“We’re Here, We’re Queer, and We Hate the Government!”
From It's Going Down
Queer Anarchism Against All Domination
Anarchist historian Spencer Beswick looks back on the intersection of queerness and anarchism within the past 40 years.
From It's Going Down
Queer Anarchism Against All Domination
Anarchist historian Spencer Beswick looks back on the intersection of queerness and anarchism within the past 40 years.
From The Transmetropolitan Review
Like most anarchist women, we know very little about Elena Purgatorio. She was born Elena Alfonsi on August 4, 1891 in the ancient town of Gualdo Tadino, nestled beneath the Perugian mountains in the center of the Italian peninsula. Along with thousands of others, Elena left Italy and immigrated across the Atlantic to the US, registering under her birth name at Ellis Island, New York on August 17, 1907. She was sixteen years old, and seemingly alone.
From Tierra Nueva, Spanish to English translation by Anarchist News
5th Libertarian Spring Gathering in Havana
On the last weekend of May, our small group of friends, which gives intermittent life to the Alfredo López Libertarian Workshop and the ABRA Social Center with our friendship, held the 5th Libertarian Spring Gathering in the middle of a city that is enduring a chronic collapse...
From Strange Matters by Felipe Corrêa
Global anarchist history reveals the fundamental unity of the tradition, along with its key lines of debate and disagreement
Apologies to readers for the long delays between posts. My work has been unstable for the past year and a half, and has been keeping me from writing. I have also been engaged in other political education projects over at especifismostudies.org. That said, I have been continuing to plug away at a full length draft which narrativizes my historical research on Buddhist Anarchism.
From Anarchopac by Zoe Baker
When reading history books it is easy to assume that any sentence with an endnote must be true. The thoughts that an author just happened to come up with can take on the appearance of objective neutral fact when they are printed on a page. The process of becoming a historian is, to a significant extent, about confronting the extent to which our knowledge of the past is built on shaky foundations: primary sources which contradict one another, are open to numerous interpretations, can be easily misunderstood, contain ambiguities, reflect a biased viewpoint and so on.
From It's Going Down
A short history in commemoration of the life and times of Mexican anarchist, Librado Rivera, 91 years since his death.
From The Federation of Anarchism Era
By Hasse-Nima Golkar
December 7, 1953: Three protesting students, were shot to death by the Pahlavi dictatorial monarchy regime!
The 7th of December (16th of Azar in the Iranian calendar) is called “Student Day”:
Reviews of my work in the Nazi press, with few exceptions and those only recently, were always favorable. That arouses my suspicion–and even more the fact that they have not banned all of my books, but only four.
-B. Traven, private letter, June 8, 1933
From Robert Graham's Anarchism Weblog by Robert Graham
The September 1872 St. Imier Congress of federalist and anti-authoritarian sections and federations of the International Workingmen’s Association (the “IWMA”), otherwise known as the “First International,” marks a watershed moment in the history of socialism and anarchism.
From 80grados.net English translation by Anarchist News
[Free Pages: A Brief Anthology of Anarchist Thought in Puerto Rico (1900-1919)], edited by Dr. Jorell Meléndez Badillo and published by [Emergent Education Editions] in 2021, compiles a sample of texts from anticlerical and secular Puerto Rican anarchism from the first two decades of the 20th Century, one of the least studied periods of that century.
from ddt21.noblogs.org by Tristan Leoni, May 8, 2022.
What is to be done… under the bombing?
We experience neither the life of the Ukrainians, nor the situation of anarchists or communists living in Ukraine. We do not know what must be done there, we cannot pass judgement on their activity, because, whatever we think, we do not know how we would react in their place. With historical hindsight, it may seem easy to assess a situation because we know how it unfolded and ended. But it is truly impossible to know what “internationalist” stand we would have taken in August 1914 or June 1940. That said, should our Ukrainian comrades be immune from criticism just because they are the ones involved ? What they do is of course their own concern; but the way they understand and justify their activity, their discourse which is echoed abroad by other groups, that at the very least warrants discussion.
via NPR
For a day that celebrates reform and revolution, political discussions and petitions, said Linebaugh, there's something in it for everyone. Well, maybe not.
"There's nothing in it for the capitalist class," he said.
From C4SS by William Gillis
Review: The Anarchist-Individualist Origins of Italian Fascism
In 1910 Luigi Fabbri and Armando Borghi abducted an anarchist woman who had shamed their friend by divorcing him. Together, they forced her into a gynecological exam so the doctor could publicly pronounce her deformed and incapable of sex.