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In 1936 tens of thousands of volunteers from around the world illegally made their way to Spain to help in the first battle against the spreading tide of Facism in Europe. French national George Sossenko, driven by his antifascist politics, made this incredible sacrifice at only the age of sixteen. Once in Spain he was a member of the Legendary Durutti Colum and was introduced to the politcs of Anarchism. Fisrt hand he saw the incredible revolutionary movement of the Spanish workers and peasants and would be changed by what he saw for the rest of his life.
The "Battle of Seattle," which began November 30th, 1999, was a major event in the history of US radical struggle, and one of the high-points of the "non-violent direct action movement." Exactly 20 years later, Robin J. Cartwright analyzes the the rise, fall, and inner contradictions of the non-violent direct action movement, as well as the lessons we can learn from it today.
As a tribute to one of the most remarkable agitators in labour history, we publish on May Day the autobiography of Albert Parsons. He was one of the five Chicago Anarchists who were tried in 1886-1887 and executed in November 1887 for their role as 8-hour working-day agitators and as anarchist militants. This mock-trial in 'the land of liberty' is one of the most shameful events in the history of labour in the whole world, and gave rise to May Day commemorations all over the world -the day was picked, because the repression which ended up in the 'legal lynching' of the Chicago Martyrs started after the general strike for the 8 hours working-day in May 1st 1886. This day is commemorated all over the world in memory of the Chicago Martyrs -unsurprisingly, one of the few countries which does not commemorate May Day is the land where this barbaric crime took place -the United States. They invented their own 'Labour Day' in September, with the purpose of severing the working class in the US from its radical tradition, and to devoid of meaning the conquest of the 8 hour working-day, a product of struggle and enormous sacrifice, not a gift from the capitalists.
The life of Albert Parsons is instructive of the trajectory of many working class agitators in the US in the 19th century, a period of remarkable radicalism which was crushed with unspeakable ruthlessness and repression. His life story goes from fighting in the Confederate States Army during the US Civil War as a 13 year old, to republican and civil rights' agitator, advocate of the emancipation of the slaves, then trade unionist, socialist and anarchist. He was married to Lucy Parsons, a mixed race woman herself born a slave, who would become a prominent socialist and anarchist, and who was a founding member of the Industrial Workers of the World, IWW, in 1905. A remarkable organiser and orator, he was the soul of the most progressive and active workers' movement in the USA at the time: in Chicago. Parsons was the only US citizen of 'pure stock' among the Chicago Martyrs (his ancestry going back all the way to one of the pilgrims in the Mayflower in 1632) -all his comrades being German. The immigrant nature of these anarchists was the cause for a racist and xenophobic uproar that no doubt was crucial to justify their barbaric execution -these racist, xenophobic tendencies are still alive and healthy in the USA, as we can see from the current state of affairs in the country. This is why, being not only a remarkable speaker, but also a well-self-educated man (at a time when the workers' movement still placed much emphasis on the self-education of the workers), he chose to strike a chord with public opinion and counter arguments that socialism and anarchism were 'foreign' and 'alien' ideas, by appealing to texts such as the US Declaration of Independence and opinions of Thomas Jefferson, while also appealing to the conservative and religious frame of mind prevalent, ended up by quoting the Bible. Of course, nothing would save him from the fury of the capitalists' class hatred, but this autobiography is a masterpiece of engaging with the prevalent environment at the time from a radical perspective, of showing in a sober manner his process of radicalisation and the logic behind it, and also, a staunch defence of the anarchist principles by which he lived and which he did not betrayed when confronted to the gallows.
Our best tribute to this titanic figure is to resist the current onslaught of the global capitalists against hard-won workers' rights, while to keep faithful to the cause of a free and just world.
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Powerful address by the Mexican anarchist-communist revolutionary, Enrique Flores Magon, brother to fellow anarchist-communist militants Jesus and Ricardo Flores Magon. This address was given to a US court, defending the brothers' fight for "the emancipation of the downtrodden, particularly of the Mexican proletarians, and of the disinherited all over the world in general." It defends the then-ongoing Mexican Revolution against imperialism and capitalism, argues for anarchist-communism, and makes an internationalist appeal to the American working class for joint struggle against tyrants and exploiters, stressing common class realities.
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A 30 minute talk by Mark Bray, author of Translating Anarchy: The Anarchism of Occupy Wall Street followed by an hour of discussion. Translating Anarchy tells the story of the anti-capitalist anti-authoritarians of Occupy Wall Street who strategically communicated their revolutionary politics to the public in a way that was both accessible and revolutionary. more >>
Wooden Shoe Books and the Dead Anarchists website are proud to announce the online release of Chaim Leib Weinberg’s Forty Years in the Struggle: The Memoirs of a Jewish Anarchist, which are translated by Naomi Cohen and edited by Robert P. Helms. We present this book for the first time in English, and in the only form that is now available to a general readership.
