29 janvier

1889 -- US: 6,000 railway workers strike for union & end of 18-hour day.

1910 -- France: Maurice Joyeux, outstanding figure of French anarchism, lives. Constantly in & out of prison for his militant activities, he also opened a bookshop in Paris, "Le Château des brouillards" & in 1953, Joyeux founded the newspaper "Le monde libertaire".

1911 -- Mexico: The Mexican liberal party of anarchist Ricardo Flores Magón goes on the offense. The town of Mexicali is taken, under control of Simon Berthold & Jose Maria Leyva. Tijuana falls next, & the revolution extends to the other provinces. This libertarian revolution remains little-known, being eclipsed by the exploits of Villa & Zapata.

1912 -- US: During the Bread & Roses Strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts, police kill Anna LoPizzo.

1925 -- England: Emma Goldman lectures on "The Bolshevik Myth & the Condition of the Political Prisoners" at South Place Institute, London, her first public meeting in England at which she denounces the Bolsheviks, prompting vocal protests from some members of the audience.

1933 -- Germany: Mass demonstrations throughout the country as workers protest Adolf Hitler's nomination as German Chancellor. He assumes office tomorrow.

1939 -- Australia: Feminist/anarchist Germaine Greer, the "Untamed Shrew," a ratbag (‘being tuppence in the quid’) lives. Greer was associated with the Sydney Libertarians till 1966, then went to England. The Female Eunuch was published in 1970. In an interview published in the literary magazine, 'Overland', in 1972 she says "I'm an anarchist still, but I'd say now I am an anarchist communist which I wasn't then"

1944 -- France: Death of the anarchist Gérard Duverge, aka Fred Durtain, aka Chevalier, following his arrest & torture yesterday by the Gestapo.

1944 -- Germany: The bricklayer, Wilhelm Schmitz dies in prison; the circumstances of his death have never been properly clarified. Militants in Germany were being arrested & killed by the Nazi's. Michael Delissen from Munchengladbach was beaten to death by the Gestapo in December 1936. Anton Rosinke from Dusseldorf was murdered in February 1937. Arrests in 1937 brought the number of members of the outlawed FAUD (anarcho-syndicalist Free Union of German Workers) in Gestapo clutches to 89. It took a year to build the case against them. These male & female comrades were charged with "preparing acts of high treason" & were brought before the courts in January & February of 1938. The Duisburg lathe-operator, Emil Mahnert, according to the testimony of four other inmates, was hurled from two storys up by a police torturer. Ernst Holtznagel was dispatched to the notorious 999 punishment battalion, where he was killed.

1959 -- US: Beatster Jack Kerouac participates in a benefit reading for Big Table magazine in Chicago.

1962 -- Filming starts on Luis Bunuel movie "El angel exterminador", Mexico.

1969 -- Jimi Hendrix & Pete Townshend wage a battle of guitars.

1994 -- Mexico: Mexican rights group accuses the army of disappearances & torture in Chiapas.

1994 -- Bolivia: government says its 1980 military coup was financed by drug dealers.

1996 -- France: Bowing to massive international pressure, Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader President Jacques Chirac orders an early end to a planned series of French nuclear tests in the South Pacific.

1996 -- England: Four women Ploughshares activists cause millions in damage in Warton, disarming a British Aerospace F-16 fighter jet destined to be sold to Indonesia for use in its illegal occupation & genocide of East Timor. The women were later acquitted of all charges on the grounds of preventing a greater crime.

2000 -- Switzerland: Police fire tear gas at World Economic Forum protesters, Davos.

2002 -- England: Chumbawamba's tune turns the tables on US car giant : Anarchist band sell song to General Motors for $70,000 — but give the money to activists' campaign against the firm