Dangerous Anarchist Strikers

Author : Steve J. Shone
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004688797

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Dangerous Anarchist Strikers by Steve J. Shone Pdf

This book explores the ideas of three largely forgotten radical women who participated in labor union strikes in Argentina and Uruguay, Canada, and the United States: Virginia Bolten (c.1876-1960), one of the most militant anarchists of southern South America; Helen Armstrong (1875-1947), a major leader of the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919, whose involvement in that important event in Canadian history was, for a long time, obscured by accounts that emphasized the accomplishments of men; and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890-1964), the Wobbly leader who directed many industrial strikes throughout the United States, and was one of the founders of the American Civil Liberties Union, who eventually became the leader of the Communist Party, USA. It also examines the contributions of two similarly neglected anarchist men who participated in labor union strikes and industrial action in New Zealand, Australia, Chile, Argentina, and Japan. Tom Barker (1887-1970) was an anarchist who eventually became a socialist who worked to promote labor unionism on four continents and who tried to create a global One Big Union for sailors. Kōtoku, Shūsui (1871-1911) was a liberal who became a socialist and finally an anarchist. An opponent of governmental imperialism and ecological mismanagement, he studied and translated the works of Western thinkers and sought to apply what he learned from other cultures to the development of Japan.

Author : Donna J. Guy
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803221398

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Sex & Danger in Buenos Aires by Donna J. Guy Pdf

A study of prostitution necessarily examines questions of power, class, gender, and public health. In Sex and Danger in Buenos Aires these questions combine with particular force. During most of the time covered in this provocative book, from the late nineteenth century well into the twentieth, prostitution was legal in Argentina. Fears and anxieties concerning the effect of female sexual commerce on family and nation were rampant. Donna J. Guy looks at many aspects of the debate that followed an escalating demand for prostitutes by Argentines and European immigrants. She discusses the widespread fear of white slavery, the merits of medically supervised municipal houses of prostitution, the rights of local governments to restrict the civil liberties of citizens and foreigners, the censorship of literature and music dealing with the plight of prostitutes, and the potential criminality of unsupervised working women who might abandon their families. Guy also describes attempts to deal with female prostitution: rehabilitation, modifications of municipal bordello laws, and medical programs to prevent the spread of venereal disease. She makes clear that the treatment of "marginal" women by liberal politicians and doctors helped promoted policies of repression and censorship that would later be extended to other unacceptable social groups. Her study of how both local and national government in Argentina dealt with these women reveals important links between gender, politics, and economics.

Author : Kathy E. Ferguson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442210486

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Emma Goldman by Kathy E. Ferguson Pdf

Emma Goldman has often been read for her colorful life story, her lively if troubled sex life, and her wide-ranging political activism. Few have taken her seriously as a political thinker, even though in her lifetime she was a vigorous public intellectual within a global network of progressive politics. Engaging Goldman as a political thinker allows us to rethink the common dualism between theory and practice, scrutinize stereotypes of anarchism by placing Goldman within a fuller historical context, recognize the remarkable contributions of anarchism in creating public life, and open up contemporary politics to the possibilities of transformative feminism.

Author : John W. F. Dulles
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292771642

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Anarchists and Communists in Brazil, 1900-1935 by John W. F. Dulles Pdf

