The Anarchist Time Line--Emma Goldman Jewess influence

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The Daily Bleed's Anarchist Timeline...
Anarchist Time Line
[1- 1 -1918] --  Prior to imprisonment by the end of the month, Emma Goldman delivers her last public lectures in Chicago, Detroit, & Rochester (in Yiddish & English).
Emma Goldman, anarchist feminist
[1- 6 -1918] -- Russia: Dispersal of the Constituent Assembly, by a detachment led by the anarchist sailor Zheleznyakov, who announces:
[1- 14 -1918] --  Emma Goldman is fined & sentenced to 2 years in prison for obstruction of justice (opposing the draft). Raised in America, but born in Lithuania, the young anarchist feminist will soon be deported from the Land of the Free.
[1- 14 -1918] --  The Supreme Court upholds the constitutionality of the selective service law, affirming all criminal charges arising from non-compliance with the draft.
On January 28th the Court mandates the return of Emma Goldman & Alexander Berkman to fulfill their prison sentences. On January 30th, from Petrograd, in Russia, the US ambassador notifies the State Department of Russian anarchists threatening to hold him personally responsible for Goldman's & Berkman's safety in prison.
Emma Goldman, anarchist feminist
[1- 19 -1918] -- Spain: Rosa Laviña Carreras, anti-fascist militant, cenetista, lives.
Vivísimas Pinceladas
A member of Juventudes Libertarias during the Spanish Revolution, forced into exile in 1939, Rosa winds up in the French concentration camp Argelés-south-Mer. After World War II she participates in clandestine activities in solidarity with the prisoners of Franco.
Rosa appears in Susana Koska's film, Mujeres en pie de guerra (Women on a War Footing; NY Times Critic's Pick 2004), along with María Salvo, Sara Berenguer, Rosa Díaz, Neus Català & the sisters Carme & Merçona Puig Antich.
Source: http://www.alasbarricadas.org/ateneovir ... 9_de_enero
One of the many women whose currency is utopía, Rosa is the daughter of the anarchist bookseller Martí Laviña.
[1- 28 -1918] -- Germany: General Strike in the large cities; in Berlin the strike lasts through Feb 3rd.
B & A cover
At a rally of 10,000 workers in Munich, the anarchist poet/playwright
Erich Mühsam calls for the continuation of the strike movement.
He is seized afterwards by police & put under house arrest.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Ency ... mErich.htm
[2- 6 -1918] -- anarchist diamond dingbat; new entry, remove 2008Italy: Temistocle Monticelli, secretary of the Comitato di Azione Internazionalista Anarchica (Anarchist International Committee of Action), arrested, relegated. Other members arrested & confined at Lipari are Emilio Raimondo, Pasquale Binazzi & his partner Petroni Carlotta Zelmira (see July 1920 reference page). Organized during the war, among the committee's major activities was providing support for the victims of repression, for internees & for exiles. With their arrests, & that of Torquato Gobbi, & the death of Gregorio Benvenuti, the committee was broken up.
 
[2- 22 -1918] --  Birth of Brutus, Ben Reitman's son with Anna Martindale.
[2- 22 -1918] --  At the height of the Red Scare, the office of the "Cronaca Sovversiva," an anarchist newspaper both Sacco & Vanzetti had written for & donated money to, is raided. The names Sacco & Vanzetti are for the first time linked by officials to anarchist activities.
[2- 25 -1918] --  Newspapers report on government charges that Emma Goldman & Alexander Berkman had worked with German spies in foreign countries, an allegation based on correspondence from Indian nationalist Har Dayal to Berkman found among the papers seized from the Mother Earth publishing office
[3- 1 -1918] -- anarchist Emma Goldman receives a visit from Prince Hopkins, who reports on the activities of the League for the Amnesty of Political Prisoners.
[3- 4 -1918] --  The Bureau of Investigation of the Department of Justice orders copies of all correspondence to & from Emma Goldman sent to its office in Washington, D.C.
[3- 7 -1918] --  Harry Weinberger submits motion to the US District Court, Southern District of New York, that the bail money provided for Emma Goldman &
Alexander Berkman should not be used to pay their fines. Motion granted by Judge Augustus N. Hand on Mar. 11.
[3- 16 -1918] --  "Regeneración" publishes a proclamation, "With the anarchists of the world & the workers in general." The authors, Librado Rivera & Ricardo Flores Magón, argue that the social revolution approaches & that all anarchists must infuse it with their energies & possibilities. This text gets the paper seized in the land of the free, & this is its last published appearance in the mythical land of milk & honey.
[3- 18 -1918] --  Mexican anarchist Ricardo Flores Magón is arrested for the final time on March 18, 1918 under the Espionage Act.
He is charged with hindering the American war effort with his ideas, & imprisoned in the federal penitentiary of Leavenworth, causing outrage at the time among both Mexicans & even US liberals.
[3- 18 -1918] --  Dr. Ben Reitman begins his six-month prison sentence in Cleveland for his Jan. 1917 conviction for distributing birth control information. Just one of many visits to jail he endures over the years for practising "free speech" in America.
http://www.infoshop.org/texts/no_regrets.html
http://www.findagrave.com/pictures/8792.html
[3- 21 -1918] -- Ricardo Flores Magon, anarchist  Mexican revolutionary Ricardo Flores Magón arrested in Los Angeles, placed under $25,000 bail. He is later convicted, under the Espionage Act for obstructing the war effort, & sentenced to 20 years imprisonment. He will die there, ostensibly at the hands of his prison guards.
[3- 26 -1918] --  An anarchist draft resister, Philip Grosser, reports from Alcatraz Prison that he & other opponents of World War I are being tortured.
Meanwhile Minneapolis is the scene of the first so-called "Slacker Raid," a dragnet of men without draft cards.
During WWI, the raids seize more than 40,000 non-registrants across the country. (On July 15th, 1919, the War Department announces it has classified more than 337,000 American men as "draft dodgers" from the War That Ended All Wars waged by Beloved & Repected Comrade Liberal Woodrow Wilson.)
[4- 1 -1918] --  During this month the final issue of "Mother Earth Bulletin" produced; future publication is made impossible by ongoing government seizures.
Today Harry Weinberger meets with the assistant superintendent of prisons in Washington, D.C., to complain about government tampering & confiscation of Emma Goldman's mail.
Also this month, the Ferrer Center (see Modern School) in New York closes.
[4- 6 -1918] -- Russia: The French captain Jacques Sadoul, on a mission here, writes in a report today:
"The anarchist party is the most active, the most militant of the opposition groups & probably the most popular.... The Bolsheviks are anxious."
[4- 9 -1918] -- Russia: In Moscow, anarchist black guards confiscate the car of the American ambassador.
The car is seized in an effort to effect the release of political prisoners & trade union militants imprisoned in America. This action serves as a pretext for the Bolshevik secret police, the Cheka, to mount a sweeping attack on the anarchists on the night of April 11.
http://ytak.club.fr/avril8.html
[4- 10 -1918] -- Russia: This evening of the 10th & 11th, in reaction to growing protests of Russian anarchists to the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, the Cheka — the Bolshevik secret police — raids anarchist centers in Moscow. Approximately 40 anarchists are killed or wounded, more than 500 taken prisoners.
