Portal:Anarchism/Anniversaries/August/August 15


 * 1870 - Louise Michel (pictured) takes part in a demonstration organized to protest yesterday's arrest of the Blanquists Eudes & Brideau. She carries a petition (begun by Michelet) in their favor, to General Trochu, military governor of Paris.
 * 1907 - Carmen Conde (d. 1996) born, in Cartagena.
 * 1913 - Anarchist Congress of the Fédération communiste-anarchiste révolutionnaire assembles in Paris, France (August 15-17) at Maison des syndiqués. Includes Yves Bidamant, Sébastien Faure, Jean Grave, Jane Morand, Henriette Tilly & Charles-Ange Laisant.
 * 1920 - In Florence, Italy, a national meeting of Italian anarchists is held to intensify solidarity & agitation for victims of political repression.
 * 1928 - Spartaco Stagnetti, a militant trade union secretary and anarcho-syndicalist in Rome, Italy, dies, while banished by the fascists to the island of Ustica.
 * 1935 - Paul Signac (b. 1863) dies.
 * 1939 - The fiftieth anniversary of Emma Goldman's entry into anarchist ranks; she organizes a celebration for September to mark the occasion & to create a long-term Spanish Relief Fund.
 * 1965 - Founding of the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR), in Chile.