Portal:Anarchism/Anniversaries/June/June 14


 * 1865 - Bernard Lazare (pictured) born. Author, journalist, anarchist, defender of Dreyfus. Collaborated on the journals Les entretiens politiques et littéraires & Temps nouveaux.
 * 1896 - Jean Le Gall lives. French anarchist.
 * 1900 - French intelligence notes the presence of Hippolyte Havel & Emma Goldman at a women's congress in Paris.
 * 1911 - Los Angeles police arrest the anarchists Ricardo Flores Magón & his brother Enrique for violation of the US neutrality law.
 * 1914 - Emma Goldman lectures (June 14-July 10) in San Francisco, California. Her reception is disappointing compared to her experience in Los Angeles. She speaks on "The Intellectual Proletarians," "The Superman in Relation to the Social Revolution," "The Mothers' Strike," & "Anti-Militarism: The Reply to War."
 * 1914 - Italy: A General Strike is broken by the treason of the Socialists & their trade union, bringing an ignominious end to "The Red Week of Ancône." Errico Malatesta, escaping the police, is forced again to flee into exile, to London.
 * 1914 - First session of the anarchist conference in São Paulo. Five sessions were convened in total, preparing for an anarchist Congress in London, which was cancelled due to World War I.
 * 1919 - Leon Trotsky, chief of the Red Army, drafts an order banning the Makhnovist Congress, organized by Nestor Makhno, accusing them of opposing Soviet power in the Ukraine. Trotsky calls for the arrest of the delegates.
 * 1944 - Jules Le Gall dies. French anarchist.
 * 1968 - Henriette Maîtrejean dies. French individualist anarchist. Companion to the anarchist Mauricius (Maurice Vandamme), & Victor Serge (Kibaltchiche), arrested with Serge & tried Feb 3-27, 1913 for her involvement with the Bonnot Gang (she was acquitted). She wrote for many anarchist publications, such as La Revue Anarchiste, La défense de l'homme & La liberté (founded by Louis Lecoin in 1959).
 * 2002 - Jacky Toublet (1940-2002) dies. French anarcho-syndicalist, militant, son of Julien Toublet, director of the weekly Le Monde Libertaire.
 * 2006 - Vicente Marti (1926-2006) dies. Militant anarchist, born to a family of anarcho-syndicalists.
 * 2006 - Mexico: A street battle takes place between police and protesters in Oaxaca City. The Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO) is formed in response.