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[Comic strip] Voltairine De Cleyre - « Anarchism without a Label » - Booklet [PDF]

DLR, MLT, OLT — 2026-01-15T10:50:04Z

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Born on November 17, 1866, to an American woman and a French man from Lille who emigrated to the United States. He named his daughter Voltairine in honor of Voltaire.
Her parents divorced in 1880, and her father placed her in a convent. Upon her release, Voltairine became involved in the Freethinker movement.
Influenced by the writings of Thomas Payne and Mary Wollstonecraft, she gave lectures and wrote newspaper columns.
Following a bomb attack during the Haymarket Square Riot, on May 1^st, 1886, 8 anarchists were wrongly accused of it and four executed on November 11, 1887, causing Voltairine to become an anarchist.
In 1890, her essay Sexual Slavery was published. She condemned the beauty queens who encouraged women to distort their bodies, and the educational practices that molded children according to their gender.
Her son, Harry, was born on June 12, 1890. She never lived with the child's father, James B. Elliott, nor with any of her other lovers.
Emma Goldman considered her as « the most gifted and brilliant anarchist woman America has ever produced. »
Having become close to individualist anarchists, she advocated an anarchism without adjectives : « I no longer call myself anything other than a simple anarchist. »
In 1895, in a lecture on « The Sexual Question », she declared to women : « (...) Because of the prohibition that weighs upon us, its immediate consequences on our daily lives, the incredible mystery of sexuality and the terrible consequences of our ignorance about it. »
On December 9, 1902, she survives Herman Helcher's assassination attempt.
She forgave him: « It would be an outrage to civilization if he were sent to prison for an act that was the product of a sick mind. »
In her lecture « Marriage is a Bad Deed » in 1907, she asserts :
« The marriage contract, imposing a promiscuity of souls and bodies, runs against love. »
In the spring of 1911, Voltairine de Cleyre regained hope in change. Thanks to Ricardo Flores Magón, « the most important Mexican anarchist of the time », according to historian Paul Avrich.
She gave lectures to explain the importance of international solidarity, raised funds to help the revolution, and became the Chicago correspondent for the Regeneración newspaper.
In her 1912 essay, Direct Action, she points out that « direct action has always been employed and enjoys the historical sanction of the very people who now repudiate it. » A poet, essayist, feminist pioneer and supporter of anarchism, Voltairine de Cleyre died of septic meningitis in Chicago on June 20, 1912.

[Comic strip] Louise Michel (May 29, 1830 - January 9, 1905) - Booklet [PDF]

DLR, MLT, OLT — 2025-12-20T10:12:35Z

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- [en] English / Louise Michel, La Commune de Paris (1871), Traduction : DLR

[Comic strip] Louise Michel (May 29, 1830 - January 9, 1905) - PDF

Anarlivres, DLR, OLT — 2025-11-24T14:23:00Z

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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 in Haute-Marne, Louise Michel decided to settle in Paris where she found a job as a teacher in a boarding school.

In 1865, she sold her property to buy an externship in the XVIIIe arr. of Paris (North-West). She teaches there, while having charitable activities.

From 1869, she followed the courses of popular instruction organized by republicans and thus began her political and militant commitment. In besieged Paris (september 1870), Louise Michel attended the Republican committee of vigilance of the XVIIIe arr.

She participates, until the end, in all the actions of the Commune.

Incarcerated at Versailles, Louise Michel was very dignified and courageous during her trial during which she was sentenced to deportation to a fortified enclosure.

After two years in prison and four months by boat, Louise Michel arrived on the coast of New Caledonia in December 1873, East of Australia.

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 years, a tireless activist.

She travels through France, England, Holland and Belgium to give thousands of lectures, interspersed with periods of imprisonment.

In January 1888, during a public meeting in Le Havre, a man attempts to kill her by firing two shots of a revolver. She is hit in the temple and doctors will never be able to remove the bullet that remains lodged near her brain.

During a lecture tour in the Alps, she caught cold and died of pneumonia in Marseille on January 9, 1905. Her body was brought back to Paris, and on January 22, 1905, a huge crowd followed her coffin through the streets to the cemetery in Levallois-Perret, bordering the XVIIIe arr. of Paris.

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[Comic] Itô Noé [02]

DLR, MLT, OLT — 2025-06-17T22:30:00Z

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 army. The organization was dissolved by the government in December, eight months after its creation.
On September 1, 1923, the Kanto earthquake on the island of Honshu devastates Tokyo and Yokohama. The death toll was 141,720. Despite the declaration of martial law, panic and chaos led to the spread of wild rumors. In the city, popular militias killed Korean, Chinese and Japanese residents mistakenly identified as Koreans.
Military (Kenpeitai) and civilian (Tokkeitai) police summarily execute communist, socialist and anarchist activists for “dangerous thoughts”.
The “Amakasu Incident” took place on September 16, 1923. Itô Noé, Ôsugi Sakae and his six-year-old nephew were beaten to death and thrown into a well by Lieutenant Amakasu's Kenpeitai group.
These murders, of well know anarchists and a child, move and anger Japanese citizens.
Sentenced to ten years in prison, Masahiko Amakasu served only three years of his sentence.

