Tag Archives: Francois Ravachol

terrorism: no innocent victims

Posted on January 16, 2013 by Dave

…At his trial Emile Henry explained with some pride how he had constructed his bomb according to approved scientific principles and had methodically rehearsed his crime. he was less articulate about why he had picked that particular target. The Cafe … Continue reading →

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terrorism: worshiping dynamite

Posted on January 15, 2013 by Dave

…While counting on the strategy of the Big Bang to disorganize bourgeois society, anarchist publications of the period also offered their readers practical hints for furthering the cause at the village or household level. “Burn down or blow up churches,” … Continue reading →

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terrorism: salvational violence

Posted on January 14, 2013 by Dave

…In the more extreme anarchist circles there gradually developed a sect of what might almost literally be called dynamite worshipers. A song once popular in the ill-lighted, absinthe reeking Montmartre cabarets patronized by Bohemian intellectuals and authentic working-class anarchists expresses … Continue reading →

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1919 & hysteria: who stole my underwear?

Posted on April 15, 2011 by Art

Workers of the world, you have nothing to lose but your daisy chains. In 1889 a congress of socialists in France, inspired by Samuel Gompers in America, fixed May  1,as the day to pattern an international program of agitation. The … Continue reading →

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BLOWING OFF STEAM: THE BLACK ENGINE THAT MIGHT

Posted on July 4, 2010 by Dave

”The train is going over to the other side of the mountain when she stops suddenly… The train breaks down! And all the toys and animals are sad but the clown cheers everyone up when he sees a train coming … Continue reading →

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THEATRE OF THE BLACK FARCE: FIFTEEN MINUTES OF FAME

Posted on July 2, 2010 by Dave

”Are we who live in the present doomed never to experience autonomy, never to stand for one moment on a bit of land ruled only by freedom? Are we reduced either to nostalgia for the past or nostalgia for the … Continue reading →

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