Emma Goldman Papers
[4- 11 -1918] -- Russia: The Bolsheviks use the respite of the Brest Litovsk treaty with imperialism to attack their critics on the left. Tonight, 26 anarchist centres in Moscow are raided by the Cheka (secret police).
[4- 12 -1918] -- Russia: Moscow headquarters of the anarchists surrounded & attacked by Bolshevik troops. For the past two days Cheka, the Bolshevik secret police has carried out raids on Moscow anarchist groups & making arrests. Very similar to what happens to anarchists, radical & labor activists in the US during this period.
[4- 13 -1918] -- anarchist diamond dingbat; new entry, remove 2008France: Premier Le 13 avril 1918, à Paris, sortie du premier numéro de l'hebdomadaire "La Plèbe." ... more (in French)
Le 13 avril 1918, à Paris, sortie du premier numéro de l'hebdomadaire "La Plèbe." "Syndicaliste, libertaire, socialiste, la Plèbe
[...] est l'organe de tous ceux qui, à l'épreuve du désastre, ont gardé intacte leur foi, leur raison, leur combativité, de tous ceux aussi des masses profondes, que la guerre à réveillés..." (Extrait d'une déclaration dans le premier numéro.) Importante colloboration de militants mais de nombreux articles sont censurés par les autorités, et le journal s'arrête après 4 numéros.
http://ytak.club.fr/avril13.html
[5- 2 -1918] -- Amilcare Cipriani dies. Italian anarchist involved in the Paris Commune, & a friend of Lissagaray. Also did seven years in prison for "conspiracies" in Italy, was wounded fighting against the Turks, & sent to prison again for three years. Wrote for "Le Plébéien" & other libertarian papers.
"Distinctly foreign events & concerns, such as the plight of Russian nihilists or of Irish tenants, often received more attention from "Liberty" than American concerns.
[Benjamin] Tucker was outraged by the imprisonment of the Italian Amilcare Cipriani, the trial of Louise Michel, & the plight of Russian refugees in Paris."
— Wendy McElroy, "Benjamin Tucker, Liberty, & Individualist Anarchism"
[5- 16 -1918] --  Congress passes Sedition Act against radicals, penalizing anyone judged to be hindering the war effort by making false statements, obstructing enlistment, or speaking against production of war materials, the American government, its constitution, or flag. Signed into law by Beloved & Respected Comrade Liberal President Wilson on May 21.
[6- 3 -1918] --  During this month, while Emma Goldman is in prison in Missouri for exercising free speech...
Emma is granted permission to write two letters every week, in addition to letters to Harry Weinberger. Contemplates writing about the situation of women in prison. Receives news that William Marion Reedy & attorney Clarence Darrow are interested in the League for the Amnesty of Political Prisoners, but believe that nothing can be done until after the war. Anticipating orders for her deportation, Emma begins investigating her citizenship status. Following suspension of the Mother Earth Bulletin, her niece Stella Ballantine publishes a mimeographed newsletter, Instead of a Magazine.
[6- 15 -1918] -- France: The anarchist Jules Durand, sentenced to death in November 1910, a victim of corrupt witnesses & vilification by the local press for a crime he did not commit, is found innocent in a new trial.
[6- 21 -1918] -- Poland: Edward Abramowski (1868-1918) dies. Libertarian socialist & cooperativist, psychologist & ethician, author of Socialism & State; The Republic of Friends; General Collusion Against the Government, founder of the biggest contrywide consumer cooperative "Spolem" (Together), founder of Polish Socialist Party. He developed a concept of a "stateless Socialism" & his thought tended increasingly towards an anarcho-syndicalism.
Further details/ context, click here; anarchiste, anarchismo, anarchici, anarchico, anarquista, anarchisten, anarchie, anarkismo, anarchisme
 
[6- 27 -1918] --    Emma Goldman spends her birthday in agonizing pain, induced by strain from her prison work.
[6- 29 -1918] --  Because of Emma Goldman's anti-war activities, Federal agents raid the apartment of Emma's associate M. Eleanor Fitzgerald, seizing mailing lists & other relevant material. Emma's associates, Carl Newlander & William Bales, are arrested for draft evasion following the raid.
[7- 11 -1918] -- Argentina: Simón Radowitzky (Szymon Radowicki) escapes from the Ushuaia concentration camp on the Tierra del Fuego island.
[7- 12 -1918] -- Luigi Molinari dies.
Molinari was a militant, active with Errico Malatesta & Camillo Berneri, in the Italian anarchist movement.
[7- 15 -1918] -- EG, anarchist feminist Intelligence agencies begin to circulate the names & addresses of over 8,000 "Mother Earth" magazine subscribers, targeting them for investigation. Emma Goldman also reluctantly concurs with Stella Ballantine's decision to close the Mother Earth Bookshop.
[7- 22 -1918] -- Peru: Manuel González Prada (1844-1918) dies. Renowned poet, polemicist & anarchist intellectual.
[7- 23 -1918] -- EG, anarchist feminist Roger Baldwin visits Emma Goldman in prison.
[7- 24 -1918] -- France: Anarchist songster & actor Jean-Roger Caussimon lives (1918-1985).
I do not want to be a poet...
I try to write songs!
Jean-Roger Caussimon est un très grand poète.
Léo Ferré a bien de la chance de l'avoir rencontré !
— Charles Trenet
http://perso.magic.fr/swproduction/
http://movies2.nytimes.com/person/11849 ... -Caussimon
http://raforum.info/article.php3?id_article=856
http://www.bopsecrets.org/recent/brassens.htm
[8- 8 -1918] -- France: Michel Zevaco (1860-1918) dies, Eaubonne (Seine-et-Oise). Novelist, professor, film director, anticleric, publisher, anarchist. Zevaco wrote many historical swashbuckling novels which are still being printed & made into films. The philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre called him a great writer who influenced him greatly.
[8- 15 -1918] --  Librado Rivera et Ricardo Flores Magón sont condamnés à quinze et vingt ans de prison pour avoir publié le 16 mars 1918, dans le journal "Regeneración" le manifeste "Aux anarchistes du monde et aux travailleurs en général." Ils seront conduits au pénitencier de McNeil Island near Seattle.
Further details/ context, click here; anarquista, anarquismo, anarquistas, anarquía, anarchy, libertarian
 
[8- 23 -1918] --  Mollie Steimer, along with several other members of her group, arrested for distributing leaflets against the landing of American troops in Soviet Russia. (Notable for their selective amnesia, American school books pass over this invasion.)
http://www.jacconline.org/main.cfm/incl ... 58398.html
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAsteimer.htm
[8- 25 -1918] -- Russia: First All-Russian Conference of Anarcho-syndicalists meets in Moscow (August 25-September 1).
Les délégués sont réunis dans le but de définir un programme commun de luttes et d'organisation pour lutter contre les ennemis de la révolution et de la classe ouvrière actuellement sous la triple menace des gouvernements étrangers, de la réaction intérieure (armées blanches) et de la dictature bolchevique.
