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From anarchism's newest articles:
- ...that Spanish anarchist Joan Peiró served as Minister of Industry in the Spanish government, and was later executed by the government of Francisco Franco?
- ...that the Romanian Symbolist writer Alexandru Bogdan-Piteşti was an anarchist, an associate of the occultist Sâr Péladan (both pictured), and a supporter of his country's alliance with the Central Powers?
- ...that the term "spokescouncil" is named after the "spokes" of a bicycle wheel?
- ...that the Brazilian labour movement was predominantly anarchist until the 1920s?
- ...that the 1903 Anarchist Exclusion Acts forbade anyone holding anarchist views to enter the United States? From anarchism's newest articles:
- ...that despite never surpassing 2,500 copies in circulation, the Jewish anarchist journal Germinal (pictured) had a readership on four continents as a result of Eastern European Jewish migration?
- ...that during the Spanish Civil War, Eduard Pons Prades falsified his identification pages so that he could join the Republican army at age 16?
- ...that French anarchist Theodule Meunier, responsible for several bombings in Paris in 1902, was featured as a Sherlock Holmes antagonist in René Réouven's L'Assassin du Boulevard?
- ...that Christian anarchist Dave Andrews was excommunicated from the parachurch Youth With A Mission?
- ...that Fermin Rocker, son of anarchist writer Rudolf Rocker, once sold a painting to rock star Mick Jagger? From anarchism's newest articles:
- ...that the anarchy symbol (pictured) can be seen as an embodiment of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's seemingly paradoxical maxim, "anarchy is order"?
- ...that the anarcho-syndicalist Argentine Workers' Federation was the country's first national labor confederation?
- ...that German-born anarcho-syndicalist Rudolf Rocker's book Pioneers of American Freedom traces the origins of American anarchism back to Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln?
- ...that scholarly journal Anarchist Studies was attacked by Stewart Home as a "sad and reactionary 'academic' journal" incapable of engaging in critical debate?
- ...that the Cuban labor movement was predominantly anarchist until it was crushed first by President Machado, and then Fidel Castro? From anarchism's newest articles:
- ...that the physician Marie Equi (pictured) became an anarchist after being attacked by police while she was picketing during a strike supported by the Industrial Workers of the World?
- ...that the slang word " scab" comes from the idea that people hired to replace striking workers are covering a wound?
- ...that when Rudolf Rocker became the editor of the short-lived Yiddish anarchist newspaper Dos Fraye Vort, he did not speak Yiddish?
- ...that while anarcho-syndicalists are usually a minority in their respective labor movements, the anarcho-syndicalist General Confederation of Labour was not only the largest but the only union in post-World War I Portugal?
- ...that the memo calling for the 1907 International Anarchist Congress in Amsterdam went unsigned by French anarchists, as many rejected the very idea of organized collaboration? From anarchism's newest articles:
- ...that the parents of Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini gave him the middle name "Amilcare" in honour of the revolutionary anarchist Amilcare Cipriani (pictured)?
- ...that Lewis Call developed an account of post-anarchism based on the work of philosophers such as Friedrich Nietzsche and cyberpunks such as William Gibson?
- ...that John Turner was the first person to be ordered deported from the United States for violation of the 1903 Anarchist Exclusion Act?
- ...that Milly Witkop and her common-law husband Rudolf Rocker, both notable anarchist activists and writers, were rejected admission to the United States in 1898, because they refused to get legally married?
- ...that the anarcho-capitalist contingent of the Young Americans for Freedom was excommunicated from the group after one of them burned a draft card during the 1969 convention, an event credited with spawning the modern libertarian movement? From anarchism's newest articles:
- ...that just three years after it was founded, the Spanish labor union Solidaridad Obrera (pictured) morphed into the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo?
- ...that Paul Feyerabend's theory of epistemological anarchism in the philosophy of science led him to be labeled the "worst enemy of science" by his detractors?
- ...that Nationalism and Culture, the magnum opus of German anarchist Rudolf Rocker, was lauded by three Nobel Prize laureates?
- ...that during the Spanish Civil War Solidaridad Obrera, published by an anarchist labor union, was Spain's highest-circulation newspaper?
- ...that prior to the emergence of anarcho-pacifism at the outbreak of World War II, there was a general agreement among anarchists that violence was inevitable?