Encyclopedia page, http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/sinners/BertrandAntoine.htm
8- 11 -1964 -- Spain: Stuart Christie & Fernanado Carballo Blanco arrested in Madrid. Christie is suspected of supplying explosives to blow up Franco. On September 2, 1964, Carballo is sentenced to 30 years imprisonment & Christie to 20 years. 1967 -- Protests at Christie's imprisonment leads to 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
9- 5 -1964 -- Russia: Joe Hill's "Rebel Girl", Elizabeth Gurley Flynn dies, Moscow. One-time anarchist & labor militant who became a honcho in the American Communist Party. http://www.pbs.org/joehill/faces/index.html
12- 12 -1964 -- US: Solidarity Bookstore opens, Chicago, Illinois, distributing anarchist, surrealist, Wobbly & libertarian socialist literature to the nation for the next 10 years or so.
1- 2 -1965 -- Italy: Bomb explodes in Naples at the Spanish Consulate. The attack is claimed by the Spanish anarchists of the CNT, FAI & FIJL which declare:
"As long as the Iberian people continue to be oppressed by the fascist dictatorship, dynamite will recall that the voice of freedom cannot be choked. Long live anarchy".
http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/spain/pam_intro.html
http://www.angelfire.com/tx/kaosneverfades/fredy.html
4- 2 -1965 -- Ken Kesey busted for marijuana first time. We are sure it is the last time, given its addictive qualities -- or Kesey would be a heroin junkie or Mall Rat by now.
‘One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest’, was a vehicle for Ken Kesey’s anarchist rant against the oppressive conformism imposed by society’s institutions, immortalised in Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.
http://www.seattlehempfest.com/
4- 30 -1965 -- Rome: Spanish eclesiatic advisor to the Vatican, the prelate Marcos Ussia, is kidnapped by the anarchist group "May 1". The action was explained by Luis A. Edo, demanding the release of all political prisoners of Franco's jails. This action was mainly symbolic, designed to bring international attention to the plight of Spanish anarchists & other victims of the repression in fascist Spain. Ussia was released on May 11, in good health.
6- 11 -1965 -- England: What's Happening? First "Happening": Wholly Communion, with those rascally anarchists Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gregory Corso, along with bunch of English poets, at the Royal Albert Hall, London. This historic Beat underground reading also incudes Alexander Trocchi, Voznesensky, et al. Poems & images are captured on Peter Whitehead's film.
11- 6 -1965 -- Bill Graham's first: San Francisco Mime Troupe Appeal party at Graham's Calliope Ballroom, 924 Howard Street. The Jefferson Airplane, the Fugs, Warlocks, Committee, Lawrence Ferlinghetti entertained the benefit to raise money for San Francisco Mime Troupe, busted for performing in a park without a permit.
'When patterns are broken, new worlds can emerge' — Tuli Kupferberg, "one of the leading Anarchist theorists of our time", as quoted in "Reader's Digest" (4/87) I don't know what was more of a sign that the 60s were over... Lawrence Welk owning the Country Joe & the Fish catalog (Welk Music Group bought Vanguard) or one of the Fugs being quoted in "Reader's Digest"...
http://www.rooknet.com/beatpage/ferlinghetti/index.html
http://www.sfmt.org/archives/killtime/killmenu.html
11- 9 -1965 -- US: Roger Allen La Porte, Catholic Worker, immolates himself in front of UN.
anarchist http://www.catholicworker.org/
http://www.cais.com/agf/cwindex.htm
11- 27 -1965 -- Ken Kesey & the Merry Pranksters hold first "acid test" open to the public. ‘One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest’, was a vehicle for Ken Kesey’s anarchist rant against the oppressive conformism imposed by society’s institutions, immortalised in Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.
http://colinp1.home.mindspring.com/kesey.htm
12- 6 -1965 -- Rose Pesotta dies. Dressmaker, anarchist & labor activist, the only woman on the General Executive Board of the International Ladies' Garment Workers (ILGWU) from 1933-1944, engaged in a 10-year fight to organize workers, running up against the opposition of the communist faction. Her face was lacerated during a strike in 1937 with a razor.
Rose Pesotta met Sacco & Vanzetti & collaborated on the anarchist newspaper "Road to Freedom". Rose Pesotta became close a friend of Emma Goldman, with whom she traveled to Europe & England.
See her autobiography Bread Upon the Waters, which appeared in 1946 & reprinted with a new introduction by Ann Schofield (Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press, 1987); & Elaine Leeder, The Gentle General: Rose Pesotta, Anarchist & Labor Organizer (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993); To Do & To Be: Portraits of Four Women Activists, 1893-1986 Gertrude Barnum, Mary Dreier, Pauline Newman, Rose Pesotta by Ann Schofield (Northeastern University Press).
http://www.uniteunion.org/framelessunite/history/historyinaction.html
http://www.lilithmag.com/books/9902tobe.shtml
2- 1 -1966 -- Film comedian Buster Keaton dies, Hollywood, California. As a Worker
Buster arouses the Compassion of the Nation
in whose light the Corporations
sell themselves to their Workers ... Spirit of Buster Keaton
if you survive as yourself
receive Please our honor & praise
you conscientious Workman
Hard-working Buster Keaton
when you arouse the laughter of children
as you live in Projector Light
Your Karmic Residue dissolves in Joyous Shouts
--- Jackson Mac Low, excerpts, "36TH LIGHT POEM: IN MEMORIAM BUSTER KEATON -- 4:50-6:18 A.M. SAT 1 JAN. 1972"
anarchist http://www.ida.liu.se/~juhta/buster/index.html
2- 24 -1966 -- US: Barry Bondhus dumps 10 pounds of his own shit on draft files (or 22nd?) "Whatever little we have gained we have gained by agitation, while we have uniformly lost by moderation." — Daniel O'Connell [1824]. On being found suitable for military service, 20-year-old Barry Bondhus dumps two buckets of human shit into the files of the Sherburne County draft board at Elk River, MN. Chicago anarchists applaud his action in a solidarity leaflet: "Along with wheelbarrows of desire, buckets of shit will stop the war in Vietnam".
"I've been floating in this river of shit/ Over 20 years & I'm gettin' tired of it/ But I've got to keep swimming in this river of shit, 'cause I don't want to die.../Who was it that set up this system/ This supposedly democratic system/ Where we're always voting for the lesser of two evils/ Was George Washington the lesser of two evils?/ Sometimes I wonder. Some politicians say we've got to stop violence in this country/ While he's spending 15,000 dollars a second snuffing gooks.../River of shit, bringing health, wealth, & prosperity to every man, women, & child." — Tuli Kupferberg, songster, poet, Fug
http://www.sonic.net/~goblin/FUGS.html
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3- 15 -1966 -- Jean Biso (1881-1966) dies. Anarcho-syndicalist, Secretary of the Syndicat des Correcteurs in Paris, participant in support groups for Sacco & Vanzetti, Spanish Revolution of 1936.
6- 9 -1966 -- Helmut Rudiger (1903-1966) dies. German anarcho-syndicalist, theorist of federalism. In 1936, Rudiger left Germany to fight in Spain with other German anarchists, like Karl Einstein (nephew of Albert Einstein). Rudiger participated in the engagements of the "International Group" of the Durruti Column.
[Details, click here]
6- 13 -1966 -- Holland: Provo riots in Amsterdam. (Pre-situ street activists, the Provos this month elect first representative to Amsterdam Municipal Council.) See also 16 June.anarchist http://pdxnorml.org/HT_provos_0190.html
7- 25 -1966 -- Henri Quesnel dies. Anarchist.
http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/juillet4.html#25
8- 4 -1966 -- US: Billy Murcott Arrives in Frisco, California from New York & joins longtime friend anarchist Emmett Grogan to collaborate on various undertakings including the founding of the Diggers.
9- 6 -1966 -- Sex reformer, birth-control advocate, socialist, anarchist Margaret Sanger dies. She would have been 83 years old on Sept. 14. An active worker for the Socialist party, her friends included radicals of all shades -- John Reed, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Bill Haywood, Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman, & Jessie Ashley.
Her ideas on "family limitation" were inspired by her friend Emma Goldman & Voltarine DeCleyre.
The phrase "birth control" first appeared in 1914 in her magazine, Woman Rebel, which bore the slogan "No Gods; No Masters!" on its masthead.
Guy Aldred & his partner Rose Witcop published a cheap UK edition of Sanger's Family Limitation & were prosecuted for obscenity.
Margaret Sanger participated in the Patterson Textile Strike of 1913 which she wrote about in Hippolyte Havel's Revolutionary Almanac. She contributed articles to Havel's Revolt, Emma Goldman's Mother Earth, Alexander Berkman's The Blast and The Modern School magazine.
http://www.radio4all.org/redblack/postersetc/antisexm.pdf
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0914.html
10- 6 -1966 -- First big free concert in Golden Gate Park Panhandle, Frisco, California. Several thousand show up for the "Love Pageant" & those anarchist Diggers start handing out free food (through March 67). Big Brother, Wildflower, The Dead & the Electric Chamber Orkustra entertained. This event was inspired by the Anti-Fascist Rally & March on Spetember 16, when Haight residents held an "Anti-Fascist Rally & March" from the 1500 block of Haight Street to the Park police station & then back to the intersection of Haight & Ashbury. The purpose then was to protest a drug bust that had occurred at 1090 Haight Street. Dennis Noonan, of that address, was quoted as denouncing "blue fascism."
http://www.diggers.org/asp/chrono_diggers.asp
10- 8 -1966 -- Célestin Freinet dies. Anarchist educator, founder of the Coopérative de l'Enseignement Laïc (C.E.L), The Co-operative Institute of the Modern School (1948) & wrote The French Modern School. One of the influences on the Spanish artist Ramón Acin, who founded an art school based on the ideas of Ferrer & Freinet.
10- 17 -1966 -- US: Anarchist collective, "The Diggers," holds its first free street feed in Frisco, California. We are all Emmett Grogan!
10- 19 -1966 -- US: Ken Kesey, novelist & anarchist, back from Mexico, arrested.
11- 5 -1966 -- US: Walk for Love & Peace & Freedom: 10,000+ show up, including poets Allen Ginsberg, & Gary Snyder, Paul Krassner, & the Fugs (Tuli Kupferberg ["one of the Leading Anarchist Theorists of our time"], Ed Sanders, et al). The "first hippie style demo in NYC".
http://www.harmony-central.com/Guitar/OLGA/all/fugs.html
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~splat/Fugs.html
11- 29 -1966 -- US: In Frisco, Municipal Court Judge Elton C. Lawless (!) reluctantly drops charges against members of The Diggers. Their heinous act was staging a Halloween puppet show at Haight & Ashbury streets. Released from custody were the anarchists Emmett Grogan, Peter Berg, Brooks Bucher, Peter Minnault & Robert Morticello.
Eric Noble's Diggers Archive Linda McCartney's "Summer of Love" Exhibit at the Museum 60's Map of the Haight-Ashbury District Colin Pringle's History of the Haight-Ashbury Bibliography of the Haight-Ashbury Era
12- 17 -1966 -- Death & Rebirth of the Haight-Ashbury (Hairy Henry & Fyllis busted). Home of the anarchist Bound Together Books Collective. http://www.cnsproductions.com/cocaine.html
http://dmoz.org/Society/Politics/Anarchism/Bookstores/
12- 19 -1966 -- Pierre Mualdes (1885-1966) dies. French anarchist.
http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/decembre3.html#mualdes
1- 14 -1967 -- US: Gathering of the Tribes for the First Human Be-In (first hippie "be-in") at Golden Gate Park in Frisco, California. Probably 20,000 come to play, though Emmett Grogan says as many as 300,000 in Ringolevio. Familiar names include Michael McClure, Gary Snyder, & Lenore Kandel. Sponsored by Haight Independent Proprietors (H.I.P.) & the Communication Co. Among the performers are The Grateful Dead & The Jefferson Airplane.anarchist
3- 23 -1967 -- Bolivia: Che Guevara starts guerrilla warfare. Che's group experiences their first battle of the Bolivian campaign -- the successful ambush of troops at Ñacahuazú. President Barrientos appeals to the nation "to join in the fight against the foreign and local anarchists with arms and money from Castro-communists."
http://www.ils.unc.edu/~michm/Che/bio_pt5.html
3- 31 -1967 -- US: San Francisco Mime Troupe appears at Fluxfest at Longshoremen's Hall. The Mime Troups is collectively owned & operated by its workers.
Wacky Ed Holmes argues Anarcho-Sydicalism in his stylish Tie-Dyed Tee, but Elliot Kavee's rhetorical fuming is accentuated by his neat Black Crinkle Tee. Who will win?
http://www.sfmt.org/
http://www.metroactive.com/papers/cruz/07.26.00/mimes-0030.html
4- 9 -1967 -- US: Digger Emmett Grogan arrives in NY (6 week trip, having left someplace about March 1).
anarchist http://www.bigmagic.com/pages/blackj/column9a.htm
4- 20 -1967 -- Aldino Felicani (1891-1967) dies. Italian-American anarchist, typographer, editor, & publisher of many papers. Friend & supporter of Sacco & Vanzetti, founding their Defense Committiee. Published, until his death, the Italian-American paper "Counter-Current." See the Anarchist Encyclopedia page, http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/sinners/FelicaniAldino.htm
5- 2 -1967 -- Ernst Friedrich (1894-1967), founder of the Berlin Peace Museum, anarchist pacifist, dies. His book War Against War presents his demand for militant struggle against war & militarism. "Without social revolution there can be no lasting peace....We must prepare systematically an uprising against war."
War Against War made a strong impression on Friedrich's contemporaries & was widely read & discussed. Never before had a German audience been subjected to such horrendous images of the savagery & destruction of WWI.
Friedrich helped form a "Revolutionary Pacifist Group" whose membership included such figures as Kurt Tucholsky, Walter Mehring, & the Expressionist writer Ernst Toller. During the last years of Weimar, Friedrich found himself in constant litigation against people who alleged that he had defamed them, & against state officials who accused him of "treason." In 1930, Friedrich was imprisoned for "high treason" for about a year because of the publication of antimilitarist writings intended for secret distribution among the army & police.
