11 décembre

1864 -- Maurice Leblanc lives. French author/journalist, known as the creator of Arsène Lupin, French gentleman-thief turned detective. Alexandre Jacob (1879-1954), the anarchist bandit credited with over 150 burglaries, is the original "Arsene Lupin" in the French detective novels of Maurice Leblanc, with only slight exagerations which made him a sensational "fictional" character.

1893 -- France: du 11 au 15 décembre. Vote des premières " lois scélérates " contre les anarchistes.

1911 -- Mexico: Yaquis in Sonora, influenced by the anarchist Ricardo Flores Magón, reclaim stolen communal lands ("Tierra y Libertad!"). Their war with government lasts, officially, until 1929.

1927 -- China: Soviet-style Canton Commune begins. Wiped out after three days fighting by the Russian Communist-supplied Kuo Min Tang. Marxist dogmatism betrays the best chance yet of proletarian power in China.

1937 -- Spain: Angel Pestaña Núñez, dies, in Bagà, Barcelone. Militant Spanish anarcho-syndicalist & later a reformist who ran for election.

1950 Bertrand Russell recommends that all warmongers spend time in a boat in a shark-infested pool. We humbly suggest they forget the part about the boat.

1958 -- Italy: Alberto Meschi (1879-1958), anarchist, dies, in Carrara. Meschi is one of the beautiful & beloved figures of the Italian anarchist movement. A self-taught anarchist & worker, he emerged as a highly respected libertarian & trade-union leader. For over 20 years the trade union paper "Il Cavatore" was dedicated to him & the city of Carrara, where he died, has erected a monument in his honor.

1965 US: Novelist/prankster/anarchoid Ken Kesey holds his Third Acid Test, at a Palo Alto nightclub.