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Portal:Anarchism/Anniversaries/January/January 12

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  • 1883 – France: In Lyon at the trial of the workers' International, begun on January 8 against the anarchists known as "The 66", the 'Anarchist Declaration' is read out to the court. Likely written by Peter Kropotkin, one of those tried & convicted, it is a summary of the ideals of the accused.
  • 1983 – Spain's Confederación Nacional del Trabajo held its sixth Congress in Barcelona.
  • 1913 – Emma Goldman delivers six Sunday lectures in New York City (January 12-February 16) on the modern drama. Emma Goldman, anarchist
  • 1926 – Pedro Augusto Mota (189?-1926) dies. Brazilian graphics worker, journalist & militant anarchist & labor activist.
  • 1933 – Spain: The anarchist uprisings which began on 8 January are brutally suppressed.
  • 1940 – Canada: During this month Emma Goldman's mail is intercepted by pinch-faced censors, their suspicion raised by the many letters containing money pouring into her address for the defense of Arthur Bortolotti, whose case attracts further attention in the US through articles in the Nation & the New Republic by Goldman. Emma Goldman, anarchist feminist
  • 1983 – Spain: 6th CNT-AIT anarchist Congress, Barcelona (January 12-16th). Anarchist Conference poster
  • 2002 – England: Anarchist flag appears atop the Argentine Embassy! Scaling the heights of one of the slag heaps of authority to signal the need of a large dustbin for this debt-ridden sodbag.
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