Portal:Anarchism/Anniversaries/August/August 18
Appearance
- 1886 - Jewish anarchist Sholom Schwartzbard was born.
- 1893 - The day after a riot of the unemployed, Emma Goldman addresses a public meeting in New York City, urging those in need to take bread if they are hungry. Tomorrow evening she helps lead a procession of several hundred anarchists to Union Square, where, among many other speakers, she addresses a crowd of the unemployed.
- 1925 - Warlaam Tcherkesoff (or Tcherkezov) dies, London. Georgian Prince, anarchist militant and collaborator of that other Prince, Peter Kropotkin. "Ambassador of Georgian patriots". Incisive early critic of Marxism.
- 1969 - Jean Goldschild (d. 1890) dies (aka Goldsky, or Jacques Guerrier).