The industrial resolution accuses the government of "betraying the working class with its suppression of workers' control in favour of such capitalist devices as one - man management, labour discipline & the employment of 'bourgeois' engineers & technicians. By forsaking the Factory Committees - the beloved child of the great workers' revolution - for those 'dead organisations', the trade unions, & by substituting decrees & red tape for industrial democracy, the Bolshevik leadership was creating a monster of 'state capitalism', a bureaucratic Behemoth, which it ludicrously called socialism."
[9- 14 -1918] --  The women's rights activist & anarchist Dr. Ben Reitman is released from prison.
[9- 24 -1918] -- Canada: Labor union, Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), declared illegal.
A federal order in council declared that while Canada was engaged in war, 14 organizations were to be considered unlawful, including the IWW. Penalty for membership was set at five years in prison.
 April 2, 1919 the ban on the IWW was lifted. Two branches were formed in Toronto & Kitchener.
 By 1923 IWW had three branches with job control in Canada: Lumberworkers IU 120 & Marine Transport Workers IU 510 in Vancouver & an LWIU branch in Cranbrook BC for a total of 5,600 members.
 1924 marked a peak year for the IWW in Canada. 8,000 in Northern Ontario, the Canadian Lumber Workers vote to join the IWW. On January 1, 1924, IWW Lumber Workers IU120 struck the British Columbia lumber owners, calling for an 8 hour day with blankets supplied, minimum wage of $4 per day, release of all class war prisoners, no discrimination against IWW members & no censuring of IWW literature. Fighting a mandatory dues check off to the United Mine Workers, Alberta Coal miners joined the IWW in 1924. http://infoshop.org/texts/iww.html
http://www.iww.org/
[10- 20 -1918] --  With the spread of a deathly strain of influenza, a quarantine is established at the penitentiary in Jefferson City, Mo., during this month, where Emma Goldman is imprisoned; all outside visits are suspended. Red Emma Goldman, anarchist
[10- 29 -1918] -- Germany: Wilhelmshaven Revolt. Sailors mutiny, take over naval base, garrison & city of Kiehl; Soldiers, Sailors & Workers Councils elected. The German government falls on November 10.
[11- 6 -1918] -- Germany: Revolt in shipyards in Kiel & Hamburg & the creation of Workers' Councils. In three days, Berlin follows suit, then all Germany, marking the beginning of the Sparticist Revolution, involving anarchists, socialists, communists & people in all walks of life.
[11- 7 -1918] -- Germany: Kiel Mutiny, following the imprisonment of 600 sailors, sparks a general uprising. The provisional government declared by Independent Social Democrats will be overtaken by the Bavarian Raterepublik — the Workers', Soldiers', & Farmers' Councils — within five months.
"Red Bavaria" Revolution. Workers revolt. The Bavarian monarchy is overthrown & a Republic is declared by the Socialist Kurt Eisner, who becomes its president.
Eisner proposes a ministry position to the anarchist Erich Mühsam. Muhsam refused, preferring to fight, along with Gustav Landauer, Ernst Toller, Ret Marut (better known as the novelist B. Traven), & others, for the development of Workers' Councils & self-managed co-operatives.
Landauer:
Gustav Landauer
Denn in der Poesie sind
Worte und Begriffe das
Instrument, das uns zur
Musik führt, -zum
Rhythmus, zum
Unsagbaren, das in uns
einschwingt und uns
mitschwingen läßt.
Ernst Toller, playwright, became chairman of the Central Council of the farmer & soldier, & leader of a Red Army.
The Munich Soviet (or "Council Republic") of 1919 exhibited certain features of the TAZ, even though — like most revolutions — its stated goals were not exactly "temporary." Gustav Landauer's participation as Minister of Culture along with Silvio Gesell as Minister of Economics & other anti-authoritarian & extreme libertarian socialists such as the poet/playwrights Erich Mühsam & Ernst Toller, & Ret Marut (B. Traven), gave the Soviet a distinct anarchist flavor. Landauer, who had spent years of isolation working on his grand synthesis of Nietzsche, Proudhon, Kropotkin, Stirner, Meister Eckhardt, the radical mystics, & the Romantic volk-philosophers, knew from the start that the Soviet was doomed; he hoped only that it would last long enough to be understood.
— Peter Lamborn Wilson
[11- 12 -1918] -- Russia: First general conference of the Confederation Nabat, anarchist organizations of the Ukraine (12-16th).
Further details/ context, click here
 
[11- 14 -1918] -- Switzerland: Lucien Tronchet witnesses strikers being gunned down in Granges. Never to forget those three deaths, they weigh mightily upon his subsequent years as an anarcho- syndicalist militant.
[11- 15 -1918] --  Gabriella Segata Antolini, a 19-year-old anarchist arrested & convicted for transporting dynamite in Chicago, is imprisoned in the Jefferson City, Mo., penitentiary; she & fellow prisoner Emma Goldman become good friends.
[11- 18 -1918] -- Brazil: Major workers' insurrection, with a strike wave in Rio involving over 6,000 workers & a plot to overthrow the government. Prominent are the textile, metal & construction workers.
http://www.nodo50.org/insurgentes/texto ... evolta.htm
[11- 19 -1918] -- Brasil: O Rio de Janeiro Atravé dos Jornais 19 de novembro de 1918 REVOLTA DOS ANARQUISTAS.
[11- 25 -1918] -- anarchist diamond dingbat Russia: Second All-Russian Conference of Anarcho-syndicalists meets in Moscow (November 25-December 1)
[11- 29 -1918] -- Kurt Wafner:
Ausgeschert aus Reih' und Glied.
Mein Leben als Bücherfreund und Anarchist
Kurt Wafner, geboren am 29. November 1918, hat vier Staatsformen erlebt: die "Goldenen Zwanziger," den braunen Terror, die rote Diktatur und die heutige "real existierende" Demokratie - aber keine hat ihn zum Jubeln gebracht. Geriet er unter Zwang, drängte es ihn auszuscheren aus Reih' und Glied.
[12- 23 -1918] --  Randolph Bourne (1886-1918) dies. American literary radical, anarchist.
It is in literature itself that Randolph Bourne appears most unforgettably, in a haunting stanza from 1919 (1932), centerpiece of the U.S.A. trilogy by John Dos Passos:
This little sparrowlike man,
tiny twisted bit of flesh in a black cape,
always in pain & ailing,
put a pebble in his sling,
& hit Goliath squarely in the forehead with it.
. . . If any man has a ghost,
Bourne has a ghost,
a tiny twisted unscared ghost in a black cloak
hopping along the grimy old brick & brownstone streets
still left in downtown New York,
crying out in a shrill soundless giggle:
War is the health of the State.
[1- 1 -1919] -- Spain: Sara Berenguer lives, Barcelona. Poet, anarchist member of Mujeres Libres.
[1- 10 -1919] -- Germany: Arrest of the author, poet, publisher, anarchist Erich Mühsam
[Muehsam] & 11 other radicals.
[1- 10 -1919] --  Prison quarantine lifted during this month; influenza outbreak under control. Emma Goldman visited by M. Eleanor Fitzgerald, who brings her a smuggled communication from Alexander Berkman. Emma Goldman, anarchist
[1- 14 -1919] -- Russia: Voline, Russian revolutionary & anarchist historian, arrested & dragged from one prison to another.
Trotsky, pretender to the throne, already had ordered his execution, & Voline escaped death only by sheer accident...
