«Eleftheriaka Chronika» («Libertarian Chronicles)

A magazine of anarchist and libertarian history

The first issue of «Eleftheriaka Chronika» published in November 2005. «Eleftheriaka Chronika» is a magazine of anarchist and libertarian history and is a publication of Eleftheriako Historiko Archeio (Libertarian Historical Archive), that resides in the island of Paros, Greece.

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The first issue of «Eleftheriaka Chronika» published in November 2005.

«Eleftheriaka Chronika» is a magazine of anarchist and libertarian history and is a publication of Eleftheriako Historiko Archeio (Libertarian Historical Archive), that resides in the island of Paros, Greece.

The magazine will be published twice a year.

For correspondence and collaborations P.O.BOX 1333, Central Post Office Patras, 26001, Greece email nafpaktosanarchists@hotmail.com

P.O. 2120, Lygon St. North, Brunswick East, Victoria 3057, Australia Email outetheos@yahoo.com.au

Eleftheriako Historiko Archeio (Libertarian Historical Archive), P.O.BOX 6027, Naousa, Paros 84401, Greece Email linos@par.forthnet.gr

Contents of the issue No 1:
James Sotros, “Plotyno Rhodokanaty: A Greek Anarchist in Mexico of 19th century” (p. 3-29),
Pedro Siler, “The Socialist newspaper El Hijo del Trabajo (1876-1884)” (p. 30-41) and
Plotyno Rhodokanaty, “Cartilla Socialista” (p. 42-62).
(Translations from Spanish to Greek by Viky Fragos and editing by Giannis Karytsas).

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Editorial

by the Eleftheriako Historiko Archeio (Libertarian Historical Archive) – written by Linos Kottis and published in the issue No 1 of «Eleftheriaka Chronika»:

All those who after the change of regime (1) we participated in the libertarian movement knew a really little about the previous history of our movement. Only scattered conversations about the anarchists of Patras and Pyrgos (2). The published bibliography the following years, created a picture that litted up certain periods, while it obscured a lot of others.

All these secondary sources, mainly work of university experts and academics, have one systematic peculiarity: their authors - who most of them belong to the various Socialist faculties - insist to the underestimation of the libertarian presence, by both increasing the importance of parallel movements or opposite versions, and being indeferent to the systematic and completed picture of a such an anthology.

The amazing occasion of approach of their primary sources and their monopolisation by them is sketched out in their indicative bibliographies attached in the end of their histories, in which the non published and private archives adorn the biggest part of their pages. The original sources are scattered in various private and public archives and continue remaining hermetically closed for the majority of the researchers.

The committed to the left parties and organisations historians were untangling almost always unsociably with the slogan that “they this people did not know the scientific socialism yet…” (3).

But today we are in position to describe the limits of a movement which in its first period was born in 1860 and reach up to 1930. These efforts were not neither hazy or tangled, nor unorganised or accidental (in order to use some certain definitions used assiduously by the various intellectuals and historiographers in their scientific undertakings).

This ascertainment, that an entire political and social revolutionary tradition with historical continuity, is been delivered in the oblivion and the fact that the protagonists have died, the undeniable fact that from their documents others remain really closed secrets in secret drawers in party headquarters and others have been destroyed deceitly, it creates to us the collective duty to deposit in the future the history of revolutionary libertarian movement in Greece.

Notes:

1. The collapse of the military dictatorship in Greece and the revivla of “democracy” in 1974,
2. That is the first anarchist groups in the cities of the Western Peloponnesos in Western Greece in 19th century,
3. For the then libertarians and anarchists.