Portal:Anarchism/Anniversaries/October

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October 1

• 1909 – The first notice of an Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) free speech fight appears in the "Industrial Worker", appealing to all members to join the struggle in Missoula, Montana
• 1936 – Spanish Revolution: The Central Committee of Antifascist Militias of Catalonia dissolves itself, returning governance of Catalonia back to the Generalitat.

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October 2

• 1913 - End of the First International Syndicalist Congress in London

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October 3

Title page of the March 10, 1888 edition

• 1879 – The anarchist periodical Freiheit (pictured) is founded by editor Johann Most
• 1884 – The birth of avant garde writer, poet, essayist, and Japanese translator of The Ego and Its Own Jun Tsuji (d. 1944) in Tokyo
• 1893 – The trial of Emma Goldman for aiding and abetting an unlawful assemblage begins
• 1901 – Militant anarchist, historian and collaborator of Max Nettlau Renee Lamberet is born in Paris

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October 4

Titlepage of Freiheit from March 10, 1888

• 1879 – The American anarchist newspaper Freiheit (pictured) is first published by editor Johann Most
• 1884 – Jun Tsuji (d. 1944), Japanese avant garde writer and translator of Max Stirner's The Ego and its Own into Japanese is born in Tokyo
• 1893 – The trial of Emma Goldman for aiding and abetting an unlawful assemblage begins in New York
• 1917 – The trial of the French anarchist pacifist publishers of a clandestine issue of Le Libertaire begins in Paris

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October 5

Mikhail Bakunin and his wife, circa 1861

• 1839 – Future internationalist anarchist and elected member of the Paris Commune of 1871 Eugène Varlin is born in the vicinity of Paris.
• 1858 – While exiled in Tomsk, Siberia, "Godfather of anarchism" Mikhail Bakunin weds the daughter of a Polish merchant, Antonia Ksaverievna Kwiatkowska (couple pictured)
• 1917 – Mother Earth Bulletin is published for the first time by a collective including Emma Goldman
• 1923 – Swedish anarcho-syndicalist playwright and novelist Stig Dagerman (d. 1954) is born
• 1934 – Surrealist and anarchist filmmaker Jean Vigo (b. 1905) dies

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October 6

• 1894 – A new initiative to have the prison sentence of Alexander Berkman commuted is launched by Emma Goldman
• 1900 – English anarchist author Ethel Mannin (d. 1984) is born in London
• 1934 – Spanish Revolution: Following a miners' uprising in Asturias, a Catalan republic is declared, but quickly suppressed by the Spanish Republic
• 1936 – Spanish Revolution: The Regional Defence Council of Aragon is established by the CNT to administer the eastern half of Aragon
• 1945 – The founding congress of the Fédération Anarchiste (FA) begins in Paris
• 1970 – Shortly before the Days of Rage, the Weathermen destroy a statue (pictured) in Haymarket Square, Chicago which commemorated the policemen who died in the Haymarket affair of 1886

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October 7

• 1879 – Industrial Workers of the World trade union militant Joe Hill (pictured) is born in Gävle, Sweden
• 1911 – Zapatista revolutionaries conquer Axochiapan, Morelos, from government forces during the Mexican Revolution
• 1933 – Anarchist and labor organizer Joseph Labadie (b. 1850) dies in Detroit, Michigan
• 1936 – Spanish Revolution: The Unified Levantine Council for Agricultural Export is established by the CNT and UGT to coordinate orange exports from Valencia to other European countries.
• 1977 – Environmentalist activist Eric McDavid is born
• 1988 – Canada: Poole's Land is founded in Tofino, Vancouver Island.