In providing a detailed account of the leftist opposition and its bloody repression in Brazil during the Old Republic and the early years of the Vargas regime, John W. F. Dulles gives considerable attention to the labor movement, generally neglected by historians. This study focuses on the formation and activities of anarchists and Communists, the two most important radical groups working within Brazilian labor. Relying on a wide variety of sources, including interviews and personal papers, Dulles supplies information that for the most part is unavailable in English and not easily accessible in Portuguese. The struggles of Brazilian workers—usually against an alliance of company owners, state and federal troops, and state and federal governments—suffered reverses in 1920 and 1921. These setbacks were cited by Astrogildo Pereira and other admirers of Bolshevism as reasons for the proletariat to forsake anarchism and adhere to the Communist Party, Brazilian Section of the Communist International. Anarchists and Communists, struggling against each other in the labor unions in the mid 1920’s, joined opposition journalists and politicians in supporting military rebels in a romantic uprising marked by adventure and suffering, jailbreaks and long marches, and death in the backlands. Slowly, Brazilian Communism gained strength during the latter part of the 1920’s, but 1930 brought the beginnings of failure. Worse for the Party than the government crackdown and the Trotskyite dissidence was the growing attraction of the Aliança Liberal, the oppositionist political movement that brought Getúlio Vargas to power. While workers and Party members flocked to the Aliança in defiance of Party orders, sectarian edicts from Moscow resulted in the expulsion or demotion of the Party’s former leaders and in the condemnation of intellectuals. Luís Carlos Prestes, “the Cavalier of Hope” who had led the military rebels in the mid-1920’s, turned to Communism—only to find himself not welcome in the Party. Taken to Russia by the Communist International in 1931, he was finally accepted into the Brazilian Party in absentia in 1934. Later that year, misled in Moscow by optimistic reports brought by Brazilian Communists, he agreed to lead a rebellion in Brazil. That decision and its consequences in 1935 were disastrous to Brazilian Communism. The struggles among anarchists, Stalinists, and Trotskyites in Brazil were reflections of a worldwide struggle. This study discloses and assesses the effects of Moscow policy changes on Communism in Brazil and contributes to an understanding of Moscow’s policies throughout Latin America during this period.

Author : Steve J. Shone
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004251953

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American Anarchism by Steve J. Shone Pdf

American Anarchism by Steve J. Shone is a work of political theory and history that focuses on nineteenth century American Anarchism, together with two European anarchists who influenced some of the Americans. The nine thinkers discussed are Alexander Berkman, Voltairine de Cleyre, Samuel Fielden, Luigi Galleani, Peter Kropotkin, Lucy Parsons, Max Stirner, William Graham Sumner, and Benjamin Tucker. Shone emphasizes the value of using ideas from nineteenth century American Anarchism to solve contemporary political problems.

Author : Carlotta R. Anderson
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814343272

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All-American Anarchist by Carlotta R. Anderson Pdf

All-American Anarchist chronicles the life and work of Joseph A. Labadie (1850-1933), Detroit's prominent labor organizer and one of early labor's most influential activists. A dynamic participant in the major social reform movements of the Gilded Age, Labadie was a central figure in the pervasive struggle for a new social order as the American Midwest underwent rapid industrialization at the end of the nineteenth century. This engaging biography follows Labadie's colorful career from a childhood among a Pottawatomie tribe in the Michigan woods through his local and national involvement in a maze of late nineteenth-century labor and reform activities, including participation in the Socialist Labor party, Knights of Labor, Greenback movement, trades councils, typographical union, eight-hour-day campaigns, and the rise of the American Federation of Labor. Although he received almost no formal education, Labadie was a critical thinker and writer, contributing a column titled "Cranky Notions" to Benjamin Tucker's Liberty, the most important journal of American anarchism. He interacted with such influential rebels and reformers as Eugene V. Debs, Emma Goldman, Henry George, Samuel Gompers, and Terence V. Powderly, and was also a poet of both protest and sentiment, composing more than five hundred poems between 1900 and 1920. Affectionately known as Detroit's "Gentle Anarchist," Labadie's flamboyant and amiable personality counteracted his caustic writings, making him one of the city's most popular figures throughout his long life despite his dissident ideals. His individualistic anarchist philosophy was also balanced by his conventional personal life - he was married to a devout Catholic and even worked for the city's water commission to make ends meet. In writing this biography of her grandfather, Carlotta R. Anderson consulted the renowned Labadie Collection at the University of Michigan, a unique collection of protest literature which extensively documents pivotal times in American labor history and radical history. She also had available a large collection of family scrapbooks, letters, photographs, and Labadie's personal account book. Including passages from Labadie's vast writings, poems, and letters, All-American Anarchist traces America's recurring anti-anarchist and anti-radical frenzy and repression, from the 1886 Haymarket bombing backlash to the Red Scares of the twentieth century.

Author : Corinne Jacker
Publisher : New York : Scribner
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Anarchism
ISBN : MINN:31951002153954M

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The Black Flag of Anarchy by Corinne Jacker Pdf

Includes material on Josiah Warren, Benjamin Tucker, the Red Scare, and the Sacco-Vanzetti Case.

