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August 4

 
Laurent Tailhade

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August 8

 
Ross Winn

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August 12

 
Abel Paz

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August 14

 
Pietro Gori

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August 15

 
Louise Michel

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August 16

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August 17

 
Edward Abramowski

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August 18

  • 1886 - Jewish anarchist Sholom Schwartzbard was born.
  • 1893 - The day after a riot of the unemployed, Emma Goldman addresses a public meeting in New York City, urging those in need to take bread if they are hungry. Tomorrow evening she helps lead a procession of several hundred anarchists to Union Square, where, among many other speakers, she addresses a crowd of the unemployed.
  • 1925 - Warlaam Tcherkesoff (or Tcherkezov) dies, London. Georgian Prince, anarchist militant and collaborator of that other Prince, Peter Kropotkin. "Ambassador of Georgian patriots". Incisive early critic of Marxism.
  • 1969 - Jean Goldschild (d. 1890) dies (aka Goldsky, or Jacques Guerrier).

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August 19

 
Camillo Berneri

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August 20

 
  • 1886 - Sentences are handed down against The Haymarket Trial defendants. Found guilty despite the obvious innocence of some, seven anarchists are condemned to death: George Engel, Samuel Fielden, Adolph Fischer, Louis Lingg, Albert Parsons, Michael Schwab & August Spies (pictured). Oscar Neebe is sent to prison for 15 years. A small measure of grace intervenes for Schwab & Fielden, their sentences reduced to life imprisonment on November 10, 1887. The hangings take place on November 11, 1887.
  • 1913 - The Chinese anarchist journal, Hui-ming-lu ("The Voice of the Cock Crowing in the Dark"), begins publication (ceases in 1916).
  • 1934 - Fredy Perlman born in Brno, Czechoslovakia.
  • 1937 - Founding National Congress of the anarchist women's group, Mujeres Libres, in Valencia, Spain.
  • 1975 - Beginning date of Lluis Fernandez The Naked Anarchist, a Catalonian gay novel, a heady mix of literature & scandal in post-Franco Spain.
  • 1989 - José Peirats (b. 1908) dies.
  • 1996 - Maria Occhipinti (b. 1921) dies, in Rome, Italy.
  • 1999 - Jesús Guillen Bertolin (aka Guillembert) dies, Béziers.

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August 25

  • 1873 - Charles Gogumus born (d. 1915), Dijon, France. Militant syndicaliste révolutionnaire, anarchiste et antimilitariste.
  • 1918 - First Pan-Russian Conference of anarcho-syndicalists held at Moscow, between August 25-September 1.
  • 1922 - Ángel Pestaña is ambushed by a rightwing death squad.
  • 1994 - The five-volume juvenile series, João Pão: as Aventuras de um Menor Abandonado ("The Adventures of Joao Pao, an Abandoned Youth") by the anarchist writer Roberto Freire, published today.

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August 27

1927 -- Paris: Thousands turn out for violent protests over deaths of Sacco and Vanzetti.

1954 -- Keith J. Blake born. Co-author La Côte de la Terre (The Edge of the Earth, (c) 1977) with Stephen A. Gagne

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August 30

 
Christiaan Cornelissen

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August 31

 
Leon Czologsz

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