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A 1912 illustration of the Bonnot Gang stealing an automobile in the Forest of Senart. Illustration of the robbery of Société Générale Bank in Chantilly on 25 March 1912 The Bonnot Gang ( La Bande à Bonnot ), or The Tragic Bandits ( Les Bandes Tragiques ), was a French criminal anarchist group that operated in France and Belgium during the ...
The fragile anarchist movement developed in India was more non-statist, rather than anti-statist. [204] Anarchism travelled to the Eastern Mediterranean along with other radical secular ideas in the cosmopolitan Ottoman Empire. Under the spell of Errico Malatesta, a group of Egyptian anarchists imported anarchism to Alexandria. It was in a ...
On 14 May 1912, Garnier and René Valet were killed in a shootout with French authorities when their safe house in Nogent-sur-Marne was raided by police. Armed with seven 9 mm Browning semi-automatics and two long-barreled Mausers, the two outlaws, who had barricaded themselves inside the rental house, faced 50 detectives, 250 police from Paris, Republican Guards, and 400 Zouaves from Nogent.
Up Against the Wall Motherfucker, often shortened as The Motherfuckers or UAW/MF, was a Dadaist and Situationist anarchist affinity group based in New York City. This "street gang with analysis" was famous for its Lower East Side direct action.
The Monkey Wrench Gang is a novel written by American author Edward Abbey (1927–1989), published in 1975.. Abbey's most famous work of fiction, the novel concerns the use of sabotage to protest environmentally damaging activities in the Southwestern United States, and was so influential that the term "monkeywrench," often used as a verb, has come to mean, besides sabotage and damage to ...
Michel's published works were also translated into Spanish by the anarchist Soledad Gustavo. [25] The Spanish anarchist and workers rights activist Teresa Claramunt became known as the "Spanish Louise Michel". [26] By that time Michel had become a well-known speaker, touring Europe repeatedly to speak in front of thousands of people. [20]
Illegalism is a tendency of anarchism that developed primarily in France, Italy, Belgium and Switzerland during the late 1890s and early 1900s as an outgrowth of individualist anarchism. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Illegalists embrace criminality either openly or secretly as a lifestyle.
Closer to a biobibliography than an academic history, Nettlau shows intimate knowledge of the anarchist movement and personalities, but is more partisan and passionate in tone than detached and analytical. Revue française de science politique described the book as indispensable for anarchist studies. [4]