See the Anarchist Encycopedia page,
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/FriedrichErnst/FriedrichErnst.htm
6- 3 -1967 -- René-Louis Lafforgue dies (1928-1967) in a car accident in southern France. Singer, typesetter, interpreter, anarchist. With his anarchist parents in the Basque country during the fighting in Spain, the Lafforgue family was forced into exile in France, where his father was killed in the Resistance. Lafforgue was an actor & singer, & in the 1950s his talent gained him a place in George Brassens' shows, where songs such as "Julie la Rousse" assured his popularity. He & his companion Claudie then opened their own Parisian caberet on rue Mouffetard, "L'Ecole Buissonnière", which soon became a gathering place for many pacifists & libertarians.
http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/juin1.html#3
6- 25 -1967 -- "Summer of Love": 75,000 - 100,000 in Hashbury.
Also, on or about this day, author Ken Kesey is sentenced to 6 months in jail.
| "You are either on the bus or you're not on the bus." | At a Veterans Administration hospital, Kesey was a paid experimental subject, taking mind-altering drugs & reporting their effects. Experiences as an aide at a psychiatric hospital & LSD sessions served as background for One Flew Over Cuckoo's Nest. The book was a vehicle for Ken Kesey’s anarchist rant against the oppressive conformism imposed by society’s institutions, particularly the dehumanising social conformity of the 1950s. Kesey formed the 'Merrie Pranksters', bought an old school bus, & toured America & Mexico with his friends. Their exploits were immortalised in Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1973). |
http://www.intrepidtrips.com/
http://www.arewereally.com/titlepage.html
http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/N-Q/psysc/staff/rmyoung/papers/paper41h.html
7- 2 -1967 -- US: Floyd Turner is convicted of flag desecration & sentenced to six months in jail & a $500 fine in Seattle, Wa. Credible witnesses, including scuptor Richard Beyer & publisher Stan Stapp, testified that Turner was not the culprit, & anarchist Stan Iverson willingly confessed that he had incinerated the flag with another man (later identified as Michael Travers). Judge Manolides was unpersuaded, declaring that,
"anarchists cannot tell right from wrong & cannot be trusted."
Turner was a young, barely-literate drifter who appeared in Seattle during the 1962 World's Fair. He claimed to have been a Doukhobor, a member of a Russian Christian sect notorious for battles with Canadian authorities & for polygamy, public nudity, & routinely burning their own homes.
Unable to find work, Turner attended a meeting of the Seattle Committee of the Unemployed, which was led by anarchists George & Louise Crowley. The Crowleys took Turner under their wing & he later became a fixture in numerous anti-war & civil rights demonstrations. He made his mark for fearlessly taunting the police & occasionally shedding his clothes during rallies & marches.
http://www.historylink.org/output.cfm?file_id=2492
7- 21 -1967 -- François Mayoux dies. French pacifist, antimilitarist, anarchist. Son of Jehan Mayhoux, companion of Marie Mayoux.
10- 21 -1967 -- US: Yippies, Diggers, anarchists & other high priests meet in Washington DC, Oct. 21-23, for "Exorcism of the Pentagon" to rid the world of the global evil spirit virus infecting all who work there. Psychedelic face paint & flowers stuck in barrels of guns scare the shit out of US goblins & results in 647 arrested. 50,000 people demonstrate against the war in Washington, D.C.
http://www.homeusers.prestel.co.uk/littleton/br7212nc.htm
http://www.abbiehoffman.com/
10- 30 -1967 --
Sometime during this month, Abbie Hoffman arrested while attempting to measure the Pentagon. A nasty job, but someone has to do it. Anyone who had 4,100 pages in the FBI files couldn't be all bad. Abbie Hoffman, 1960s & 70s militant anarchist, was Co-Founder of the Youth International Party (YIP a.k.a. Yippies) & one of the "Chicago Seven." He was the subject of an FBI security investigation & intense surveillance due to his political activities & anarchist actions. http://www.pacifica.org/programs/celebrate/_ac_hoffman.html
http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Exhibits/Track16.html#Poster
http://www.paperlessarchives.com/hoffman.html
http://theaction.com/Abbie/
12- 31 -1967 -- Paulette Brupbacher dies. Born in Raygrodski, Russia, an opponent of all conformisms & partisan disciplines. Partner & collaborator of Fritz Brupacher (1874-1945), doctor in Zurich, friend of James Guillaume, Pytor Kropotkin, et al. Translated The Confession of the Russian anarchist Michael Bakunin.
http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/decembre4.html#31
1- 1 -1968 -- US: Yippies founded & announces plans to conduct demonstrations the following summer at Democratic convention in Chicago. Whoever called these anarchists "yuppies" yesterday will be beheaded at midnight.
1- 8 -1968 -- France: Soccer Bleu!?
8 janvier 68 Altercation entre François Missoffe (ministre de la Jeunesse et des Sports) et anarchiste Daniel Cohn-Bendit
lors de l'inauguration de la piscine de Nanterre.
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bright/Bendit/benditbio.html
1- 16 -1968 -- US: Youth International Party (Y.I.P.) founded -- Country Joe & Fish, Fugs (includes Tuli Kupferberg, "one of the leading Anarchist theorists of our time" & Ed Sanders, poet, editor, owner of the fabled Peace Eye Book Store), Allen Ginsberg, Arlo Guthrie, Abbie Hoffman, Paul Krassner, Phil Ochs, Jerry Rubin (25 artists, writers & revolutionaries). No anarchist Yuppies allowed; BleedMeister has been beheaded for certain licentious transgressions.
I spoke to Tolstoy: 'Emma Goldman's coming back!'
He sat there writing on a shard of red & black
Black & Red. Coming back!
Red & Black. They're comin' back!... I see the White House & I want to paint it Red
Willy Reich is shouting at me: 'Better Bed than Dead!'
Now Billy's roasting Yelstin: 'So long Bourgeois Flack!'
I spy the Kremlin Hey we're gonna take it back! RED & BLACK
GET IT BACK
RED & BLACK
WE'RE COMING BACK
RED & BLACK
RED & BLACK
RED & BLACK — Tuli Kupferberg, excerpts,
PAINT IT RED (& BLACK) http://www.uoregon.edu/~splat/Fugs.html
http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/fales/coll_mss/fugs.html
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1- 26 -1968 -- France: 40 members of the Nanterre University anarchist group march into the faculty hall with comical posters ridiculing the police. The porters attack the anarchists but are defeated. The authorities call in the police; one thousand students fight back & attend a protest meeting. The movement thus launched has grown ever since. The students are determined to get rid of the uniformed & plainclothes police haunting the faculties. Antecedent of May events in Paris-France.
http://www.ecn.org/freedom/1968/vive.html
3- 11 -1968 -- West Germany: Rudi Dutschke (1940-1979) -- a leader of the German Socialist Student League (SDS), who had played an important role in the militant anti-war protests in the winter of 1967-68 -- is shot & nearly killed by a Munich house painter carrying with him a clipping about the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. anarchist http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/biografien/DutschkeRudi/
3- 22 -1968 -- France: Students occupy the school at Nanterre & the March 22nd Movement emerges — an organization with no hierarchy & no ideological program. Includes members of various groups & also unorganized students.
Dany Cohn-Bendit soon established himself as a principal spokesman; describing himself as 'a megaphone for the movement & an anarchist by the negation of authoritarian hierarchies as communism & capitalism'. Cohn-Bendit & the Situationists wanted central coordinated worker/student-councils, who act together but preserve their autonomy. The Sorbonne was transformed from an institutionalized bureaucracy to 'a volcano of revolutionary ideas'. Day & night in every lecture hall were passionate discussions. The spirit of the Paris Commune was back ...
http://www.stuve.uni-muenchen.de/68/france68.html
4- 11 -1968 -- Germany: In Berlin, the attempted assassination of Rudi Dutschke, a well known student anarchist activist, unleashes solidarity demonstrations in his behalf in Paris, Rome, Vienna & London. In Berlin, three shots ring out, a cyclist goes down. He has a face naturally cadaveric, devoured by an unceasingly incipient beard, a fantastically dark glance, black, stiff & badly combed hair. The red & green bicycle slows down on Kurfürstendamm, in Berlin, near the head office of the SDS, the organization of the socialist students of West Germany. Three shots ring out. The cyclist falls. A small trail of blood on the pavement leads to a puddling pool of blood which widens, he is murmuring, "soldier, soldiers" & then does not move any more.
4- 15 -1968 -- France: Amparo Poch y Gascon dies on her birthday, Toulouse. Spanish anarchist feminist, propagandist for sexual freedom.
Studied sociology & medicine. Worked with women's education & in 1936, with Mercedes Comaposada & Lucia Sanchez, & cofounded "Mujeres Libres" (Free Women) which publishes, beginning May 1936, a review of the same name. She wrote for many libertarian publications, & after the revolution in Spain worked with Spanish refugees in the French concentration camps.
http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/octobre3.html
4- 21 -1968 -- Italy: Armando Borghi (1882-1968) dies. Important Italian anarchist figure, propagandist. Friend of Malatesta's, secretary of the large Unione Anarchica Italiana (UAI) as well as the head of the Italian Syndicalist Union (USI) in Bologna. See Anarchist Encyclopedia page, http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/sinners/BorghiArmando.htm
5- 1 -1968 -- France: During the traditional May Day demonstrations fights break out around a black flag as Communists try to exclude the anarchists from the procession.1 mai 68 Défilé CGT, PC et PSU de la place de la République à la Bastille.
http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/mai1.html#1
5- 7 -1968 -- France: (Tuesday) Ten thousand students had taken possession of a vast circle round the Arc de Triomphe, their red & black flags massed on either side of the unknown soldier's tomb, singing the 'International'. The flics kept out of the way. General de Gaulle declared that he would not tolerate any further student violence. The students declared that they were ready for a dialogue on three conditions: withdrawal of the police forces from the Latin Quarter; release & immediate amnesty for the imprisoned students; reopening the Sorbonne & Nanterre. Four hundred and thirty-four demonstrators are today arrested. The police also restore the anarchist Danny Cohn-Bendit's residence permit (but only for a short period).
5- 8 -1968 -- Paris 1968. Things are not what they were.
Wednesday Strong police forces still occupied the Sorbonne & the student union delivers an ultimatum to the Government. If the demands were not met they would 'liberate' the Sorbonne. Mon general changed his tune & said: 'The Government is ready to take the steps necessary for the adaptation of education to the modern world'. M. Pierre Sudreau, of the Party of Modern Democracy, said in the French Assembly that extremists had been trained in street fighting at two anarchist camps. http://www.ecn.org/freedom/1968/week.html
5- 10 -1968 -- Paris, France: During this night of the barricades, Léo Ferré creates his famous song " The Anarchists ". This verse translates to a certain extent the surprise of close observers of the rebirth of the black flag at the time of the demonstrations & the processions of May. alt; Leo Ferre http://jscarnel.free.fr/ebola/Histoire/memoire/anar.html
http://www.leo-ferre.com/
http://www.leoferre.org/
5- 14 -1968 -- Paris '68: Sorbonne students occupy & open the University to the population, inviting "the workers to come & discuss with them the problems of the University". All demonstrators who were arrested have been released. Between May 13-30 similar events & demonstrations are inspired, bringing daily life in the modern industrial countries & authority itself into question -- in Madrid, Rome, Berlin, NY, & Czechoslovakia (during "Prague Spring").
"Beneath the paving stones, the beach!" "Be realistic. Demand the Impossible!"
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5- 14 -1968 -- France '68: Workplace occupations start. A significant aspect of the May Upheaval. By the end of this month over 10,000,000 workers are involved in occupations. In Nantes, the workmen of South-Aviation, begin the first occupations of factories. See the Anarchist Encyclopedia, Paris '68, May 14th.
14 mai 68 Le général de Gaulle part en visite officielle en Roumanie.
5- 15 -1968 -- The French Prime Minister appealed to the population to resist 'anarchy'. Occupation of the théâtre de l'Odéon. During the first three or four days of the Sorbonne occupation (1417 May) the situationists & Enragés expressed & developed one of the more lucid approaches to the situation, particularly in the face of numerous labor unions, bureaucrats & leftist groupsicles (Maoist, Trotkyites, etc) who were trying to catch up with ideas & events in hopes of either containing the movement or gaining control or power. The situationists, the Enragés & a few dozen other councilist revolutionaries formed the Council for Maintaining the Occupations (CMDO) with the aim of encouraging workers to bypass them all, to link directly with each other to realize the radical possibilities their action had already opened up.
See "The Joys of Revolution". See also Rene Vienet's book, Enrages & Situationists In The Occupation Movement, France, May '68 published by Autonomedia (critical review at http://www.panix.com/~notbored/1968.html.)
5- 17 -1968 -- France: Today the Occupations Committee, including members of the Situationist International (SI) & the enragés from Nanterre University, sent the following telegram to the Communist Party of the USSR:
SHAKE IN YOUR SHOES BUREAUCRATS STOP THE INTERNATIONAL POWER OF THE WORKERS' COUNCILS WILL SOON WIPE YOU OUT
STOP
HUMANITY WILL NOT BE HAPPY UNTIL THE LAST BUREAUCRAT IS HUNG WITH THE GUTS OF THE LAST CAPITALIST
STOP LONG LIVE THE STRUGGLE OF THE KRONSTADT SAILORS & OF THE MAKHNOVSCHINA AGAINST TROTSKY & LENIN
STOP
LONG LIVE THE 1956 COUNCILIST INSURRECTION OF BUDAPEST
STOP
DOWN WITH THE STATE
STOP
The Occupations Committee of the Sorbonne was an assembly held in permanent session. Groups of enragés in Strasbourg, Nantes & Boudreaux had previously been inspired by the Situationists & attempted to "organize chaos" on the campuses. Many of the most famous slogans now being scribbled on the walls of Paris were taken from the theses of the Situationists, who numbered only a dozen or so, such as Free the Passions; Never Work; Live Without Dead Time. At the end of 1967, Guy Debord in The Society of the Spectacle & Raoul Vaneigem in The Revolution of Everyday Life presented the primary ideas & attitudes of Situationist theory, & these exerted a widespread influence in France during the 1968 rebellion.
