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Only some decades after the Paris Commune of 1871 and the wave of anarchist terrorism of the 1890s, and not long after the General Strike of 1906 organized by the Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT), Paris was a hotbed of anarchist debate and organizing, with ongoing bitter disagreements between the anarcho-individualists (such as the ...
Anarchism, an anti-authoritarian political philosophy of self-governed societies without hierarchies, has spread chiefly through published propaganda literature: pamphlets, books, and newspapers. As a result, American and European anarchists have a history of collecting the movement's written work and anarchist libraries naturally followed. [2]
By this time, anarchist workers' movements had also risen to prominence throughout Latin America. In 1901, the Argentine Regional Workers' Federation (FORA) was established, and by 1905, it had adopted anarchist communism as its political philosophy, rejecting the political neutrality (or "self-sufficiency") of syndicalist trade unions. [ 55 ]
Anarchist militiawoman Ana Garbín on a barricade during the Spanish Revolution of 1936 Following the suppression of their movements and the rising influence of Marxism-Leninism throughout the world, anarcho-syndicalists moved to establish their own international organisation: the International Workers' Association (IWA). [ 20 ]
Anarchist parody of The Adventures of Tintin: 1989 Anarchist Ideology and the Working-class Movement in Spain, 1868–1898 [80] George Richard Esenwein Non-fiction Anarchism in Spain: 1989 For Anarchism [81] David Goodway (Editor) Non-fiction: Collection of essays Mixed 1989 Kropotkin and the Rise of Revolutionary Anarchism [82] Caroline Cahm ...
Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism (Counter-Power vol. 1) is a book written by Lucien van der Walt and Michael Schmidt that deals with "the ideas, history and relevance of the broad anarchist tradition through a survey of 150 years of global history."
Unruly Equality focuses on anarchist activity in the United States in the 1940s and 1950s, the period between anarchism's classical era (1880s–1920s) and the contemporary resurgence of anarchist currents. While American anarchism is usually portrayed as having little continuity from the beginning to the end of the 20th century, Cornell argues ...
Luigi Galleani was born on 12 August 1861, [1] into a middle-class family, [2] in the Piedmontese city of Vercelli.He first became interested in anarchism while studying law at the University of Turin, eventually renouncing his career in law in order to carry out anarchist propaganda against capitalism and the state. [3]