Wikipedia:WikiProject Anarchism/DYK


 * ... that in 1850s New Orleans, the French revolutionary Joseph Déjacque called for black slaves and the white working class to overthrow the United States in a social revolution? (2024-05-11)
 * ... that during the Syrian revolution, anarchist Omar Aziz directly participated in establishing four local opposition councils? (2024-04-10)
 * ... that after his movement's victory in the Cuban Revolution, television broadcasts showed Camilo Cienfuegos (pictured) freeing parrots from birdcages, declaring that the birds had "a right to liberty"? (2024-04-07)
 * ... that the anarchist Rosa Laviña opened the first vegetarian restaurant in Tolosa? (2024-04-06)
 * ... that Alexander Atabekian published the first anarchist periodical in the Armenian language? (2024-04-04)
 * ... that Maria Leshern von Herzfeld helped to organise the prison escape of the Russian revolutionary Peter Kropotkin? (2024-02-26)
 * ... that Marie Vuillemin was acquitted in the trial of the Bonnot Gang, as the prosecution defined her according to her gender rather than her role in the gang? (2024-02-25)
 * ... that all three of María Esther Biscayart de Tello children were forcibly disappeared during the Dirty War in Argentina? (2024-02-23)
 * ... that Maruxa and Coralia Fandiño Ricart (statues pictured) became famous in Galicia because their bright, colourful outfits contrasted with the social repression of Francoist Spain? (2024-02-22)
 * ... that Margareth Rago seeks to establish a methodology for what she calls "feminist science"? (2024-02-16)
 * ... that after fleeing the Spanish Civil War to Venezuela, Spanish anarchist Concha Liaño became a supporter of Hugo Chávez? (2024-01-29)
 * ... that the murder of Luisa Lallana sparked a general strike in Rosario, Argentina? (2024-01-16)
 * ... that Tsvetana Jermanova survived imprisonment in two forced labour camps in communist Bulgaria? (2023-12-12)
 * ... that Ursula K. Le Guin's short story "The Day Before the Revolution", which won Nebula and Locus Awards in 1975, was praised for its depiction of a "revolutionary icon as a curmudgeonly old woman"? (2023-11-30)
 * ... that Margarita Ortega left her husband to fight in the Mexican Revolution? (2023-11-28)
 * ... that Swiss athlete Clara Thalmann arrived in Barcelona to compete the People's Olympiad but ended up fighting in the Spanish Civil War? (2023-11-17)
 * ... that 30 Ukrainian anarchists defeated more than 500 Austrian imperial soldiers at the Battle of Dibrivka? (2023-09-07)
 * ... that Soledad Rosas was falsely charged with eco-terrorism in Italy? (2023-08-08)
 * ... that Fanya Baron resisted her prison guards and had to be carried to the place of her execution? (2023-08-07)
 * ... that after Luigi Galleani was deported from the United States, his followers retaliated by carrying out a series of bomb attacks against government officials? (2023-07-27)
 * ... that Ida Mett was expelled from a Russian anarchist group for mourning her deceased father by lighting a Yahrzeit candle? (2023-07-17)
 * ... that Elena Mikhnenko was born in Pawiak, a prison in Warsaw where her mother had been detained for allegedly plotting an anti-Polish uprising? (2023-07-15)
 * ... that after Mollie Steimer was convicted for sedition, she refused to join a prison escape attempt as she did not want to dishonor the workers who had paid her bail? (2023-06-18)
 * ... that before assassinating Umberto I of Italy, Gaetano Bresci spent most of the day eating ice cream? (2023-05-09)
 * ... that Andrew Klemencic said "I don't think that I blockaded the streets nearly as bad as the Salvation Army" after Hawaii police fined him for speaking on a street corner in 1900? (2023-04-06)
 * ... that the first secular school in Catalonia was founded by the anarcha-feminist Teresa Mañé? (2023-03-03)
 * ... that the Jewish anarchist Volin refused to flee Nazi-occupied France as he believed that a revolution would follow the liberation of France? (2023-03-02)
 * ... that Halyna Kuzmenko promoted the Ukrainization of the Makhnovist movement, successfully increasing the use of the Ukrainian language by Russian speakers? (2022-10-30)
