Some history on the anarchist tradition of abstention candidates

"As to the anarchist position that universal suffrage did not legitimize authority, it is worth taking seriously. ... Even if we disagree that authority is never legitimate and Dewey’s self-aware public has been achieved, not all uses of authority — especially when it comes to state violence — can be justified by the vote. To do so would be to treat suffrage as a mythical unquestioned good rather than a reasonable choice."

Just learned about August Willich who once challenged Marx to a duel (apparently because he thought Marx was too conservative to be a leader of international communism) before traveling to America to fight as a Union general in the civil war.

I started reading about his disagreements with Marx, but got bored.

A graphic account of the Haitian slave revolution.

Some background on Dickens' concern for the plight of English working conditions.

Josiah Warren's brief affiliation with the IWA.

A short history of one of the utopian communes founded by American anarchist Josiah Warren.

It's still good.

Hans Bohm was a preacher who incited a peasant revolt in May 1476. I hope to read the book Peasant Fires some day (https://muse.jhu.edu/book/38014).

How some Danish squatters in the 80's defended their home against hundreds of police for several days, and then escaped without being apprehended.

An entire article about how somebody edited the Wikipedia entry on "Labor Day" to add a link to a Jacobin article.

“My enemies in the South States consisted of those who oppressed the black-slave. My enemies in the North are among those who would perpetuate the slavery of the wage-slave. My whole life has been sober & industrious; was never under the influence of liquor, was never arrested for any offense, & voluntarily surrendered for trial in the present case.”

"let me assure you I die happy on the gallows, so confident am I that the hundreds and thousands to whom I have spoken will remember my words; and when you shall have hanged us, then—mark my words—they will do the bombthrowing! In this hope do I say to you: I despise you. I despise your order, your laws, your force-propped authority. Hang me for it!"

More readable link: https://www.readability.com/articles/pbic99nb

Several historians discuss the impact of the Haymarket bombing.

"Haymarket left a lasting stigma on radical movements. Ever since, the public has imagined anarchists as bomb-throwing fiends. Tensions were already running high between wealthy business owners and poor workers in Chicago, but Haymarket made them even worse. Historians say it set back the labor movement for decades."

"Ricardo Flores Magón is one of the most important anarchists in the history of the Americas. The movement he led and inspired shook the Mexican state in the early 20th century and helped lay the foundations for the Mexican revolution of 1910."

"Philosophers' ships is the collective name of several boats that carried Soviet expellees abroad, most notably prominent intellectuals."