Portal:Anarchism/Anniversaries/December

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December 1

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December 2

• 1914 - Arrest and internment of the German-born anarcho-syndicalist Rudolf Rocker in England for his opposition to World War I.
• 1936 - Spanish Revolution: The Madrid Defence Council is reshuffled, appointing Mariano García Cascales as Minister of War Industries and Ricardo Amor Nuño Pérez as Minister of Transport.

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December 3

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December 4

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December 5

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December 6

• 1914 - Mexican Revolution: The Conventionist forces of Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata enter Mexico City, forcing the retreat of Venustiano Carranza.
• 1946 - The French anarcho-syndicalist union Confédération nationale du travail was founded.
• 2008 - Greece: After police murder the 15-year-old student Alexandros Grigoropoulos, rioting breaks out throughout the country.

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December 7

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December 8

• 1923 - Masahiko Amakasu sentenced to 10 years for the Amakasu Incident, in which he ordered the murder of Osugi Sakae, Noe Ito, and Sakae's 6-year-old nephew.

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December 9

• 1842 - Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin / Peter Kropotkin (Russian anarchist, socialist, revolutionary, economist, sociologist, historian, zoologist, political scientist, human geographer, and philosopher) born.
• 1893 - Auguste Vaillant throws a nail bomb into the National Assembly of France, injuring one person.

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December 10

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December 11

• 1879 - Marius Jacob was born in Marseilles, France.
• 1937 - Ángel Pestaña (pictured) died in Barcelona, Spain.

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December 12

• 1861 – Birth of German anarcho-syndicalist Fritz Kater

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December 13

• 2001 - Argentina: A general strike is declared in response to the Corralito policy of Fernando de la Rúa, beginning a period of workers' self-management known as the Horizontalidad.

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December 14

• 1853 - Errico Malatesta b. Anarchist without adjectives, militant theorist & writer.

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December 15

• 1937 - Spanish Civil War: The Battle of Teruel begins with a republican offensive.

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December 16

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December 17

• 1917 - Russian Revolution: The Soviet Republic of Naissaar is established by a council of soldiers and fortress-builders.
• 1936 - Spanish Revolution: The Generalitat de Catalunya is reshuffled, appointing Diego Abad de Santillán as Minister of Economy, Josep Juan i Domènech as Minister of Public Services, Pedro Herrera Camarero as Minister of Health and Francesc Isgleas i Piarnau as Minister of Defence.

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December 18

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December 19

• 1862 -- Nicolas Stoinoff born. Patriarch of Bulgarian anarchism; antimilitarist; writer; teacher.
• 1920 -- Eduard Pons Prades born in Barcelona, Spain.
• 1960 -- Derrick Jensen born.
• 2001 -- Argentina: The Argentinazo riots begin in Buenos Aires Province, Fernando de la Rúa declares a state of siege in response.

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December 20

• 1902 -- Miura Seiichi born. Helped found Japanese Federation of Anarchists.
• 2001 -- Argentina: The Argentinazo riots are violently suppressed by the police, killing dozens. Fernando de la Rúa resigns as President of Argentina.

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December 21

• 1842 - Peter Kropotkin born in Moscow, Russia.
• 1911 - The French illegalist Bonnot Gang commits its first robbery at a Société Générale Bank in Paris.
• 1921 - United States deports Emma Goldman & Alexander Berkman.

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December 22

• 1907 – Birth of anarcho-syndicalist Rudolf Rocker's son Fermin Rocker

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December 23

• 1936 - Spanish Revolution: The Regional Defence Council of Aragon and Interprovincial Council of Asturias and León are legalized by the Spanish Republic.
• 1938 - Spanish Civil War: Nationalist forces begin the Catalonia Offensive.

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December 24

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December 25

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December 26

• 1900 - Congress of all Jewish anarchists in London, which decides to re-launch the newspaper Arbeter Fraint under the editorship of Rudolf Rocker

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December 27

• 1918 - Ukrainian War of Independence: The Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine captures Yekaterinoslav from the Ukrainian People's Republic, seizing the local Air Fleet
• 1919 - Start of the founding congress of the anarchist Free Workers' Union of Germany in Berlin

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December 28

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December 29

Práxedis Guerrero

• 1910 - Práxedis Guerrero (pictured) is killed after leading insurgents to the capture of Janos, Mexico.
• 1936 - The first issue of the anarchist journal Ideas is published.
• 1939 - French anarchist and feminist activist Madeleine Pelletier dies after being interned in an asylum for practicing abortions.

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December 30

• 1919 - Founding of the anarchist Free Workers' Union of Germany in Berlin
• 2015 - Chile: The Antagonic Nuclei of the New Urban Guerrilla leaves a simulated explosive device in the Plaza Alameda Mall.

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December 31

• 1846 - Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis born.
• 1918 - Marie Equi is found guilty of sedition under the United States' newly-amended Espionage Act for a speech she gave opposing World War I.
• 1919 - Russian anarchist Emma Goldman is deported from America to the Soviet Union under the 1918 Anarchist Exclusion Act.
• 1919 - Huge crowds gather in Milan to greet and honour Errico Malatesta after his return from exile.
• 1921 - Russia: The Life and Labor Commune is founded in Moscow.

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