File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_1999/anarchy-list.9912, message 890


Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 00:49:04 -0500
Subject: Re: Top Anarchist Events of the Century
From: Chuck0 <chuck-AT-dojo.tao.ca>


Jamal Hannah wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 24 Dec 1999 jlhouk-AT-uswest.net wrote:
> 
> > Okay folks, if you had to compile a meaningless list of the top (10?
> > 25? 100?) anarchist events (or "news stories" or "collectively
> > shared experiences") of the century, what would you put on?
> >
> > Assuming that there's some way to rank them in order of
> > importance (which there isn't), how would you rank them?
> 
> 1) The Spanish Civil War
> 2) The Russian Revolution
> 3) The May 1968 Events in France (minimal anarchist influence)
> 4) Sacco and Vanzetti Executed
> 5) The Anarchist Platform Written
> 6) The Battle of Seattle

Thanks, Joshua, for asking this. You beat me to the punch!

BTW, I'm going to be compiling a news article titled "1999: The year in
Anarchy," so suggestions are welcome.

My list?

1) The execution of Sacco and Vanzetti
2) The Spanish Revolution
3) The Defeat of Makhno at that river
4) The Kronstadt Rebellion
5) The co-optation of the radical labor movement in the U.S. by
capitalism
6) The assasination of McKinley by Czolgosz
7) Emma Goldman deported
8) IWW destroyed by anti-Red hysteria
9) May 1968 Around the World
10) Poll Tax Riots in U.K.
11) The Battle of Seattle

others
* intervention of U.S. in Greece after WW2
* Chumbawamba's Tubthumping of the pop charts



   

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