December 27

December 27 is the 27^th day in December.

Events

1821 -- France: Joseph Dejacque lives. French anarchist, got two years in prison for a volume of poetry, Lazaréennes: Socialist Fables & Poems. First publisher of "Le Libertaire" (while in exile in the US, in New York, 1858). [1]

1850 -- Hawaiian Fire Department established. [2]

1861 -- England: Mikhail Bakunin, having landed in Liverpool yesterday, arrives in London.

1893 -- Victor Considerant dies. French socialist who sought to develop & implement the theses of Fourier, in particular on the idea of the phalanstery.

1913 -- Canada: Mass rebellion by IWW workers in Edmonton, Alberta forces the city to house 400 unemployed during winter.

1958 -- Argentina: A reunion of old friends at a meeting of the Argentinian Federación Libertaria today. [3] [4]

1979 -- Ian Dury & The Clash headline the second of four concerts for the people of Kampuchea, in London.

1985 -- Uruguay: The Senate & the House of Representatives grant the anarchist & antimilitarist Eugenio Relgis (1895-1987) a «pensión graciable»; the decree (law 15,796) provides N$20,000 (pesos) monthly. Apparently even aging anarchists like to eat.

External link

• Daily Bleed