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While political anarchism has its roots in the same 19th century social foment that produced Marxism, the two philosophies diverged sharply, beginning with a personal split between Karl Marx and anarchist Mikhail Bakunin. Anarchists were active in the abolition of slavery, and have continually been active in the labor movement, civil rights, women's liberation, both anti-capitalism and pro-capitalism (with varying definitions of capitalism), the anti-war movement, LGBT rights, both anti-globalization and pro-globalization (with varying definitions of globalization), tax resistance, and other forms of anarchist activism. (learn more...)
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Golos Truda (The Voice of Labour) was a Russian language anarcho-syndicalist newspaper. Founded by working-class Russian expatriates in New York in 1911, Golos Truda shifted to Petrograd during the Russian Revolution in 1917, when its editors took advantage of the general amnesty and right of return for political dissidents. There, the paper integrated itself into the nascent anarcho-syndicalist movement, pronounced the necessity of a social revolution of and by the workers, and situated itself in opposition to the myriad of other left-wing movements.
The rise to power of the Bolsheviks marked the turning point for the newspaper however, as the new government enacted increasingly repressive measures against the publication of dissident literature and against anarchist agitation in general, and after a few years of low-profile publishing, the Golos Truda collective was finally expunged by the Stalinist regime in 1929. (read more...)Selected image
James Northcote, William Godwin, oil on canvas, 1802, the National Portrait Gallery. William Godwin (1756-1836) was one of the first modern proponents of philosophical anarchism
Did you know?
- ... that the Russian anarchist-communist organisation Chernoe Znamia (pictured) were the first with a deliberate policy of terror against the established order?
- ... that the Manifesto of the Sixteen was a controversial declaration of support for the Allied cause in World War I from a group of prominent anarchists?
- ... that Anarchy Alive!, a 2007 book by Oxford-educated academic and anti-authoritarian activist Uri Gordon, has been cited as a "defining text" of the contemporary anarchist movement?
- ... that French anarchist and writer Charles Malato had a Neapolitan grandfather who suppressed a popular insurrection as commander-in-chief of the army of the last King of Naples?
- ... that Ramon Vila Capdevila continued to fight against the government of Francisco Franco for 24 years after the end of the Spanish Civil War?
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- October 31: In Parma (Italy) green anarchist mobilisation against EU food safety agency EFSA, protesting against GMO, biotechnology and nanotechnology.
- October 18: In Roraima (Brazil) the anarchist teacher Crystian Paiva is murdered by military police. The commercial media and government agencies works to disseminate disinformation that Paiva who committed suicide.
- "We don't believe that Paiva killed himself". October 26, 2009. http://www.midiaindependente.org/pt/blue/2009/10/457266.shtml. Retrieved October 26, 2009.
- September 24: In one of the most substantial North American anarchist mobilisations in five years, protesters challenge the 2009 G-20 Pittsburgh summit.
- "Breaking News from the Pittsburgh G20 Protests". CrimethInc.. September 25, 2009. http://www.crimethinc.com/texts/recentfeatures/g20.php. Retrieved September 25, 2009.
- July 2: The car of Panayiotis Pikramenos, the Greek Council of State president, was bombed with an improvised explosive by individuals unknown. Police suspect Greek anarchists for the attack.
- "Anarchist Group Suspected in Arson Attack on Top Greek Judge's Car". Foxnews.com. 23 June 2009. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529842,00.html. Retrieved 13 July 2009.
- June 23: Harold H. Thompson ashes are scattered in Lough Neagh, Ireland, following his death on November 11, 2008.
- "Anarchist's ashes lough scattering". BBC.co.uk. 23 June 2009. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/8114913.stm. Retrieved 13 July 2009.
- May 31: The Anarchist Library, an online archive of anarchist literature supporting typographically accurate documents made using free and open source software, is launched
- "Announcing the Anarchist Library v1.0". Anarchistnews.org. 31 May 2009. http://anarchistnews.org/?q=node/7705. Retrieved 13 July 2009.
- May 5: CrimethInc. release their 35,000 word analysis of the protests at the 2008 Democratic and Republican National Conventions and their implications for future anarchist activism
- May 1: The Institute of Anarchist Studies, a nonprofit foundation supporting anti-authoritarian scholarship, relaunches its website, announcing a reconstituted board and the online publication of its anarchist periodical Perspectives on Anarchist Theory
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