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5- 17 -1968 -- France: Several thousand students march for the second time in 24 hours from the Sorbonne to the Renault works in spite of the opposition of the trade unions which are afraid of revolutionary contamination. 17 mai 68 Grève à l'usine Renault de Boulogne-Billancourt.
This evening the "mad ones" also affect the TV industry, & France is faced with a radio & television stoppage.
The take over of factories & paralysis of government is the nation's most severe revolt since the 1871 Paris Commune.
In the next few days, sit-in strikes spread through the engineering & chemical industries, coal mines cease production, & mass transit, rail travel & postal service come to a standstill. The strike also spurs middle-class professionals, including civil servants, teachers & television workers to strike.
Over 10 million workers are involved with occupations in 120 factories.
anarchist / labor
[Insurgent Radio Kiosk] http://www.scenewash.org/lobbies/chainthinker/situationist/index.html
http://art.ntu.ac.uk/mental/storie/bbsi.htm
5- 21 -1968 -- China: At a protest demonstration in Peking the group Sheng Wu Lian calls for the people to govern themselves directly, as in the Paris Commune. The Red Guards accuse them of being anarchists!
http://www.hku.hk/complit/staff/lee_chinanar1.htm
http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/talks/paris.html
5- 21 -1968 -- France '68: The 'Workers-Students Action Committee-Citroen', forms. See the Anarchist Encyclopedia page, http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/sinners/Paris6821st.htm
21 mai 68 Cohn-Bendit est interdit de séjour en France.
5- 23 -1968 -- France: Paris Uprising '68, new confrontations with the Latin Quarter, between students & CRS with government attempts to shut down or muzzle radio stations. anarchist http://www.neravt.com/left/may1968.htm
http://www.neravt.com/left/history.htm
5- 30 -1968 -- France: Trains don't run, airports closed; millions of workers have barricaded themselves within their factories & offices; soccer players have occupied their stadiums; there is no mail & it is almost impossible to make a phone call; Universities are closed; France is in the middle of a massive General Strike! Leading politicians warn of a civil war/revolution.anarchy 30 mai 68 Dans un discours à la radio, le président de la République dissout l'Assemblée nationale.
Manifestation de soutien au général de Gaulle, 800 000 personnes remontent les Champs-Elysées.
http://www.physik.uni-regensburg.de/~sij17370/situ/mai68.html
6- 7 -1968 -- "This explosion was provoked by groups in revolt against modern technical & consumer society, whether it be the communism of the East or the capitalism of the West. They are groups, moreover, which have no idea at all what they would replace it with, but who delight in negation, destruction, violence, anarchy & who brandish the black flag". ---Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Besieged General De Gaulle, June 7th 1968
6- 14 -1968 -- Rirette Maitrejean dies. French individualist anarchist. Companion to the anarchist Mauricius (Maurice Vandamme), Victor Serge (Kibaltchiche), arrested with Serge & tried (Feb 3-27 1913) for involvement with the Bonnot Gang (she was acquitted). She wrote for many anarchist publications, such as "La Revue Anarchiste", "La défense de l'homme" & "La liberté" (founded by Louis Lecoin in 1959).
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8- 23 -1968 -- US: Yippies sponsor the "Festival of Life" at the Democratic Convention & get national headlines by nominating Pigasus the Pig for President & threatening to spike the Chicago water supply with LSD. 10,000 unarmed Yippies are attacked by 23,000 armed soldiers, national guardsmen, & police. Today classes are held in Lincoln Park on karate, snake dancing & other means of self-defense. Police litter the park, posting "11 p.m. curfew" signs in park trees (in some cities they would go to jail for such acts of vandalism).
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8- 27 -1968 -- US: Allen Ginsberg leads a sunrise service that includes chanting, prayers, & meditation. anarchist
About 4,000 gather at a rally in the Chicago Coliseum to hear Dellinger, Hoffman, folksinger Phil Ochs, novelist William Burroughs & others. A planned march to the Amphitheatre, site of the Democratic National Convention, is discussed. Bobby Seale address a crowd of about 2,000 in Lincoln Park. Seale's address is observed by undercover police officer Robert Pierson. At 11:20 p.m. in Lincoln Park, police charge & beat demonstrators. Some enraged demonstrators smash windows & streetlights. Violent encounters between police & demonstrators occur in the streets near Grant Park.
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/Chicago7/chicago7.html
http://theaction.com/Abbie/
http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Exhibits/Track16.html#Poster
8- 28 -1968 -- Meanwhile, the anarchist Yippie! Abbie Hoffman is arrested while having breakfast for having the word "Fuck" on his forehead. Dave Dellinger, Bobby Seale, Rennie Davis, & Tom Hayden address 10,000 to 15,000 demonstrators at the bandshell in Grant Park, opposite the Hilton.
Dellinger announces that he will lead a march to the Amphitheatre. The march is stopped by police. Demonstators are attacked by Officer Friendlies with tear gas & clubs at Balbo & Michigan & other locations in the area.
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/Chicago7/chicago7.html
http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Exhibits/Track16.html#Poster
http://theaction.com/Abbie/
8- 29 -1968 -- US: Chicago Democratic convention: Antiwar protesters clash with police & national guardsmen in the streets outside, & hundreds of people, including innocent bystanders & members of the press, are brutally beaten by Chicago's finest.
Senator Eugene McCarthy, Dick Gregory are among others who address a crowd in Grant Park. The anarchist Yipster Abbie Hoffman allegedly proposes kidnapping Superintendent Rochford.
9- 28 -1968 -- Brazil: Edgar Leuenroth (1881-1968) dies.
Arquivo Edgard Leuenroth at Brazil’s Universidade Estadual de Campinas is the largest archive of anarchist material in South America, followed by Biblioteca Popular ‘Jose Ingenieros’ in Buenos Aires (founded in 1935).
http://www.arquivo.ael.ifch.unicamp.br/
10- 15 -1968 -- England: Alan Barlow & Phil Carver arrested for participating in a "First of May Group" attack on Banco de Bilbao in Covent Garden. International Anarchist Conference at Carrara (Italy), Stuart Christie & Daniel Cohn-Bendit are chosen as British delegates.
11- 3 -1968 -- Portugal: Germinal De Sousa, dies, Lisbon. Participant in the Spanish Revolution of 1936, fighting with the column "Tierra y Libertad". Son of Manuel Joaquim de Sousa & secretary of F.A.I. (Iberian Anarchist Federation), 1938-1939.
http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/spain/birth_fai.html
http://flag.blackened.net/rocker/aasind.htm
11- 13 -1968 -- Andre Prudhommeaux (1902- 1968) dies.
A French anarchist bookstore owner whose shop in Paris specialized in social history -- & a place for many debates & discussions.
André Prudhommeaux joua un role de tout premier plan dans la campagne francaise de soutien a Van der Lubbe pour trois raisons: il avait des contacts avec Ies groupes allemands ethollandais se reclamant du communisme de conseils; il connaissaitl'allemand et le neerlandais; il se situait a l'intersection des deux cultures politiques.
Prudhommeaux was an early Council Communist, then an anarchist. He contributed to the Revue Anarchiste, participated in the defense campaign for Marinus van der Lubbe in 1933 & was a supporter of the Friends of Durruti during the Spanish Revolution.
Following WWII he participated in Commission de Relations Internationales Anarchistes (CRIA), edited Le Libertaire, contributed to Témoins & Preuves & several French & foreign anarchist journals like Le Monde Libertaire, Volontà, Freedom, L'Adunata dei refrattari & Pensée et Action. Co-author, with his partner Dora Ris, of Spartacus & the Berlin Commune, The Libertarian Effort , Libertarian Catalonia. (see also 15 October 1902).
BLANCHETEAU Jocelyne, André Prudhommeaux (1902-1968).
Un militant anarchiste, Maîtrise sous la direction de R. Rémond,
J. Maitron, Paris X, 1972, 2 vol. (286 p.)
Anarchisme, Prudhommeaux, biographie, militantisme
http://flag.blackened.net/ksl/bullet6.htm#Prudhommeaux
http://www.spunk.org/library/places/spain/sp001780/intro.html
11- 25 -1968 -- US: American socialist, novelist, politician, Upton Sinclair dies. Dragon's Teeth (1942), which dealt with Germany's descent into Nazism, 1930 to 1934, won him the Pulitzer Pize for fiction in 1943.
When I was growing up I read Upton Sinclair ... at the end of the novel [The Jungle] he had one of his characters present a picture of what a good society would be like. It would be a society in which the fruits of the Earth were shared in a kind of rough equality in which corporate profit would not be the driving motive of the economic system but the needs of people would determine what was done & in which democracy would exist & people would have a voice not just in voting & chosing political leaders but a voice in how the economic system operates. So I think all those ideas (communist, socialist, anarchist) are still relevant today & are very far removed from the kind of bureaucratic dictatorships that arose in the early & middle parts of this century that called themselves marxist.
— Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/sinclair.htm
Edmund Wilson, says: "Practically alone among the American writers of his generation, [Sinclair] put to the American public the fundamental questions raised by capitalism in such a way that they could not escape them."http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jupton.htm
12- 20 -1968 -- Franz Kafka's friend, Jewish author Max Brod, dies in Tel Aviv (Jaffa). Having ignored Kafka's last will ("burn all the manuscripts"), he handed down the writings of one of the most important German-speaking writers of the 20th century to posterity. Also wrote the first biography of Kafka, which ignored Franz Kafka's involvement in anarchist groups & activities, which he apparently disapproved of. "The Revolution evaporates, & leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy. The chains of tormented mankind are made out of red tape." http://www.levity.com/corduroy/kafka.htm
1- 7 -1969 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Governor & FBI snitch Ronald Reagan asks California legislature to "drive criminal anarchists & latter-day Fascists off the campuses".
3- 16 -1969 -- Antonio Pereira (1908-1969) (true name Tomaso Ranier) dies. Italian anarchist, member of the Ortiz column during the Spanish Revolution, & of the underground movement after the fascist Franco became dictator. See the Anarchist Encyclopedia, http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/sinners/AntonioPereira.htm
3- 21 -1969 -- US: Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint heads fiction bestseller list; Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five published. Vonnegut's calls himself an anarchist & uses black humor against the ruling class.
3- 22 -1969 -- Spain: Miguel Garcia released from prison. Former Portuguese diplomat, Antonio de Figueredo, despairing of attempts at ameliorating the dictatorship of Dr Salazar, persuades local anti-fascists to unite with Iberian dissidents, including ETA & the anarchist militants such as Garcia.
http://www.spunk.org/library/writers/meltzer/sp001591/app1.html
3- 26 -1969 -- Mexico: Anarchist novelist B. Traven dies. Wrote one of the great travel ship novels, The Death Ship. Makes the Titanic blush... Hal Croves, the man purporting to be B. Traven's "literary agent" & widely believed to be Traven himself, dies in Mexico City: "I am but the product of an era with the heartfelt wish to disappear again back into the continuum, with the same anonymity with which I must today shout out my words before you ..."
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See the Anarchist Encyclopedia page,
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/saints/StTravenB.htm
4- 1 -1969 -- First collective anarchist pizza made as Morningtown Pizza & Subs opens in Seattle, Washington.
Kevin Cunningham, David Jensen (Kid Carrot), Tom Nast, Carol Anderson, Ace, BleedMeister (aka "Mr. (PH)un"), Gus Hellthaler, Tina Wolfe, Claudia Neva, Dan Brown, Stan Iverson, Cranky John Severin, Doug Dipple, Diane Kucera, Jim Logie, Ben, Gregor Jamrock, Tom Ninkovitch, Jeffrey Hummel, Warren Argo, Albert Richards, & Wilma are just a few of the 100+ luniaries who work & play here in its 10+ years -- where one case of beer per shift was the limit during "working" hours.
4- 10 -1969 -- France: Simone Larcher dies. Anarchist & proofreader. With Louis Louvet, she published the newspaper "L'anarchie" until 1929. See the Anarchist Encyclopedia,
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/sinners/LarcherSimone.htm
4- 25 -1969 -- Italy: gli anarchici sono accusati e poi assolti di vari attentati alla fiera di Milano. Un anarchico di nome Braschi viene invitato durante un interrogatorio dal commissario Calabresi a buttarsi dalla finestra.
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/8485/glca/pinelli.html
5- 14 -1969 -- US: Police build fence around People's Park in Berkeley, California, tonight. NOT PEOPLE'S PARK
PEOPLE'S PLANET, CAN THEY
FENCE THAT ONE IN, BULLDOZE IT
4 A.M.? --- Diane di Prima, Revolutionary Letter #38
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6- 16 -1969 -- Marie Mayoux (1878-1969) dies (aka Joséphine Bourgon). French teacher, militant syndicalist, pacifist & anarchist. See the Anarchist Encyclopedia page, http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/sinners/MayouxMarie.htm
8- 14 -1969 -- Hem Day (1902-1969) dies. Belgian scholar, secondhand bookseller, pacifist, anarchist, & writer (aka Marcel &/or Henri Dieu). See the Anarchist Encyclopedia page,
http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/sinners/DayHem.htm
8- 18 -1969 -- France: Jean Goldschild (1890-1969) dies (aka Goldsky, or Jacques Guerrier). Antimilitarist, militant anarchist & journalist. Goldschild drifted away from anarchism & pacificismbefore returning once more & collaborating on Louis Lecoin's journal "Liberté".
"C'est dans les milieux libertaires que j'ai appris à penser" ---Jean Goldschild, "Libertaire", 1924.
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10- 5 -1969 -- All Crossed Up?: Premiere of "Monty Python's Flying Circus." Mainstream anarchy & mayhem. http://www.montypython.net/
10- 6 -1969 -- US: Weathermen blow up statue commemorating police involved in the Haymarket bombings which resulted in the execution of innocent anarchists. It is foolishly replaced ... & blown up again in 1970. http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/haymarket/Haymarket.html
10- 7 -1969 -- US: Haymarket statue (memorial to cops slain who fired on workers in 1886) in Chicago bombed. (or yesterday?)