[1- 16 -1919] -- Argentina: End of « Semaine Sanglante ». ("Bloody Week") in Buenos Aires. The General Strike begun a week ago, on the 7th, is crushed in blood, with as many as 700 dead & 2000 wounded. The militant Argentinean anarchist movement is decimated by the repression which follows & trade union reformists gain control of the workers' movement.
[1- 16 -1919] -- Spain: Constitutional guarantees suspended in Barcelona. Repression falls mainly on the cenetistas (CNT). Confederal premises are raided & unionists arrested. Workers found at or frequenting the homes of prominent militants are jailed. Imprisoned in the Cárcel Modelo, they are transferred to the boats "Pelayo" & "Giralda" which serve as floating prisons in the harbor, & all newspapers are censored, so that there is no voice in defense of the prisoners. The CNT is forced to operate underground.
[1- 21 -1919] --  New York City Police Inspector Thomas J. Tunney testifies before a Senate subcommittee, chaired by Senator Overman, investigating links between German agents & the US Brewers' Association & allied liquor interests. Emma Goldman, anarchist feminist
Tunney also recounts his investigation of Emma Goldman & Alexander Berkman in connection with the Hindu revolutionary Har Dayal. He claims Goldman & Berkman are close associates of Leon Trotsky. He describes Goldman as "a very able & intelligent woman & a very fine speaker."
Not bad for a flatfoot; he got the last part right.
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/SSEAL/SouthAsia/gadar.html
http://www.corpse.org/archives/issue_5/ ... /elias.htm
[1- 23 -1919] -- Ukraine: First Regional Conference of Peasants, Workers & Insurgents (anarchist Makhnovists), held in Bolché-Mikhailovska / Prva regionalna konferencija seljaka, radnika i pobunjenika Ukrajna, (anarhistièkih Mahnovista), održana je u Bolèe-Mihajlovskoj.
See Alexander Skirda's Makhno, le cosaque de l'anarchie.
http://www.nestormakhno.info/
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Ency ... Nestor.htm
[2- 8 -1919] -- Spain: "La Canadienne" strike in Barcelona, taking its name from the principle electrical company involved, begins. Lasts 44 days, & extends to other companies, & becomes a General Strike — paralyzing the whole city & industry. The government declares martial law & imprisons 3,000 strikers of the anarcho-syndicalist C.N.T.
[Confederacion Nacional del Trabajo].
[2- 14 -1919] -- Colombia:
1919 - Fabric workers' strike, in Medellín, Colombia, with the worker Betsabé Espinoza as director & negotiator. Women's "swarms" are formed to protect strikers from police attacks.
[2- 19 -1919] -- France: The 23-year-old anarchist, Louis-Emile Cottin, fires on the car of Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Clemenceau, who is wounded. Cottin was tried & sentenced to death, a sentence commuted to 10 years imprisonment following a protest campaign organized in the pages of "Libertaire". See October 8, 1936.
[2- 21 -1919] -- In Munich, the socialist Kurt Eisner, principal in the Bavarian revolution & president of the Republic of Councils, is assassinated by extremists. The Central Council of the Republic, composed of 11 members, including the anarchist Erich Mühsam, declare a general strike & state of siege. The Death Ship, illustration from Traven book cover
B. Traven (The Death Ship; The Treasure of the Sierra Madres, etc):
http://skarv.se/BT/Traven.html
http://usuarios.lycos.es/jhbadbad/traven.html
Erich Muhsam:
http://web.hamline.edu/personal/jgeorge/erich.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_M%C3%BChsam
Gustav Landauer:
http://www.anarchismus-gustav-landauer.de/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Landauer
[2- 23 -1919] -- Portugal: "A Batalha" premiers, the second daily newspaper in the country, published by the anarcho-syndicalist CGT (the General Confederation of Workers in Portugal comprised of 150,000 workers). It prints 25,000 copies a day before being suppressed after the military coup d'etat of 1926. It reappears on April 25, 1974 (with the fall of the dictatorship), but never regaining the influence which it exerted in the Twenties.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/07ref.htm#25/1927
[2- 25 -1919] --  During this month "Go-Head!" — a circular attributed to "The American Anarchists" — appears throughout New England. In it, the American Anarchists, presumably the Italian-American Anarchists, threaten to "dynamite" officials in retaliation for the ongoing deportations & repression the anarchists are enduring.
See Heroes & Martyrs: Emma Goldman, Sacco & Vanzetti, & the Revolutionary Struggle, an audio CD by Howard Zinn.
http://www.torremaggiore.com/saccoevanzetti/storia.html
[3- 1 -1919] --  Man Ray, artist & photographer, publishes the only issue of "TNT," an anarchist magazine, this month. He illustrated for a number of anarchist publications, including Emma Goldman's "Mother Earth."
[3- 3 -1919] --  Ruling on the conviction of anarchists Emma Goldman & Alexander Berkman, the Supreme Court upholds the Espionage Act. Goldman & Berkman were arrested during World War I for a so-called 'conspiracy' against the draft. Today's court ruling thus puts draft resistance outside First Amendment protection.
[3- 11 -1919] -- US:
Mollie Steimer, free on appeal for her 15-year sentence for handing out leaflets, is arrested at the Russian People's House on the East 15th Street during a raid by US federal & local police which netted 164 radicals. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAsteimer.htm
http://www.iisg.nl/archives/en/files/f/10748542full.php
[3- 14 -1919] -- France: The 23-year-old Louis-Emile Cottin is sentenced to death. This is commuted to 10 years in prison following a protest campaign organized in the pages of the anarchist "Libertaire." See February 2, 1919.
[3- 21 -1919] -- Hungary: Insurrection of the Councils with the participation of anarchists in the Commune of Budapest.
[3- 31 -1919] --  Emma Goldman is interviewed by Winthrop Lane for an independent investigation of federal prisons slated for publication in the research magazine "Survey."
[3- 31 -1919] -- Spain: Se aplica por primera vez la ley de fugas en la persona de Miguel Burgos, secretario del Ramo de Curtidos de la CNT.
Following the triumph of the CNT in the recent "Canadian strike," the Civil Governor, in collusion with the employer's association, determined to use any method to crush the union. Constitutional guarantees were suspended & again the cenetistas were persecuted & jailed. Thus, too, is Miguel Burgos murdered.
"Ley de fugas"
"Ley de fugas" (law of escape) was applied frequently in Spain to union militants, who are taken to jail under any pretext, then "set free" — only to be shot down moments later as "escapees." The beauty for the police was its simplicity & cover of legality.
[4- 2 -1919] -- Canada: Ban on the IWW (September 1918) because of the Great War to End All Wars is lifted. Two branches are formed in Toronto & Kitchener.
1923 IWW had three branches with job control in Canada: Lumberworkers IU 120 & Marine Transport Workers IU 510 in Vancouver & an LWIU branch in Cranbrook BC for a total of 5,600 members.
1924 marked a peak year for the IWW in Canada. 8,000 in Northern Ontario, the Canadian Lumber Workers vote to join the IWW. On January 1, 1924, IWW Lumber Workers IU120 struck the British Columbia lumber owners, calling for an 8-hour day with blankets supplied, minimum wage of $4 per day, release of all class war prisoners, no discrimination against IWW members & no censuring of IWW literature. Fighting a mandatory dues check off to the United Mine Workers, Alberta Coal miners joined the IWW in 1924.