[Comic] Itô Noé [01]

DLR, MLT, OLT — 2025-06-16T22:30:00Z

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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 magazine Seito “Blue Stockings".
Translating Emma Goldman's The Tragedy of Female Emancipation, she was noticed by the anarchist Ôsugi Sakae, whom she met in September 1914.
Itô Noé became editor-in-chief of Seito in January 1915.
Ôsugi Sakae's newspaper, Shimbun Heimin “Journal of the Plebs”, is banned by the police. Itô Noé defended it in Seito.
Itô Noé takes up the themes of abortion, maternity and prostitution. In February 1916, she closed the publication of Seito, leaving Tsuji Jun to live in concubinage with Ôsugi Sakae. Already married, he was also having an affair with the journalist Ichiko Kamichika.
Jealous, Ichiko Kamichika stabs Ôsugi in the throat. The affair causes a scandal, and Ôsugi's wife divorces him.
Ôsugi Sakae recovered, and the couple lived together in a house, where their first child was born in 1917.

[Comic] Louise Michel - 2

Anarlivres, DLR, OLT — 2025-06-07T22:30:00Z

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Until her death, Louise will be, for twenty-five years, a tireless activist.

She travels through France, England, Holland and Belgium to give thousands of lectures, interspersed with periods of imprisonment.

[Comic] Louise Michel - 1

Anarlivres, DLR, OLT — 2025-06-07T15:53:48Z

Text : Anarlivres.org & Drawings : OLT (CC BY-NC-SA) - Translated : DLR

In 1865, she sold her property to buy an externship in the XVIIIe arr. of Paris (North-West). She teaches there, while having charitable activities.

She participates, until the end, in all the actions of the Commune.

Incarcerated at Versailles, Louise Michel was very dignified and courageous during her trial during which she was sentenced to deportation to a fortified enclosure.

After two years in prison and four months by boat, Louise Michel arrived on the coast of New Caledonia in December 1873, East of Australia.

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[Comic] Mohamed Saïl, «A Kabyle Anarchist»

DLR, MLT, OLT — 2025-06-06T12:36:17Z

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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.

Threatened by far-right groups, he armed himself. He was arrested on March 3, 1934, and sentenced to four and a half months in prison for carrying a prohibited weapon.

To fight the Spanish nationalists, he joined the International Group of the Durruti Column in July 1936.

L'Espagne Antifasciste (CNT-AIT-FAI) published his letters written on the front lines.

Wounded in Zaragoza, he returned to France.

During the Nazi occupation, he devoted himself to forging papers.

He resumed his anti-colonialist writings in Le Libertaire from 1946 until his death in April 1953 in Bobigny, near Paris.

TEXTS COLLECTED AND PRESENTED BY SYLVAIN BOULOUQUE
This collection of texts by an anonymous editor of the libertarian press, originally published by Volonté anarchiste in 1994, sought to recall the existence of a libertarian vision on colonial problems that he refused to separate from the social question. The emergence of debates on colonialism made him an important figure in anarchism. A leader of multiple committees, his intimate knowledge of Algeria allowed him to publish texts highlighting the multiple mechanisms of domination. [...] These articles place him within the classic forms of anarchist activism, combining anti-colonialism, anti-communism, anti-capitalism, anti-fascism, and the fight for emancipation. <https://www.editions.federation-ana...>

[Comic] Marie-Louise Berneri (1918-1949)

DLR, MLT, OLT — 2025-05-31T17:41:15Z

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«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.»

Born on March 1, 1918, in Arezzo, Italy, Marie-Louise was the eldest child of Giovanna and Camillo Berneri.

Persecuted by the fascists, the Berneri family emigrated to France in 1926. A psychology student at the Sorbonne, Marie-Louise became involved in the anarchist movement.

She moved to London in April 1936. Camillo Berneri fought in Spain with the CNT (National Confederation of National Liberties). His daughter saw him in Barcelona before he was assassinated by the communists on May 5, 1937. She attended his funeral. In November 1937, she returned to England with her partner, photographer Vernon Richards.

Together they contributed to the publication and distribution of the English anarchist press: Spain and the World, Revolt !, War Commentary, Freedom.

In April 1945, Vernon Richards, Philip Sansom, and John Hewetson were sentenced to nine months in prison for seditious activities. Marie-Louise was acquitted, as English law stipulated that a wife could not conspire with her husband.

In Paris in 1948, at the first anarchist conference, Marie-Louise Berneri represented Great Britain, her mother Giovanna Italy, and her sister Giliana France.

Marie-Louise popularized the works of Wilhelm Reich in England. She died in London on April 13, 1949, from viral pneumonia.

[Comic] Lilian Wolfe (1875-1974)

DLR, MLT, OLT — 2025-05-20T07:09:58Z

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 participated in the revival of The Voice of Labor on May 1, 1914.

Thomas Keell, the typesetter and editor of the anarchist newspaper Freedom, became her companion.

The Voice of Labor published an article in favor of civil disobedience following the introduction of compulsory military conscription in 1916. Lilian Wolfe and Thomas Keell were arrested and convicted of violating the Defense of the Realm Act of 1914. Keell chose prison rather than pay a fine. Lilian, pregnant, paid the fine for her release.

Spain and the World was launched in 1936 by Vernon Richards, Thomas Keell, and Marie-Louise Berneri, while Lilian administered it.

Until Thomas Keell's death on June 26, 1938, she lived at Whiteway Colony in the « guiding light of Leo Tolstoy ».

Still active, she was the managing director of the Freedom Press bookstore, a position she held until the age of 95. A member of the National Council for Civil Liberties and War Resisters International, she died of a stroke on April 22, 1974.