"Every anarchist hole was entered & the assassins in some instances were dragged from their beds."
http://cpl.lib.uic.edu/004chicago/timeline/haymarket.html
11- 2 -1969 -- Italy: Two-day Congress of the F.A.I. (Italian Anarchist Federation), in Carrare. Not surprisingly, differences develop between anarchists & International Situationists. What seems to have happened (see the account in the last part of Veritable Split in the International) is that some FAI members were enthused by the SI & were kicked out by the orthodox majority, who paranoically fantasized a situationist plot to undermine the FAI. "The secret of the misery of daily life is the real State secret... The Spectacle is nothing but the private property of the means of publicity, the state monopoly of appearances. With it, only the circulation of commodities remains public.
The Spectacle is nothing but the circulation of commodities absorbing all available means of publicity, thus condemning misery to invisibility.
The spectacle is the secret form of public misery, where value operates implacably while the deceived gaze only meets things & their use."
— Jean Pierre Voyer, Reich, How to Use http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/rbr/rbr3_italy.html
http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/blindmen81.htm
http://www.zpub.com/notes/aan-edu.html
12- 12 -1969 -- Bomb explodes, Banque Nationale d'Agriculture, Milan, Italy. 18 die, many injured. A period of social upheaval, it triggers repression against the autonomy movement & anarchists. Authorities later admit the bombing was the work of fascists. Italian Intelligence & fascist army units (created by US Army from Mussolini's Intelligence) were making bomb attacks & pretending they were by anarchists. See for example, the murder of the railwayman/anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli by police (15 December) & the false arrest of Pietro Valpreda. Now referred to as the "State slaughter".
"Stai attento, indiziato Pinelli,
questa stanza é giá piena di fumo,
se tu insisti, apriam la finestra,
quattro piani son duri da far". — "Ballata per l'anarchico Pinelli", attributed to L.Francisci-Anonymous, Eliseo.
Pinelli was also the focus of the play, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, by Dario Fo
Piazza Fontana. In a sense it all started here. The bomb placed by fascists in the Bank of Agriculture, 12 December 1969. Dario Fo wrote his Accidental Death of an Anarchist, to highlight police cover-ups of the true facts. Now, on the thirtieth anniversary of Piazza Fontana, a national protest has been organised, largely inspired by Dario Fo & Franca Rame.
http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/Wing/8730/March/occas14.html
See Also the film, 12 Dicembre Film di Lotta Continua da un'idea di Pier Paolo Pasolini.
http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/songs/it_pinelli.html
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/8485/glca/pinelli.html
http://www.sofri.org/monta.html
http://www.informagiovani.it/Terrorismo/tercronolog.htm
12- 15 -1969 -- Italy: Anarchist railway worker Giuseppe Pinelli "accidentally" defenestrated to his death from the 4th floor of police station in Milan where he had been held following the attack against the Bank of Agriculture of December 12.
Giuseppe Pinelli, secretary of the Anarchist Black Cross, is thrown through a window to his death by police, which became a national scandal. Born in Milan in 1928, Pinelli took part in the resistance during WWII. He was a founder of the Sacco & Vanzetti Circle, a youth organizer, & invovled with the USI, as well as the Anarchist Black Cross.
Pietro Valpreda & members of the Circle of March 22 are also arrested, following the anti-anarchist hysteria orchestrated by the government & press, accused of the bombing in Milan. Only much later is it revealed that the bombing was the work of rightwing fascists, in collusion with government reactionaries. Italian Intelligence & fascist army units (originally created by the US Army from Mussolini's Intelligence service) were making bomb attacks & pretending they were by anarchists.
"Black Cross secretary Giuseppe Pinelli thrown by Milan police from window in fake suicide, as the result of a plot by Italian Intelligence and fascist stay-at-home army units (created by US Army from Mussolini's Intelligence) to make bomb attacks on workers' institutions and pretend they were by Anarchists thus killing two birds with one stone."
— Albert Meltzer, I Couldn't Paint Golden Angels
Pinelli's police murder was the subject of Nobel Prize-winner Dario Fo's play, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, a film by Pasolini, etc.
http://flag.blackened.net/ias/4centro.htm
http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/songs/it_pinelli.html
http://burn.ucsd.edu/~abcf/
http://www.uonna.it/caduta.htm
http://www.ecn.org/contropotere/giuseppe_pinelli.htm
1- 8 -1970 -- US: Shortly after the publication of his book, The One-Man Revolution in America, Ammon Hennacy suffers a heart attack while picketing for Lance & Kelback, two convicted murderers scheduled to be executed.
Ammon Hennacy was a Catholic anarchist who ran the Joe Hill House. Mentor to songster, anarchist & labor radical U. Utah Phillips ("One of the most important songwriters to be found in North America." --- Rolling Stone.) http://www.oro.net/~dscanlan/loafer.html
1- 14 -1970 -- US: Anarchist/pacifist Ammon Hennacy dies. Best known for his work in operating the "Joe Hill Hospitality House" for transients in Salt Lick City, Utah. Influenced Dorothy Day & U. Utah Phillips. Hennacy was a self-described "Christian-anarchist-pacifist" who never paid taxes or went to war.
1- 18 -1970 -- Accidental death of Rene Keravis, 42. In November 1952 he helped form the "Young Libertarians" within the French Anarchist Federation. Then, without disavowing his libertarian ideas, was an exemplary participant in "auberges de jeunesse".
4- 25 -1970 -- France: Albert Perrier (or Perier), aka Germinal, (1897-1970) dies, Angers. Militant revolutionary syndicalist & resistance fighter. [Source: L'Ephéméride Anarchiste]
5- 3 -1970 -- Nononstante questo il 3 maggio 1970 il caso per lo stato è chiuso: il procuratore Gaizzi archivia la morte di Pinelli come "Morte accidentale". Nel giugno 1971 nel processo contro Calabresi accusato dal giornale 'Lotta continua' di essere responsabile di omicidio viene riesumata la salma di Pinelli. Sul collo viene riscontrata una ecchimosi di cm 6x3 presumibilmente provocata da un colpo di karaté (metodo usato dalla polizia) sicuramente precedente alla caduta.Vengono fatte prove con un manichino che escludono completamente il suicidio.
anarchist http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/8485/glca/pinelli.html
http://digilander.iol.it/nopasaran/pinelli.htm
5- 4 -1970 -- US: City of Chicago unveils a new monument to policemen killed in Haymarket Square. Chicago police, with a tradition of indiscriminately shooting & killing unarmed workers & their supporters, honored. The statue, oddly enough, keeps getting knocked over.
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5- 22 -1970 -- England: Bomb discovered at the new Paddington police station in London: during the later trial, the prosecution claim that this is the first "Angry Brigade" action. Major Yallop (head of laboratories at Woolwich Arsenal) admits to forensic work on 1,100 bombings in England between 1968 & 1971. Busy days indeed.
http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/library/AngryBrigade/
Source: 'Calendar Riots' & Albert Meltzer's I Couldn't Paint Golden Angels
anarchist http://www.spunk.org/library/writers/meltzer/sp001591/angeltoc.html
5- 22 -1970 -- England: Bomb at Scotland Yard computer room, Tintagel House, London; simultaneous attacks take place on BR, Rolls Royce & Rover offices in Paris. (Attributed to "Angry Brigade" ?)
Source: 'Calendar Riots'anarchist
6- 2 -1970 -- Lucia Sanchez Saornil (1895-1970) dies in Valence. Spanish poet, painter & militant anarchist-feminist. A founder of the famed "Mujeres Libres". "Soñar, soñar siempre (...) Porque un nuevo entusiasmo nos transporta a otro ensueño entrevisto en lontananza y en la vida, el soñar, es lo que importa." (Rêver, toujours rêver (...) Pour qu'un nouvel enthousiasme nous transporte dans un autre rêve entrevu dans le futur et dans la vie, le rêve, c'est ce qui importe.)
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6- 10 -1970 -- England: Brixton Conservative Association firebombed. Tomorrow the anarchist Stuart Christie's home raided with explosives warrant. A series of firebombings occurs this year in England & Europe, some by the Angry Brigade; police will also try to pin at least one (at the Miss World contest) on Jake Prescott. http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/library/AngryBrigade/1970.html
6- 11 -1970 -- England: The anarchist Stuart Christie's home is raided with explosives warrant. Bombings continue this month & throughout the year.
http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/library/AngryBrigade/1970.html
7- 28 -1970 -- Netherlands: Albert de Jong (1891-1979) dies, Heemstede. Militant anarcho-syndicalist & Dutch antimilitarist writer & speaker. Associated with Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis, Bart de Ligt, Arthur Lehning, "Bureau international antimilitariste". In the 1930s he helped members of the F.A.U.D. (Freie Arbeiter Union Deutschland, anarchosyndicalist union with about 125,000 members), such as Dr Gerhardt Wartenberg, escape Nazi persecution. De Jong went to England during the war, & with the aid of his son Rudolf de Jong, continued his work. Albert, both a witness & a significant actor in the social history of Holland, remained committed to the libertarian ideal until his death.
7- 30 -1970 -- England: Series of bombings, attributed to the anarchist Angry Brigade, occurs, between July 30 & December 1971. Bombings include Gordon Carr's (Minister of Employment) home (see Jan 12, 1971), the Department of Employment & the Miss World contest (Nov 20).
8- 30 -1970 -- England: The London home of the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, Sir John Waldron, is damaged by a bomb blast. The bombing is not reported in the national press.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/gallery/galleryindex.htm#AngryBrigadeanarchist
9- 17 -1970 -- England: Jake Prescott paroled from Albany Prison, Isle of Wight. Political prisoner, member of the anarchist Angry Brigade. One of the crimes police tried to pin on him was the bombing of the Miss World contest. Major Yallop, head of the Laboratories at Woolwich Arsenal, main witness for the prosecution in the trial of the supposed Angry Brigade, was forced to admit that in addition to the 25 bombings between 1968 & mid 1971 attributed to them, another 1,075 had come through his laboratory.
http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/library/AngryBrigade/1970.html
10- 4 -1970 -- anarchist
10- 8 -1970 -- England: Second explosion at Rawlinson's home. Part of large series of bombings this year, believed attributable to the anarchist Angry Brigade.
10- 9 -1970 -- England: Italian Trade Centre, Exhibition Building, Cork Street, London, bombed. Attacks simultaneously in Manchester, Birmingham & Paris against Italian State buildings. The attacks were claimed on behalf of Giuseppe Pinelli the Italian anarchist murdered by the police in 1969. Part of large series of bombings this year, believed attributable to the Angry Brigade.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/gallery/galleryindex.htm#AngryBrigade
10- 26 -1970 -- England: Administration building on Keele University campus firebombed. Also Barclays Bank at Stoke Newington firebombed. Newspaper report says: `Police are investigating several similar incidents at other branches'. Part of large series of bombings this fall, most believed attributable to the anarchist Angry Brigade.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/gallery/galleryindex.htm#AngryBrigade
10- 27 -1970 -- anarchist Ode on the Absence of Real Poetry Here This Afternoon — A Poem in Dialectical Prose — ____________________________________________________ Poetry, as poets are fond of relating, originated from religious or magical incantations. The respect for the bard was due to the fact that his words mattered. Supposedly, the precise phrases & refrains were necessary to keep the crops growing, etc. — Read by Ken Knabb at an open poetry reading in Berkeley, October 27, 1970. http://www.bopsecrets.org/PS/ode.htm
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11- 20 -1970 -- England: Women protesters disrupt the Miss World contest during live TV transmission. Flour bombs are hurled at Bob Hope. The BBC broadcast van parked outside Albert Hall is blown up. The first widely known link between anarchists & Situationists in England.
A BBC van outside the Albert Hall in London covering the Miss World contest is bombed at 2,30 am. The prosecution claimed that Jake Prescott was responsible for this explosion, but also brought a witness who vouched that Jake was in fact in Edinburgh at the time. They were forced to drop this charge. http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/gallery/galleryindex.htm#AngryBrigade
http://www.spunk.org/library/writers/meltzer/sp001591/app1.html
http://www.spunk.org/texts/groups/agb/sp000540.txt
12- 3 -1970 -- England: Spanish Embassy in London is machine gunned following international protests against the trial of the Basque nationalists, the Burgos Six. This was not reported. It is claimed at a later trial that the same gun had been used in the August 1967 attack on the US Embassy and is offered as proof of a "Christie link" [the anarchist Stuart Christie] though he was in a Spanish jail until September 1967.
Part of large series of militant actions & bombings this year, often attributed to the Angry Brigade.
[Source: click here]
12- 6 -1970 -- Taiji Yamaga (1892-1970) dies. Japanese anarchist militant, born in Kyoto. Advocate of Esperanto & a long-time secretary of international relations for the Anarchist Federation of Japan. http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/decembre1.html#6
12- 8 -1970 -- England: Big demonstrations against the Tory Government's Industrial Relations Bill. In the early hours of December 9 the Department of Employment and Productivity in St James Square, London, is bombed. The police had searched the building & no sooner left it than it went off. Action claimed by the anarchist Angry Brigade.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/gallery/galleryindex.htm#AngryBrigade
1- 12 -1971 -- England: The home of Robert Carr MP is bombed after he introduces the Industrial Relations Bill in a drive to crush trade unionism.
The bombing is attributed to an organised "Angry Brigade". A 'mysterious young Scot' story is featured fingering anarchist Stuart Christie as the major suspect for every armed action in resistance to the Government's plans for industrial slavery. Jake Prescott is arrested this month, Ian Purdie in March, as suspects.
[Source: click here]
http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/library/AngryBrigade/
3- 15 -1971 -- Louis Louvet (1899-1971) dies. Anarchist, anarcho-trade unionist, in the Syndicat des Correcteurs d'imprimerie since 1937. See 7 February.
5- 1 -1971 -- England: The anarchist Angry Brigade bombs Biba Boutique, "the trendiest store in Swinging London".