[4- 2 -1919] -- anarchiste diamond dingbat; anarquista; new entry, remove 2008Russia: Premier Congress of the Nabat Confederation, April 2-7th, Elizabetgrad (Kirovograd), Ukraine.
[4- 6 -1919] -- Bavarian Raterepublik declared in opposition to the provisional government. The Central Council of Workers', Soldiers' & Farmers' Councils includes Ernst Toller, anarchists Erich Muhsam, Gustav Landauer & one 'Richard Maurhut' — the man who became famous as B. Traven.
[4- 7 -1919] -- Workers' Councils declare a Republic in Bavaria, in spite of the opposition of the Communists. The anarchists are the principal actors: Erich Muhsam, Gustav Landauer, Ret Marut (B. Traven), Ernst Toller, etc. But the troops sent in by the socialists will crush the revolutionaries between April 30 & May 2, 1919, killing over 700 victims.
[4- 10 -1919] -- México: Anarchist revolutionary hero Emiliano Zapata ambushed & assassinated by Mexican troops, age 29, Chinameca, Mexico. One of the main — & best known — participants in the peasant uprisings against the central government's authority from 1910 until his death. A wax replica of his body is put on public display -- obviously not his body, for everyone knows he still rides in the hills intent on finishing the job he began on November 28, 1911 (the Plan of Ayala, the peasants' declaration of independence).
In Spanish, http://www.patriagrande.net/uruguay/edu ... 190410.htm
http://www.ingeb.org/songs/emiliano.html
[4- 12 -1919] -- Italy: Founding congress of the l'Union Anarchiste Communiste held, 12-14 April.
[4- 12 -1919] --  Benefit concert at Carnegie Hall for the League for the Amnesty of Political Prisoners organized by M. Eleanor Fitzgerald, Stella Ballantine, & Harry Weinberger.
[4- 13 -1919] -- Bavaria: A military attempt at a putsch against the Republic of the Workers Councils is repelled by the workers, led by the anarchists. Unfortunately the Communists of the KPD capitalize on the event to increase their power. It is the second phase of the Council Republic.
[4- 17 -1919] -- Switzerland: "l'Ecole Ferrer" school closes this month
[I don't have the exact day — ed.]
Founded in Lausanne by the anarchist pediatrist Jean Wintsch & Emile Durand, inspired by "l'Escuela moderna" of Francisco Ferrer.The school accomodated about 30 boys & girls. It was supported by about 15 trade unions & with personal donations (especially from Russian refugees). It was also favorably received by "Réveil" & the libertarian press in general. In 1911, Paul Robin bequeathed to the school most of the teaching equipment used at Cempuis.
Unfortunately WWI & the dissension following publication of the "Proclamation of the 16" (Proclamation of Seize/Manifesto of the Sixteen), which Wintsch was a signatory to, resulted in his withdrawal from activism & the school's closure in April 1919
See Jean Wintsch, Une Révocation, une école (Lausanne: Société de l'école Ferrer, 1910)
Source: http://ytak.club.fr/novembre1.html#ecoleferrerlausanne
http://www.iisg.nl/archives/en/files/w/10777123.php
[4- 19 -1919] -- Russia: Mutinerie des marins de la mer noire (Sailors Mutiny in the Black Sea), April 19-21. A delegation, made up partly of anarchist sailors, demands suspension of the war against Russia, the return of the ships to France, & no disciplining for their rebellion.
[4- 28 -1919] --  Bomb plot is discovered. The plot involved sending over 30 dynamite bombs to people "on the anarchists' enemies list," including A. Mitchell Palmer, the US Attorney General, J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, & Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis (who becomes the first commissioner of baseball next year, which is more than reason enough!).
[4- 28 -1919] --  Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Seattle mayor Hanson gets a bomb in the mail. Hizzoner declares the government should "buck up & hang or incarcerate for life all the anarchists." This was one of 36 aforesaid bombs which turn up in the mails across the nation.
[4- 29 -1919] -- Germany: From April 29 to May 2, government forces in Munich crush in blood the Republic of the Councils of Bavaria. Resistance results in many hard-fought street battles. Many resistors (workers, socialists, anarchists, sympathizers) are summarily executed, leaving over 700 dead.
[5- 1 -1919] -- Germany: "Red Bavaria" suppressed, 600 die. German anarchist Gustav Landauer is killed tomorrow, following his arrest by a unit of the anti-revolutionary Freikorps.
[5- 2 -1919] -- Pierre Chardon (Maurice Charron; 1892-1919) dies.(né le 3 novembre 1892 à Châteauroux). French militant individualist anarchist & antimilitarist. Wrote for "La Mêlée", etc.
[5- 4 -1919] -- Roger Paon, lives, Maritime Seine. French socialist, then an anarchist & pacifist.
Paon joined the Socialist Youth for a brief period in 1933, before turning to the libertarians, particularly the group l'Union Anarchiste de Rouen. He was also a member of the Ligue Internationale des Combattants de la paix, which aided in the resistance to the occupation during WWII.
Paon lived in Nice following the war, collaborating on libertarian publications, & publishing his own newspaper, "L'ordre Social" (1950-1953). He also agitated, with Louis Lecoin, for the recognition of rights of conscientious objection. Roger Paon is the author of Marine de Rivière, a work on shipping.
[5- 8 -1919] -- Vera Zasulich (1849-1919) dies. Russian anarchist, then a Menshevik. Left a family of nobility for revolutionary activities.
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[5- 9 -1919] --  Socialist Ella Reeve (Mother) Bloor visits Emma Goldman in prison.
During this month Emma emphatically rejects Ben Reitman's request to visit her in prison.
Also this month & next, mail bombs purportedly sent to Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer & other prominent officials gain media attention. Government agents wrongly implicate Emma & Alexander Berkman in the 'conspiracy'.
[5- 12 -1919] -- Source=Robert Braunwart  Tribulations? Henry Ford's $1-million libel suit against the "Chicago Tribune" begins (for editorially calling him an "anarchist") — the anti-semite wins Big Time: awarded 6 cents.
That'll teach 'em to get their anarchists straight.
[5- 30 -1919] -- France: Militants of the C.D.S. join the first Communist Party (PC), French section of the Communist International, largement inspiré des thèses anarchistes.
[Source: Le Libertaire Chronologie]
[6- 2 -1919] --  Galleanist anarchists carry out a series of coordinated bombings across the Eastern United States.
[6- 2 -1919] -- Switzerland: Luigi Bertoni & Italian anarchists, implicated in the "Plot of Zurich," appear in court today, after being held in detention the past 13 months. The so-called "plot" was a political pretext to arrest Bertoni, publisher of "Le Réveil communiste anarchiste", & others opposing WWI. A nationwide protest movement agitated for their release.
En fait une machination politico-judiciaire qui se clôt par un acquittement général, après un impressionnant discours (de 2 heures) que Bertoni prononce pour sa défense.