 * ... that Carlo Carrà attributed The Funeral of the Anarchist Galli to the 1904 Italian general strike, while the actual funeral and riot occured in 1906? (2022-10-24)
 * ... that CLODO initialism is also a French slang term for 'bum' or 'homeless'? (2022-09-02)
 * ... that Italian anarchists founded the first trade union for bakers in Argentina? (2022-04-17)
 * ... that the Journey for Life started with the Zapatistas symbolically invading Spain? (2022-04-09)
 * ... that the House of Brag organized a "Monstrous Pride" event to clash with London's pride parade? (2022-04-05)
 * ... that according to its founders, Pink Peacock is the only "queer Yiddish anarchist vegan pay-what-you-can cafe" in the world? (2022-03-22)
 * ... that in 1874, thousands of Russian students "[went] to the people" in order to agitate the peasantry towards socialism? (2021-12-27)
 * ... that Sigismund Danielewicz (pictured) career in the California labor movement ended after he delivered an 1885 speech advocating against the persecution of Chinese people? (2021-12-12)
 * ... that Miguelina Acosta Cárdenas (pictured) played a key role in the fledgling women's movement in Peru in the early 20th century? (2021-09-05)
 * ... that residents at the queer community known as the Tenacious Unicorn Ranch carry firearms and wear body armor while tending to their alpacas due to threats from right-wing militias? (2021-08-14)
 * ... that William Powell, the author of The Anarchist Cookbook, founded the nonprofit Next Frontier: Inclusion in atonement for writing the book? (2021-08-02)
 * ... that according to hacker Tillie Kottmann, most of her data breaches did not require much technical skill? (2021-06-15)
 * ... that when Giovanni Rossi founded a utopian community in Brazil, based on anarchist ideals including free love, most of its 300 members were men? (2021-05-06)
 * ... that the 1960 television play Sacco-Vanzetti Story was called "one of the most controversial ever seen on television"? (2020-10-01)
 * ... that writer Jeanne Humbert was repeatedly arrested for spreading information about birth control and abortion after they were banned in France in 1920? (2020-09-24)
 * ... that a Spanish woman was arrested for carrying a bag that read "A.C.A.B." accompanied by the phrase "All Cats Are Beautiful"? (2020-07-11)
 * ... that Albert Camus novel The Plague is based on an epidemic in Oran, Algeria, and examines how a government could turn tyrannical? (2020-05-23)
 * ... that the 1939 defeat of Republican Spain in the Spanish Civil War marked the end of the "classical era" of the history of anarchism? (2020-02-11)
 * ... that Ursula K. Le Guin once rejected an offer from Hayao Miyazaki to adapt her Earthsea series for the screen, but changed her mind after watching Miyazaki's film My Neighbor Totoro? (2019-03-30)
 * ... that the Rose Street Club in 19th-century Soho has been described as bridging the political gap between an earlier generation of chartists and a newer trend towards anarchism and socialism? (2018-09-28)
 * ... that the Stratford Dialectical and Radical Club, formed in 1880, was one of the first openly socialist societies in London? (2018-09-24)
 * ... that Puerto Rican anarchists opposed the consumption of alcohol and as a consequence distanced themselves from the European concept of the anarchist "beer hall"? (2018-04-18)
 * ... that suspected anarchist Lazarus Averbuch was shot and killed in the home of Chicago's Chief of Police? (2017-08-27)
 * ... that Irish immigrant, anarchist, strike organiser, and New York surgeon Gertrude Kelly is commemorated by a children's park in Chelsea, Manhattan? (2017-01-05)
 * ... that Henri Laborit recognized the psychiatric uses of chlorpromazine, which helped reduce asylum populations and "change the face of serious mental illness"? (2016-10-14)
 * ... that before becoming a successful pulp magazine illustrator, Modest Stein was an aspiring assassin until he dumped his dynamite in a Pittsburgh outhouse? (2016-01-30)
