Transcribing the Past

  Note translated by Reddit user neopoznanoye_telo Text reads  [Banner]  "In the struggle you will gain your right!"   Long live the revolutionary people! What will we produce during the constituent assembly?     A speedy and lasting peace.     All power to the people.     All land without redemption - to the working people - Land only to those who work on it. No purchase or sale of land.     Shifting taxes from the poor to the rich.     The destruction of the standing army and its replacement by the people's militia.     The struggle for socialism, i.e., the transfer of factories into the hands of the working people    Peasants and workers - who were nothing - will become everything! Comments;  I'm assuming this was produced in 1917 between the February and October revolutions since it opposes the ongoing participation in the First World War and calls for extending the socialist policies dema...

  It was a weird and bizarre scene. Typical of the men who lived in these great woods, where the sound of giant timbers crashing to the ground never seemed to cease. It caught hold of Bob Dennis's throat and seemed likely to strangle him.   Lurching and pushing each other aside, the big-framed lumberjacks among whom his lot, at least for a time, was cast, came into the smoke-dried, sweltering bunkhouse, the atmosphere of which had a choking, steaming tang, eager for their evening meal. Like ravenous animals they fell over each other in their anxiety to seize the steaming dishes of fried pork, beans, and hot bread straight from the cook's oven. the cook, poor wretch, who appeared to have all the earmarks of the unfortunate afflicted with weak lungs was at his wits' end to cope even unsuccessfully with the frenzied demands upon his service. Lumberman was stamped upon each face. Here, in a land where Nature shows herself in her most relentless mood, men were apt to become at...

    Translated from Esperanto, original article can be found at Esperenta Retradio What we lose when cars silence the neighbourhoods When we criticise cars, the conversation typically focuses on issues of pollution, accidents and the vast amount of space occupied by cars in cities. These are all true and important consequences of car dominated societies, but there is still another problem which is discussed far less often. Cars do not just change the air and the streets, they also change relations between people. The car makes our lives more isolated, more closed off and less human. When we travel on foot or by bicycle, or using public transport we see the world differently. We notice the vendors at the street corners. We meet familiar faces, we muddle through a conversation with a neighbour, we see children playing, dogs walking and people sitting on park benches. Even a short trip can become a small social experience. But, in a private car we sit alone or nearly...

 The Two Nations; A May-day Message. NOTE: This is one of the four speeches which Guy Aldred recorded on tape. It was not the first to be recorded, though it is the first to be printed. The other three speeches are being transcribed and printed. The publication date will be announced shortly. Donors and Subscribers will receive these pamphlets as they appear. Please order extra copies, and help the circulation. Printed and published in United Kingdom by The Strickland Press, Glasgow C. 1. GUY A. ALDRED THE TWO NATIONS A May-Day Message The text of a Speech delivered on May 5th 1963 in Central Halls Glasgow. First Published 1968 Guy Aldred, November, 1962 We do change the world. One generation merges into another. The hopes of yesterday’s heroes and martyrs become the inspiring slogans of the martyrs and heroes of today, and by them are passed on to the heroes and martyrs that will be tomorrow. An unchanging yet changeless logic of development. —The Word; January 1961 Foreword This ...

An article by Robert Owen, published in 1856 in his Millennial Gazette  SLAVERY is a grave offence against the slave, his owner, society, and the pure and undefiled religion of love and charity, taught by Christ, but not yet in practice by his professed disciples. The infant slave at birth possesses all the divine qualities of humanity fresh from his Creator, and of every shade of colour, is capable of being made a good and valuable citizen of the world. These infants are capable of being so placed, trained, educated, and employed, by a new combination of rational surroundings, that they may be made to become at maturity far more valuable and much better members of society than any citizen now living in any country. Better and of more value, because all of every country have been to this day mis-placed, mis-trained, mis-educated, mis-employed, and mis-governed, and in consequence have been forced to become far more inferior, and of much less value to society, than all of humankin...

 An Irish Anarchist in France, in the Glasgow Evening Citizen (5 March 1884)   AN IRISH ANARCHIST IN FRANCE.  The London  Times  Paris correspondent, telegraphing last night, says: - Morphy, the young Irishman who has on several occasions appeared before the tribunals for writing anarchical documents, was tried to-day for an article in a Socialist newspaper offensive to morality, in the guise of comments on passages in the Bible. He was fined 500 francs.