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Constant police surveillance regularly forced them to move, for both financial and political reasons. On April 24, 1921, Itô Noé was an advisor for the founding of the "Red Wave Society" : the Sekirankai is Japan’s first socialist women’s association. Sekirankai members marche during May Day political meetings. Women activists are arrested. Article 5 of the Public Law prohibits women from taking part in political demonstrations. In October, they take part in socialist propaganda aimed at the (…)

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Itô Noé was born on the island of Kyushu on January 21, 1895. Graduates from Tokyo’s Ueno Girls’ School at age 16. Forced into an arranged marriage, she ran away from home. Her English teacher, Tsuji Jun, the libertarian poet and translator of Stirner, takes her in. He supported Itô Noé in her studies. They married and had two sons. In Tokyo in 1912, she joined the first feminist groups and contributed to the cultural (…)

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Louise Michel is amazed by the beauty of this land of exil and is immediately interested in the culture and manners of the Canacs, supporting them during their revolt in 1878. After five years of detention, she can settle in Noumea where she resumes her activities as a school teacher. In 1880, the General Amnesty of the Communards allowed her to return to France.
Until her death, Louise will be, for twenty-five (…)

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Daughter of a servant and certainly the son of the chatelains for whom her mother works, Louise Michel was born at the castle of Vroncourt-la-Côte in the East of France (Haute-Marne). She grows up with her mother, pampered by « her grandparents », receiving a liberal education and good education.In 1852, she obtained the necessary diploma to become a teacher and opened a free school. After a few years of teaching (…)

Born in Kabylia, near Béjaïa, east of Algiers, on October 14, 1894, Mohamed Saïl was imprisoned during the First World War for insubordination and desertion. After his release, and having settled in the Paris region, he joined the Anarchist Union. In 1923, he founded the Committee for the Defense of Algerian Natives.

Born into a modest family, she obtained a job at the telephone company in 1916, but continued her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts. In 1918, passionate about poetry, she joined the literary movement "Ultraísmo" and published her first poems.

«We don’t build our movement on obscure ideas. Perhaps we should produce fewer ideas, but we should be able to understand them completely and explain them to others at any time. »

One of the less public but most important figures of the Freedom Press (Nicolas Walter, anarchist historian)
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Lilian Wolfe was born on December 22, 1875, in London. Hired by the General Post Office, she became a member of the Civil Service Socialist Society.
Having joined the Women’s Freedom League but considering granting women the right to vote as a mere « palliative », she joined the anarchist movement in 1913. She (…)

Russian libertarian mathematician of Tatar origin imprisoned in Russia.
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Anarchist Azat Miftakhov was arrested on February 1, 2019, on charges of « making explosives ».Tortured by the police, he was released on February 7, 2019, due to lack of evidence.
In Moscow a window of Vladimir Putin’s party offices was smashed in 2018. Based on two secret testimonies, Azat Miftakhov was arrested. On January 18, 2021, the Moscow (…)

A meeting was held in Chicago’s Haymarket Square on May 4, 1886. Anarchist speakers Albert Parsons, August Spies and Samuel Fielden supported the demand for an eight-hour day for workers. The “Knights of Labor” had just launched a major mobilization campaign to obtain this right. The demonstrators begin to disperse when the police charge in. A bomb explodes among the police, who then fire into the crowd.