5 janvier

1844 -- Peru: Manuel González Prada lives (1844-1918), Lima. Author, poet, anarchist.

1874 -- Léon Jules Leauthier lives, Manosque.

1878 -- France: Nelly Roussel lives. Free thinker, anarchist, feminist. Partner of the sculptor Henri Godet.

1881 -- France: Paris Commune leader Louis-Auguste Blanqui (1805-1881) dies, Paris. A huge crowd attends his funeral. Among delegates & labor figures, anarchist Louise Michel pays a lively homage to him. � Louise Michel, qui prend la parole au cours de nombreux meetings depuis son retour en France assiste aux obsèques de Blanqui dont elle prononce l'éloge funèbre.

1883 -- naissance de Eugene Vigo (1883-1917). dies in prison; also known as Miguel Almereyda (anagram: Y'a la merde). Father of the famed French surrealist/anarchist filmmaker Jean Vigo. Like his son, French authorities also give Eugene a big fat Zero for Conduct.

1895 -- France: French Captain Alfred Dreyfus, convicted of treason, publicly stripped of his rank; Drreyfus was the victim of anti-semitism among the military & government seeking a scapegoat for their failures, & only with massive popular protests was he later declared innocent.

1898 -- Federico García Lorca lives. Spanish poet/dramatist. The turning point in Lorca's literary career was the folk music festival Fiesta de Cante Jondo in 1922, where he found inspiration for his works in the traditions of folk & gypsy music.

1899 -- Emma Goldman, anarchist feministUS: Emma Goldman speaks at a large meeting at Cooper Union to protest the International Anti-Anarchist Conference in Rome.

1911 -- Emma Goldman, anarchist feministUS: Emma Goldman speaks at the inauguration of the new Ferrer School in New York City.

1914 -- Emma Goldman, anarchist feministUS: Under the auspices of the Free Speech League, Emma Goldman addresses a large meeting in Paterson, NJ, to protest recent violations of free speech; other speakers include single-taxer Bolton Hall, Leonard Abbott, & Lincoln Steffens.

1918 -- Russia: The Constituent Assembly in which the Bolsheviks are a minority meets for one day before being suppressed. Earlier in the day a demonstration is fired on by Bolshevik units & several demonstrators are killed.

1919 -- Germany: Gottfried Feder founds the German Workers' Party, a political party that would later evolve into the Nazi Party. Among a number of extremist political groups operating in Germany after World War I, the relatively unknown Workers' Party combined socialist economics with militant German nationalism & an opposition to democracy.

1919 -- Germany: Spartacists, led by Karl Liebknecht & Rosa Luxemburg, head a revolt to renew the November revolution — which lasts 6 days (in Berlin); both are murdered by the so-called "democratic" left on the 15th.

1936 -- England: Emma Goldman lectures to the Leicester Secular Society on "Traders in Death (The International Munitions Clique)."

1937 -- US: Abraham Lincoln Brigade forms to fight against the Fascist forces in the Spanish Civil War.

1960 -- Spain: Anarchist guerilla Francisco Sabate dies after a shoot-out with fasciste garde civile. Wounded yesterday, he escaped & was killed today in San Celoni by a sometén (Catalan militia).

1990 -- Lola Iturbe (1902-1990) dies. Anarchist. Pseudonym, Kyra Kyralina (Kiralina).