Portal:Anarchism/Anniversaries/July/July 15

The Bolshevik Myth

• 1894 - Fortunato Serantoni publishes the first number of La Questione social (title borrowed from Errico Malatesta's paper), in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• 1898 - Ernest Ernestan (aka Ernest Tanrez) born, Ghent, Belgium.
• 1912 - First issue of ¡Luz! published by Grupo Luz, in México.
• 1914 - Mid-July, Emma Goldman travels to Eureka, California & Arcata, California, lumber towns in Humboldt County, California; delivers first-known anarchist lectures there.
• 1918 - Intelligence agencies begin to circulate the names & addresses of over 8,000 Mother Earth magazine subscribers, targeting them for investigation. Emma Goldman also reluctantly concurs with Stella Ballantine's decision to close the Mother Earth Bookshop.
• 1920 - Eight-member expedition for the Petrograd Museum of the Revolution, including Henry Alsberg, Alexander Berkman, and Emma Goldman, travels through the Ukraine (July 15-August 6). The events are recounted by Berkman in The Bolshevik Myth. (pictured)
• 1927 - Julien Content (b. 1892) dies. Crippled in a car accident in 1926, today he commits suicide.
• 1994 - Anarcho-punks from the north & north-east hold a conference at the University of Ceara, 15 - 17th July. The meeting brings together individuals & groups from five separate states to discuss various themes.
• 1998 - Vicente Ruiz (b. 1913) dies in Melbourne, Australia after a long illness.