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Subversive Historian – 11/23/09

Von Ossietzky’s Peace Prize Back in the day on November 23rd, 1936, the Nobel Committee chose to award its Peace Prize for the previous year to pacifist and journalist Carl von Ossietzky. The honor was announced at a time when the German anti-fascist was hospitalized and kept under constant surveillance by Gestapo forces.Von Ossietzky’s health had [...]

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Subversive Historian – 11/19/09

Buenaventura Durruti Falls in Battle Back in the day on November 19th, 1936, a bullet struck Spanish revolutionary Buenaventura Durruti. As civil war engulfed his country, the dedicated anarchist arrived with a column to reinforce the defense of Madrid against the fascists. The wound Durrutti sustained during the ensuing street battles proved to be fatal as [...]

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Subversive Historian – 11/03/09

Olympe de Gouges Back in the day on November 3rd, 1793, French playwright and feminist Olympe de Gouges was sent to the scaffold to meet her death. As women were central to the drama of the French Revolution, Gouges emerged in the years that followed as a voice that articulated the shortcomings of the sweeping changes [...]

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Subversive Historian – 08/11/09

Stuart Christie Arrested in Spain Back in the day on August 11th, 1964, Stuart Christie was arrested in Madrid, Spain in connection with an assassination plot to kill Spanish dictator Francisco Franco. The 18 year-old anarchist from Glasgow, Scotland had smuggled explosives across the border for what was to be the latest in at least thirty [...]

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Subversive Historian – 07/29/09

The Tipperary Revolt Back in the day on July 29th, 1848, the Tipperary Revolt ended in an abysmal failure in Ireland. With the potato famine feeding on the lives of the Irish leading many to starvation and immigration, William Smith O’Brien of the Young Irelander movement attempted an armed insurrection aimed at national independence from Britain. [...]

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