Transcribing the Past

  Anarchism in Bulgaria The autobiography of Aleksander Metodiev Nakov (1919-2018) is useful for learning about the Esperanto movement in Bulgaria, and also its relationship to Anarchism. In fact the best representative of this interconnection was Nakov himself, who was active during the period of the right wing dictatorial regime established before the second world war[1], and also during the subsequent communist dictatorship. Nakov dubbed the former Fascist and the latter Bolshevik. Born into a poor family in the village of Kosatĉa (Kovačevići) in the western part of the country, after finishing elementary school he started work as a peasant working the land. Later he moved to the mining town of Pernik getting a job in the Machinostroitel factory[2]. Walking down the main street of the town in the winter of 1936 when his attention was caught by an Esperanto teaching book in the window of a book seller. He was attracted to both the purpose of the language and its ease of le...

  Video link  https://youtu.be/Yvc852TztSs Bugged telephone conversation from Victoria Barracks, Derry on Bloody Sunday 1972.                 Bloody Sunday Leaked calls by the British Army First call, between two officers. First Officer (Alan): Bombadier Phillips is here, what does he want? Second Officer: I don’t know, what does he want? First Officer: Emm… look it’s presented to have been a hell of a sort out. The whole thing’s in chaos. Second Officer: Yeah, obviously. First Officer: I think it’s gone badly wrong in the Rossvilles… the doctor’s just been up the hospital and they’re pulling stiffs out there as fast as they can get them out. Second Officer: There’s nothing wrong with that Alan. First Officer: Well, there is because they’re the wrong people. There’s about nine, between nine and fifteen killed by the paratroopers in th...

  La kritikantoj de la anarĥiismo ne ĉiuj havas la saman ideon pri la ideologia danĝero, kiun tiu-ĉi reprezentas, kaj tiu ideo varias laŭ ilia grado de armiĝado, kaj laŭ la leĝaj eblecoj, kiujn ili havas uzi ĝin. Dum en Hispanio, inter 1936 kaj 1939, la anarĥiisto estis konsiderata tiel danĝera por la socio, ke decis lin pafi el ambaŭ flankoj (fakte, li estis submetita ne nur fronte, al germanaj kaj italaj pafiloj, sed ankaŭ dorse, al la rusaj kugloj de siaj komunistaj "aliancanoj"), la sveda anarĥisto estas konsiderata en iuj radikalaj rondoj, kaj ĉefe marksistaj, kiel obstinema romantikulo, ia politika idealisto, kun liberalaj kompleksoj profunde enradikigitaj. Pli-malpli konscie, oni ne rigardas la fakton, tamen esenca, ke la anarĥia ideologio kunigita al ekonomia teorio (la sindikatismo) finatingis, en Katalunio dum la intercivitana milito, sistemon de produktado perfekte funkciantan, bazita sur ekonomia egaleco, kaj ne sur mensa nivelado, sur praktika kunagado sen ...