[Source: Calendar Riots]
5- 2 -1971 -- US: The last surviving member of the Pioneer Aid & Support Society, Irving Abrams, presents the deed to the Haymarket monument to the Illinois Labor History Society. Every year on the Sunday closest to May 4, & the anniversary of Black Friday, November 11th, labor organizations come to this monument to pay tribute to these anarchist heroes by stressing their labor activism & ignoring their anarchist ideas.
6- 23 -1971 -- Louis Lecoin (1888-1971) dies. French antimilitarist, pacifist, anarchist. "One does not create human society on mounds of corpses." --- Louis Lecoin
See the Anarchist Encyclopedia page,
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/sinners/LecoinLouis/LecoinLouis.htm
8- 29 -1971 -- England: Military wing of Edinburgh Castle bombed.
[Source: Calendar Riots]
anarchist
10- 27 -1971 -- US: In New York, Emmett Grogan sent Tuesday Weld home ... The young anarchist didn't like all the publicity that was going around about the two of them being ...
11- 6 -1971 -- Global Warming?: Internationalising the struggle: attacks in solidarity with the Stoke Newington 6 (soon to be 8) & imprisoned Italian anarchists occur at Lloyds Bank in Amsterdam, the Italian consulate in Basle & the British embassies in Rome & Barcelona.
11- 7 -1971 -- | Joseph Spivak (1882-1971) dies, NY City. Lifelong anarchist who emigrated to the US & during WWI was active in nation-wide anti-militarist campaigns with Emma Goldman & Alexander Berkman. Spivak helped found the Libertarian Book Club, publishing English translations of Voline's The Unknown Revolution (1954-1955), The Ego & Its Own" by Max Stirner (1963), etc. An activist to the end, Spivak participated in a conference on "the co-operative movement" just a few weeks before his death at age 90. |
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http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/sinners/SpivakJoseph.htm
12- 4 -1971 -- Germany: Attack on Anarchist Black Cross extends to Germany, where Georg Von Rauch is shot dead by armed political police in West Berlin. Tommy Weisbecker will be killed in Augsburg (2 March, 1972.) http://www.spunk.org/library/writers/meltzer/sp001591/app1.html
http://www.spunk.org/texts/groups/agb/sp000540.txt
12- 18 -1971 -- England: Kate McLean, an "Anarchy Collective" member, is arrested & charged as a member of the "Stoke Newington Eight".
http://www.spunk.org/texts/writers/meltzer/sp001591/app1.html
http://www.spunk.org/texts/groups/agb/sp000540.txt
1- 3 -1972 -- Frans Masereel dies in Avignon, France, aged 82. Graphic artist, born in Belgium in 1889. Best known for his wooodcut novels. A WWII resistance fighter (Le Soleil). Masereel came from a well-to-do family. He attended an art academy, & became interested in anarchism & pacifism. At the outbreak of WWI, he fled to Geneva in neutral Switzerland. There he met many left artists & writers, such as Romain Rolland & Stefan Zweig, who became friends for life. Masereel started illustrating the pacifist magazines Les Tablettes and La Feuille. They established his international reputation. http://www.iisg.nl/exhibitions/art/indexmasereel.html
http://www.graphicwitness.org/historic/masereel.htm
1- 8 -1972 -- Kenneth Patchen -- poet, novelist, painter, graphic designer, early participant in San Francisco Anarchist Group -- dies, Palo Alto, California. http://www.connectotel.com/patchen/
1- 14 -1972 -- France: Adrien Perrissaguet (1898-1972) dies. Founder of "L'association des fédéralistes anarchistes" & the weekly magazine "The Libertarian Voice" & "Combat syndicaliste". Activist in the Sacco & Vanzetti committee, he also fought in the Spanish Revolution of 1936 & a member of the French Resistance during WWII.
http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/spain/pam_intro.html
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/8195/blasts/pointblank/spanishrevolution.htm
2- 2 -1972 -- Tribute for the anarchist poet/author Kenneth Patchen held at City Lights Poets Theater.
http://www.connectotel.com/patchen/
3- 2 -1972 -- Germany: Attack on Anarchist Black Cross continues, where Tommy Weisbecker is killed in Augsburg; Georg Von Rauch was earlier shot dead by armed political police in West Berlin (4 December 1971).
http://www.spunk.org/library/writers/meltzer/sp001591/app1.html
http://www.spunk.org/texts/groups/agb/sp000540.txt
3- 10 -1972 -- Stephen Mac Say (1884-1972) dies. French anarchist, professor, bee-keeper. Wrote L'école laïque contre l'enfant; De Fourier à Godin; Les bêtes proches de l'homme; Propos sans égards. See October, 15, 1884. http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/mars2.html#10
http://cda.cybertaria.org/l_m.html
4- 10 -1972 -- France: Louis Laurent (1883-1972) dies. Trade unionist, member of the Revolutionary Anarchist Union & the Anarchist Federation of Languedoc in the 30s. Helped publish various libertarian journals, worked with the League of Conscientious Objectors & the CGT-SR (revolutionary trade union). Helped found Libertarian in 1968.
http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/octobre.html#2
5- 17 -1972 -- Italy: Milan police chief Luigi Calabresi, in charge at the time police "suicided" the anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli on December 15, 1969, is assassinated. Three militants of extreme left, Adriano Sofri, Giorgio Pietrostefani & Ovidio Bompressi get 22-year sentences.
http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/songs/it_pinelli.html
http://www.sofri.org/monta.html
5- 30 -1972 -- England: The Stoke Newington Eight trial begins, lasting until 6 December, making a record as the longest trial in British history. Four defendants are sentenced to ten years after a plea for clemency by the jury, four are acquitted.
[Details, click here]
6- 16 -1972 -- Germany: Police capture Ulrike Meinhof, last member of Red Brigades.
8- 2 -1972 -- American anarchist cultural critic Paul Goodman absurdly dies. Wrote Growing Up Absurd.
"A free society cannot be the substitution of a new order for the old order; it is the extension of spheres of free action until they make up the most of social life."
"I move in a society so devoid of ordinary reality that I am continually stopping to teach good sense, to give support, to help out, as a young gangster might help an old lady across the street on his way to the stick-up."
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/gallery/galleryindex.htm#GoodmanPaul
9- 5 -1972 -- Juan Puig Elias (1898-1972) dies. Spanish teacher & militant anarcho-syndicalist.
Founder of "l'Escola Natura" based on the ideas of Francisco Ferrer. A C.N.T. activist, involved with C.E.N.U. (Council of the New School Unified) during the Revolution.
[Details, click here]
12- 6 -1972 -- England: The Stoke Newington Eight trial ends. It began May 30, 1972, the longest trial in British history. Four defendants are sentenced to ten years after a plea for clemency by the jury, & four are acquitted.anarchist http://www.spunk.org/library/writers/meltzer/sp001591/app1.html
http://www.spunk.org/texts/groups/agb/sp000540.txt
1- 8 -1973 -- Uruguay: Tupamaro guerillas kidnap British ambassador Geoffrey Jackson; although the government refuses their demands to free 150 prisoners, they release him unharmed eight months later, Montevideo. At one point they try to work out a deal though the Anarchist Black Cross in London, with Albert Meltzer as negotiator.
4- 26 -1973 -- France: André Respaut dies. Author, resistance fighter, anarchist, survivor of Buchenwald. See the Anarchist Encyclopedia page, http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/sinners/RespautAndre.htm
5- 7 -1973 -- Olga Freidlin Maximoff dies while Boris Yelensky is preparing the pamphlet by her deceased husband, G.P. Maximoff, for publication. anarchist
6- 27 -1973 -- Ida Mett dies. Member of the Dyelo Truda group from 1925 to 1928. Mett, a Russian anarchist, was married to Nicholas Lazarevitch, who helped her gather documentation for her book, The Kronstadt Uprising 1921.
alt; Nicholas Lazarevich
8- 7 -1973 -- Emile Bauchet (1899-1973) dies, à Villers-Sur-Mer, Calvados. French militant anarchist & pacifist.
[Details, click here]
8- 21 -1973 -- France: Juan Portales Casamar (1922-1973) dies, near Paris. Militant Spanish anarchist, member of the Spanish anarchist yourth organization, along with his brothers & sister, in "jeunesses libertaires" (JJLL). Named secretary of defensepeninsular committee of the Fédération Ibérique des Jeunesses Libertaires (FIJL) in 1947, he was quickly arrested, but escaped to France in January 1948 where he helped found the CNT with Cachan. http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/aout3.html#21
9- 2 -1973 -- British medievalist, fantasist, J R R Tolkien dies. For an anarchist take on Tolkien, see Michael Moorcock's "Starship Stormtroopers",
http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/library/Moorcock.htm
http://www.tolkiensociety.org/
9- 14 -1973 --
| England: Dafydd Ladd & Michael Tristram arrested in Bristol, charged with three attacks on Portuguese vice-consulates in Bristol & Cardiff (Wales), & outside the British Army Officers Club at Aldershot, claimed by a group calling itself "Freedom Fighters for All", but manifestly part of the same spontaneous wave during this period. In February 1974 Ladd is sentenced to seven years, Tristram six. http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/library/AngryBrigade/
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9- 17 -1973 -- Spain: Anarchist militants members of the MIL, Oriol Solé Sugranyes & José Luis Pons Llobet, are captured near the French border on after clashing with the "Guardia Civil". They are later sent to prison, for 48 & 24 years respectively. Oriol Solé later escaped from a Segovia jail, along with Resistance prisoners, all ETA members but him, but was gunned down & killed trying to get across the border into France.
alt; Oriol Sole Sugranyes; Jose Luis Pons Llobet
See the Anarchist Encyclopedia,
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/sinners/SoleOriol.htm
9- 22 -1973 -- Spain: Salvador Puig Antich arrested. Young anarchist militant in the guerilla MIL (Mouvement Ibérique de Libération) fighting the yoke of Francoism, he had slipped back into the country in 1972. Despite international protests, Antich is executed March 2, 1974. Extensive reaction to Spanish government targets throughout British, Irish & European cities follow. See the Anarchist Encyclopedia page,
http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/sinners/PuigAntich.htm
1- 2 -1974 -- Belgium: Jean de Boe dies. Anarchist militant, trade unionist & cooperativist. See the Anarchist Encyclopedia page, http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/DeBoeJean.htm
3- 2 -1974 -- Spain: Salvador Puig Antich, 24, dies, executed at Model de Barcelone despite international protests. Ayoung anarchist militant in the guerilla MIL (Mouvement Ibérique de Libération) fighting the yoke of Francoism. http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/sinners/PuigAntich.htm
3- 23 -1974 -- France: Aristide Lapeyre (1899-1974) dies in Bordeaux. Hairdresser, anarchist, pacifist militant & néo-Malthusian.
4- 19 -1974 -- Fernand Planche (1900-1974) dies. French writer/activist of "Anarchist Synthesis" (establishing links between all the various tendencies). http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/fevrier2.html#12
5- 3 -1974 -- France: Spanish banker Balthasar Suarez kidnapped by the "Groups of International Revolutionary Action" (GARI ) in Paris in an action aimed at securing the release of 100 political prisoners in Spain (under the Franco government's own laws). GARI also demanded re-payment of part of the union funds of the CNT seized by Franco. Suarez was released unharmed after payment of an undisclosed sum; police arrested nine French, British & Spanish anarchists in Paris. French & British police conduct (unlawful) joint raids in London, mostly directed at Spanish residents. Also this month is the formation of FOI (Iberian Workers Federation) inside Spain, with Spanish, British & French collaboration, to enable co-ordination of resistance activities disowned by exile movement.
[Source: click here]
7- 11 -1974 --
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The war that won't die
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When a fire bomb ripped through the Balmes cinema in Barcelona on July 11, 1974... |
When a fire bomb ripped through the Balmes cinema in Barcelona on July 11, 1974, the screening of Carlos Saura's La Prima Angelica (Cousin Angelica) was brought abruptly to a halt. The violent response to Angelica, one of the first films to represent the country's bitter civil war from a republican perspective, emphasised the political importance of cinema that deals with contested historical periods. The civil war may have ended officially in 1939, but fascist fire bombs suggested that the battle for Spain's fractured past was set to continue. The release of Jose Luis Cuerda's La Lengua de las Mariposas (Butterfly's Tongue) once again brings the Spanish civil war into the cinema. Set in Galicia in the months preceding Franco's fascist uprising in July 1936, it traces the relationship between a seven-year-old boy & his anarchist-leaning teacher. The film is indicative of Spanish cinema's concern with the country's recent past; of the nearly 300 historical films produced in Spain since the 1970s, more than half are set during the second republic, the civil war & under Franco.
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http://www.filmunlimited.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,4120,347804,00.html
http://www.americancinematheque.com/span99.htm#saura
http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/byron/895/cuerda.html
http://www.offoffoff.com/film/00q3/butterfly.php3
http://www.el-mundo.es/1999/09/15/documentos/15N0152.html
7- 24 -1974 -- Spain: In Barcelona, the anarchist militants & MIL members Oriol Solé Sugranyes & José Luis Pons Llobet (arrested near the French border on September 17, 1973 after run in with the "Guardia civil") are condemned respectively to 48 & 24 years of prison. Oriol Solé is later gunned down, on April 6, 1976, following an escape involving 30 Resistance prisoners (all ETA members but him) from a Segovia jail as he tries to cross the border into France.
alt; Oriol Sole Sugranyes; Jose Luis Pons Llobet
See the Anarchist Encyclopedia,
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/sinners/SoleOriol.htm
11- 7 -1974 -- China: Huge wall poster, critical of the regime, is posted on Peking Road in Canton. Entitled "Concerning Socialist Democracy & Legal System: Dedicated to Chairman Mao & the fourth National People's Congress", it was written by a group of ex-Red Guards under the collective pseudonym of Li I-che. Articles on Chinese anarchism,
http://flag.blackened.net/liberty/
Bibliography on Chinese anarchism at http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/worldwidemovements/chinabiblio.html Shifu; Soul Of Chinese Anarchism by Edward S. Krebs, of possible interest.
http://www.neravt.com/left/anarchy.htm
2- 6 -1975 -- Hélène Patou (1902-1975) dies. French writer, militant anarchist & néo-Malthusian. See 3 February 1902.
