The Texass colony failed due to dissension & bad weather — a condition which prevails to this day.

The Illinois colony lasted 11 years, but because, partly, of the authoritarianism of Cabet, the community divided. One group remained with Cabet, who died in Saint Louis, Missouri on November 9, 1856 surrounded by the faithful. The other group settled in Iowa where the Icarienne community published two papers, including "The Communist-Libertarian."

http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/library/anarchismEncyBrit.htm

On Robert Owen, see Kenneth Rexroth's chapter in Communalism.

"The Peaceful Revolutionist," Cincinnati (Ohio). Monthly published from Jan. to Apr. 1833. Entirely written by Warren. These 4 issues, publ. at "Cincinnati & Utopia", are probably followed by "The Gazette of Equitable Commerce" of 1842 & Thomas Varney's "The Problem Solved" in 1846.

Warren uses again this title in 1848, but only publishes one issue, vol. 2 #1 (May 1848). 16p.

An early anarchist, Warren also founded several "equity" stores, three utopian colonies, & wrote the book True Civilization.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Warren
See Kenneth Rexroth's chapter on Josiah Warren in Communalism
See also the Josiah Warren Archive,
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bright/warren/warren.html
http://faculty.evansville.edu/ck6/bstud/warren.html
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/WarrenJosiah/hs526a.htm

"I could argue all day about the significance of facing east in religious rituals, but a clean table is a clean table."

http://www.zpub.com/sf/history/nort.html
http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist1/norton.html

ANTON PANNEKOEK, Patron Saint 2007-2010
Dutch astronomer, libertarian council communist.

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1874 -- US: During this month the Workingmen's Party of Illinois is organized [I don't have exact date, ed].
http://www.anarchosyndicalism.net/archive/display/256/index.php
http://www.library.illinois.edu/ler/labor_in_illinois/illinois_labor_history.html


1875 -- US: Harriot Kezia Hunt dies in Boston. The most famous female "irregular" medical practitioner who couldn't or wouldn't get a medical degree, Hunt urged women into the profession as the surest way to preserve the modesty of female patients. Finally admitted to Harvard's medical school after years of applying, she was forced to withdraw when male students rioted in protest.

A rebel in every facet of her 69 years of life, she fought to abolish slavery, advocated higher education for women, & supported payment for house work & child-rearing. For 20 years, Hunt registered a formal "taxation without representation" protest when she paid her taxes. Her clinical work rejected the established practice of heavily dosing patients with medications, & instead stressed proper diet, exercise & hygiene.

1885 -- General Wolseley receives last distress signal of General Gordon in Khartoum.

1886 --

Le 2 janvier 1873, à Córdoba (Cordoue), Andalousie, se clôt le troisième Congrès de la F.R.E "Fédération de la Région Espagnole." Le congrès qui avait débuté le 24 décembre 1872 dans le Théâtre Moratín, adopte à l'unanimité les positions de l'Internationale anti-autoritaire de Saint-Imier. Il peut à juste titre être considéré comme le premier congrès anarchiste du mouvement ouvrier.

1887 --

Strange: January Fortean Events

US: Detonations heard in the sky, Oroville, CA [Monthly Weather Review, 1887-24] http://web.archive.org/...passarola.com/strange/janfort.html http://www.resologist.net/damn03.htm

1888 -- US: No Teeth? Marvin Stone awarded patent for inventing the drinking straw, Washington, DC. Unfortunately, all royalties go to the straw bosses...



1890 -- US: Johann Most arranges Emma Goldman's first public lecture tour to Rochester, Buffalo, & Cleveland to speak on the limitations of the eight-hour movement. In the course of her tour, Emma demonstrates her talents as an orator & realizes the need to articulate her political beliefs independently; her growing autonomy causes tensions with Most.



1890 -- US: Record 19'2" alligator shot in Louisiana by E A McIlhenny.


1893 -- England: Sybil Morrison, pacifist feminist, lives.


1894 -- Poet/novelist Robert Nathan lives, New York City.


1896 -- Soviet filmmaker Dziga Vertov lives, Bialystok, Gradna, Russia (Poland).
http://www.imagesjournal.com/issue05/features/berkeley-vertov.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dziga_Vertov

1898 -- US: Emma Goldman announces her lecture topics for the year: "Charity," "Patriotism," "Authority," "Majority Rule," "The New Woman," "The Woman Question," & "The Inquisition of Our Postal Service."anarchist feminist

During this period, Emma is in contact with Filipino rebels & helps to support their attempts to gain independence from Spain.

1903 -- US?: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President Ted Roosevelt shuts down post office in Indianola, Mississippi, for refusing to accept its appointed postmistress because she was black.



1904 -- Birth of Sally Rand, inventor of the Fan Dance.


