Number 54 50 pence or one dollar June 2008 Beer And Beer And Revolution: The German Anarchist It doesn’t seem to occur to Goyens that all sorts of Movement in , 1880•1914 by Tom nationalities, occupations, political persuasions were Goyens capable of organising their own social networks, I wanted to like this book but after page 4 I couldn’t be outings, and beer hall besides the German anarchists. bothered. Goyens writes “with the exception of Alexan• Its as if he’s discovered working class people are der Berkman no anarchist inspired acts of deliberate capable of self organisation and wants to race the news violence have been committed by a self identified back to his academic peers. “Do you know, up North anarchist in the US”. I reached for the first page of they run their own clubs, they run pigeon races, and another recent book “Buda’s Wagon” by Mike Davis: charabanc outings… Its all about the reconquest of “A few months after the arrest of his comrades Sacco autonomous space.” and Vanzetti, a vengeful Italian immigrant anarchist Where’s my pint! I need a drink! Or is that a parked his horse drawn wagon on Wall metaphor? Street. Buda’s wagon. It blew up leaving 40 dead”. Ian Bone Buda wasn’t alone in being a veteran supporter of , the anarchist apostle of violence. I City Of Quartz by Mike Davis turned to the index of Beer and Revolution. Hadn’t the This is a history of Los Angeles and its environs. It is anarchist Leon Czolgosz assassinated President not the sort of history you associate with America – McKinley. Goyens writes “McKinley was shot by a Davis does not exclude the Anarchists, Socialists, deranged American of Polish descent, Leon Czolgosz, company towns and class struggles that lie hidden, who claimed to be an anarchist”. So what’s going on deep in the void of US folklore. Where it touches upon here – anyone who commits violence has their anarchist the history of ‘great men’, it is one where they are credentials called into question. Deranged? In fact shown, warts and all. Czolgosz had perfectly good reasons for shooting City of Quartz is not necessarily a straightforward McKinley. book for the non•American reader. Davis never misses In this book Goyens’ aim is to eschew all portrayal an opportunity to go into detail, and that means cover• of anarchists as violent. ’s violent rhetoric ing many places and individuals that will be utterly “was often tongue in cheek and not dissimilar to 1970’s unfamiliar to European readers. punk culture”. You fucking what! Johann Most as Sid The issues, even when they appear unique to LA are Vicious! however all too often universal – in particular Davis The bulk of the book is a well researched descrip• concentrates on a city choking on its waste, and an area tion of anarchist beer halls, picnics, and social outings deeply damaged by the contradictions of – of German anarchists in New York 1880•1914. Goyens the over•production, greed, social stratification, gentri• seems to find it noteworthy enough to run to 250 pages fication, political chicanery, religious revivalism and of such description overlaid with a sub Hakim ignorance of the environment. If LA is a glimpse of our Bey/ analysis of autonomous space. own futures, you don’t want to go there. Chapters have such guff headlines as “A Radical Davis’ sense of humour, and cutting attitude to the Geography: The Social Space for a Dissident Subcul• well•heeled, peeks through. LA appears to have been a ture”. So up his own academic arse is he with his trailblazer of homeowner associations and all manner analysis that when some anarchists throw some police• of NIMBY groups. Of one such body he comments man over a fence at a picnic we are told it is not really “When it comes to solving major urban problems, a fence at all… the policeman has in fact been thrown moreover, the Valley homesteaders are about as over a “metaphor” for autonomous space. Everything patient and constructive as Sendero Luminoso”. that points to nice warm hearted anarchists is included, A sorry picture emerges in particular of black everything violent is excluded – including poor Leon working class Los Angeles squeezed from all sides – Czolgosz. left behind by de•industrialisation and under•priced by Latino labour, the 1980s found [continues over]