3- 27 -1975 -- US: Christ's body found in Detroit! — by the Fifth Estate newspaper staff on Easter Day.
This possibly explains this paper's longevity, as it continues to publish today.
The oldest survivor of the hundreds of underground papers started nationwide in the 1960s is Detroit's Fifth Estate. The FE was founded by Harvey Ovshinsky, now an award-winning TV producer, in November 1965.
While the vast majority of alternative papers died or became mainstream, the FE got more radical through the years.
In its 35th anniversary issue, the paper describes itself as the longest-running English-language anarchist journal in U.S. history. The issue carries stories about protests against global capitalism, mental hospitals, radical sexuality, utopias, the myths of the democratic process & a review of Detroit's anarchist band, The Layabouts.
7- 6 -1975 -- Alexander Sapoundjiev (1893-1975) dies. Bulgarian student of philosophy, anarchist militant, participant in founding congress of the Bulgarian Anarchist Communist Federation in Sofia in 1919. In turn, he was imprisoned by both the Bulgarian fascists & communists.Alexandre Sapoundjiev http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/juillet1.html#sapoundjiev
7- 6 -1975 -- René Lochu dies. Anarchist.alt; Rene Lochu http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/juillet1.html
7- 14 -1975 -- Jehan Mayoux dies. Teacher, pacifist, antimilitarist, anarchist. Refused mobilization in 1939 which cost him his teaching certificate & 5 years of prison. Escapes during a bombing, captured by Germans, & sent to a camp in the Ukraine. Reinstated as a teacher after the war, & becomes friends with the Surrealist poet Benjamin Peret. Opposed the war with Algeria, signing the Proclamation of the 121" & cannot teach again for five years (1960-1965).
Participated in the movement of May 68, but is nauseated by the attitude of the trade unions. Dies today, faithful still to his libertarian ideals, leaving a beautiful poetic work. "My head to be crossed" (1939) "To the screen of the night" (1948), etc.
[Details, click here]
8- 27 -1975 -- Ethiopia: Haile Selassie deposed as emperor, dies at 83. During my stay in Addis Ababa I was invited as a guest to the fourth regional conference of free unions of Africa... On the last day of the conference it was resolved to pay a courtesy visit to the then-emperor Haile Selassie. Always willing to shake hands with working people but loathe to bow to a crowned head, I refused to go along & was not alone. At the other end of the hall there was another anti-authoritarian — a Swede, who did not go. We understood each other. Two of of two hundred.
— Augustin Souchy, Beware! Anarchist!, p204
10- 24 -1975 -- Cipriano Mera dies. Anarcho-syndicalist who, during the Spanish Revolution of 1936, organized defense groups, &, with Buenaventura Durruti, the defense of Madrid against Franco's fascists. Headed the defeat of Italian fascist troops in Guadalajara. Afterwards, Mera fled to Algeria, then France, where the Vichy government condemned him to death (commuted to life, & released in 1945). A lifelong C.N.T. [Confederacion Nacional del Trabajo] activist, Mera wrote Guerra, exilio y carcel of a anarco-sindicalista. (See Cipriano Mera by Joan Llarch.)
11- 6 -1975 -- England: The Sex Pistols play their first show at St. Martin's School of Art in London.
anarchist http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/7412/punklinx.html
http://www.geocities.co.jp/MusicStar/6282/pistols/discography/boot.html
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/9970/sexfram2.html
11- 20 -1975 -- Spain: The Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Fascist Dictator Francisco Franco (for 36 years) dies (& he's still dead!) He is replaced by another General --- General Rejoicing (!!). In 1992 the TV film, A Matar Franco (To Kill Franco) is made in Madrid, a documentary telling in full, for the first time, of the many, mostly unpublicised, attempts to kill Franco by the Spanish CNT, the Basque nationalist ETA & various international anarchists (Spanish, Mexican, Belgian. French, Italian & British).
12- 24 -1975 -- France: Nicholas Lazarevitch (1895-1975) dies, Paris. Nicholas Lazarevitch was the son of Russian revolutionary émigrés, & became an anarcho-syndicalist shortly before WWI. He went to Russia in February 1919, & was very close to the Bolsheviks before they arrested him. Married to Ida Mett, he later helped her in gathering the documentation that was to form the basis of Mett's "expose", The Kronstadt Commune, published in 1938. May 1968 saw Lazarevitch taking part in the open assemblies at the Sorbonne.
More details at the Anarchist Encyclopedia page.
alt; Nicholas Lazarevich
3- 8 -1976 -- France: Robert Touati, a French anarchist active in Centro Iberico around 1974, & Juan Durran Escriban, wanted in Spain for an attack on an armory, are both killed on the grounds of Toulouse University during the night of 8/9 March. Police claim they are members of GARI (Groups of International Revolutionary Action") & responsible for a series of anti-Franco actions in Southern France.
http://www.spunk.org/library/writers/meltzer/sp001591/app1.html
4- 6 -1976 -- 
Spain: MIL member, & former Centro Iberico activist, Oriol Sole Sugranyes shot dead following an escape of Resistance prisoners (all ETA members but him) from a Segovia jail as he tries to cross the border into France.
alt; Oriol Solé Sugranyes See the Anarchist Encyclopedia,
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/sinners/SoleOriol.htm
9- 8 -1976 -- England: Hull Prison Revolt. For four days in September 1976 [I can't find exact dates --ed.] prisoners take over 3 of the 4 wings of Hull prison. Included Jake Prescott (in prison for his activities with the anarchist Angry Brigade). Their protests included conditions in prison workshops, where furniture was made for prisons in Iran. Thus during the riot prisoners on the roof shouted,
"Fuck the Shah of Iran! Fuck the Shah of Iran!"
[Details, click here]
10- 18 -1976 -- France: Laureano Cerrada, veteran of the plot to kill Franco & Hitler together, murdered in Paris by a Spanish Nazi who is given asylum in Canada.
anarchist http://www.spunk.org/texts/writers/meltzer/sp001591/app1.html
11- 10 -1976 -- England: London Murray Defence Group occupy Aer Lingus offices in Regent Street. Similar protests are made in Madrid & Sydney, the first 'reciprocal' protest to be made in Spain for years.anarchist http://www.spunk.org/library/writers/meltzer/sp001591/app1.html
11- 18 -1976 -- France: Surrealist photographer, anarchist, Man Ray dies, Paris. http://www.manraytrust.com/
http://www.manray-photo.com/
http://www.allwall.com/
11- 26 -1976 -- Sex Pistols release their debut single "Anarchy In The UK"
http://thesexpistolsfiles.com/
http://www.worldwidepunk.com/
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/9970/sexfram2.html
http://www.geocities.co.jp/MusicStar/6282/pistols/discography/boot.html http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/7412/punklinx.html
12- 1 -1976 -- The Sex Pistols, following their first single, "Anarchy in the U.K.," appear on British TV's "Today Show," a replacement for Queen. Interviewer Bill Grundy, taunts them for their "nasty" reputation, provokes bass player Glenn Matlock to say "fuck" on the air. In the resulting uproar, they are banned from all but five cities of their first U.K. tour. By next month, no club or concert hall in Great Britain will book them, after he fucked up.
5- 1 -1977 -- Anarchy in the UK? The Clash start their first tour of the U.K. with a May Day celebration at the Roxy in London.
The 40 day White Riot Tour brings a show to London's Rainbow Theater. The audience gets wild, ripping out seats bolted to the floor to make room for dancing. The news media sees it as a fulfillment of the tour's billing & describe the incident as a "riot."
6- 6 -1977 -- Spain: The anti-crats (or acratas) disrupt another meeting, as they do every weekend, in Madrid & all the major centers. Agustin Garcia Calvo forms Acratas in 1967 at a Madrid University, influenced by new protest movement amongst students abroad. Anarchist rather than Marxist, they are against all authority, & assert their right to have fun protesting against & ridiculing the ideas of individuals & groups they despise. They are a plague upon the Spanish politics-as-usual-left-&-right scene.
http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/12.era2.htm
6- 21 -1977 -- Italy: Red Army Faction terrorists shoot Professor Remo Cacciafest, dean of the Rome University Economic Department, in the legs during a lecture for teaching students to be part of an immoral society, Rome.
8- 23 -1977 -- US: Beloved & Respected Comrade Liberal Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis proclaims "Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti Day" on the 50th anniversary of their deaths.
anarchist - 1927 All Hollywood newsreels on Sacco & Vanzetti are ordered destroyed by Will Hayes, movie czar.
- 1937 A bas-relief of Sacco & Vanzetti by noted sculptor Gutzon Borglum is offered to Massachusetts Governor Charles F. Hurley on 10th anniversary of their execution but it is refused.
- 1947 Borglum plaque is offered to Governor Bradford & Acting Mayor of Boston John B. Hynes, but it is refused.
- 1959 Rep. Alexander Celia introduces bill for posthumous pardon for Sacco & Vanzetti to Massachusetts Legislature. The petition is denied.
- 1974 Department of Justice (sic) Sacco-Vanzetti files are opened under Freedom of Information Act.
- 1977 Dukakis proclaims August 23,1977, Sacco & Vanzetti day, removing any stigma from their names.
- Massachusetts State Police files are opened under Freedom of Information Act (American Freedom is of such a quality it requires many Acts), showing Felix Frankfurter's phone was tapped in 1927 because of his Sacco-Vanzetti activities.
- Harvard University opens the Sacco/Vanzetti papers to the public.
- 1979 Boston Public Library accepts Aldino Felicani's Sacco/Vanzetti collection & holds a Sacco-Vanzetti Conference to mark the occasion. Felicani was an anarchist who fought to clear their name, beginning with their imprisonment, until his death in 1967. Borglum plaque accepted by Boston Public Library as part of the Felicani Sacco-Vanzetti collection.
See Heroes & Martyrs: Emma Goldman, Sacco & Vanzetti, & the Revolutionary Struggle, an audio CD by Howard Zinn.
"What Need Be Said" by David Wieck
Italian Anarchism in America: An Historical Background to the Sacco-Vanzetti Case by Paul Avrich
La Salute é in Voi: the Anarchist Dimension by Robert D'Attilio
The Idea of Boston: Some Literary Responses to the Sacco-Vanzetti Case by Daniel Aaron
The Governor Dukakis Proclamation
http://www.infoshop.org/sacco_vanzetti.html
http://www.saccovanzettiproject.org/pages/home.html
11- 20 -1977 -- Louis Mercier Vega (1914-1977) dies. Anarcho-syndicalist, propagandist, libertarian thinker who joined the movement at 16. Lifelong writer for the libertarian press. Founder of several reviews like "Revision" (1938) "Aporte" (trilingual review, 1966-1972), "Interrogations" (1974), & author of numerous works, including Anarcho-syndicalisme & syndicalisme révolutionnaire; La chevauchée anonyme; L'increvable anarchisme. http://www.multimania.com/lanarcho/vg22-3.htm
http://palissy.humana.univ-nantes.fr/labos/cht/biblio/mots/mot46.htm
http://www.jungewelt.de/1998/04-07/013.htm
12- 16 -1977 -- Italy: Nell'ottobre 1975 il processo si conclude senza né suicidio né omicidio ma con l'allucinante verdetto di malore attivo. Il Pinelli secondo la giustizia si sarebbe sentito male e avvicinatosi alla finestar con attorno 6 persone sarebbe inavvertitamente scivolato. Cosa impossibile perchè il baricentro della sua altezza(1,67 m) era inferiore all'altezza della ringhiera (97 cm).In pochi credono a quella sentenza il 16-12-77 con un corteo i democratici e dli antifascisti milanesi portano per ricordare Pinelli una lapide in piazza Fontana dove si trova tuttora.anarchist
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/8485/glca/pinelli.html
http://digilander.libero.it/nopasaran/pinelli.htm
1- 18 -1978 -- Ending of the last show of the Sex Pistols' U.S. tour, Johnny Rotten sneers at his Frisco audience, "How does it feel to be swindled?"
The next morning he announces the group is history, blaming manager Malcolm McLaren for "sensationalizing" everything about the band. That afternoon Sid Vicious is taken unconscious off their London bound plane in New York & rushed to a hospital. He is treated for an overdose of barbiturates & alcohol.
1- 24 -1978 -- France: Robert Proix dies. He was an anarchist, then a pacifist socialist. Among his friends were Albert Camus & Andre Prudhommeaux (born in the same phalanstery, Familistère de Guise founded by J.B. Godin). Proix collaborated in the newspapers "Liberté", "Union Pacifiste" & "Monde Libertaire" & supported Louis Lecoin's conscientious objector activities.
http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/janvier4.html#24
1- 30 -1978 -- Spain: In Barcelona 50 anarchists are arrested, accused of the dastardly crime of attempting to "reconstitute" the F.A.I" (Iberian Anarchist Federation). Franco is dead, but the old fears of a powerful revolutionary organization re-emerging persists.
4- 8 -1978 -- Gaston Leval dies. Son of a French Communard, anarchist syndicalist, combatant & historian of the Spanish Revolution of 1936. See the Anarchist Encyclopedia page, http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/sinners/LevalGaston.htm
5- 24 -1978 -- England: Iris Mills & Ronan Bennett are arrested in Bayswater They, together with Vince Stevenson, Trevor Dawton, Dafydd Ladd & Stewart Carr are charged & become known as "Persons Unknown".
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12- 6 -1978 -- US: Sid Vicious, out on bail from Riker's Island Detention Center in New York after being charged with the murder of his girlfriend Nancy Spungen, smashes glass in the face of Patti Smith's brother Todd during an altercation at New York rock club Hurrah. Damn anarchists.
5- 21 -1979 -- US: Frisco Bay Area agit-prop group called the Union of Concerned Commies (UCC) begins in early 1979 as a left-libertarian intervention into the anti-nuke movement, then at the height of its strength & militancy.