[6- 4 -1919] -- Ukraine: Marxism vs. the working classes: the 4th (Ukrainian) Congress of Free Soviets, to which rank & file members of the Red Army have been invited to send representatives, is banned by Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Leon Trotsky. Bolshevist troops are sent to destroy the Rosa Luxemburg Commune near Provkovski & the Ukrainian anarchist insurgent Nestor Makhno is declared an outlaw.
[Source: Calendar Riots]
[6- 5 -1919] --  67 anarchists are arrested & face deportation in the wake of a bomb explosion marking the beginning of the famous "Palmer raids." (See June 2).
[6- 7 -1919] -- anarchist diamond; anarquista Spain: El 7 de junio el cenetista Miguel Villalonga atenta y da muerte al empresario ebanista Felipe Serrano, en la calle Valencia esquina Calabria. Años más tarde se averiguó que Serrano había roto con su socio y éste último había inducido a Villalonga para que se produjeran los hechos, pero sin embargo en aquel momento parecía claro que eran los sindicalistas los que habían provocado la muerte de Serrano.
[6- 14 -1919] -- Russia: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Trotsky, chief of the Red Army (aka The "Red Butcher" of Kronstadt), drafts an order banning the Makhnovist (anarchist) Congress, accusing them of opposing Soviet power in the Ukraine. Trotsky calls for the arrest of the delegates.
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[6- 15 -1919] -- Bulgaria: Founding of the Federation of Anarchist Communists of Bulgaria (F.A.C.B.), in Sofia, June 15-17th. Federation members included Ivan Nicolov, one of its most popular speakers & polemicists, & Gueorgui Cheitanov, a popular speaker & guerrilla. (Both were murdered by the fascist government in 1925.) The Federation published the theoretical review, "Free Society."
[6- 24 -1919] --  Following an attack on the house of Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Attorney General Palmer on June 2, 1919, the Italian anarchist Luigi Galleani & collaborators on the newspaper "Cronaca Sovversiva" are expelled from the country.
[6- 27 -1919] --   Emma Goldman, anarchist feminist  Emma Goldman celebrates her 50th birthday in prison. Especially touched that William Shatoff sends her a bouquet of flowers from Russia.
[7- 2 -1919] -- EG, anarchist feminist An amnesty conference scheduled to take place in Chicago July 2-4 is canceled, much to the disappointment of Emma Goldman, who remains in prison for her anti-war activities. During this month Kate Richards O'Hare begins to type Emma's weekly dictated letters.
[7- 12 -1919] -- Germany: The anarchist Erich Mühsam, on trial in Munich since July 7 for High Treason, is sentenced to 15 years in prison for his involvement in Bavarian Workers' Councils uprising.
Also involved in the uprising were Gustav Landauer (murdered by soldiers), the novelist B. Traven, & Ernst Toller.
[7- 17 -1919] -- Spain: Militant cenetista Pablo Sabater Lliró (aka "El Tero") is assassinated by a rightwing band of pistoleros controlled by the Barcelona police chief Bravo Portillo. Sabater Lliró; source anarcoefemerides
35-year-old Sabater was president of the Barcelona Dyers Union (CNT) which had just carried out a strike. He is one of the first victims of the business owner's terrorism, employing gangs of thugs to murder anyone they deem troublesome, which breaks out in earnest at the beginning of the Twenties.
Two months from now, in retaliation, Portillo is assassinated. Police found a cap dropped by the culprits, but witnesses refuse to identify them:
The sombrero is not recognized.
http://www.lisergia.net/quebelloesvivir ... brera.html
[8- 1 -1919] -- Alexander Nakov lives, Kosatcha, Bulgaria. Anarchist militant activist & esperantist.
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[8- 16 -1919] -- Spain: Conchita Guillen Bertolin lives (1919-), Alfondseguilla, Valencia. Militant anarchist & member of "Mujeres Libres."
Forced into refuge in France with the rout of the Republican forces in 1939. In 1999 she participated in the collected work Mujeres Libres, will luchadoras libertarias, translated into French by the Ascaso-Durruti Center of Montpellier in 2000 & published by Los Solidarios.
[8- 24 -1919] -- Spain: The Gunman of Portillo, Luís Fernández por los Mozos de Escuadra, is arrested. Implicated in the assassination (his car apparently used in the killing) of Alvarez Caparrós, a police honcho. This is during a period of repression against the CNT (the anarchist labor union was shut down & 15,000 "cenetistas" are in prison or in hiding).
[8- 24 -1919] -- Spain: Victor García (Tomás Germinal García Ibars) lives.
Infatigable militant anarcho-syndicalist, writer, translator & historian of the international anarchist movement.. Sometimes known as 'the Marco Polo of anarchism' for the length & breadth of his travels Translator (in Castillan) of l'Encyclopédie Anarchiste of Sébastien Faure, author of Antologia del anarcho-sindicalismo,Museihushugi, el anarchismo japonés, Three Japanese Anarchists: Kotoku, Osugi & Yamaga (Kate Sharpley Library, 2000), etc.
[8- 28 -1919] --  Seattle mayor demands,
"Hang or incarcerate all anarchists for life."
[9- 7 -1919] -- Italy: In Milan 19-year-old Bruno Filippi attempts to set off a bomb at the "Circolo dei Nobili ou au Caffè."
Filippi dies in a premature explosion while climbing the steps of the building to the "club of nobles," a meeting place for the richest people of the city. His presumed accomplices, the anarchists Guido Villa, Aldo Perego, Elena Melli & Maria Zibardi, are tried in July 1920 & receive harsh sentences.
[9- 12 -1919] -- EG, anarchist feminist Still in prison for opposing the war once opposed by Beloved & Respected Comrade Liberal Leader Woodrow Wilson, the anarchist Emma Goldman is served a warrant for her arrest & deportation; bond set at $15,000.
[9- 24 -1919] -- The Ukrainian Anarchists, seeing themselves about to be caught in Denikin's vise, wheeled, turning suddenly east.
They saw only one hope, to break through his lines. Denikin thought the move was a feint or reconnaissance. His principle forces continued chasing Makhno westward, thinking the Anarchists still in retreat.
Never did Denikin's staff dream that Makhno would turn to attack the bulk of the White army...
[9- 25 -1919] -- Russian Revolution: After brutal repression at the hands of the Bolsheviks, Cheka raids on anarchist groups & the banning of the Anarchist Congress by Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Trotsky in June, underground anarchists retaliate by bombing the Communist headquarters in Moscow.
A number of Left Social Revolutionaries & underground anarchists bombed the headquarters of the Moscow Committee of the Communist Party in protest at the growing repression. Twelve Communists were killed & 45 others were wounded.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Ency ... nyiLev.htm
[9- 26 -1919] -- Ukraine: After months of retreat, the anarchist Ukrainian Insurrectionary Army, headed by Nestor Makhno, turns on its pursuers & Denikin's forces are routed.
[9- 27 -1919] --  Emma Goldman's term of imprisonment at Jefferson Emma Goldman, anarchist feministCity penitentiary expires; released on bail with orders for deportation pending. Greeted in Jefferson City by mobs of reporters, friends, & niece Stella Ballantine, who accompanies her to Rochester. Stops in Chicago to visit Ben Reitman; meets his wife & child. Alexander Berkman's release from the Atlanta penitentiary follows in a few days, on Oct. 1.
