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V. Henri, “Why We Are Anarchists” (1901)

December 26, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_1half] POURQUOI NOUS SOMMES ANARCHISTES Camarade, tu as un cerveau, un cœur, des poumons, des yeux, des membres; ces organes sont nécessaires à ton existence ; il y a donc pour toi nécessité de t’en […]

Charles Keller, “Their Poor Reasons”

December 25, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_half padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] LEURS PAUVRES RAISONS A Madame André Léo. Ce n’est pas sans bonnes raisons Qu’ils trottinent tous vers l’église, Chaque dimanche, comme oisons Que le Bon Pasteur mobilise! * * * […]

Emile Digeon, “Proposal for the Indictment of Gambetta & the Ministers” (1881)

December 25, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_2third] PROPOSAL FOR THE INDICTMENT OF GAMBETTA & THE MINISTERS Whereas it is clear, That Gambetta has, for several months, pursued in his paper, La République Française, a campaign to depreciate Tunisian values; That, as […]

Emile Digeon, “The Voice of One of the Hoodwinked” (1869)

December 25, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_2third] THE VOICE OF ONE OF THE HOODWINKED (1869) THE “JANUARY 19” OF MR. EMILE OLLIVIER [1] BY WAY OF A FORWARD ______ I. Page 13. “In 1848, being hardly 22 years of age, I […]

Lucien Descaves, “A Friend of Varlin” (Nathalie Le Mel)

December 25, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

Nathalie Le Mel [tag feed] A Friend of Varlin Last week there died, at the hospice of Ivry, at 95 years of age, an old revolutionary that I have known well and to whom […]

Joseph Déjacque, “The Theory of Infinitesimal Humanities” (1859)

December 25, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

La Théorie des Humanités Infinitésimales, OU SYSTEME DES QUATRE GRADATIONS Si mon ignorance de bien des sciences n’est pas un insurmontable obstacle à ce que je médite, j’essayerai quelque jour de développer plus complètement une […]

Joseph Déjacque, “Discourse Pronounced July 26, 1853”

December 25, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 10px 0 0px”] Here is Joseph Dejacque’s speech from the funeral of radical poet Louise Julien. The wind-up at the end is particularly fascinating, being a mix of Fourierist passional science and fire-breathing […]

Charles-François Chevé, “Socialist Catechism” (1849)

December 25, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

SOCIALIST CATECHISM BY C. F. CHEVÉ Editor of the Voix du Peuple, and former editor of Le Peuple. I. Socialism. QUESTION. What is Socialism? ANSWER. It is the doctrine of universal conciliation. Q. What does […]

E. Armand, The Anarchist Individualist Initiation (1923) (in progress)

December 25, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

The translation of E. Armand’s Anarchist Individualist Initiation is ongoing. Completed sections are available here, in English, and on the dual-language pages in French and English. Sections on the first page here have gone through […]

Albert Libertad, “The Legend of Christmas” (1899)

December 25, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

Once upon a time, a long time ago, around the year 1900, there was a big heap of rocks and mud that the natives at that time called Paris. It was the capital of a country favored with a temperate climate where cereals, vineyards, and the most beautiful fruits grew in abundance. Approaching these heaps of stone, overcoming the pestilential odors given off by them, one saw that it was crossed by roads of all sorts: some wide, packed with fine houses, and others narrow, with, on each side, houses with the look of mousetraps, arranged in tight rows.

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