This intervention involved a serious attempt to present a radical critique with attention-grabbing style & innovative use of media. For instance, the same cartoon graphics (usually by Jay Kinney & Paul Mavrides of Anarchy Comix) appeared on leaflets, posters, & T-shirts distributed at antinuke events. Some of the UCCers settled in for a sustained effort within the movement, mostly through the Abalone Alliance newspaper "It's About Times". Others, sought a more exciting terrain. A glimpse of such is provided by Frisco's notorious “White Night Riot” of May 21, 1979.
This night, an angry crowd of gay men & women, quickly joined by hundreds of young workers & marginals, attacked City Hall & the police following a slap-on-the-wrist sentence for macho former cop & former supervisor Dan White, the convicted killer of Mayor George Moscone & gay supervisor Harvey Milk. Several UCCers participated in the events, & immediately afterward mass-produced a T-shirt (designed by Paul Mavrides) showing a burning cop car, the date & place of the riot, & the words “No Apologies."
http://www.processedworld.com/
7- 14 -1979 -- Claude Le Maguet (known as Jean Salivas) (1887-1979) dies, in Geneva, Switzerland. French poet, anarchist, & miltant pacifist. See the Anarchist Encyclopedia page,
http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/sinners/LeMaguetClaude.htm
7- 29 -1979 -- Emilie Carles (1900-1979) dies, Val-des-Prés (Hautes-Alpes). Militant anarchist & pacifist.
http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/juillet4.html#29
9- 29 -1979 -- England: The Persons Unknown trial opens this month (I don't have exact date). Ladd jumps bail & does not surrender for three years, when he receives 9 years on other charges. Carr, an outsider to anarchism, pleads guilty to anything the police require & is sentenced to 9 years. All the others are acquitted. Carr's "confessions" are read out by the judge after the trial when they can no longer be challenged in open court & berates the jury as too sympathetic.
In what anarcho-context was the following said: 'Unfortunately... I mean fortunately there have been no explosions yet'
Answer: Allegedly said by a police officer during the PERSONS UNKNOWN trial in UK late 1970s. Basically six anarchists were charged with 'conspiracy with persons known & unknown to cause explosions' hence PERSONS UNKNOWN. The state had nothing to go on (hence the quote). The six were found not guilty & a member of the jury became an anarchist
The case was variously dubbed the Persons Unknown trial or the Anarchists trial — we were all voluble if unsophisticated young enemies of the state, all states. We also had absolutely nothing to do with any explosions. After several months in custody, this charge was dropped & a different conspiracy charge preferred. Opening the Crown's case at the Old Bailey a year later, the prosecutor said we had conspired 'to overthrow society'. The jury acquitted us on all counts.
— Ronan Bennett, filmmaker
3- 12 -1980 --   Renee Lamberet dies. Professor, militant anarchist & historian. Collaborated with Max Nettlau. Went to Spain in 1936, helping to produce libertarian propaganda & met her future companion Bernardo Pou-Riera. Lamberet supported clandestine anarchist activity in France & Spain after the fascist victory. Author of Mouvements ouvriers et socialistes (1953) & La première Internationale en Espagne de 1868 à 1888. Died before completing an anarchist biographical dictionary. http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/octobre.html#4
http://www.free.de/dada/btip002.htm
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3- 15 -1980 -- Hélio Oiticica (1937-1980) dies. Brazilian painter, performance artist, & anarchist. Grandson of the anarchist Jose Oiticica whose ideas & activities were an important influence. (alt., Helio Oiticica) Created environmental, participatory events—among them Parangolé (1964), Tropicália (1967) & Apocalipopótesis (1968)—either in art centres or in the street.
One of the leading exhibitors in the exhibition Nova objetividade brasileira (Rio de Janeiro, 1967), which reactivated Brazil's avant-garde.
See The Grove Dictionary of Art,
http://www.artnet.com/library/06/0633/T063335.asp
http://www-mitpress.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/isast/spec.projects/osthoff/osthoffpt2.html
http://www.obraprima.net/materias/html12/html12.html
http://www.artbr.com.br/casa/biografias/helio/
http://www.aestufa.com.br/canibalia/html/oiticica.html
http://art-contemporain.eu.org/base/chronologie/1550.html
http://www.comartevirtual.com.br/oiticica.htm
3- 30 -1980 -- Henry Poulaille dies.
4- 13 -1980 -- José Ester Borrás (1913-1980) dies. Spanish anarchist, active in the resistance in France & in the Mauthausen concentration camp, & co-founder of the Spanish Federation of Former Political prisoners & camp inmates (FEDIP).
alt; Jose Ester Borras
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5- 30 -1980 -- Switzerland: Beginning of the "movement of the discontented," youth rebellion in Zurich, spreading throughout the country, involving thousands — young & not so young -- in demonstrations & confrontations with police, demanding places where they would be free to meet & share counter-cultural experiences. Escalated into broader demands, one being "No Leaders!", & another being:anarchist
7- 7 -1980 -- Spanish anarchist Juan Garcia Oliver dies. 
Several members of Nosotros, an FAI action group. Those pictured include the three most well-known figures, Garcia Oliver, Francisco Ascaso, & Buenaventura Durruti. Oliver was part of "Los Solidarios", with Durruti, Jover, Francisco Ascaso, Antonio Ortiz, Ricardo Sanz, etc. They fought against the "Pistoleros" (hired by cleric employers to assassinate trade unionists). Oliver was a member of the Catalan Regional Committee of the C.N.T., & close associate of Buenaventura Durruti. During the initial battle against the military uprising of July 1936 in Barcelona, he led the group which seized the women's prison & released all the prisoners. Became Minister of Justice to the Republican Government. As such, he acted on the philosophy that crime was the product of social deficencies & that criminals should be treated, not punished.
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bright/oliver/indexoliver.html
7- 23 -1980 -- Mexico: Mollie Steimer (1897-1980) dies, at her home in Cuernavaca. Russian-American-Jewish-Mexican anarchist & labor agitator.
Mollie was 82 years old, & throughout her long life was consumed with a passion to work for the good of the people. Mollie emigrated to the US in 1913 with her family. She immediately went to work in a garment factory to help support her family.
She came across radical literature including the works of Mikhail Bakunin, Kropotkin, & Emma Goldman. By 1917 Mollie had become an anarchist, to which she dedicated her life.
http://www.spunk.org/texts/pubs/sekhmet/8/sp001228.txt
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman/Guide/chronology2040.html
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/goldman/living/living2_48.html
7- 31 -1980 -- Louis Simon (1900-1980) dies. French militant pacifist & individualist anarchist, mathematician, as well as a writer & poet. Organized the "Ligue d'Action Pacifiste" with Pierre Martin, & a proponent of the ideas of Han Ryner.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/gallery/galleryindex.htm#SimonLouis
11- 30 -1980 -- US: Death of Dorothy Day, anarchist, pacifist, co-founder of Catholic Worker movement, New York City. http://www.catholicworker.org/
Poet William Everson (Brother Antoninus) lived at Maurin House in Oakland, California in 1950 before going off from the Catholic Worker to the Dominican order. He greatly admired Day, whom he referred to in one dedication as the "mother of us all", & noted of his experience at Maurin House:
"What surprised me was that the whole thing worked the way Dorothy Day said it would — each day people would bring produce to us, so all we ever had to buy for the soup was the stock, & even that was often donated by butchers…The things we needed just seemed to show up.
In 1957, after Kenneth Rexroth's "San Francisco Letter" appeared in the Evergreen Review, Everson was regarded as one of the San Francisco Renaissance poets (the Beats) & he was tagged with the name of "the Beat friar".
http://salt.claretianpubs.org/issues/DorothyDay/legacy.html
3- 21 -1981 -- US: The useless & lazy anarchist band, The Layabouts takes form, Highland Park, Detroit, Spring, 1981, the Colorado House...
"...You get a shiver in the dark itsa rainin' in the park in the meantime..." A bleary-eyed Alan Franklin was staggering down the stairs into the kitchen, preparing for another days onslaught of work & wondering if Stephen Goodfellow had left any food in the refrigerator....
http://goodfelloweb.com/layabouts/index.html
http://goodfelloweb.com/layabouts/Songs/govlie.html
4- 10 -1981 -- England: Brixton Riots: Beginning of a weekend of rioting in the racially mixed section of London, known as Brixton. Young people set fire to buildings & cars, pelted cops with bricks, & looted stores. Roving gangs directly fought cops with bricks, iron bars & Molotovs.
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10- 18 -1981 -- Diego Abad de Santillan, a prominent anarchist in the region of Catalonia during the Spanish Revolution, dies.
http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/octobre3.html#18
10- 21 -1981 -- Germinal Esgleas dies. Spanish anarchist militant & companion of Federica Montseny. Collaborator on "Revista Blanca", with Joan Montseny (Federico Urales). Secretary-general of the AIT, 1958-1963). During exile (in France) he was imprisoned by the fascist Vichy government. http://flag.blackened.net/liberty/cnt.html
http://flag.blackened.net/liberty/spain.html
http://www.guerracivil.org/otroslinks.html
"¿QUÉ ES EL ANARCOSINDICALISMO?", por Germinal Esgleas (Secretario General de la A.I.T., 1958-1963), from De la ENCICLOPEDIA ANARQUISTA -- Edicion espanola.):
10- 29 -1981 -- George Brassens, French anarchist poet/songster, dies. See 22 October 1921.
1- 6 -1982 -- Albert Meister (1927--1982) dies, Kyoto, Japan. Swiss author & anarchist sociologist. Under various pseudonyms he wrote many works on the problems of labor associations, workers' self-management & development in poor countries, which include Coopération d'habitation et sociologie du voisinage (1957), Socialisme et autogestion, l'expérience yougoslave (1964), Participation, animation et développement (1969), La participation dans les associations (1974), L'inflation créatrice (1975), La soi-disant utopie du centre Beaubourg (1976). In Englsih, see for example, Participation, Associations, Development & Change (Transaction, 1984).
http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/janvier1.html#meister
2- 24 -1982 -- Lucien Tronchet (1902-1982), dies. Anarchist & Swiss trade unionist whose antifascist activities landed him in prison. As a youngster, he joined FOBB (Federation of Wood & Building Workers) with Clovis Abel Pignat. http://flag.blackened.net/ksl/bullet20.htm
There are perhaps more archivists at heart among the Anarchists than in the great institutions. The New York Public Library, having put on microfilm the collection of posters from the Spanish Revolution, which it received, threw away the originals. At the Royal Library of Belgium, these same posters coming from the collections of Hem Day were rolled up & stored in a corridor, & ended up as waste paper. Of the dozens of posters that Hem Day brought from Spain, only six remain in small format at the Mundaneum de Mons. At the Centre internationale de recherches sur l'Anarchisme (CIRA; International Research Center on Anarchy) we have about 50 of them, brought by the union leader Lucien Tronchet, carefully mounted onto sturdy cardboard to circulate & to serve at solidarity tournaments with Spain around 1936 or 1937. They are in impeccable condition; the colors are as vibrant as they were on the walls of Barcelona or Valencia. In Spain itself, the collection & inventory of Republican posters has not ceased to this day.
http://www.libr.org/PL/16_Enckell.html
http://www.anarca-bolo.ch/baronata/libri/tronchet.htm
3- 20 -1982 -- France: Pierre Lentengre (aka Pierre Lentente) (1890-1982) dies, in Var. Militant & founder of a Parisian anarchist group. Administrator of "La voix libertaire" (1928-1939) & active in "The Friends of Sebastien Faure". See the Anarchist Encyclopedia, http://www.eskimo.com/~recall/bleed/sinners/PierreLentengre.htm
4- 7 -1982 -- Italy: Pio Turroni dies. Anarchist, combatant, publisher. Left Italy to escape the fascists in 1923. Fought with the Italian Column in the Spanish Revolution, then with the anarchist Ascaso Column until wounded. Imprisoned in France with the onset of WWII, released, imprisoned twice more before making his way to freedom in Morocco, then Mexico. With the liberation of Italy Turroni returned to help rebuild the anarchist movement, & from 1946 until his death, published the anarchist review "Volontà".
6- 6 -1982 -- US: Kenneth Rexroth dies. Poet/Buddhist/anarchist/semi-Beat/translator. Involved with various labor groups & political anarchists. When the second literary renaissance of the 1920's occured in Chicago, Rexroth was there. Founder of the SF Libertarian Circle & later involved in the Beat movement, a literary period that evolved in the 1950's & 60's that attempted to elevate common consciousness. Rexroth was called "Godfather of the Beats" because of his involvement with the readings & events at the Cellar jazz club.
Daily Bleed Saint. See the Anarchist Encyclopedia page,
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/saints/StRexrothKenneth.htm
6- 13 -1982 -- André Claudot (1892-1982), French anarchist, artist, teacher, dies. The libertarian filmmaker Bernard Baissat did a film of his life, Ecoutez Claudot (1979). http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/juin2.html#13
8- 5 -1982 -- Switzerland: Albert Guigui-Theral (1903-1982) dies, in Thonex. Militant anarchist, syndicalist & WWII partisan. For the "C.G.T clandestine" he worked to gain the assistance of General de Gaulle in London & then, in Philadelphia, with the O.I.T. (International Labour Organization). Entered Paris with the liberation armies, & in the post-war period was assigned to a post Geneva for the O.I.T.
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8- 8 -1982 -- FERRE GRIGNARD (1939-1982) dies, of throat cancer. Belgium skiffle-singer/painter (Crucified Jesus) who surprised the world in 1965 with his international hit "Ring ring, I've got to sing".
Started off at the art academy, went to the USA (where he went to live in the negro ghetto's) & was expelled from there (for being an anarchist). Also did ‘Yellow me, yellow you’, 'Drunken nights, Drunken sailor', 'Hash Bamboo Shuffle', etc. http://www.houbi.simplenet.com/belpop/scripts/frame.hts?groups/grignard.htm
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=9450
8- 24 -1982 -- France: Ludovic Masse dies in Perpignan. Proletarian & libertarian writer.
