Today in Labor History November 17, 1947: Revolutionary and author Victor Serge died. Serge lived in Paris in the early 20th century, where he was loosely associated with the Bonnot gang of anarchist bank robbers, and where he collaborated with Raymond Callemin on the newspaper L’anarchie. He was in Barcelona during their anarchist uprising and contributed to the CNT’s newspaper, “Tierra y Libertad.” He went to Russia in 1918, initially in support of the communists. However, he quickly became disillusioned with the repressive, autocratic rule, criticized the party and was imprisoned. He wrote numerous books, including the classic “Birth of Our Power” and his autobiographical “Memoirs of a Revolutionist.”

#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #Revolutionary #soviet #russia #barcelona #BonnotGang #paris #cnt #author #writer #books #fiction #novel #VictorSerge @bookstadon

#VictorSerge, Revolutionär & #Anarchist † 17. November 1947 Während der Fokus im Roman „Geburt unserer Macht“ auf die Frage gerichtet war „KÖNNEN wir die Macht übernehmen?“ verschiebt er sich in „Eroberte Stadt“: „Was wird aus uns, wenn wir (die) Macht haben?“ Ungebrochene Aktualität. #Anarchismus

"L’esprit est toujours l’esprit.
Pour moi l’anarchie est une manière spirituelle de vivre.
Ça continuera.
Nos rêves ne seront pas perdus"
--> Rirette Maîtrejean

* articles par ici :
https://ouvaton.link/efctE3

#anarchie #riretteMaîtrejean #victorSerge #éditionsLaDigitale

"que la coercition [...] est l'exercice systématique de la
violence légale contre les exploités, le travailleur ne peut désormais considérer la légalité que
comme un fait [...] dont il faut quelquefois savoir tirer parti, mais qui ne doit jamais être devant sa
classe plus qu'un obstacle purement matériel."

Victor Serge, Ce que tout révolutionnaire doit savoir de la répression, Chapitre 2 le problème de l'illégalité

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#lectures #VictorSerge #illegalité #révolution #socialisme

#VictorSerge, 1890 in Brüssel geboren, 1947 in Mexiko-Stadt gestorben, Schriftsteller; Revolutionär, als illegalistischer #Anarchist in Paris in den 1910er Jahren, Mitglied der #Bonnot -Bande, Zeitung L' #Anarchie, Zeitung Tierra y Libertad.. Spannende politische Biografie (frz.) der Jahre 1890-1919

Petit moment de détente...

#lecture #cafe #VictorSerge

Today in Labor History June 7, 1896: Anarchists supposedly set off a bomb during a Corpus Christi parade in Barcelona, Spain. As a result, a dozen people died and thirty were wounded. No one knows who actually set off the bomb, but the government blamed anarchists, who had set off numerous bombs over the previous four years. Consequently, the government went on a witch-hunt, arresting and torturing dozens of anarchists in the infamous Montjuich Prison. However, many leading anarchists denied the accusations and said they would never have set off a deadly bomb in a working-class community like this. They reserved their attacks for members of the ruling class. Nevertheless, the government tried and executed five anarchists, all of whom proclaimed their innocence. They sentenced 67 others to life in prison. Worldwide protests erupted in response. Montjuich Prison was graphically depicted in the opening scene Victor Serge’s epic novel, Birth of Our Power, which he wrote while imprisoned in the Soviet Union for his opposition to Stalin.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #spain #barcelona #bombing #prison #torture #VictorSerge #soviet #russia #stalin #writer #author #books #fiction #novel @bookstadon

Today in labor history April 28, 1896: Tristan Tzara was born. He was a Romanian-French poet, journalist, playwright, literary and art critic, film director. He co-founded the anti-establishment Dada movement. During Hitler’s rise to power, he participated in the anti-fascist movement and the French Communist Party. In 1934, Tzara organized a mock trial of Salvador Dalí because of his fawning over Hitler and Franco. The surrealists Andre Breton, Paul Éluard and René Crevel helped run the trial. In the 1940s, Tzara lived in Marseilles with a large group of anti-fascist artists and writers, under the protection of American diplomat Varian Fry. These included Victor Serge, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Andre Breton and Max Ernst. Later he joined the French Resistance, writing propaganda and running their pirate radio station. After the Liberation of Paris, he wrote for L'Éternelle Revue, a communist newspaper edited by Jean-Paul Sartre. Other contributors to the newspaper included Louis Aragon, Éluard, Jacques Prévert and Pablo Picasso. Varian Fry, and his communal home for radicals in hiding, was portrayed in the historical drama series “Transatlantic.”

