| [anarchy_africa] Anarchistic library |
You will find there more than thousand texts: from simple article up
to (very large) book. The majority are anarchistic or anarcho-
trade-unionists texts. But will find there you also texts of
philosophy, poetry, literature, ethnology, anthropology, humour�
The majority of the texts are in French but a few of them are in
English.
In the library, you'll find as well several galleries of pictures.
Fraternal and anarchistic greetings !
JC
PS Sorry for my English !
1871 -- France: DECREE OF THE COMMUNE TO
DEMOLISH THE VENDOME COLUMN:
"The Paris Commune, considering that the
Imperial Column in the Place Vend�me is a
monument of barbarism..."
Mark Twain closed his "Some Remarks on the
Science of Onanism" with these words:
"feel a revolutionary uprising in your system, get your
Vendome Column down some other way �
don't jerk it down."
� quoted in a footnote of G. Legman's The Limerick, p. 465.
1900 -- Florence Reece lives. Active in Harlan County,
Kentucky coal strikes & author of the famed labor song
"Which Side Are You On?"
1900 -- Puerto Rico: American Empire begins in earnest as
the island is surrendered to the US military authority.
1906 -- Francisco Ferrer, Spanish anarchist pedagogue,
continued to test the tolerance of Spanish authorities &
clerics by organizing a massive demonstration today, on
Good Friday, in support of secular education.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/FerrerFrancisco.htm
Marius Jacob (1879-1954), the anarchist bandit credited with
over 150 burglaries, is the original "Arsene Lupin" in the
French detective novels of Maurice Leblanc, with only slight
exagerations which made him a sensational "fictional"
character.
1913 -- France: Georges Cochon & several thousand homeless
invade the town hall in Paris.
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/ConchonGeorges.htm
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.
"At last the Soviet government, with an iron broom,
has rid Russia of Anarchism."
� Leon Trotsky, who prepared the military
action against the anarchists