A teacher & friend of Henry Poulaille, to whom he sends his first writings. In 1940, his pacifist & anarchist ideas forced him to quit teaching & he devoted himself to writing fiction: Le Refus (Apology for Pacifism) (1946), Le vin pur (The Vigneronnes Revolts) (1945), & many others such as Le mas des Oubells (1932), Les trabucayres (1955), La terre du liège (1953).
http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/janvier1.html#7
7- 7 -1983 -- Poland: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Polish Jokester Jaruzelski declares:
"We are not prepared to deal with anarchists & counter-revolutionaries."
alt sp; Jaruzelsky
7- 23 -1983 -- Poland: Martial law lifted (or 21st?). "Anarchy will not return," says the communist Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader dictator.
9- 10 -1983 -- Poland: First edition of Homek appears in Gdañsk (Danzig). RSA (Alternative Society Movement) newspaper, probably first anarchist newspaper in Poland after WWII.
11- 3 -1983 -- May Picqueray, French militant anarchist, dies. Sent to Moscow by her trade union, Picqueray opposed the tightening grip of the Bolsheviks & protested the repression of the anarchists (obtaining the release of Senya Fleshin & others from prison). She also fought to save Sacco & Vanzetti (including sending a mail bomb to the American embassy) & founded the libertarian journal "Le Réfractaire".
http://www.maitron.org/initiat/VidCin/bio5.htm
http://www.ceca.org.br/edgar/May.html
12- 13 -1983 -- France: 6,500 turn out in Paris as Léo Ferré, anarchist songster, sings for a benefit to support Radio Libertaire. http://www.leo-ferre.com/
Radio Libertaire: http://federation-anarchiste.org/
http://www.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/~marvin/anarchie/radio_libertaire.html
1- 1 -1984 -- Augustin Souchy (1892-1984), German anarchist pacifist, dies. Influenced, while young, by reading of Gustav Landauer. After the war, in 1920, he went to Russia for a labor congress, where he met & stayed with Peter Kropotkin. In 1922, Souchy became one of the three secretaries of the new A.I.T. With the seizure of power by Hitler, fled from Germany, & in 1936 participated in the Spanish Revolution. In his introduction to a collection of documents on collectivization in Spain, the anarchist Augustin Souchy writes: For many years, the anarchists & the syndicalists of Spain considered their supreme task to be the social transformation of the society. In their assemblies of Syndicates & groups, in their journals, their brochures & books, the problem of the social revolution was discussed incessantly & in a systematic fashion.
| "Equality, Liberty, Fraternity, the great dreams of the French Revolution, have not yet been realised in the world. They were being realised in Aragon. The peasant was free from political oppression & the exploitation of the great landholders. Liberty was won in battle. Equality was organised. Fraternity lived in the hearts of the people." ---Augustin Souchy, With the Peasants of Aragon |
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10- 28 -1984 -- Italy: Sicilian anarchist Pippo Scarso arrested in October of 1984 & imprisoned for 12 months for refusing to serve in the military.
| Esci dal Compromesso con le Istituzioni della Guerra! (Avoid Compromise with the Institution of War!). The poster shows Pippo Scarso being released from his prison cell, against the silhouette of a solider. Originally distributed as a supplement to the Italian anarchist journal "Senzapatria," a publication devoted to antimilitarist issues, the message: "Out with American nuclear bases!" & "Oppose all (military) maneuvers!" Published by Antimilitaristi Anarchici. Offset lithography. 50 cm x 35 cm. Italy, 1985.
http://www.ipl.org/exhibit/Labadie/europe.html
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11- 12 -1984 -- Body-Less?: Marcel Body dies. French typographer. While a French soldier he joined the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, becoming a citizen & serving in the diplomatic corps with Alexandra Kollontaï in Norway. Disillusioned with the direction of the Revolution, he returned to France. Translates Lenin, Trotsky, & Bakunin & wrote for the anarchist & pacifist presses.
Marcel Body founded "La Vérité" & gathered the oppositional circle Union des Travailleurs Révolutionnaires around this periodical & was involved in the syndicalist movement. Body wrote Un piano en bouleau de Carélie (1981) (republished as Un ouvrier limousin au coeur de la révolution russeussian revolution).
Film: Marcel Body: de Lénine à Bakounine, http://subsociety.free.fr/livres/vid%E9o.htm
BODY, Marcel. Les groupes communistes français de Russie, 1918-1921. Paris: Editions Allia, 1918. 99 p http://www.iisg.nl:80/archives/gias/b/10729113.html
1- 17 -1985 -- Japan: Hashimoto Yoshiharu, 55, dies in Tokyo. | Japanese anarchist & founder, in the 1960s, of the publishing house "Barukan-sha," & a writer for the review "Anaki" (Anarchy). Yoshiharu was a writer & translator of many works of the classical thinkers & theorists of the international anarchist movement, such as Proudhon, Kropotkin, Emma Goldman, & Oscar Wilde, et al. In the 1970s he was involved with the group of Miura Seiichi, centered around the publication, "Libertarian". http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/decembre3.html#20
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/1884/ana-links.htm
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5- 1 -1985 -- US: Stan Iverson, Seattle anarchist, dies (1927-1985). Auntie Dave has established an online page & archive in memoriam.
Very cool, Auntie. For what it's worth the Social Security Death Index lists a STANLEY IVERSON: Residence: 98102 Seattle, King, WA. Born: 22 Jun 1927. Died: May 1985. Might be him, might not.
— Bleedster Paul More at the Stan Iverson Memorial Archives,
http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/
5- 1 -1985 -- Poland: Anarchists from RSA (Alternative Society Movement) in Gdansk (Danzig) block official communist party parade, ZOMO riot police attacks the people; after the street fights 2 cops are found dead.
Source: Piero/poprostu.pl
5- 5 -1985 -- Jacques Reclus dies. French anarchist.
7- 26 -1985 -- Fredy Perlman (1934-1985) dies, Detroit, Michigan.
Printer, dramatist, organizer, scholar, theorist, musician & anti-authoritarian activist.
SAINT 20 AUGUST
A great part of his theoretical & practical struggle was an investigation of this process of alienation & fragmentation by which human beings surrender their autonomy & participate in their own suppression.
See the Anarchist Encyclopedia page, http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/PerlmanFredy.htm
7- 26 -1985 -- Roger Monclin (1903?-1985) dies, St Laurent-du-Var. French pacifist & anarchist propagandist, orator & writer. Member of "Ligue des Combattants de la Paix", &, in 1931, with Victor Méric, the antimilitarist "La Patrie Humaine". Author of a number of works, including, "Les crimes des conseils de guerre" (1934), "Gaston Couté, po?te maudit" (1962), "Les Damnés de la guerre" (1979).
http://perso.club-internet.fr/ytak/juillet4.html#26
9- 14 -1985 --
| Julian Beck dies. Cofounder of the famed Living Theatre, along with his partner Judith Malina. |
Beck wrote & directed plays many plays throughout the course of his life. Julian led massive political demonstrations in NY in the 60s. All were involving peace. Julian Beck was a lifelong poet & anarchist.
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Julian published several books including: Poetry: Songs of the revolution 1-35 (1963); 21 Songs of the Revolution (1969); Songs of the Revolution 36-89 (1974). See also his book, The Life of the Theatre (City Lights Books, 1972). http://www.livingtheatre.org/abou/history.html
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10- 20 -1985 -- France: Libertarian songster Jean-Roger Caussimon dies.anarchist 
I do not want to be a poet...
I try to write songs!
Et quant à nous autres, les "chansonniers" qu'on traîne hors des chaussées poétiques, nous sommes assez à l'aise, dans nos propres caniveaux, pour que nous n'aimions pas à être éclaboussés par d'illustres passants. La boue, c'est la boue, et que les passants passent. Caussimon, dans son caniveau se tient debout, tout seul. Ca valait la peine d'être dit.
— Léo Ferré
Jean-Roger Caussimon est un très grand poète.
Léo Ferré a bien de la chance de l'avoir rencontré !
— Charles Trenet
I spent a lot of my time in Paris exploring my biggest musical enthusiasm of the last few years, vintage French popular songs — scouring the flea markets & used record stores for old albums, taping my friends’ collections, & trying to decipher the more obscure, slangy lyrics. It’s a rich, fascinating world, from nineteenth-century cabaret singers like Aristide Bruant (the guy with red scarf & black cape pictured on the well-known Toulouse-Lautrec poster, which was commissioned to advertise the café where Bruant performed his own songs), through the tragic-sordid chansons réalistes (Fréhel, Damia, early Piaf) & upbeat music hall artists (especially the delightfully zany Charles Trenet) of the 1930s, to the postWorld War II renaissance of great poet-singers: Georges Brassens (the greatest, ranging from worldly-wise elegies to outrageous satirical humor), Anne Sylvestre (a lovely lyricist, somewhat reminiscent of early Leonard Cohen or Joni Mitchell), Léo Ferré, Jean-Roger Caussimon, Jacques Brel, Guy Béart, Félix Leclerc; along with many excellent interpreters of earlier material, of whom my favorite is Germaine Montero.
— Ken Knabb, Confessions of a Mild-Mannered Enemy of the State
http://www.bopsecrets.org/PS/autobio3.htm
http://www.leoferre.org/caussimon.html
http://perso.magic.fr/swproduction/
12- 13 -1985 -- Ahrne Thorne (1904-1985) dies. In Toronto, Canada during the 30s Emma Goldman saw promise in the small group of comrades — especially Dorothy Rogers & Ahrne Thornberg [as Ahrne Thorne, later served as editor of the Freie Arbeiter Stimme]. See Paul Avrich, Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America, page 54.
http://pup.princeton.edu/TOCs/c5810.html
2- 7 -1986 -- Haiti: After huge popular protests, Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Playboy dictator "Baby Doc" Duvalier flees the country, ending 35 years of U.S.-sponsored dictatorship. He was whisked to France on a US jet.
1969: Port-au-Prince
A Law Condemns to Death Anyone Who Says or Writes Red Words in Haiti . . .
Article One: Communist activities are declared to be crimes against the security of the state, in whatsoever form: any profession of Communist faith, verbal or written, public or private, any propagation of Communist or anarchist doctrines through lectures, speeches, conversations, readings, public or private meetings, by way of pamphlets, posters, newspapers, magazines, books, & pictures; any oral or written correspondence with local or foreign associations, or with persons dedicated to the diffusion of Communist or anarchist ideas; & furthermore, the act of receiving, collecting, or giving funds directly or indirectly destined for the propagation of said ideas. Article Two: The authors & accomplices of these crimes shall be sentenced to death. Their movable & immovable property shall be confiscated & sold for the benefit of the state. Dr. Francois Duvalier
President-for-Life
of the Republic of Haiti
— Eduardo Galeano, Century of the Wind, p207-08
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5- 1 -1986 -- Australia: Anarchist Centennial Celebration, Melbourne, 1-4 May.
Anarchism in Australia: An Anthology, --- Wendy Bacon, Chris Nicol, S. Torrents [et al.] (Parkville: Bob James, 1986), prepared for the Celebration.
5- 2 -1986 -- US: 38 anarchists gathered in Chicago to commemorate victims of the Haymarket Massacre arrested & charged with the high crime of “Mob Action”.
5- 3 -1986 -- Australia: Anarchist Centenary Celebration.
[Back Row: Miura Seiichi (Japan), unknown, unknown, Peter Sheldon, Joe Toscano Front Row: Ha Ki Rak (korea), Boris Franteschini, Amenda Ceccaroni, Bruno Vannini & Raphaele Turco at the Italian Anarchism in Melbourne session, Australian Anarchist Centenary Celebration]
8- 1 -1986 --
Jeanne Humbert (1890-1986) dies. 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).
8- 17 -1986 -- US: Bronze pig statue unveiled at Seattle's Pike Place Market near the fabulous anarchist bookstore, Left Bank Books.
http://www.projects.roslin.ac.uk/pigmap/pigmap.html
8- 26 -1986 -- Australia: Boris Franteschini (1914-1986) dies due to complications caused by lung cancer. Boris was one of the last active members of the Italian Anarchist Movement in Melbourne. He maintained his commitment & enthusiasm until his death.
Boris was born in 1914 in the US, into a family of anarchist militants. At the age of 7 he returned to Italy with his family. In 1927 due to the increasing repression in Italy associated with the rise of fascism, Boris & his family immigrated to Melbourne. With the death of the older more experienced comrades Boris eventually found himself as a centre-point for Italian anarchist activity in Melbourne after WWII.
Between 1950 & 1965 there were about 30 people involved in the Italian Anarchist Movement in Melbourne. With the death of Boris Franteschini only four members of the group remain: Amendu Ceccaroni, Jack Farrello, Raphaele Turco, & Bruno Vannini.
Although the group had contact with the Spanish and Bulgarian anarchists in exile, it was only a few years ago that a link was made with the local "Australian" anarchist movement.
http://www.takver.com/history/franteschini.htm
1- 27 -1987 -- Clara Thalmann-Ensner dies. Swiss revolutionary & anarchist, fought in the Spanish Revolution, founded Serena Commune in Nice in 1953 with her husband Pavel.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/gallery/galleryindex.htm#ThalmannClaraPavel
French author, anarchist, director of éditions Grasset, where he published proletarian authors, & the journal "Le nouvel âge littéraire," promoting worker literature & gained him the enmity of the Communist Party. See the Anarchist Encyclopedia page, 
As for graveside ceremony: He wanted gunfire, & a little music. "No formal speeches desired, though the deceased will not interfere if someone feels the urge. But keep it all simple & brief." And then a big happy raucous wake. He wanted more music, gay & lively music. He wanted bagpipes. "& a flood of beer & booze! Lots of singing, dancing, talking, hollering, laughing, & lovemaking," said the message. & meat! Beans & chilis! & corn on the cob. Only a man deeply in love with life & hopelessly soft on humanity would specify, from beyond the grave, that his mourners receive corn on the cob.
Bill Gates has his pie & eats it too. The ol' anarchist Pie Brigade delivers.
US: Frisco Bay area 6th annual Anarchist Book Fair. 
Cafe, Films, etc. 
England: London's 20th annual Anarchist Bookfair. 
Horst Fantazzini conducted nonviolent stickups across northern Italy, often using a toy gun according to some stories, & won his nickname after sending roses to a bank teller who had fainted during a robbery.