1905 -- US: Conference of Industrial Unionists in Chicago forms the I.W.W. (Industrial Workers of the World), fondly known as The Wobblies.
http://www.iww.org/
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/search/iww/


1905 -- Michael Tippett, pacifist composer, lives, England.



1905 -- Louis Dorlet lives (1905-1989), Nievre. French anarchist & pacifist.

Sent to prison in 1925 for desertion. Member of l'Union Anarchiste, organizer among the unemployed & for a consumer co-op.

Dorlet wrote for many libertarian publications (such as "Le Semeur", "Terre libre", "La Conquête du pain", "Combat syndicaliste") & was a co-editor of "Libertaire." Mobilized in 1939, sent to prison during WWII until 1945, & again participates in "Libertaire" & Louis Lecoin's "Défense de l'homme." In addition to writing numerous brochures, Louis Dorlet wrote the book Au fil de mes souvenirs, propos libertaires.

http://www.ephemanar.net/mai18.html

1909 -- Marcel Proust, on about this date, dips a piece of toast in his tea, the flavor brings back a rush of childhood memories that become the basis for the famous Madeleine episode in Swann's Way, from which the structure of Remembrance of Things Past evolves.


1909 -- US: Emma Goldman lectures, January 2-6, in Los Angeles, San Diego, & Pasadena on such topics as "The Psychology of Violence" & "Puritanism, the Greatest Obstacle to Liberty." Some of Los Angeles's leading drama critics attend her lecture, "The Drama, the Most Forcible Disseminator of Radicalism."



1914 -- US: Emma Goldman's Mother Earth essay "Self-Defense for Labor" responds to a series of violent labor violations; in the absence of legal protection against the danger of exercising their right to organize, Emma calls on workers to arm themselves for self-defense.

During this month Joe Hill is arrested in Utah & charged with murder despite lack of evidence.

Emma Goldman's household arrangement with Ben Reitman & his mother fails. Emma's relationship with him becomes "unbearable"; Reitman moves back to Chicago. Emma continues to work on the manuscript of her book, The Social Significance of the Modern Drama.

1919 -- Charles Willeford lives, Little Rock, Arkansas. Novelist, poet.

1947, Five poems published in Outcast Poets, published by Alicat Bookshop Press; 1947-49, Kyushu, Japan. Runs Army of Occupation radio station WLKH; 1948, Proletarian Laughter published by Alicat Bookshop Press; 1974, Film version of Cockfighter produced & released; Willeford writes the screenplay & plays the role of Ed Middleton.

"He was born with a gift of laughter & a sense that the world is mad." — Rafael Sabatini http://www.dennismcmillan.com/charleswillefo/

"The war bowed to a hundred repressive acts. They have become slaves to the government. They are frightened at the excesses in Russia. They are docile; & they will not recover from being so for many years... In the end, of course, there will be a revolution, but it will not come in my time."

— Hiram Johnson, former Governor of California

Shortly after the famous Vitameatavegamin episode aired, Ball appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee during the next big Red Scare because she had registered as a Communist in 1936. She explained that it was to please her grandfather.

Palmer, in coordination with Justice Department agent J. Edgar Hoover & immigration commissioner Anthony Caminetti, orders the arrest of approximately 10,000 alien radicals. US Bureau of Investigation carries out nationwide Palmer Raids. Federal agents seize labor leaders & literature in the hopes of discouraging labor activity. A number of citizens are turned over to state officials for prosecution under various anti-anarchy statutes.

1920 -- A Commie Plot?: Science fiction author Isaac Asimov (The Foundation Trilogy) lives, Petrovichi, Russia.
http://www.asimovonline.com/
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/asimov.htm

1922 -- US: Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman, & Alexander Schapiro, having left Russia disillusioned with the Bolshevik Paradise, arrive in Stockholm, Sweden, & are met by birth-control advocates Albert Jensen & Elise Ottesen-Jensen; Emma becomes lover with 30-year old Swedish anarchist Arthur Svensson shortly after arrival.

Voline, G. P. Maximoff & other hunger strikers are deported from Russia & resettle in Berlin.



1923 -- US: Big Fall: As evidence of his illegal behavior in the Teapot Dome Affair mounted, Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall resigns. Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President Harding responds by offering Fall an appointment to the Supreme Court.


1929 -- When Maxwell Perkins meets Thomas Wolfe for the first time, to discuss the manuscript of Look Homeward, Angel, Wolfe's "wild hair & bright countenance" remind the Scribner's editor of Shelley.


1932 -- US: Young gang shoot dead six police in Springfield, Missouri.


1936 -- US: Burma Shave puts up roadside signs offering "Free! Free! A Trip to Mars for 900 Empty Jars."