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October 8

• 1886 – French anarcho-syndicalist, International Workingmen's Association activist and Spanish Revolution combatant Pierre Besnard (d. 1947) is born
• 1966 – Death of anarchist pacifist educator and Ferrer School activist Célestin Freinet

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October 9

• 1870 – The Jura federation, the anti-authoritarian and anarchist section of the First International was founded on October 9, 1870 at a meeting in Saint-Imier, Switzerland
• 1880 – In its final meeting, in La Chaux-de-Fonds, the Jura federation adopts an anarchist communist stance, as a necessary consequence of the inevitability of the social revolution
• 1908 – Australian anarchist poet Harry Hooton, who participated in the Sydney Push scene in Sydney, is born in Doncaster, England
• 1922 – The International Anarchist Congress is held in Paris, France
• 1936 – The Italian anarchist journal Guerre de classe, founded by Camillo Berneri (pictured), appears for the first time
• 1970 – The Italian Trade Centre in London is bombed in the name of murdered anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli; the incident is one of many that year attributed to The Angry Brigade
• 1991 – The Serbian feminist and anti-nationalist organisation Women In Black is founded in Belgrade

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October 10

Errico Malatesta

• 1889 – The anarchist periodical L'Associazione is first issued in Nice by Errico Malatesta (pictured), who had returned from South America in September
• 1901 – Anarchist polemicist Laurent Tailhade (1854–1919) is jailed for a year for inciting murder in the pages of Le Libertaire

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October 11

• 1917 – French anarchists are sentenced to one to three year prison terms for publishing a clandestine issue of the newspaper Le Libertaire
• 1935 – The Federación Anarco-Comunista Argentina, later renamed Federación Libertaria Argentina, is founded.

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October 12

• 1909 – Catalan anarchist and founder of the Escuela Moderna initiative Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia (pictured) is summarily executed by firing squad during Tragic Week
• 1957 – American individualist anarchist and popularizer of the philosophy of Max Stirner Steven T. Byington dies

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October 13

• 1909 - Francisco Ferrer, anarchist educator, murdered in Spain.

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October 14

• 1894 - Sail Mohamed born in Kabylie, French Algeria.
• 1982 - Litton Industries is bombed by Direct Action in Toronto, Canada

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October 15

• 1884 – Birth of French anarchist militant and educator Stephen Mac Say
• 1896 – Birth of anarchist educator and Modern School activist Célestin Freinet
• 1920 – Italian anarchist militant and writer Errico Malatesta (pictured) is arrested in connection with worker occupations of Milanese factories
• 1920 – Bolshevik and Makhnovist forces sign an agreement to co-operate against the White Army general Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel during the Russian Civil War
• 1926 – Japanese anarchist militant Nakahama Tetsu (aka Tomioka Makoto) is executed for acts of propaganda of the deed

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October 16

• 1918 - The US Congress passed the second Anarchist Exclusion Act.
• 1919 - US Deportation Act for alien anarchists passed, in effect to this day.

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October 17

• 2005 - Chinese anarchist Ba Jin died.

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October 18

• 1843 - Italian anarchist Amilcare Cipriani (pictured) was born.
• 1927 - The trial of Sholom Schwartzbard began for killing Symon Petliura, who he blamed for the deaths of 15 members of his family in Pogroms in Ukraine.

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October 19

• 1907 - Solidaridad Obrera (pictured) is founded in Barcelona, Spain, as the mouthpiece of the Solidaridad Obrera federation.
• 1910 - Luigi Lucheni hanged himself in his prison cell.
• 1922 - Ecuador: A railway workers' strike begins in the town of Durán.

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October 20

• 1895 – Anarcho-syndicalist writer Gaston Leval, active in the Spanish Civil War, is born in Saint-Denis, France.
• 1905 – A general strike is called during the 1905 Russian Revolution
• 1917 – An anarchist-inspired motion is passed at the first Congress of Factory Councils in revolutionary Russia in favour of workers' self-management
• 1923 – Anarchist Beat poet Philip Whalen is born in Portland, Oregon.
• 1945 – In the course of the Spanish Revolution, anarchist guérillas "El Quico", Jaime "Abisinio" Pares Adán and Juan "Roget" Salas Millón, help three prisoners escape from a Barcelona jail at the behest of the Committee of Resistance of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo
• 2001 – The 20th annual Anarchist Bookfair is held in London

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October 21

• 1894 – French anarchists incite a revolt on the penal colony of Île Saint-Joseph, French Guiana
• 1920 – Anarchist general Kim Jwa-jin] draws Japanese forces into an ambush, leading to the victory of Korean nationalists in the Battle of Chingshanli
• 1921 – Europe sees mass protests (pictured) in support of the imprisoned anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti
• 1949 – Spanish anarchist and anti-fascist insurgent Miguel García is arrested, later to be tried and sentenced to death for resisting the Franco regime
• 1981 – Black anarchist Kuwasi Balagoon is finally captured by the state following the Brinks robbery