 * ... that in 1920, a deadly arson attack occurred at the offices of the Federación Obrera de Magallanes trade union in Punta Arenas, Chile? (2016-01-10)
 * ... that Etta Federn received Nazi death threats because of her Walther Rathenau biography? (2015-12-30)
 * ... that Romanian literary critic Barbu Lăzăreanu was cremated in a ceremony capped by the singing of "The Internationale"? (2015-07-27)
 * ... that Silvia Mistral book described how Barcelona appeared to burn at the end of the Spanish Civil War? (2015-03-27)
 * ... that in The Utopia of Rules, David Graeber argues that the "order and regularity" of bureaucracies are more harmful than valuable? (2015-03-17)
 * ... that Gertrude Guillaume-Schack founded the German Cultural Association in 1880 to fight state-regulated prostitution? (2014-11-13)
 * ... that the diarist Teresa Wilms Montt attempted suicide before escaping from a convent? (2014-10-07)
 * ... that the first European tofu factory was opened outside Paris in 1908 by the Chinese anarchist Li Shizeng? (2014-10-06)
 * ... that Vladimir Gaćinović, whose campaign for tyrannicide indirectly sparked World War I, was himself assassinated in neutral Switzerland? (2014-09-10)
 * ... that would-be assassin Bogdan Žerajić was mentioned in a song written by Gavrilo Princip? (2014-07-05)
 * ... that the anarchist newspaper Burevestnik, published in Petrograd in 1917–8, encouraged the homeless and poor to appropriate homes for themselves? (2014-02-17)
 * ... that French artist Maximilien Luce (self-portrait pictured) published an album of lithographs documenting his experiences as a political prisoner? (2013-09-29)
 * ... that the anarchist chef Joseph Favre (pictured) created a "diabolical" vol-au-vent for the Empress Eugénie? (2013-09-19)
 * ... that German historian Hellmut G. Haasis, who won the Schubart Literature Prize for his biography of Joseph Süß Oppenheimer, also performs for school children as "Druiknui, the fairy-tale clown"? (2012-10-20)
 * ... that the anarchist Lunigiana revolt was quashed by the use of summary executions? (2012-06-25)
 * ... that painter Henri-Edmond Cross (self-portrait pictured) changed his name twice, each time to avoid confusion with a similarly named artist? (2012-03-02)
 * ... that Henry Seymour was a secularist and anarchist who introduced the Edison Disc record to England in 1913? (2012-02-14)
 * ... that the Argentinian anarchist movement was the strongest anarchist movement in South America? (2011-05-28)
 * ... that Paul Signac praised Charles Angrand drawings as "masterpieces", calling them "poems of light"? (2011-04-07)
 * ... that anarchist Becky Edelsohn was the first woman to attempt a hunger strike in the United States? (2011-03-29)
 * ... that the works of Eugen Relgis, a Romanian-born anarcho-pacifist and eugenicist, were targeted by Nazi book-burners and communist censors? (2011-03-21)
 * ... that Zamfir Arbore went from being a figure in Russian anarchism and a close associate of Mikhail Bakunin to serving two terms in the Senate of Romania? (2011-02-10)
 * ... that Hinke Bergegren's Under röd flagg (cover pictured) was the first periodical to introduce detailed accounts of anarchist thought in Sweden? (2010-07-05)
 * ... that Birgitta Jónsdóttir, a member of the Althing and spokesperson for Wikileaks, sponsored the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative? (2010-06-30)
 * ... that the appearance of Raphael Friedeberg   at the Monte Verità   sanatorium turned Ascona   into a center for itinerant anarchists? (2010-02-28)
 * ... that during the Convention of Aguascalientes the Zapatista Antonio Díaz Soto y Gama said that the Mexican flag symbolized "triumph of clerical reaction" and was then threatened by other attendees? (2010-02-26)
 * ... that Virginia Bolten was deported from Argentina to Uruguay in 1902 because of her anarchist activities? (2010-02-14)
 * ... that the Portuguese Socialist Party was the sole political party tolerated by the military regime after the 28 May 1926 coup d'état? (2010-01-28)
 * ... that Ramón de la Sagra founded the world's first anarchist journal El Porvenir? (2009-11-27)
