November 4

November 4 is the 4^th day in November.

Events

1796 -- US: America signs a treaty with Tripoli, which includes the statement,

"The Government of the United States is not,

in any sense, founded on the Christian religion."

1870 -- French proto-surrealist Comte de Lautreamont dies.

1889 -- France: Vittorio Pini (1860-1903) gets 20 years in prison for political banditry. Italian shoemaker & illegalist living in Paris, his expropriations supported "Intransigenti" groups & their propaganda efforts. He also supported the "Cloche de bois," an organization discreetly helping those unable to pay their landlords; "Nous, anarchistes, c'est avec l'entière conscience d'accomplir un devoir, que nous attaquons la propriété."

1896 -- US: In Philadelphia, Emma Goldman speaks at the Ladies' Liberal League about her "Experiences on Blackwell's Island."

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/11ref.htm#4/1896

1897 -- Cipriano Mera lives (1897-1975). French anarcho-syndicalist.

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/11ref.htm#4/1897

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/MeraCipriano.htm

1897 -- Italy: Giuseppe Ciancabilla today publically declares himself an anarchist, in Malatesta's paper, "L'Agitazione." In October, Ciancabilla met Malatesta to do an interview for Avanti!. This meeting & the response of the PSI (Italian Socialist Party) leadership to the discussion led Ciancabilla to leave the socialist party in disgust & declare himself an anarchist. Ciancabilla was one of the important Italian figures of the anarchist movement who immigrated to the US in the late 1800s.

1921 -- Victorine Brocher-Rouchy, French militant anarchist, dies.

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/11ref.htm#4/1921

1931 -- Luigi Galleani, Italian anarchist, dies of a heart attack, at the age of 70.

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/GalleaniLuigi.htm

1936 -- Spain: Four leaders of the anarcho-syndicalist Confederacion Nacional del Trabajo, the largest union in the country, bag their principles during the Spanish Revolution & join the new Republican "Popular Front" government as Cabinet Ministers. Actions such as these undermine the Social Revolution, reducing it into just another "Civil War".

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/11ref.htm#4/1936

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/11ref.htm#4/1936b

1954 -- Sweden: Stig Dagerman, 31, dies. Playwright, novelist, anarcho-trade unionist, poet. Created a review "40-tal ". Wrote The Snake (1945), & Island of the Condemned. His themes were precusors to the existentialists.

http://hem.passagen.se/iblis/dagerman.html

http://www.littlebluelight.com/dagermanlinks.html

http://flag.blackened.net/liberty/sac.html

1956 -- Hungarian revolt crushed by Soviet troops in Budapest.

http://recollectionbooks.com/anow/history/hungary.html

http://flag.blackened.net/liberty/hungary-rev.html

http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/May68docs.htm

http://www.notbored.org/councils.html

1960 -- Belgium: First session of the Situationist International's Central Council. Participants: Guy Debord, Attila Kotànyi, Jørgen Nash, Helmut Sturm & Maurice Wyckaert (Asger Jorn absent).

External link

• http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/1104.htm