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October 22

• 1851 – French anarchist communist Joseph Déjacque receives a sentence of two years imprisonment for Lazaréennes: Socialist Fables & Poems, a volume of his poetry.
• 1921 – French anarchist musician Georges Brassens is born in Sète
• 1956 – During the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, proletarian workers begin to refuse to obey their managers, calling instead for workers' self-management

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October 23

• 1894 - Marcel Body b. Typographer, Bolshevik, translator, and later, anarchist.
• 1921 - Massive demonstrations all over Europe in support of Sacco and Vanzetti.

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October 24

• 1868 – Belgian-French explorer, anarchist, spiritualist, Buddhist and writer Alexandra David-Néel (pictured) is born in Saint-Mandé
• 1870 – Mikhail Bakunin stays one step ahead of his persecutors, sailing from Marseilles to Locarno
• 1886 – A letter by French anarchist militant Clément Duval of the Panther of Batignolles justifying the group's activities appears in Le Révolté
• 1924 – Italian anarchist militant Ernesto Bonomini is sentenced to eight years hard labor for killing fascist Nicola Bonservizi
• 1970 – A bomb explodes in a government office in Greenford, England during, one of a series of bomb attacks during a Council workers' strike that are credited to the Angry Brigade
• 1975 – Spanish anarchist and CNT activist Cipriano Mera dies in Saint-Cloud, France

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October 25

• 1806 - Max Stirner was born in Bayreuth, Bavaria.
• 1878 - Spanish anarchist Juan Oliva Moncasi attempted to shoot Alfonso XII of Spain, but was disarmed by the crowd, and executed several weeks later.
• 2003 - The 22nd Anarchist Bookfair was held in London, England.

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October 26

Nestor Makhno, anarchist revolutionary

• 1888 – Nestor Makhno (pictured), renowned anarchist-communist military leader of the Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine, is born in Huliaipole.

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October 27

Brad Will playing with fire in the 1990s

• 2002 – British anarchist theorist John Moore dies
• 2006 – Anarchist documentarian and activist Brad Will (pictured) is shot dead during the 2006 Oaxaca protests in Mexico

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October 28

Kate Austin (1864–1902)

• 1868 – The International Alliance of Socialist Democracy is founded by Mikhail Bakunin.
• 1902 – American anarchist feminist journalist Kate Austin (b. 1864) (pictured) dies
• 1913 – Radical film co-operative Le Cinéma du Peuple is created by Parisian anarchists
• 1954 – Enrique Flores Magón (b. 1877), Mexican revolutionary, journalist and publisher of Regeneración, dies in Mexico City
• 1984 – Sicilian anarchist Pippo Scarso is arrested and sentenced to a year in prison for refusing Italian military service

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October 29

• 1978 - Recording of anarcho-punk band Crass's second album The Feeding of the 5000
• 1920 - Charles Ruthenberg and Isaac Ferguson sentenced to five years for "criminal anarchism".
• 1936 - Spanish Civil War: The anarchist Tiburcio Ariza is killed in a police raid, after refusing to be handcuffed.

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October 30

• 1906 - Emma Goldman and 9 others arrested for inciting to riot.

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October 31

• 1858 – Prolific individualist anarchist author George Mathias Paraf-Javal, who founded the Ligue Antimilitariste with Émile Armand, is born in Paris
• 1870 – Anarchist Louise Michel participates in a large demonstration in support of the Paris Commune in front of the town hall
• 1881 – Brazilian anarchist and labour activist Edgard Leuenroth (d. 1968, pictured) is born in São Paulo
• 1894 – The trial of the thirty, a show trial with the aim of repressing the French anarchist movement and restricting the freedom of the press, ends in Paris
• 1905 – The Russian revolutionaries demonstrate for amnesty in St Petersburg shortly after the formation of the Saint Petersburg Soviet
• 1922 – The headquarters of the Italian anarchist newspaper Umanità Nova are ransacked by fascists after Benito Mussolini is announced as prime minister
• 1926 – An assassination attempt against Benito Mussolini is carried out by Anteo Zamboni.

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