 * ... that after a failed jail escape, anarchist Harold Thompson had 31 years added to his life sentence? (2009-09-12)
 * ... that when ill-health rendered George Orwell incapable of caring for his son Richard, the child was placed in the care of anarchist Lilian Wolfe at the Tolstoyan Whiteway Colony? (2009-05-27)
 * ... that Olha Taratuta, a Ukrainian anarcho-communist, escaped from a Russian prison in 1906 while serving a 17-year sentence? (2009-05-19)
 * ... that hours before the curtain raised on his debut opera Guntram, composer Richard Strauss was reportedly engaged in a heated discussion of John Henry Mackay's Die Anarchisten? (2009-04-20)
 * ... that after decades as an anarcho-syndicalist, Maksim Rayevsky suddenly left the anarchist movement and went to work for the Soviet government? (2009-04-17)
 * ... that Fermín Salvochea was one of the early anarchist thinkers and activists in Spain? (2009-04-17)
 * ... that the Russian anarcho-syndicalist newspaper Golos Truda relocated from New York to Petrograd when its entire editorial staff decided to move to Russia following the February Revolution? (2009-03-30)
 * ... that there were two unrelated Jewish anarchists named Alexander Schapiro active in Russia during the civil war, one in the Bolshevik government and the other leading a cadre of anarchist revolutionaries against it? (2009-03-28)
 * ... that post-anarchism theorist Saul Newman saw the publication of volume one of Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas as a sign of a resurgent interest in anarchist philosophy? (2009-03-28)
 * ... that Modern School activist Harry Kelly founded the most successful and longest lasting anarchist colony in America? (2009-03-05)
 * ... that the King's Police Medal was created to reward the gallantry of three police officers involved in the Tottenham Outrage in 1909? (2009-02-07)
 * ... that the Situationist pamphlet On the Poverty of Student Life accused French students of taking refuge from their ideological subservience in miserabilism and bohemianism? (2009-01-01)
 * ... that Ramon Vila Capdevila continued to fight against the government of Francisco Franco for 24 years after the end of the Spanish Civil War? (2008-12-28)
 * ... that Anarchy Alive!, a 2007 book by Oxford-educated academic and anti-authoritarian activist Uri Gordon, has been cited as a "defining text" of the contemporary anarchist movement? (2008-11-17)
 * ... that Anarchy Alive!, a 2007 book by Oxford-educated academic and anti-authoritarian activist Uri Gordon, has been cited as a "defining text" of the contemporary anarchist movement? (2008-11-17)
 * ... that French anarchist and writer Charles Malato had a Neapolitan grandfather who suppressed a popular insurrection as commander-in-chief of the army of the last King of Naples? (2008-11-16)
 * ... that the Manifesto of the Sixteen was a controversial declaration of support for the Allied cause in World War I from a group of prominent anarchists? (2008-11-13)
 * ... that rather than await execution, Russian anarchist assassin Moishe Tokar doused himself in paraffin from his prison cell lamp and burned himself alive? (2008-11-07)
 * ... that in his 2001 post-anarchist book From Bakunin to Lacan, Saul Newman questions how modernist anarchism can refrain from reproducing the forms of oppression that it tries to overcome? (2008-11-07)
 * ... that many of the tendencies within anarchism criticized by Chaz Bufe in his pamphlet Listen, Anarchist! are thought to have stemmed from the movement's individualist, Stirnerite wing? (2008-10-28)
 * ... that the Russian anarchist-communist organisation Chernoe Znamia (pictured) were the first with a deliberate policy of terror against the established order? (2008-10-22)
 * ... that Future Primitive and Other Essays by anarcho-primitivist philosopher John Zerzan is regarded as an underground classic by anarchists and technophobes alike? (2008-10-12)
 * ... that Czech poet František Gellner disappeared in Galicia with the outbreak of World War I in 1914 and was never found? (2008-09-10)
