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olebirklaursen.bsky.social • 6 days ago

Looking forward to speaking in the “Anarchism and Empire round table” next week. Still time to register here:

I look forward to speaking alongside Lucien van der Walt and Isabelle Felici in the "Anarchism & Empire round table" on 25 Feb 2025, an open, online seminar series by the Labour & Empire Working Group of the European Labour History Network for 2024-25. www.eventbrite.com/e/anarchism-...

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olebirklaursen.bsky.social•4 days ago

Agnes Smedley, Freie Arbeiter Union Deutschlands meeting (1922): "Comrades from other European countries and from America have spoken about the syndicalist movement in their countries. But nothing is said about Asia, a part of the world where three quarters of the workers of the world live, ..."

olebirklaursen.bsky.social•4 days ago

"a continent which the existence of international capitalism depends on; a stretch of land where the workers are oppressed in ways incomprehensible to us. . . . We workers of Europe and America, we workers of the white world, have not extended our internationalism to Asia and Africa"

olebirklaursen.bsky.social•5 days ago

Rudolf Rocker: "“The soul of the circle was the well-known Indian nationalist Chattopadhyaya, or Chatto, as it was customary to call him. He lived in Berlin then with the American writer Agnes Smedley, who later became famous as a journalist and author of some books on China..."

olebirklaursen.bsky.social•5 days ago

"I had met them through Emma Goldman, who was seeing them in Moscow, and Milly and I often met with them. . . . Chatto was avery charming man, an excellent and brilliant conversationalist, who gave flavour to every meeting and always offered good incentives...."

olebirklaursen.bsky.social•5 days ago

"He also possessed abroad political vision and clearly recognized that a social transformation in the West would never happen unless the problem of colonial politics were not overcome and if the enslaved peoples of Asia did not enjoy the same rights as the Western nations."

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