On October 28, 1954, Enrique Flores Magón died in Mexico City. He spent his life fighting for an anarchist society along his brother Ricardo, facing prison five times in two countries. You can read his final sentencing statement from his second US trial in our forthcoming book Defiance: Anarchist Statements before Judge and Jury.
This book collects several texts by Sicilian anarchist Alfredo Maria Bonanno, originally translated into English from the Italian and published by his Scottish anarchist comrade Jean Weir as separate pamphlets or booklets, but now finally presented together in one convenient volume.
On 9/8/1873, Sante Caserio was born. At the age of 20, Caserio stabbed the president of France in retaliation for the executions of anarchists carried out by the French government. You can read his trial statement in our book Defiance: Anarchist Statements before Judge and Jury.
“On the sixth of December, 2008, Athens police shot and killed a teenager in the largely anarchist neighborhood of Exarchia. That same night, riots began in several major cities, quickly transforming into an insurrection that gripped the entire country for a month.
"Millions of people participated, young and old, immigrants and citizens. The arson attacks on banks and police stations that in the previous years had been the sole practice of anarchists instantly generalized to the point of becoming common. By some accounts few police stations in the whole country escaped attack.
"The insurrection made a joke of the pacifist claim that “violence alienates people” by bringing together people from across Greece and inspiring people all over the world. The momentum of the uprising galvanized social struggles in the country and brought them to a new level.”
You can read more about how this situation played out in our book The Failure of Nonviolence by Peter Gelderloos.
On November 24, 2014, a grand jury decided not to indict the cop that murdered Mike Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. That night several buildings and several cop cars were burned with vengeance for Brown. You can read more about this in our book We Fight: Three Decades of Rebellion Against the Police.