 * ... that the 1869 anarchist manifesto Catechism of a Revolutionary, which established the importance of Russian anarchist Sergey Nechayev (pictured), portrays the revolutionary as an amoral avenger? (2008-08-12)
 * ... that in his book In Defense of Anarchism, anarchist Robert Paul Wolff argues that the incompatibility of state authority and individual autonomy means that all states are morally illegitimate? (2008-06-25)
 * ... that M. P. T. Acharya is associated with Indian Nationalism and communism, as well as the anarchist movement? (2008-06-24)
 * ... that in his 1971 book Post-Scarcity Anarchism, Murray Bookchin anticipated the importance of cybernetic technology to the development of human potential over a decade before the origin of cyberpunk? (2008-06-16)
 * ... that anarchist Internet archive Spunk Library was once falsely accused of collaborating with the terrorist guerrilla outfit Red Army Faction? (2008-05-01)
 * ... that William Godwin's philosophical work Political Justice (1793) argues that the existence of governments indicates that people are not yet ready to rely on their reason to regulate their conduct? (2008-04-25)
 * ... that Unabomber for President was a 1996 write-in campaign to elect Theodore Kaczynski a.k.a "the Unabomber" (pictured) as President of the United States? (2008-04-13)
 * ... that the parents of Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini gave him the middle name "Amilcare" in honour of the revolutionary anarchist Amilcare Cipriani (pictured)? (2008-04-03)
 * ... that Katie Sierra was accused of treason and suspended from high school in October 2001 for attempting to start an anarchist club? (2008-03-28)
 * ... that scholarly journal Anarchist Studies was attacked by Stewart Home as a "sad and reactionary 'academic' journal" incapable of engaging in critical debate? (2008-02-24)
 * ... that Romany Marie ' s café was a bohemian hangout in Greenwich Village for artists, authors, explorers, scientists, visionaries, and other intellectuals from the 1910s through the 1950s? (2008-02-19)
 * ... that Spanish anarchist Joan Peiró served as Minister of Industry in the Spanish government, and was later executed by the government of Francisco Franco? (2008-02-09)
 * ... that just three years after it was founded, the Spanish labor union Solidaridad Obrera (pictured) morphed into the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo? (2008-02-08)
 * ... that Lewis Call developed an account of post-anarchism based on the work of philosophers such as Friedrich Nietzsche and cyberpunks such as William Gibson? (2008-02-03)
 * ... that the anarcho-syndicalist Argentine Workers' Federation was the country's first national labor confederation? (2008-01-10)
 * ... that when Rudolf Rocker became the editor of the short-lived Yiddish anarchist newspaper Dos Fraye Vort, he did not speak Yiddish? (2008-01-09)
 * ... that despite never surpassing 2,500 copies in circulation, the Jewish anarchist journal Germinal (pictured) had a readership on four continents as a result of Eastern European Jewish migration? (2008-01-07)
 * ... that French anarchist Théodule Meunier, responsible for several bombings in Paris in 1902, was featured as a Sherlock Holmes antagonist in René Réouven's L'Assassin du Boulevard? (2008-01-03)
 * ... that during the Spanish Civil War, Eduard Pons Prades falsified his identification pages so that he could join the Republican army at age 16? (2008-01-03)
 * ... that Christian anarchist Dave Andrews was excommunicated from the parachurch Youth With A Mission? (2008-01-02)
 * ... that prior to the emergence of anarcho-pacifism at the outbreak of World War II, there was a general agreement among anarchists that violence was inevitable? (2008-01-01)
 * ... that during the Spanish Civil War Solidaridad Obrera, published by an anarchist labor union, was Spain's highest-circulation newspaper? (2007-12-26)
 * ... that Nationalism and Culture, the magnum opus of German anarchist Rudolf Rocker, was lauded by three Nobel Prize laureates? (2007-12-23)
 * ... that German-born anarcho-syndicalist Rudolf Rocker's book Pioneers of American Freedom traces the origins of American anarchism back to Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln? (2007-12-22)