1939 -- US: "Time" magazine names Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader German Chancellor Adolf Hitler its "Man of the Year."


1939 -- US: The DAR bans black contralto Marian Anderson from singing at Constitution Hall, Washington, DC.


1942 -- Writers Sinclair Lewis & Dorothy Thompson divorce in Woodstock, Vermont, after 13 years of marriage.
http://english.illinoisstate.edu/sinclairlewis/


1945 -- US: Restrictions preventing resettlement on the West Coast are removed, although many exceptions continue to exist. A few carefully screened Japanese Americans had returned to the coast in late 1944.
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1946 -- Jean-Bernard Pouy lives, Paris. Writer, author of many detective novels. La belle de Fontenay (prix mystère de la critique en 1993) features an old Spanish anarchist. Began the "Le poulpe" (The Octopus) series, featuring Gabriel Lecouvreur, libertarian investigator & destroyer of injustice. After having written La petite écuyère a cafté (1995), he began finding different, & often new, authors to continue the now popular series in the same vein.

"Il devait y avoir aussi un complément de fiche un peu plus long, disant peut-être que j'étais un bagarreur, un emmerdeur de première, un violent, un tueur dans l'âme, un psychopathe, peut-être la réincarnation de Jules Bonnot, solitaire et désespéré, le profil du terroriste moyen. Il devait y avoir aussi le témoignage de quelques flics à qui j'avais tenu tête pendant qu'ils me la mettaient au carré."

— Extrait de La belle de Fontenay roman de Jean-Bernard POUY, où le vieil anar espagnol se fait interroger par la police.

http://durru.chez.com/bonnot/bande.htm
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Bernard_Pouy
http://www.ephemanar.net/janvier02.html#pouy

1946 -- México: Army fires on a fascist UNS demonstration in Guanajuato. Dozens are killed & wounded.


1953 -- Asian Socialist Conference.


1955 -- Panama: Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President Jose Antonio Remon assassinated.


1959 -- Russians launch moon probe Luna I. It misses the big cheese. Larger target needed.


1959 -- US: ¶ Filming of Pull My Daisy, based on part of a play Kerouac wrote, begins in New York.
¶ December: Kerouac loses his virginity with a Manhattan prostitute. http://www.cosmicbaseball.com/jkchrono.html


1961 -- US: American Nazi Party pickets the White House in support of HUAC.


1964 --

Young Adam Le Jeune Adam, French translation by Bernard Willerval of Alexander Trocchi's Young Adam, Paris. http://www.cddc.vt.edu/sionline/chronology/chronology.html | [Situationist Resources]

1965 -- Italy: Bomb explodes in Naples at the Spanish Consulate. The attack is claimed by the Spanish anarchists of the CNT, FAI & Federación Ibérica de Juventudes Libertarias (FIJL) which declare:

"As long as the Iberian people continue to be oppressed by the fascist dictatorship, dynamite will recall that the voice of freedom cannot be choked. Long live anarchy."

http://struggle.ws/spain/pam_intro.html


1967 -- US: 69 armed men, plus three CBS cameramen, arrested in Florida Keys as they complete preparations for an invasion of Haiti. It is later revealed that CBS had paid the prospective invaders for exclusive rights to film the landing.

In Haiti, Alejo Carpentier learns that there is no magic more prodigious & delightful than the voyage that leads through experience, through the body, to the depths of America.

In Europe, magicians have become bureaucrats, & wonder, exhausted, has dwindled to a conjuring trick. But in America, surrealism is as natural as rain or madness.

— Eduardo Galeano, Century of the Wind

1970 -- US: Supreme Court rules unconstitutional General Lewis Hershey's 1967 directive during the Vietnam War that local draft boards reclassify to 1-A (eligible for active duty) anti-draft demonstrators.


1972 -- US: John Gacy picks up an unidentified teenage boy at the Chicago Greyhound terminal; the boy is the first of his 33 victims, & the only one stabbed instead of strangled.


1973 -- US: Carolyn Cassidy tosses Tim Bowden out of the house at 2:00 AM in a reprise of a scene from On the Road.
http://www.litkicks.com/Topics/BowdenOnCarolyn.html



1974 -- US: 55 MPH speed limit imposed by Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Lick M Nixon.




1974 -- Belgium: Jean de Boe dies. Anarchist militant, trade unionist & cooperativist. See the Anarchist Encyclopedia page, http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/DeBoeJean.htm


1975 -- US: Court rules John Lennon & his lawyers get access to Department of Immigration files regards his deportation case, to determine if the government case is based on his 1968 British drug conviction or his anti-establishment comments during the Dick'mNixon administration years.


1975 -- Nederland: Vondel Park, Amsterdam closed to camping.


