The Boston Globe, “This day in history”
In 1921, Italian-born anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were convicted in Dedham of murdering a shoe company paymaster and his guard. (Sacco and Vanzetti were executed six years later.) Continue Reading
ABC News San Francisco, “Berkeley vandal arrested, charged with hate crime”
“On a lot of cars up and down the street and ours had the anarchist sign,” one resident told ABC7 News. Continue Reading
Los Angeles Times, “Warriors, dreamers and just plain crazy: U.S. civilian volunteers fighting Islamic State in Syria”
In his west Raqqah outpost, surrounded by snipers and the occasional armed drone, Howard said Western volunteers in Syria seem to fit into one of three groups: There are the anarchists and socialists, “the starry-eyed dreamers.” Then there are the “people that are running away from their past.” Finally, he said, there are the “people […]
The Philadelphia Inquirer, “2 alleged anarchists to stand trial for N. Philly vandalism spree”
The pair entered the courtroom looking anything but the disheveled alleged anarchists shown in their police mugshots. Monahan wore a black dress complemented by bracelets and a pink beaded necklace and stylish eyeglasses, and her blond hair was freshly cut. Suchocki, his hair shorter than when he was arrested, wore a black-and-white shirt buttoned to […]
The New Yorker, “The Secret Lessons of Soviet Children’s Poems”
As a teen-ager in tsarist Russia, Mayakovsky was already attending anarchist meetings and distributing socialist leaflets. A stint in prison converted him into a poet; the Revolution made him a Communist. Proclaiming himself a “Bolshevik in art,” Mayakovsky founded innumerable avant-gardist groups that variously inspired or horrified the Soviet authorities in the nineteen-twenties. When he […]
Gothamist, “No Jail Time For Skinhead Who Beat Columbia Students On LES”
Antifa, the loose-knit anarchist movement devoted to exposing and opposing those it deems fascists, has forcibly shut down speeches by right-wing figures and staged street fights with hard-right extremists in New York and elsewhere as Donald Trump’s campaign gained momentum and turned into a presidency. Right-wing skinheads and their left-wing counterparts have been mixing it […]
WNYC, “Muslim New Yorkers Now Have Someone Watching the Cops Who Watch Them”
As detailed in the book about post-9/11 Muslim surveillance, Enemies Within by Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman, the NYPD has long investigated specific communities: Italians and anarchists in the beginning of the 20th century; Germans and Japanese during World War II; Communists later on. Then in 1971, a lawsuit was filed against the NYPD after Vietnam War protesters […]
The Guardian, “Redneck Revolt: the armed leftwing group that wants to stamp out fascism”
By mid-afternoon, the cookout was in full swing. Nearby residents filled plates with barbecued chicken and strawberries. A neighborhood man looked at the pamphlets that Neely had laid out. “Piece Now, Peace Later: An Anarchist Introduction to Firearms”, read one title. “Y’all trying to overthrow the government?” he asked. Continue Reading
The New York Times, “Violence at G-20 Tests the Limits of Expression in Germany”
Among the protesters themselves, there was recognition that no one sought violence, but, at the same time, veteran activists were aware that trouble could erupt. Hamburg has long been home to a firmly established community of some 8,000 leftists and anarchists. Continue Reading
USA Today, “Why Europe has a greater terror problem than the United States”
On Wall Street in 1920, an explosion on the back of a horse-drawn carriage killed 30 people in an attack blamed on anarchists. Six years before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks by radical Muslims that killed nearly 3,000 people, there was the Oklahoma City truck bombing led by an anti-government fanatic that killed 168 people. […]