Transcribing the Past

    Shifu's gravestone. Photos courtesy of the Chinese Anarchist Front .   This notice first appeared in the Esperanto language journal La Ondo de Esperanto (The Esperanto Wave) in July 1915 and can be viewed online here .  Shifu was an influential Chinese pioneer of Anarchism. He changed his name on several occasions and was known as Shifu at the end of his life, though in English he's remembered under the name Liu Shifu. He was also an active Esperantist and used the pen name Sifo for Esperanto writings. I translated a short biography of his life earlier, which may help explain some points.  Sifo Shifu (Liu Shifu) the editor of the Esperanto and Chinese language weekly newspaper The Voice of the People, died in Shanghai from tuberculosis. We take some biographical details about Shifu from his publication's 23rd issue. Sifo was born in 1884 in Hongsang* in the province of Canton. He was an extraordinarily talented boy in his youth. At the age of fifteen, he ...

  This from a radio program that runs on the BBC called Great Lives, essentially a series of audio biographies on people chosen by the guests. This episode on the life of Louise Michel was chosen by Paul Mason, this was in 2013 before he reminded us all that he is firmly a social democrat. He the host and the other guest Professor Carolyn Eichner author of Surmounting the Barricades Women and the Paris Commune. Link  https://youtu.be/yIv3P1p47Ro Its very comprehensive and covers her life from childhood to working as a teacher, to the Commune and her time in exile and her return to France. Louise Michel Great Lives Transcript. Matthew Paris Show Host: Our Great Life this week was known as the “Red Virgin of Motmartre” the “Red She-wolf” and “Bonne-Louise”, she’s also been called the “Grande dame of Anarchy”.   And she used the pseudonym Clémence. But she had a name, it was Louise Michel. She was a school teacher, writer, orator, anthropologis...

  Elisée Reclus, Scientist and Conscientious Objector Not an Ordinary Scientist Elisée Reclus was an atypical scientist. Engels considered him as nothing more than a compiler; mainly because he believed libertarian communism was in opposition to Marxism, and on the other hand Reclus never proposed a new theory of his own. Its true that regarding man in the world Reclus preferred to reinterpret the latest knowledge and combined it with his libertarian principles  in order to integrate them into a philosophy of life and action. Because of this undogmatic approach he was neglected for a long time, his work has only recently received recognition from the academic community, although he had received gold medals from both the London and Paris geographical societies and had been famous during his life with over 30,000 pages published in the field of geography, including the first full treatise on physical geography. In his department; geography, he is often seen as a pio...

  SIFO - Liu Shifu - (ĉine 劉師復) (1884-1915), estis ĉino, verkisto kaj la unua anarkiisto en Ĉinio. Li naskiĝis en 1884 en Kantono (Ĉinio), kaj mortis pro malriĉeco, neflegita dum la malsano la 27-an de marto 1915 en Ŝanhajo. De sia junaĝo li partoprenis politikan revolucion por renversi la Manchu-dinastion. Bombatencis Manchu admiralon en Kantono, 1907; malsukcesis; perdis sian maldekstran brakon; en malliberejo dum 3 jaroj. Multe verkis. Helpis sukcesigi la revolucion; rezignis altan ŝtatoficon; sin turnis por socia revolucio. Adepto de la doktrinoj de Tolstoj kaj Kropotkin. Fondis „Konsciencan Grupon“ kun vivreformaj principoj. (vegetara, senservista, senedzeca ktp). Esperantisto de 1912. Kunfondinto de Esperanto Asocio en Ŝanhajo. En 1913 eldonis ĉiusemajnan ĉinan Esperanto-gazeton „La Voĉo de la Popolo“. Fariĝis mem redaktoro, kompostisto kaj presisto kaj predikis anarkiistan komunismon. Vivo kaj agado Sifo estis influa figuro en la Ĉina revolucia movado frue en...