Transcribing the Past

  Note, transcribed by user  cumming insurrection     A Thousand Young Persons Are Being Trained in New York to Be Successors of Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman. So quietly has the anarchistic propaganda been carried on in New York that it will, without doubt, send a chill of arctic iciness down the spines of the many people who profess to stand in holy horror of the theory to learn through this article that to-day anarchistic Sunday schools are in session here just as are Sunday schools for bringing up the young to follow Methodism, Baptism, or any other form of faith or creed. There are easily a thousand children in these schools, children who will, beyond peradventure, grow up to be Alexander Berkmanns and Emma Goldmans, with perhaps a Ferrer or a Tolstoy appearing. They range in age from 6 years to 16. During the week they go to the public schools and sing their own part in the grand chorus of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” recite the lessons offered by the syste...

 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.  

       From the Montreal Star, February 4, 1939:  𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗿 𝗚𝗼𝗲𝗯𝗯𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝗔𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗕𝘆 𝗔𝗻𝘁𝗶-𝗡𝗮𝘇𝗶 𝗪𝗶𝘁  Comedians Banned For Humorous Remarks on Leaders  BERLIN, Feb. 4 (U.P.) When Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels yesterday blasted Germany's cafe society, he called it "society rabble and intellectual snobs," for laughing at comedians who make Nazi leaders the butts of their jokes.  Goebbels turned his anger upon the "society rabble" after announcing that five German actors had been banned from the stage for publicly ridiculing Nazi party and state functionaries.  He denied that there was any lack of humor in Nazi Germany, but said that it must be kept "good-natured, decent and clean."  "There is plenty of humor in Germany, more than enough," he said in a three and one-half column editorial in the Nazi party's newspaper Voelkischer Beobachter . "But we do not permit ourselves to be ridiculed."  Th...

  From The Agitator ( L'Agitateur ) an Anarchist newspaper published in Marseille on the 13th of March 1892. Merci beaucoup to Constance Bantman for sharing this fragment.  MANIFESTE AN-ARCHISTE  AN-ARCHIE ne signifie pas « DESORDRE » Le mot « ANARCHIE »   vient de deaux mots grees: «A » Privatif, dont 1e sans est «Absence de » et « Arke » qui vent dire — AUTORITE. Done, contrairement a Ia definition que se plaisent a downer tous nos adversaires, ANARCHIE est synonyme de -- ABSENCE D'AUTORITE-- et non « chaos, bouleversement, desordre » . Anarchist Manifesto  AN-ARCHY does not mean "Chaos", the word "Anarchy" comes from the two Greek words "An" the meaning of which is "Absence of" an " Archy " which means AUTHORITY. Well, contrary to the definition that all our adversaries like to use, ANARCHY us a synonym for - ABSENCE OF AUTHORITY, and not " Chaos, upheaval, disorder ". My French is very limited and tre rus...