Author : Maximiliano E. Korstanje
Publisher : Springer
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319522524

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Terrorism, Tourism and the End of Hospitality in the 'West' by Maximiliano E. Korstanje Pdf

This book explores how the contemporary threat of terrorism is eroding the concept of hospitality in the West. Going beyond the immediate effects of terrorism that are daily portrayed in the media and have shaped the foreign policy agenda of politicians in Europe and the US, this study explores the conceptual framework of how terrorism emerged and expanded within the West and shows how it interacts with, and targets, leisure consumerism and the international hospitality industry.

Author : Steve J. Shone
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780739144527

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Lysander Spooner: American Anarchist by Steve J. Shone Pdf

Lysander Spooner: American Anarchist is the first book-length exposition of the ideas of the American anarchist and abolitionist who lived mostly in Boston, Massachusetts, from 1808 to 1887. Few people today are familiar with Spooner. Nonetheless, there are many interesting strands of original thought to be found in his works that have contemporary significance_for example his reflections on the need for jury nullification or his devastating critique of the social contract. Rediscovering Spooner today is no mere investigation of a bygone nineteenth century thinker, but rather a gateway to a brilliant and original scholar whose counsel should not be ignored.

Author : Kirwin R. Shaffer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1108733301

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Anarchists of the Caribbean by Kirwin R. Shaffer Pdf

Anarchists who supported the Cuban War for Independence in the 1890s launched a transnational network linking radical leftists from their revolutionary hub in Havana, Cuba to South Florida, Puerto Rico, Panama, the Panama Canal Zone, and beyond. Over three decades, anarchists migrated around the Caribbean and back and forth to the US, printed fiction and poetry promoting their projects, transferred money and information across political borders for a variety of causes, and attacked (verbally and physically) the expansion of US imperialism in the 'American Mediterranean'. In response, US security officials forged their own transnational anti-anarchist campaigns with officials across the Caribbean. In this sweeping new history, Kirwin R. Shaffer brings together research in anarchist politics, transnational networks, radical journalism and migration studies to illustrate how men and women throughout the Caribbean basin and beyond sought to shape a counter-globalization initiative to challenge the emergence of modern capitalism and US foreign policy whilst rejecting nationalist projects and Marxist state socialism.

Author : Davide Turcato
Publisher : Springer
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137271402

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Making Sense of Anarchism by Davide Turcato Pdf

Can we make sense of anarchism or is that an oxymoron? Guided by the principle that someone else's rationality is not an empirical finding but a methodological presumption, this book addresses that question as it investigates the ideas and action of one of the most prominent and underrated anarchists of all times: the Italian, Errico Malatesta.

Author : Alexander Berkman
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781609800062

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Life of an Anarchist by Alexander Berkman Pdf

Alexander Berkman was a twentieth-century American revolutionary. Like the abolitionist John Brown before him, Berkman was hugely idealistic, ready to go to the furthest extreme of self-sacrifice and violence on behalf of justice and civil rights. He decided to assassinate industrialist Henry Clay Frick after reading in the newspaper that Pinkertons hired by Frick had opened fire on the Homestead strikers, killing men, women, and children. Berkman’s bungled attempt cost him fifteen years in a federal penitentiary. Upon his release, he became an effective agitator against conscription and was again imprisoned and eventually deported to Russia, where he saw at first hand the early days of Bolshevism. Berkman’s writings remain a lasting and impassioned record of intense political transformation. Featuring a new introduction by Howard Zinn, Life of an Anarchist contains Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist, Berkman’s account of his years in prison; The Bolshevik Myth, his eyewitness account of the early days of the Russian Revolution; and The ABC of Anarchism, the classic text on the nature of anarchism in the twentieth century. Also included are a selection of letters between Berkman and his lifelong companion Emma Goldman, and a generous sampling from Berkman’s other publications.

Author : Donald G. Nieman
Publisher : Articles-Garlan
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003463788

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From Slavery to Sharecropping by Donald G. Nieman Pdf

Author : Alexander Berkman
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752380170

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Prison Memoirs of An Anarchist by Alexander Berkman Pdf

Reproduction of the original: Prison Memoirs of An Anarchist by Alexander Berkman

Author : Alexander Berkman
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781409299073

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Now and After: the ABC of Anarchist Communism by Alexander Berkman Pdf

'Before and After: The ABC of Anarchist Communism' was first published in 1929-intended as a guide for the ordinary man in the ideas of Anarcho-Communism. Its author, Latvian immigrant Alexander Berkman, was a leading anarchist intellectual of his era. A committed libertarian his work remains the most accessible and best written guide to anarchism.