The Kate Sharpley Library has just published a new edition of Philip Grosser's account of his time imprisoned on the notorious prison island of Alcatraz. Philip Grosser was sent to Alcatraz because he didn't want to murder anyone, even on government orders. He was a Boston anarchist and anti-militarist who refused to be drafted into the slaughter of World War One.
The Kate Sharpley Library are please to announce the publication of a new pamphlet examining the life of George Brown (1858-1915), Philadelphia anarchist activist. Robert P. Helms traces the life of this anarchist shoemaker from freethinking Northamptonshire to Philadelphia's burgeoning anarchist movement of the 1890s. Never famous, and only occasionally infamous, Brown was typical of many of the militants who made the movement what it was, and his story sheds a fascinating light on the microcosm of a social movement.
The Northeastern Federation of Anarchist-Communists (NEFAC) extends its deepest sympathies to the family, friends, and all of the comrades of Murray Bookchin. Comrade Bookchin was a man who rigorously believed in the ideal of a free society.
In 1936 tens of thousands of volunteers from around the world illegally made their way to Spain to help in the first battle against the spreading tide of Facism in Europe. French national George Sossenko, driven by his antifascist politics, made this incredible sacrifice at only the age of sixteen. Once in Spain he was a member of the Legendary Durutti Colum and was introduced to the politcs of Anarchism. Fisrt hand he saw the incredible revolutionary movement of the Spanish workers and peasants and would be changed by what he saw for the rest of his life. more >> |
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Carlo Tresca was a newspaper editor (editing "Il Martello" --The Hammer-- for over 20 years), a passionate and powerful writer, an agitator as well as an organiser. He was happiest in the struggle, taking up any call for his help in encouraging Italian workers to strike and fight. His agitation was legendary, including the victorious strike in Lawrence (1912), the Little Falls, New York textile workers' strike (1912), the New York City hotel workers' strike (1913), the Paterson, New Jersey silk workers' strike (1913), and the Mesabi Range, Minnesota, miners' strike (1916).
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Spring zu Komment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7"Tresca was hated by the anti-organisationalist anarchists who followed Luigi Galleani and they stopped at nothing to smear him (much to the joy of the Fascists in the 1920s and 30s)."
According to Paul Avrich, the American Galleanists engaged in physical fights with Italian-American fascists during this time period (after Sacco and Vanzetti's execution) and also went to Spain to help fight the fascists there.
Well, I applaud their efforts. But the same could be said of the CP, but it doesn't redeem them.
I dont think the author of the review was implying that the antiorganisationalists where allying with the fascists or where not good antifascists figthers, just that their smear campain did play into the fascists games.
How did they smear Tresca? I assume there's something in the book about this.
How did this "smear campaign" play into the fascists games? What does that mean?
W.S.A. will co-sponsor a public forum with Nunzio Pernicone on his book "Carlo Tresca: Portrait of a Rebel".
WHEN: 6 PM Thursday, September 21, 2006
WHERE: United Federation of Teachers
50 Broadway - 2nd Floor
New York City
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC - PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY
Info: 212-998-2636
The event is being sponsored by the N.Y. Labor History Association. Other co-sponsors include the UFT-Italian-American Heritage Committee, Tamiment Library-NYU, the Libertarian Book Club and the Workers Solidarity Alliance
In the book "All the Right Enemies: The Life and Murder of Carlo Tresca" by Dorothy Gallagher, Tresca is said to have testified in court that he was not an anarchist, to have socialized with cops when they came to see him, to have been suspected of stealing funds from the Sacco and Vanzetti defence fund and having gotten angry when it was suggested that support funds be sent directly to the defence committee instead of him, to have assigned a lawyer to Sacco and Vanzetti whom Sacco would soon declare his enemy and write to saying he would like see the lawyer dead, and to have testified in court for the United States government against a communist.
I don't know how accurate Gallagher's information is, but this sheds a little light as to the "slander" from Cronaca Sovversiva anarchists, who initially supported Tresca by attending the trial where he declared he wasn't an anarchist.
NYC: Come here Nunzio Pernicone
W.S.A. will co-sponsor a public forum with Nunzio Pernicone on his book "Carlo Tresca: Portrait of a Rebel".
WHEN: 6 PM Thursday, September 21, 2006
WHERE: United Federation of Teachers
50 Broadway - 2nd Floor
New York City
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC - PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY
Info: 212-998-2636
The event is being sponsored by the N.Y. Labor History Association. Other co-sponsors include the UFT-Italian-American Heritage Committee, Tamiment Library-NYU, the Libertarian Book Club and the Workers Solidarity Alliance
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