[10- 5 -1919] -- Italy: Giliana Berneri lives (1919-1998), Florence. Second child of Camillo & Giovanna Berneri, sister of Marie Louise Berneri.
Giovanna CaleffiGiliana studied medicine & specialized in pediatrics. A militant involved with the French anarchist milieu & worked with "Le Libertaire."
[10- 7 -1919] -- Nicolas Thomassin (1849-1919) dies. French weaver, socialist, anarchist, participant in "Sans patrie" (formed October 18, 1891) with Gustave Bouillard, Pierre Leroux, Paulin Mailfait, etc.
[10- 8 -1919] --  General Strike called to demand Tom Mooney's release & amnesty for all political prisoners. Emma Goldman, anarchist feminist
American labor agitator Tom Mooney was falsely convicted of a fatal bombing. He is not released until 1939.
Meanwhile, Bureau of Investigation Director & famed cross-dresser J. Edgar Hoover, in NY to review evidence collected for Emma Goldman's deportation, monitors a protest rally this same night. In search of further evidence, Hoover personally pokes around in a storage room leased by the anarchists M. Eleanor Fitzgerald & Ben Reitman.
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~library/Libra ... lose2.html
[10- 16 -1919] --  Deportation Act to rid US of anarchist aliens. Thousands, including Emma Goldman & Alexander Berkman, jailed, sent packing. Harbinger of US government anti-labor & anti-Red attacks in the 1920's when Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Attorney General Mitchell Palmer & his pal J. Edgar go after impertinent American citizens who suppose they live in the "Land of the Free."
See Aliens & Dissenters: Federal Suppression of Radicals, 1903-1933 by William Preston, Jr.
"& you, are you so forgetful of your past, is there no echo in your soul of your poets' songs, your dreamers' dreams, your rebels' calls?"
— Emma Goldman
[10- 16 -1919] -- Emma Goldman, anarchist feministAlexander Berkman & Emma Goldman spend a few days in the country recuperating from harsh prison conditions before beginning work to oppose their deportations. Emma is to appear before immigration authorities at Ellis Island on the 27th & 28th to appeal her deportation order; she claims US citizenship from her marriage to Jacob A. Kersner. On the 31st a benefit theater performance in New York City raises $500 to help them cover the costs of fighting their deportation.
[10- 27 -1919] --  Emma Goldman appears before immigration authorities at Ellis Island to appeal her deportation order from the land of the free. She & Alexander Berkman have just recently been freed from prison. Emma Goldman, anarchist feminist
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[10- 28 -1919] --  "Reds" of Various Hue Light Up
Emma Goldman's Cheery 'Coming Out' Party. In
[New York] Evening World (Oct. 28, 1919) Reel 63.
[11- 1 -1919] --    Emma Goldman & Alexander Berkman send out a 3,000-piece solicitation to raise support for political prisoners, the fight against deportation of aliens, & to announce their proposed lecture tour scheduled to begin at the end of the month.
On the 7th of this month violent raids of the homes of hundreds of "suspected radicals" & labor activists begin in NY City, & across the country some 10,000 suspected communists & anarchists are arrested. Based on a list of 450,000 dissidents compiled by J. Edgar Hoover, in January another crackdown sweeps the country during what is referred to as the "Palmer Raids" during America's first "Red Scare." Ambitious men, with unbridled appetites for power, Hoover & US Attorney General Palmer, both notorious liars & law breakers, soon have the country in a panic, claiming a revolution is planned for May Day.
 
[11- 2 -1919] -- Laurent Tailhade (1854-1919), French poet, writer, anarchist polemist, opium addict (La noire idole), translator (Satyricon de Pétrone), dies.
"What do the victims matter, if the gesture be beautiful?"
His first poems were published in 1880, but it was his polemical writings which gained the most attention, being lambasted by the press & a costing him a year in jail for "provoking murder."
Tailhade himself was the victim of an anarchist bombing of a restaurant where he chanced to be (April 4, 1894,) & lost an eye.
See also the Daily Bleed, April 16, 1854. http://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biograf ... ilhade.htm
http://ytak.club.fr/avril3.html#16
[11- 7 -1919] --  "Palmer's Reign of Terror" begins: 3,000 anarchists imprisoned without bail, Ellis Island in NY harbor, in a "Freedom-loving" nation (just don't try to practice it!).
[11- 15 -1919] --  In New York City, the main headquarters of the anarcho-syndicalist I.W.W is torn up & destroyed by agents acting under the US Attorney General Palmer, in his continuing persecution of labor militants, anarchists, radicals, etc. The era of the Palmer Raids (the"Red Scare") ruthlessly foisted upon the public, it should better be called the "White Terror,": government agents illegally breaking into trade-union buildings & peoples homes, meeting halls, arresting militants without cause or charges, seizing or trashing files, destroying fixtures & the buildings.
[11- 17 -1919] --    Emma Goldman speaks at a New York dinner organized by friends of Kate Richards O'Hare.
[11- 18 -1919] -- Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis dies. Elected to office in Amsterdam, as a socialist, in 1891 before giving up politics to adopt the anarchism of Mikhail Bakunin.
alt; Michael Bakunin, Michel Bakounine
[11- 19 -1919] -- Brazil: In São Paulo, João Penteado, a teacher & anarchist militant, is ordered to close the Modern School n°1 — open since May 13, 1912 (founded by Neno Vasco, Edgard Leuenroth, Oreste Ristori & Gigi Damiani) — when a bomb explodes (accidental?) in a house, killing four anarchists, including José Alvés, the principal of l'Ecole moderne de São Caetano.
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alt; Jose Alves; Joao Penteado; Sao Caetano
[11- 20 -1919] -- Liu Shih-p'ei dies, at the early age of 36. Chinese anarchist, involved in the Chinese anarchist movement which emerged in Tokyo about the same time as another important group emerged in Paris, France.
Liu Shih-p'ei, his wife Ho Chen, Chang Ping-lin & Chang Chi were leading members of the group in Japan.
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[11- 23 -1919] --  The anti-war activists & anarchists Alexander Berkman & Emma Goldman begin a short lecture tour in Detroit; today's event is attended by 1,500 people & Emma says 2,000 people had to be turned away for lack of space. Large Jewish audience attends a meeting on Nov. 25.
[11- 25 -1919] --  Amid a strike for union recognition by 395,000 steelworkers (ultimately unsuccessful), approximately 250 "anarchists," "communists," & "labor agitators" were deported to Russia yesterday, marking the onset of the so-called "Red Scare."
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman/Gui ... y2040.html
The United States:
"a country where truth is tarred & feathered, lynched, imprisoned, clubbed, & expatriated as undesirable...
— George Bernard Shaw (1925)
[11- 25 -1919] --  Department of Labor orders antiwar activist & anarchist Alexander Berkman's deportation to Russia. Emma Goldman's deportation order follows on Nov. 29. Their lawyer Weinberger meets in Washington, D.C., with immigration officials, including Anthony Caminetti & Assistant Secretary of Labor Louis F. Post.
[11- 29 -1919] --  Emma Goldman & Alexander Berkman address an audience of 4,500 people in Chicago about their prison experiences.
Tomorrow they address another large crowd. Then, on December 21, a large benefit banquet is held at the Hotel Morrison in Chicago. Emma describes the Detroit & Chicago meetings as "among the most inspiring in our public career." Berkman received his deportation orders from the Land of the Free on the 25th, & Emma receives hers today.