 * ... that Paul Feyerabend's theory of epistemological anarchism in the philosophy of science led him to be labeled the "worst enemy of science" by his detractors? (2007-12-21)
 * ... that John Turner was the first person to be ordered deported from the United States for violation of the 1903 Anarchist Exclusion Act? (2007-12-20)
 * ... that the 1903 Anarchist Exclusion Acts forbade anyone holding anarchist views to enter the United States? (2007-12-11)
 * ... that anarchism once was the strongest current in the Cuban labor movement? (2007-12-07)
 * ... that the First International Syndicalist Congress in 1913 was compared to "Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark" because the world's largest syndicalist organization was absent? (2007-11-04)
 * ... that Fermin Rocker, son of anarchist writer Rudolf Rocker, once sold a painting to rock star Mick Jagger? (2007-10-27)
 * ... that Sholom Schwartzbard was acquitted in the Schwartzbard trial despite pleading guilty to murder, and that the family of his victim was ordered to pay for the cost of the trial? (2007-10-25)
 * ... that Milly Witkop and her common-law husband Rudolf Rocker, both notable anarchist activists and writers, were rejected admission to the United States in 1898, because they refused to get legally married? (2007-10-17)
 * ... that Romanian writer Dumitru Țepeneag was a founding member of the Oniric group, an avante garde aesthetic movement, which tries to describe a world which cannot be seen? (2007-10-06)
 * ... that Pierre Monatte was one of the few French trade-unionists and members of the French Left to oppose the Union sacrée national bloc during World War I? (2007-09-22)
 * ... that the memo calling for the 1907 International Anarchist Congress in Amsterdam went unsigned by French anarchists, as many rejected the very idea of organized collaboration? (2007-09-16)
 * ... that although he contributed to an anti-militarist resolution at a congress of the Second International in 1891, Christiaan Cornelissen was one of a few syndicalists to support the Allied effort in World War I in 1914? (2007-09-10)
 * ... that while anarcho-syndicalists are usually a minority in their respective labor movements, the anarcho-syndicalist General Confederation of Labour was not only the largest but the only union in post-World War I Portugal? (2007-08-02)
 * ... that the Romanian Symbolist writer Alexandru Bogdan-Piteşti was an anarchist, an associate of the occultist Sâr Péladan (both pictured), and a supporter of his country's alliance with the Central Powers? (2007-07-21)
 * ... that Irish writer and trade unionist Brian Behan once took part in a swearing match at the British Museum? (2007-05-21)
 * ... that the Brazilian labour movement was predominantly anarchist until the 1920s? (2007-01-17)
 * ... that the Free Association of German Trade Unions was the only trade union in Germany to reject the Burgfrieden, a civil truce between the socialist movement and the German state during World War I? (2007-01-10)
 * ... that the physician Marie Equi (pictured) became an anarchist after being attacked by police while she was picketing during a strike supported by the Industrial Workers of the World? (2006-02-01)
 * ... that French naturalist and explorer Théodore Monod had the same great-grandfather as biologist Jacques Monod and director Jean-Luc Godard? (2005-12-20)
 * ... that the feminist Madeleine Pelletier (1874–1939) was the first female psychiatrist in France and that she dressed as a man to protest the oppression of women? (2005-05-25)
 * ... that the Munich Soviet declared war on Switzerland, for their refusal to lend sixty locomotives? (2004-11-02)
 * ... that Domela Nieuwenhuis was Holland's first major socialist? (2004-10-16)
 * ... that the anarchy symbol (pictured) can be seen as an embodiment of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's paradoxical maxim, "anarchy is order"? (2004-08-16)
 * ... that Winston Churchill personally oversaw the Sidney Street Siege? (2004-04-16)