1978 -- US: Devil's Lake Lakotya win settlement of $8.5 million for 1,500 square miles taken illegally from Fort Totten reservation in 1880s.


1979 -- US: Trial begins for ex-Sex Pistol, Sid Vicious for the October 1978 murder of girlfriend Nancy Spungen, New York City. Sid never hears the verdict, dying from a heroin overdose.


1980 -- Larry Williams, who had hit songs like "Dizzy Miss Lizzy" & "Bony Maronie" is found dead in his Los Angles home of a gunshot wound to the head. It is never resolved whether his death was a murder or suicide.


1981 -- Terrorist? Sylvester Clarke knocks out spectator with brick, West Indies vs Pakistan.


1984 -- Tunisia: Riot in Tunis kills over 100.


1988 -- US: Drinking water supply for thousands is threatened after an Ashland Oil Company storage tank collapsed & spills 860,000 gallons of Diesel fuel into the Monongahela River north of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Towns along the Ohio River below Pittsburgh were forced to act, as a slick, 20 miles long from bank to bank, moved down river.

"It's not true (the congressman was sleeping during the debate). He was just taking a few moments for deep reflection."
— aide to Rep. Martin Hoke, R-Ohio

1991 -- Salvadoran rebels shoot down a US helicopter & shoot two US military terrorists "advisers."

Since the guerrilla movement started growing in the countryside, the army has no longer bothered to use prisons.

1983: July, 15 children under 14 who had been detained charged with terrorism are found decapitated; by August, 13,500 civilians are murdered or disappeared so far this year...

1991 -- Chile: In Concepcion, "Federacion Anarquista Interciudadana" is established.

In 1990 "El Duende" hosted the creation of "Coordinadora Anarquista Estudiantil," & in Concepcion "Solidaridad Obrera" supported strikes of any kind. Today in an assembly, the Anarchist Intercities Federation is founded, & then also the JAM (Juventudes Anti Militaristas) &, in Santiago, COSMO (Colectivo Contra el Sevicio Militar Obligatorio) form.

After this appeared other movements such as MALO (Movimiento Anarquista Luis Olea), COSMO Temuco, FAI Concepcion, "Kolectivo Kultural Libertario Malatesta" in Concepcion, "Red Anarquista" - Anarchist Web in Villa Alemana, Osormo, Tenuco, Concepcion, Valparaiso, Santiago , etc.....the FAL "Federacion Anarco - Libertaria," etc....

http://libcom.org/history/1872-1995-anarchism-in-chile

1993 -- México: The EZLN issues the first Declaracion de la Selva Lacondona, Chiapas.


1995 -- US: A Long Shot?: Most distant galaxy yet discovered found by Little Grey Men disguised as scientists using Keck telescope in Hawaii. Estimated 15 billion light years away. That's billions & billions of miles. That's a lot. Trust me.


1996 -- Bangladesh: An estimated 100,000 Bangladeshi women traveled from the countryside to attend a rally in Dacca, the capital, to protest Islamic clerics' attacks on women's education & employment.



1999 -- Andre Arru (aka Jean-René Sauliere) dies. French anarchist & pacifist, underground organizer during WWII, & a member, since 1983, of the ADMD (an association for the right to die in dignity). He ended his life, at age 87, refusing to subject himself to the risks & dependency of advancing age & disease.
http://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/3ffc0v



2005 -- France: Vietnamese revolutionary historian Ngô Van dies, Paris. Among his writings, see In the Crossfire: Adventures of a Vietnamese Revolutionary.

http://libcom.org/history/articles/1913-2005-ngo-van
http://www.bopsecrets.org/vietnam/index.htm

2006 -- US: Shoplifters of the World Unite!! White House domestic policy adviser Claude Allen, one of the more surreal players in the Bush White House & one-time Bush nominee to be a federal judge, arrested for shoplifting, a fraud scheme he used at least 25 times over the past year. Whatta Clod! (Clod got Cot).
http://toryanarchist.wordpress.com/2006/03/12/shoplifters-of-the-world-unite/


2008 -- Novelist George MacDonald Fraser (1925-2008) dies. Creator of Sir Harry Paget Flashman, a dyed-in-the-wool rogue who'd sooner die than face danger.

Originally the villain of Tom Brown's Schooldays (1857), subsequently sent fornicating & malingering his way through a dozen high-class historical novels, Flashman is the last word in political incorrectness — a bullying coward & champion satyromaniac, whose first instinct when the bullets start flying is to hide under a barrel, & every one of whose glittering prizes — knighthood, Victoria Cross, Brigadier-Generalship, Queen's Medal — achieved by default. He rode, farting with terror, in the charge of the Light Brigade... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Paget_Flashman http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/jan/04/pressandpublishing.georgemacdonaldfraser

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