A French Anarchist on the Mexican Revolution

From The Transmetropolitan Review

Between the years 1909 and 1912, a French anarchist named Aristide Pratelle wrote several dispatches on the Mexican Revolution for Les Temps Nouveaux, the main anarchist newspaper in France. Aristide was a steadfast supporter of the Mexican Revolution, even when some of his French comrades began to criticize it along with the Italian anarchists, and he never abandoned his solidarity with the Mexican Liberal Party, or PLM, a front group for the Mexican anarchists.

‘The Mexican Question’ in the Cronaca Sovversiva

From The Transmetropolitan Review

The involvement of Italian anarchists in the Mexican Revolution of 1910 is a moment in history that remains obscure not just to contemporary anarchists, but also to academic historians. Beyond this, the actual history of the Mexican Revolution is insanely complex and refuses to fit neatly inside any ideological boxes, including anarchist ones.

"Colonization" in the Cronaca Sovversiva

From The Transmetropolitan Review

In the interests of fostering physical media, the text of ‘Colonization’ is print only.

A decade before Vladimir Lenin wrote his Imperialism and years before Rosa Luxemburg wrote her Accumulation of Capital, an Italian anarchist named Antonio Calavazzi wrote a short article titled ‘Colonization,’ first published in the Cronaca Sovversiva anarchist newspaper in 1906. Taking up less than a single page, this article was actually just one of many Italian anarchist texts dealing with colonialism, and unlike their English-speaking counterparts, the Italians had been critiquing colonization for a decade, starting with the First Italo-Ethiopian War of 1895.

The Anarchist Plot To Steal The Mona Lisa

From The Transmetropolitan Review

Few people know that the French anarchists of the 1890s funded their movement through burglary, and even fewer know that anarchists stole the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911. However, fans of the hit Netflix show Lupin have already ingested the legacy of those anarchist burglars, for the titular Lupin was based on the legendary anarchist burglar Alexandre Marius Jacob, head of the infamous gang of Nightworkers, whose daring thefts resonate even today in 2026.

An Anarchist’s Guide to Weyerhaeuser

From The Transmetropolitan Review

Back in 1908, an anarchist named Aristide Pratelle wrote an article titled ‘The King of the Forest’ for the French anarchist newspaper Les Temps Nouveaux, detailing the crimes of the Weyserhaeuser lumber company in the United States. Unlike most of his contemporaries, Aristide saw the Weyerhaeuser lumber company for the leviathan it was. At a time when most of the US public knew about the crimes of JP Morgan and JD Rockefeller, the ecocide of Friedrich Weyerhäuser went largely unnoticed, and after devastating the ancient forests of the Midwest, his company began to devour the Pacific Northwest.

An Anarchist's Guide to Frankenstein

From The Transmetropolitan Review

Mary Shelley wasn’t just an anarchist, she was the daughter of anarchists, which was more difficult than it sounds, especially for Mary. Her parents, Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, were widely despised by mainstream British society for their anarchist beliefs, and their daughter Mary Shelley inherited this social animosity.

The Anarchist Agitator Andrej Klemenčič: A Biography

From The Transmetropolitan Review

Andrej Klemenčič is an anarchist that you’ve never heard of. After he allegedly died in 1908, not a single obituary was written for him in any anarchist periodical. By the 1930s, the only traces of his existence were some old newspapers and tattered copies of The 1905 Proceedings of the Founding Convention of the Industrial Workers of the World, a verbatim transcription of the debates and resolutions that shaped the initial IWW. Among the founders listed in this text was Andrej Klemenčič, identified as the mysterious A. Klemensic.

The Selected Writings of Andrej Klemenčič, 1890-1907

From The Transmetropolitan Review

Andrej Klemenčič was born on November 30, 1867 in the town of Spodnja Šiška, just north of Ljubljana, the historical capital of Slovenia. At the time of Andrej’s birth, Slovenia was under the rule of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and he grew up under their despotic reign until 1880 when he began to wander across the Earth. This unique journey not only made Andrej a committed anarchist, it eventually delivered him to the industrial dystopia of the United States.

An Anarchist at Home

From The Transmetropolitan Review

Andrej Klemenčič was born on November 30, 1867 in the town of Spodnja Šiška, just north of Ljubljana, the historical capital of Slovenia. At the time of Andrej’s birth, Slovenia was under the rule of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and he grew up under their despotic reign until 1880 when he began his travels across the Earth. This unique journey not only made Andrej a committed anarchist, it eventually delivered him to the isolated backwater of Home, Washington.

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