[11- 29 -1919] --  Bogalusa Massacre.
From: "Gene Lawhorn"
Subject: UBCMEMBERS * Bogalusa Massacre Memorial Resolution
Bogalusa, Louisiana Carpenters Memorial Resolution
Whereas; On November 29th of 1919 four union organizers, & officers of Bogalusa UBC local 2203 were murdered while they were working to organize the Great Southern Lumber Company in the offices of the Central Labor Council,
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[Full text of the resolution & reference links, test]
Be It Therefore Resolved; That a plot of land as close as possible to the original Central Labor Council be purchased by the United Brotherhood of Carpenters & that a monument be erected in remembrance of Lum Williams, & the other three Union Brothers who were murdered in their attempt to organize workers at the Great Southern Lumber Company...
— Resolution passed at Carpenters local 247 on May 9th (1999?) ... & I am looking for any further information regarding the subject of the Bogalusa massacre that anyone can provide.
Solidarity, Gene Lawhorn Local 247 Portland, Oregon.
[12- 1 -1919] --  Alexander Berkman, Emma Goldman & 200+ anarchists, labor militants, & radicals are forced to leave the "Land of the Free," deported to Russia on the rust-bucket Buford. Shades of B. Traven's The Death Ship. In America it is axiomatic that we have free speech only if no one practices it.
[12- 5 -1919] --  Representative Isaac Siegel, after a trip to Ellis Island yesterday, declares he has discovered how anarchists are made.
[12- 5 -1919] --  "Made Anarchists" — Emma Goldman & Alexander Berkman — detained at Ellis Island. Emma Goldman, Anarchist Feminist
Goldman & Berkman appear in federal court before Judge Julius M. Mayer, December 8th, who declares that as aliens, they have no constitutional rights. They remain in detention at Ellis Island & are be kicked out of the "Land of the Free" before month's end, sent to Red Russia on a leaking scow that is in danger of sinking with them & 247 other radicals & labor organizers who are also deported to protect American free speech.
"THE "Red Ark" will loom big in American history.
It is the first picturesque incident of the beginning effort of the War Millionaires to crush the soul of America & insure the safety of the dollars they have looted over the graves of Europe & through the deaths of the quarter million soldier boys whom American mothers now mourn..."
— Robert Minor, excerpt from the introduction, Deportation, Its Meaning & Menace: Last Message to the People of America by Alexander Berkman & Emma Goldman, Ellis Island, New York, U.S.A., December, 1919.
[12- 5 -1919] -- M.L. Polonsky, Bolshevik, commander of a regiment of the Makhnovist army, arrested by the Makhnovist counter-intelligence under suspicion of planning to kill the anarchist Nestor Makhno, is shot today.
"Once a Bolshevik parliamentarian by the name of Polonsky was executed at Makhnovist headquarters. Many members of the general staff were unhappy with this.
Voline arrived at the headquarters, & when he heard what had happened he asked: "What does Batko
[Makhno] think? If he says it was the right thing to do I won't go into the issue."
Makhno was sitting in the next room & had got tipsy. When he heard his comrades talking he came in & went up to Voline: "So you don't give a damn that a man has just been shot? You don't even ask why he was executed! As long as Batko approves it's alright, huh? But a man can make mistakes, can't he, especially when he's drunk. What do you say to that, eh?"
Voline decided it was prudent not to answer.
[12- 5 -1919] -- anarchist diamond dingbatSpain: This evening several cenetistas in Barcelona open fire on the Civil Guard & capture Gregorio Daura, to whom they apply the"ley de fugas." This is in response to government assassinations & repression of the CNT (nevertheless the city remains under control of the CNT & affinity groups).
[12- 8 -1919] --  Jailed at Ellis Island on the 5th, "Made Anarchists" Emma Goldman & Alexander Berkman appear in federal court before Judge Julius M. Mayer, who declares that as aliens, they have no constitutional rights. They remain in detention at Ellis Island.
[12- 10 -1919] -- Spain: The Madrid Congress of the anarcho-syndicalist CNT (December 10-20). The questions on the agenda, the quality of the delegates & the sheer number of workers represented (over 600,000) made this the most important congress to date. Dazzled by the Russian Revolution, & despite complaints it was a "political" revolution & did not incorporate the libertarian ideal, the congress voted provisionally to join the Communist International & to send a delegation to the Second Congress of the Third International (Moscow on July 15, 1920).
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[12- 19 -1919] -- Spain: Pépita Carpeña lives (1919-2005), Barcelona. Militant Spanish anarcho-syndicalist & feminist. Combatant during the Spanish Revolution, member of the CNT, "Jeunesses Libertaires" (JJLL) & "Mujeres Libres." Escaped Barcelona on January 25, 1939, interned in France. Involved with CIRA de Marseille during the 80s & 90s. Wrote De toda la vida, & appeared in two films, Richard Prost's Un autre futur. & Lisa Berger & Carol Mazer De toda la vida. Pépita died three years after the death of her companion Juan Martinez Vita (Moreno).
http://ytak.club.fr/decembre3.html#carpena
[12- 20 -1919] --
[December]  ; new entry secondary material, remove 2007 During this month Bartolomeo Vanzetti & Aldino Felicani discuss plans for new anarchist journal, "Cara Compagna."
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Vanzetti would never have described himself as a fish peddler, "something that he did for less than a year, & that only during the time he was trying to begin the publication of an anarchist journal, Cara Compagna, with his friend Aldino Felicani."
— Robert D'Attilio
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Ency ... sayrd.html
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[12- 24 -1919] -- Errico Malatesta
Coming from exile England, from Cardiff, Wales, the anarchist Errico Malatesta slips clandestinely back into Tarente (southern Italy) & takes the train for Gènes, where an immense crowd greets his return.
Malatesta was a wealthy man who put his entire fortune at the disposal of the cause. He won the militant support of broad sections of his countrymen whose demonstrations & strikes on his behalf saved him from death & imprisonment many times.
His writing & speeches on anarchist organization influenced the shape of the anarchist movement. Kropotkin left us a picture of Malatesta's life in exile:
"Without even so much as a room that he could call his own, he would sell sherbet in the streets of London to get his living, & in the evening write brilliant articles for the Italian papers. Imprisoned in France, released, expelled, re-condemned in Italy, confined to an island, escaped, & again in Italy in disguise; always in the hottest of the struggle...."
Through the systematic destruction of its finest radical leadership by big business & royalists, Italy eventually succumbed to fascism.
Malatesta remained in Italy, under house arrest, until he died.
Authorities ordered his body thrown into a common grave.
[12- 24 -1919] --  Four men attempt to rob the payroll of the L.Q. White Shoe Company in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. One, later known as the "shotgun bandit," fires at the moving payroll truck. They are unsuccessful & no one is hurt. The would-be bandits escaped. Part of a series of robberies in the area, which includes the Braintree robbery for which the anarchists Sacco & Vanzetti are tried & executed.
[12- 27 -1919] -- ?Germany: On the initiative of Rudolf Rocker, the founding Congress of F.A.U.D. (Freie Arbeiter Union Deutschland), free union of the German