#workingclass #LaborHistory #dada #TristanTzara #nazis #antifascist #poetry #literary #communism #fascism #surrealism #maxernst #sartre #picasso #victorserge #dali #andrebreton #film #hitler #books #playwright @bookstadon

Il “caso” del giovane Victor Serge
Dal n. 9 (primavera 2025) di Collegamenti per l'organizzazione diretta di classe riportiamo questa recensione di Diego Giachetti
Quella che ci sottopone Claudio Albertani è una ricerca approfondita e minuziosa sul giovane Victor Serge (Il giovane Victor Serge. Ribellione e anarchia (1890-1919), BFS Edizi
https://collegamenti.noblogs.org/post/2025/04/26/il-caso-del-giovane-victor-serge/
#recensioni #ClaudioAlbertani #IlGiovaneVictorSerge #VictorSerge

Today in Labor History April, 21, 1913: Andre Soudy and Raymond Callemin, members of the anarchist Bonnot Gang, were executed. Callemin had started the individualist paper "L'anarchie" with author and revolutionary Victor Serge. The Bonnot Gang was a band of French anarchists who tried to fund their movement through robberies in 1911-1912. The Bonnot Gang was unique, not only for their politics, but for their innovative use of technology, too. They were among the first to use cars and automatic rifles to help them steal, technology that even the French police were not using. While many of the gang members were sentenced to death, Serge got five years and eventually went on to participate in (and survive) the Barcelona and Soviet uprisings. Later, while living in exile, Serge wrote The Birth of Our Power, Men in Prison, Conquered City, and Memoirs of a Revolutionary.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #illegalism #BonnotGang #Revolutionary #VictorSerge #Revolution #uprising #barcelona #soviet #writer #author #books #fiction #novel @bookstadon

Today in Labor History December 21, 1911: The Bonnot Gang, a group of anarchist bandits, pulled off one of the first bank robberies known to have used an automobile as a getaway car. They did it in broad daylight, in the midst of a populous Paris district. They were also among the first to use repeating rifles, technology that the French police did not yet have. They successfully robbed several banks before being caught and executed. The gang members were anarchist individualists, of the Max Stirner school. They were connected with the anarchist periodical, “L’Anarchie,” edited by Victor Serge, who later participated in the Russian Revolution. Serge was imprisoned by the Bolsheviks and, while in prison, wrote his most famous novel, “Birth of Our Power.” You can read more about the Bonnot Gang in Richard Parry’s book “The Bonnot Gang.”

#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #BonnotGang #VictorSerge #russia #banks #Revolution #prison #books #novel #fiction #author #writer @bookstadon

Today in Labor History November 17, 1947: Revolutionary and author Victor Serge died. Serge lived in Paris in the early 20th century, where he was loosely associated with the Bonnot gang of anarchist bank robbers, and where he collaborated with Raymond Callemin on the newspaper L’anarchie. He was in Barcelona during their anarchist uprising and contributed to the CNT’s newspaper, “Tierra y Libertad.” He went to Russia in 1918, initially in support of the communists. However, he quickly became disillusioned with the repressive, autocratic rule, criticized the party and was imprisoned. He wrote numerous books, including the classic “Birth of Our Power” and his autobiographical “Memoirs of a Revolutionist.”

#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #Revolutionary #soviet #russia #barcelona #BonnotGang #paris #cnt #author #writer #books #fiction #novel #VictorSerge @bookstadon

Today in Labor History August 11, 1882: Russian anarchist Volin (Vsevolod Mikhailovich Eikhenbaum) was born. He was forced into exile for his revolutionary activities during the 1905 Russian Revolution, for his participation in the Petersburg Soviet and the 1905 Kronstadt uprising that occurred in solidarity with the Peterburg Soviet. He returned during the 1917 revolution, where he criticized the Bolsheviks, before fleeing to Ukraine, where he became a leading figure in the autonomous, anarchist commune of Makhnovshchina. In 1920, the Cheka arrested him, with an execution order from Trotsky. Alexander Berkman, who had been deported to the USSR by the U.S., and writer Victor Serge, both appealed for his release. He was released later that year, then arrested again the following year, and deported, 1922, by Lenin. He lived the rest of his life in exile in time to France, where he died from tuberculosis, in 1945, after having successfully evaded arrest by the Nazis for his radical politics and his Jewish heritage.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #socialism #russia #ukraine #Revolution #NestorMakhno #nazis #antisemitism #jewish #Volin #books #author #writer #fiction #VictorSerge #alexanderberkman @bookstadon

Today in Labor History June 7, 1896: Anarchists supposedly set off a bomb during a Corpus Christi parade in Barcelona, Spain. As a result, a dozen people died and thirty were wounded. No one knows who actually set off the bomb, but the government blamed anarchists, who had set off numerous bombs over the previous four years. Consequently, the government went on a witch-hunt, arresting and torturing dozens of anarchists in the infamous Montjuich Prison. However, many leading anarchists denied the accusations and said they would never have set off a deadly bomb in a working-class community like this. They reserved their attacks for members of the ruling class. Nevertheless, the government tried and executed five anarchists, all of whom proclaimed their innocence. They sentenced 67 others to life in prison. Worldwide protests erupted in response. Montjuich Prison was graphically depicted in the opening scene Victor Serge’s epic novel, Birth of Our Power, which he wrote while imprisoned in the Soviet Union for his opposition to Stalin.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #spain #barcelona #bombing #prison #torture #VictorSerge #soviet #russia #stalin #writer #author #books #fiction #novel @bookstadon

