Kropotkin's first major contribution was in the area of popular expropriation. In November & December 1882, he published a series of articles on the subject, arguing that a libertarian communist revolution would not succeed unless everything that could be used to exploit the people was immediately expropriated & socialized for the benefit of all. |
1883 -- US: Black emancipationist Sojourner Truth dies, Battle Creek, Michigan. Poet, freedom fighter, feminist, abolitionist & former slave.SOJOURNER TRUTH
Freed slave, emancipationist, feminist, social activist. Daily Bleed Saint 1998
1883 -- US: Supreme Court declares 1875 Civil Rights Act unconstitutional.
1895 -- France: Arthur Arnould (1833-1895) dies. French journalist, novelist, anarchist member of First International & the Paris Commune, friend of Michael Bakunin. Arnould wrote L'Etat et la Révolution (1877), a history of the Paris Commune, & numerous novels as A. Matthey. See the Anarchist Encyclopedia page,http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/ArnouldArthur.htm
1909 -- Eugène Ionesco lives. Romanian-born French dramatist whose one-act anti-play The Bald Soprano (1950) inspired the Theater of the Absurd (see also: Samuel Beckett, Alfred Jarry). Since the 1970s his writing has mainly been non-theatrical.
http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/sfe/1960/03.htm
1910 -- France: Une honte ! (Edition spéciale de "Vérités" du 26 novembre 1910).
"Ils étaient douze, douze brutes, douze gribouilles: 12 jurés ont condamné à mort un innocent: [Jules] Durand. Le distillateur d'alcool, on le fait décorer. Le capitaliste, on le fait statufier. Le syndicaliste, on le fait guillotiner. La République française inflige au monde entier un pareil scandale ? C'est une honte ! Alors Camarade réfléchis ! Durand qui est le premier martyr du syndicalisme, maudit par la bourgeoisie, ne doit pas éveiller en toi qu'un simple juron à l'adresse de ses bourreaux. II faut que tout ton être vibre violemment, il faut que tu recherches les vrais coupables du meurtre qui se prépare, il faut qu'à ce tableau de chasse nulle autre victime ne soit inscrite.
Et le jour où ton syndical te dira "Lève-toi" n'hésite pas !" pop1('trombi/personnes 
Click image for larger version; images courtesy L’affaire Durand
http://endehors.net/news/jules-durand-l-affaire-dreyfus-du-pauvre
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1911 -- Death of Paul Lafargue (Karl Marx's bum of a son-in-lawson-in-law). Went to Spain in a foolish effort to counter the Bakuninist ideas spread there by Giuseppe Fanelli. No anarchist he, but he's not all bad — after all, he wrote The Right to Be Lazy in 1893 while in prison. Translated & published by Charles Kerr publishing coop in Chicago, 1907 (updated version expanded & edited by Bernard Marszalek, 2011).
PAUL LAFARGUE 1997 SAINT 29 MARCH
Karl Marx's bum of a son-in-law, the lay-about author."Hélas! Les loisirs que le poète païen annonçait ne sont pas venus; la passion aveugle, perverse et homicide du travail transforme la machine libératrice en instrument d'asservissement des hommes libres : sa productivité les appauvrit."
http://righttobelazy.com/introduction/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Right_to_Be_Lazy
1911 -- 
US: The anarchist-feminist Emma Goldman lectures, in New York City, on "Mary Wollstonecraft the Pioneer of Modern Womanhood."
1912 -- US: Emma Goldman speaks at a meeting organized by Almeda Sperry in New Kensington, Pa., followed by meetings over the next four days in Pittsburgh, New Castle, & McKees Rocks.
1914 -- US: Emma Goldman lectures on "The War & 'Our Lord,'" in Grand Rapids, Mich., organized by William Buwalda of the Analyser Club. From the 29th to December 6, in St. Louis, Emma delivers eight English & two Yiddish lectures to receptive audiences.
1914 -- England: Battleship HMS Bulwark explodes at Sheerness Harbor, 788 die.
1920 -- Russia: Red Army led by "Snowball" (Trotsky's name in Orwell's Animal Farm) & Kamenov murdersMakhnovist anarchist delegation under a flag of truce & attacks agrarian commune federation.
1922 -- Dust Buster?: Howard Carter opens the tomb of Tutankhamen.The tomb of The Boy King, Tutankhamen, was discovered in Egypt by Lord Carnarvon of England & Howard Carter of the United States. The find was called, "The greatest archaeological discovery of all time." People in America, desiring brevity in identifying great things before they forget, shortened the name to "Tut." Critics of the grave-robbers cluck, tut-tut.
1924 -- Mongolian People's Republic proclaimed.
1930 -- Argentina: Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, co-founder of Servicio Paz y Justica, recipient of the Pope John XXIII Peace Memorial while in prison, lives. Winner of the 1980 Nobel Peace Prize.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolfo_P%C3%A9rez_Esquivel
1941 -- Japanese carrier force left its base & moves east toward Pearl Harbor, never to be seen again.
1945 -- England: "Save Europe from Starvation" rally, London.
1956 -- Famed swing-era band leader & trombonist Tommy Dorsey dies, the result of an accident in his Greenwich, Connecticut home.
1956 -- USSR: Single sculls winner Vyacheslav Ivanov wins Olympic gold medal. In his excitement he jumps for joy & loses his medal as it sinks to the bottom.
1965 -- Judy Collins performs, with guest Mimi & Dick Fariña, White Plains, NY.
1966 -- UnEasy Rider?: Peter Fonda is among 100 arrested in Los Angeles during protest of a 10 P.M. curfew in Sunset Blvd. entertainment district.
1968 -- US: O.J. Simpson is named football's Heisman Trophy winner for 1968.A running back for the University of Southern California, amassing 3,187 yards in 18 games & 33 touchdowns in two seasons. Plays professional football with the Buffalo Bills & San Francisco 49ers, then a sportscaster & actor. More recently obsessed with tracking down the killer of his wife, presumably linked to the greens, which he now haunts.
1968 -- Cream gives its last concert at the Royal Albert Hall, London. The crowd chants "God save the Cream." Clapton & drummer Ginger Baker continue to work together in Blind Faith.
1968 -- Uncle?: U.N. passes Resolution Against Capital Punishment. Guess who ignores it?
1968 -- US: Robert R. Smith, President of San Francisco State College, resigns. S.I. Hayakawa named acting president.
1968 -- Vietnam: After stalling for months, the South Vietnamese government agrees to join in the Paris peace talks.
[Source: WholeWorld is Watching]
1969 -- US: Crap Shoot — Military draft lottery established.
1973 -- Albert DiSalvo, Boston Strangler, stabbed.
1973 -- 
México: Spanish-Mexican anarquista Miguel Giménez Igualada (1888-1973) dies. CNT member, anarcho-syndicalist & then deeply influenced by the individualist Max Stirner. Author, publisher & editor during the Spanish Revolution & after words. With the defeat of the revolution he took refuge in France, Argentina, Uruguay & Mexico.
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_Gim%C3%A9nez_Igualada
http://fal.cnt.es/?q=biblio/author/Gim%C3%A9nez+Igualada
1976 -- Sex Pistols release their debut single "Anarchy In The UK."
[Details / context]
OKAY, songsters, rockers, punkers, highbrows, opera buff(e)s, folkies fans, wannabes & other pretenders....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14cKZyRYL7g
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