Today in labor history April 28, 1896: Tristan Tzara was born. He was a Romanian-French poet, journalist, playwright, literary and art critic, film director. He co-founded the anti-establishment Dada movement. During Hitler’s rise to power, he participated in the anti-fascist movement and the French Communist Party. In 1934, Tzara organized a mock trial of Salvador Dalí because of his fawning over Hitler and Franco. The surrealists Andre Breton, Paul Éluard and René Crevel helped run the trial. In the 1940s, Tzara lived in Marseilles with a large group of anti-fascist artists and writers, under the protection of American diplomat Varian Fry. These included Victor Serge, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Andre Breton and Max Ernst. Later he joined the French Resistance, writing propaganda and running their pirate radio station. After the Liberation of Paris, he wrote for L'Éternelle Revue, a communist newspaper edited by Jean-Paul Sartre. Other contributors to the newspaper included Louis Aragon, Éluard, Jacques Prévert and Pablo Picasso. Varian Fry, and his communal home for radicals in hiding, was portrayed in the historical drama series “Transatlantic.”

#workingclass #LaborHistory #dada #TristanTzara #nazis #antifascist #poetry #literary #communism #fascism #surrealism #maxernst #sartre #picasso #victorserge #dali #andrebreton #film #hitler #books #playwright @bookstadon

Today in Labor History April, 21, 1913: Andre Soudy and Raymond Callemin, members of the anarchist Bonnot Gang, were executed. Callemin had started the individualist paper "L'anarchie" with author and revolutionary Victor Serge. The Bonnot Gang was a band of French anarchists who tried to fund their movement through robberies in 1911-1912. The Bonnot Gang was unique, not only for their politics, but for their innovative use of technology, too. They were among the first to use cars and automatic rifles to help them steal, technology that even the French police were not using. While many of the gang members were sentenced to death, Serge got five years and eventually went on to participate in (and survive) the Barcelona and Soviet uprisings. Later, while living in exile, Serge wrote The Birth of Our Power, Men in Prison, Conquered City, and Memoirs of a Revolutionary.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #illegalism #BonnotGang #Revolutionary #VictorSerge #Revolution #uprising #barcelona #soviet #writer #author #books #fiction #novel @bookstadon

#EdgardMorin qui fait référence à #VictorSerge.

Et puis des phrases engagées, par exemple : « L’absence d’espoir prévisible est semblable de nos jours, mais les conditions sont différentes. Nous ne sommes pas actuellement sous une occupation militaire ennemie : nous sommes dominés par de formidables puissances politiques et économiques et menacés par l’instauration d’une société de soumission.  ». On ne voit pas encore trop où ça mène, mais l'appel est sincère.

https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2024/01/22/edgar-morin-face-a-la-polycrise-que-traverse-l-humanite-la-premiere-resistance-est-celle-de-l-esprit_6212226_3232.html

Today in Labor History December 21, 1911: The Bonnot Gang, a group of anarchist bandits, pulled off one of the first bank robberies known to have used an automobile as a getaway car. They did it in broad daylight, in the midst of a populous Paris district. They were also among the first to use repeating rifles, technology that the French police did not yet have. They successfully robbed several banks before being caught and executed. The gang members were anarchist individualists, of the Max Stirner school. They were connected with the anarchist periodical, “L’Anarchie,” edited by Victor Serge, who later participated in the Russian Revolution. Serge was imprisoned by the Bolsheviks and, while in prison, wrote his most famous novel, “Birth of Our Power.” You can read more about the Bonnot Gang in Richard Parry’s book “The Bonnot Gang.”

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #anarchism #BonnotGang #VictorSerge #russia #banks #Revolution #prison #books #novel #fiction #author #writer @bookstadon

Today in Labor History November 17, 1947: Revolutionary and author Victor Serge died. Serge lived in Paris in the early 20th century, where he was loosely associated with the Bonnot gang of anarchist bank robbers, and where he collaborated with Raymond Callemin on the newspaper L’anarchie. He was in Barcelona during their anarchist uprising and contributed to the CNT’s newspaper, “Tierra y Libertad.” He went to Russia in 1918, initially in support of the communists. However, he quickly became disillusioned with the repressive, autocratic rule, criticized the party and was imprisoned. He wrote numerous books, including the classic “Birth of Our Power” and his autobiographical “Memoirs of a Revolutionist.”

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #anarchism #Revolutionary #soviet #russia #barcelona #BonnotGang #paris #cnt #author #writer #books #fiction #novel #VictorSerge @bookstadon

@RichardMonvoisin Le titre est une référence à un magnifique roman de #victorserge S'il est minuit dans le siècle