Inside: Book Review Special “Bash the Rich” Ian Bone, Bash the Rich: True•life confessions of The autobiography shares many of the same an Anarchist in the UK brilliant features of the early editions ofClass War, as This highly readable autobiography outlines some of well as many of the faults. It is hugely entertaining, the adventures and misadventures one of Britain’s easy to read and deliberately provocative. It is also highest profile and most influential anarchists. From slightly chaotic, and occasionally a little cliquey, there his upbringing as the son of a socialist butler, to his are often huge rafts of names, with little fleshing out first tentative engagement with anarchist groups, to of who they are – so there is a slight sense of exclu• his passionate involvement in the student protests, sion if you, like me, aren’t amongst Bone’s coterie. anti•apartheid direct actions, and punk movements, to There are also a number of surprises. Bone and his most infamous production – the ‘unruly tabloid’ ’s image was largely unapologetic and anti• Class War, Ian Bone has never lacked in imagination intellectual. However the autobiography indicates that or guts. The book gives the impression that wherever there were occasional moments of regret, although Bone goes, a riotous good time seems to follow. So it even those are tinged with a malicious humour. One was an endearing, almost reassuring, feature of example is the mistimed disruption of a middle class Bone’s autobiography to read him lamenting that he CND rally in which rather than the pompous leader of too felt that the action always seemed to be elsewhere. her majesty’s loyal opposition, Neil Kinnock, being Indeed he abandoned the highly successful local bottled off stage, the elderly historian (and a hero of newssheet Alarm based in Swansea, whose campaign• Ian’s) E. P. Thompson was accidentally targeted ing style not only lead to corrupt councillors serving instead (139). He also indicates a highly sophisticated time, but helped produce a lively anarchic subculture political brain (rejecting the elitist division between (66•70), to come to to set up Class War the ‘intellectual’ and ‘non•intellectual’ by no means because he was frustrated that the South Wales city requires endorsing ignorance instead). There are criti• had failed to rise up during the ‘81 riots (271). cal appraisals of the different factions within Class War, and unexpectedly, Bone suggests that an autono• City Of Quartz… mist version of the paper, which had been side•lined south central LA surrounded by a hostile police for being too theoretical, should have been given more force and a corrupt political system where even attention, and could have helped shape future Class so•called 1960s radicals had long since given up on War tactics (151). black youth. However, as America was to see in the The problem – which Bone and his various propa• 1992 riots, the one thing the youth of Los Angeles ganda tools such as Alarm and Class War and the had not done, was give up. bands Page Three and The Living Legends attempted Davis inadvertently raises hard questions for to counterbalance – was that within the anarchist radicals. Whilst we can no doubt all agree that the movement dry anonymous theorising often took prece• environment cannot survive if every American dence over practical action and personal fulfilment. As businessman who wants to build a new development Bone rightly notes: ‘If you where to build a revolu• in the desert does so, can everyone who wants to tionary movement people want to relate to real, living, live in California do so, and continue doing so? vibrant, exciting human beings not anonymous It is one thing to believe in “No Borders” – balaclava wearers or people too scared to give their another to see it implemented solely by capitalism’s views a public hearing’ (176). This lively first volume need for mass migrant labour. Those issues, and the of his autobiography presents just such an efferves• one’s thrown up by the creation of an increasingly cent, personable and anti•elitist account of . Spanish speaking and Catholic California, are There should be should be more books like this, and unlikely to go away. more activists like Bone (but not, perhaps, too many). Davis’ narrative stops in 1990, and whilst this Benjamin Franks, March, 2008 book claims to be a ‘new edition’ it is in fact the old Bash the Rich: True•life confessions of an one, but with a new 14 page preface. Given that, if Anarchist in the UK by Ian Bone (Bath: Tangent, you bought this first time round, there is probably 2006) ISBN: 0954417771 £9.99 little point in rushing out to get the 2006 remix. That should not take away from the importance This issue of KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley of City of Quartz. If like me, this is your first book Library produced June 2008. Hope you like it. by Davis, it is unlikely to be your last. This is a guy : who knows what he is talking about. BM Hurricane, London, WC1N 3XX and PMB 820, Paul Stott 2425 Channing Way, Berkeley CA 94704, USA City Of Quartz by Mike Davis www.katesharpleylibrary.net Verso, 2006 £10.99

Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library www.katesharpleylibrary.net Page 2 Angry Fictions / Library News Angry fictions: “My ” by Hari Kunzru wicked city. Kunzru may have done too much and “Johnny Come Home” by Jake Arnott research, and not wanting to waste it, failed to make Kunzru and Arnott base their novels around the activi• his rewritten world autonomous and believable. Or ties of . Neither is trying to write maybe he hasn’t done enough. For someone appar• history, but their inventions take them in opposite ently sympathetic to social change, Kunzru seems directions. Arnott imagines radicals colliding with the sadly unaware that ‘die on your feet or live on your sexual underworld, Kunzru hypes them up into knees’ is rhetoric. Our history is full of people living London’s Baader and Meinhof. on their feet. Death and resignation are possible; but Kunzru denies My Revolutions is a representation not the only options. of the Angry Brigade at all, but the bulk of its 1970s Judge Mental events have been painstakingly transcribed from history. Most of his characters’ experiences and New pamphlets: actions could come direct from Gordon Carr’s book. Rebellious Spirit: Maria Occhipinti and the Ragusa When his group begins, their targets and communique Anti•Draft Revolt of 1945 Maria Occhipinti, Pippo style are copied from the Angry Brigade, too. But Gurrieri, Franco Leggio, edited by Anna Key, Trans• there are changes. Kunzru misses or ignores the liber• lated by Paul Sharkey tarian/ authoritarian division in the , so these Ragusa, , 1945. Mussolini’s fascist regime had characters spout Mao and consider themselves a fallen apart, with many of his backers turning vanguard. They steal cars, not chequebooks. There are ‘democratic’ and hoping to prevent a revolution with the borrowings too: manipulative self•criticism sessions help of the allied armies and Communist Party. After from the Weather Underground and a habit of working five years of war, their attempts to create a new Italian for the Palestinians from Germany’s Red Army army are met with evasion and resistance. Maria Faction. So inevitably, bodies pile up along with the Occhipinti began the Ragusa anti•draft revolt of rhetoric: these are not people who ‘spent a lot of time January, 1945 by laying down in front of an army truck having a good time’ (in John Barker’s words). carrying arrested draftees, who then escaped. A four•day All these changes simplify history and make it insurrection followed, with the rich dispossessed, until more dramatic, more spectacular. It gets closer to the the Italian army was able to retake the city. Maria journalistic fantasy of unhealthy, inhuman and Occhipinti served nearly two years’ prison for her part doomed (but newsworthy) terrorists. Even after escap• in the revolt. ISBN 9781873605592 Anarchist Sources ing the inevitable apocalypse, the narrator fails to get series #9 £3 or £2 to subscribers a life. After heroin and Buddhism, he devotes his life to hiding (which fails). No doubt experts who think Salvador Puig Antich and the MIL (Movimiento there really was an Angry Red Weather Army with a Ibérico de Liberación) Edited by Anna Key, trans• local branch in London will use this book to explain lated by Paul Sharkey how political violence comes from bad thinking (the Salvador Puig Antich was a revolutionary murdered old ‘warped understanding of sociology’), emotional by the state in Barcelona in the last years of the problems or is inherent in ‘idealism’. Like James Franco regime. This volume looks at the struggle of Bond, this is a page turner, but no help to understand the MIL, both in the context of the times, and the light the political violence of the 1970s. Try reading of current attempts to ‘rehabilitate’ him as a martyr Bommi Baumann or Stuart Christie instead. for capitalist ‘democracy’. ISBN•13: 9781873605448 Jake Arnott has a previous record for reimagining Anarchist sources #8 £3 or £2 to subscribers the past: early Class War was on the receiving end of his poetic licence in He Shoots Coppers. This is a Russia fictional aftermath of the Angry Brigade. He could “Anarkhizm v istorii Rossii : ot istokov k sovremen• have called it Carry on Bombing: it’s not played for nosti bibliograficheskii slovar`•spravochnik” by V D laughs, but it is readable, not trying for the “Serious Ermakov; P I Talerov. Sankt•Peterburg : Solart, 2007. Novel Effect”. ISBN 9785902543152. The main setting is the squat where troubled activ• Thanks to the comrade who sent us this, 723 pages of ists Pearson and Nina collide with rent boy Sweet Russian anarchist bibliography. Thing (“I don’t want to be free, I want to be Anarchists in the Gulag expensive”). Everyone is the book is fucked up, but Also, can anyone who can translate Russian (possibly they are still human, so amidst all the mess, there is including handwritten materials) get in touch with us still some hope. if you want to help with our “Russian (and other) Both writers have done their homework, and anarchists in the Gulag” research project (more on Arnott looks comfortable as the story teller of the that in a later issue of the KSL Bulletin).

Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library www.katesharpleylibrary.net Page 3 Pynchon / Working Class History Thomas Pynchon’s “Against the Day” This is not some schematic women not violent, men Thomas Pynchon’s latest novel – a sprawling 1200 violent thing. It is another woman character, Dally, page piece of serious, often intellectual picaresque – who explains ’s mistake in his has as its most consistent characters an American attempt on the butcher of Homestead. Anarchist miner/ dynamiter, Webb Traverse, at the “Aiming for Frick’s head was Brother Berkman’s big end of the 19th century, and his sons who, in different mistake, classic Anarchist mistake of assuming that ways and in Europe as well as the USA, carry on the all heads contain brains, when in fact there wa’n’t tradition. Pynchon is often labelled as a cult writer, nothing inside Frick’s bean worth wasting a bullet on. and sometimes the passages of whimsy and pastiche People like ‘at, you always go for the gut.” She goes can be tedious, sometimes very funny. But what on to show it is also poetic justice in witty style. critics and fans of Pynchon seem to miss is the anger It’s not schematic but time and again this sprawl• that informs his best writing. In Colorado at the turn ing novel, full of digression and confusion, comes of the last century it was class war as war, and Webb back to the question of violence and anarchism. There is assassinated on the orders of corporate bigshot is for example the agent•provacateur bombing (as we Scarsdale Vibe who gives the American capitalist know from in the late 20th century). Here the viewpoint unvarnished. sympathetic detective, Lew, “only slowly would it “…The invasion of , the battles of occur to his ultra•keen detective’s reasoning, that Homestead… the San Juans. These communards these bombs could have been set off by anybody, speak a garble of foreign tongues, their armies are the including those who would clearly benefit if damned labour syndicates, their artillery is dynamite, “Anarchists” however loosely defined, could be they assassinate our great men and bomb our cities, blamed for it.” and their aim is to despoil us of our hard•won goods… But his concern is much more about winning and what we need to do is to start killing them in signifi• losing. “Though the outlook for Anarchists in a shoot• cant numbers, for nothing else has worked.” ing revolution is never too promising, Flaco was deter• The novel is not wholly centred on anarchists. In mined to go back to Mexico.” Flaco is a veteran of the oblique fashion, sometimes irritating, often not, a post•opera house bombing repression in Barcelona, picture of the period is painted which takes in excite• but it’s the first half of the story that tells the story. It ments in the world of mathematics; airpower develop• is said in the same spirit as Durruti saying that if the ing through ballooning; and in Britain and other parts Spanish Civil War was not won quickly, then whoever of Europe the ruling class’s mix of greed, mysticism, won nominally, it would still be a defeat, organized and elitism. The sons of Webb Traverse are counter• military force having a dynamic of its own. weights to this, capable and resourceful in a variety of In so many instances in the world there has been no worlds and finally comfortable with the power of alternative to violent opposition to the violence of the women. The position of women in the anarchist world, state and capital, but what he is getting at is what articulated late in the book in an anarchist is happens when this becomes war, including war in linked to its problematic relationship with violence. In which there is no side to take. late 19th century Colorado there is no choice. Either Thus, back in the anarchist commune on the eve of you’re a scab or you fight and it’s clear whose side the First World War towards the end of the book, the we’re on, but even then there are contradictions, start• character Yashmeen says: ing with dynamite itself, which is the tool that “’Well why not let them have their war? Why oppresses the miner as miner, but also a weapon would any self•respecting Anarchist care about any of against that oppression. The fight seems to be never• these governments with their miserable incestuous ending, not able to break out of the cycle determined stew of kings and Caesars?’ by the oppressors. At this point one son, Reef, is (And is answered) presented as a personal version of the dilemma. ‘Self•interest .Anarchists would be the biggest “Sometimes he was just after the explosion, it was losers wouldn’t they. Industrial corporations, armies, like telling them in a voice too loud to ignore, to fuck navies, governments, all would go on as before, if not off.” Later the mother of his child sees him setting one more powerful. But in a general war among nations, off. She is not judgemental or hostile, but “What a every small victory Anarchism has struggled to win so man gets for opening his heart and sharing his far would simply turn to dust. Today even the feelings. Reef knew his days in the family dynamiting dimmest of capitalists can see that the centralized business were numbered, though there had to be other nation state so promising an idea a generation ago has ways to fight the fight apart from setting off lost all credibility with the population… If a nation explosions.” wants to preserve itself, what other steps can it take, but mobilize and go to war? Central governments

Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library www.katesharpleylibrary.net Page 4 Pynchon / Working Class History were never designed for peace. Their structure is line bought by the rich, and that labour cannot by any and staff, the same as an army. The national idea possibility be stored, but must be every instant sold or depends on war.’ every instant lost [...] labour and capital can never (The speaker goes on to say that they’ve chosen with justice be subjected to the same laws’ [Manches• more of a coevolutionary role which is ter silk•weaver, p.329, quoting Standing Committee ‘The replacement of governments by other, more on Hand•Loom Weavers Petitions, 1835, p.188 practical arrangements, some in existence, others (2686)] beginning to emerge, when possible working across Written over 40 years ago in the heyday of social national boundaries.’” democratic reformism and ‘social consensus’, Thomp• I love that ‘practical’. Who at this time are the real son’s work feels more relevant than ever, now that wishful thinkers? keeping the poor in their place and letting the rich get John Barker richer are the ideological consensus of our rulers Against the Day, Vintage Books, 2007. £10. again. Live Working or Die Fighting is bang up to date Working Class History too. Each chapter is introduced by a report from The Making of the English Working Class by E.P. global working class life, from Chinese and Indian Thompson and Live Working or Die Fighting: How factories, to Nigerian and Bolivian slums, to the the Working Class Went Global by Paul Mason offices of London’s Canary Wharf. These are Anarchist history is fascinating, to me anyway, but valuable and fascinating in themselves (Mason knows you can’t just read about people who share your ideas. his stuff) and introduce related historical episodes We can learn from people who’ve lived where we live from the workers’ movement between 1819 and the and worked at the same jobs, as well as people we 1930s. While the stories of the Haymarket Martyrs, think we have nothing – or everything – in common Commune or the pre•WW1 syndicalist revolt are with. London’s Past Tense have shown how radical probably most familiar, how much do you know about local history can be brought to life. These two books the Bund (General Union of Jewish Workers) or take a big view of working•class history from below, Shanghai workers in 1919? The plan works well to writing down struggles and movements that are make connections between historical events and usually written off. current issues. His clear and engaging style helps too: The Making of the English Working Class is a syndicalist Victor Griffuelhes agitates ‘as if a French monster, over 900 pages. But it’s well written and version of Tom Mann had appeared but on rescued from being just an academic study by the performance•enhancing drugs.’ (p.120) spirit in which it’s done. Thompson aims to rescue the Mason looks at the common features of workers’ working class men and women he writes about ‘from movements, how they try to ‘create the new society the enormous condescension of posterity’ (p.13). By within the old, building co•ops, fighting for autonomy showing the social, economic and mental landscape in in the workplace, creating a union way of life’ which they lived and struggled, he helps us understand (p.280). Like Thompson, he helps us understand, for them. History is more often intent on writing them off example, the world•view of German metal workers in as either thick or doomed, their defeat inevitable in a 1905 (p.152+) and shows how ‘economic’ struggles world where the policies of the powerful are presented are as often about control or dignity as about wages. as the outcome of natural laws (sound familiar?) Live Working or Die Fighting is not a heritage• If you live in England, you should read it because themed tribute to ‘world that has gone’, but an inspir• there’s no telling who’s been thrown in your village ing look at a changing world. Both Thompson and pond (sadly, you can’t rely on the index). For the rest Mason, in letting us know what has happened in the of the world, it’s a fascinating study of changing ideas past make us think about the world of tomorrow. The and action. We’re shown the end of appealing to the best sort of history. good old (Anglo•Saxon) days when asking for social John Patten change (p95); the battle against meekness and the role of religion, especially Methodism, in the workers’ The Making of the English Working Class by E.P. movement (which gave examples of organ• Thompson. Penguin, 1968 (2nd ed.) ising, but also morbid and repressive attitudes); the Live Working or Die Fighting: How the Working connections between the violent ‘redress’ movement of Class Went Global by Paul Mason. Vintage, 2008. Luddism and ‘peaceful reform’; not to mention the £8.99 effect of uniting Irish and English troublemakers. Best of all are the chances to hear workers themselves speak: ‘labour is always sold by the poor, and always

Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library www.katesharpleylibrary.net Page 5 The Poetics of : David Edelshtat’s Revolutionary Poetry by Ori Kritz David Edelshtat (or Edelstadt) was born in Kaluga, God’s presence in the world.” (p113) Russia in 1866. He emigrated to America in 1882, It’s a commonplace of anarchist writing that dead already a radical. Like others, he was further radical• comrades are not really dead while we remember them ised by the of 1886•7: he joined the and they inspire us, without expecting them to Pionire der Frayhayt (Pioneers of ) and later reappear, even in ghostly form. When Edelshtat says: edited the Fraye Arbayter Shtime (Free Voice of “But Lingg is not dead… above the Labor). First writing in Russian, he switched to battle•barricades Yiddish to reach the mass of working immigrant Jews. Still hovers his spirit! And you hear In three and a half years he became a prolific and How he shouts to us ‘Forward, comrades! powerful anarchist poet, an agitator•in•verse. In 1892 Forward with armor and sword!’” (p111, lines he died of TB caught in a sweatshop, aged twenty•six. 45•48 of “Louis Lingg”) First written as a thesis, The Poetics of Anarchy is it’s metaphorical and not metaphysical. Likewise, especially valuable for the amount of biographical when Kritz sees the anarchist calendar (November research it contains, especially translations from the 11th, first of May, July 14th etc.) as “drawing on Yiddish anarchist press and Yiddish books, both Christianity, which has specific dates of commemora• anarchist and literary. Kritz does a good job, even if tion of various saints that died as martyrs” (p143) is it when she mentions “Karl Marx, with whose writing not a broader human urge to remember and Edelshtat was no doubt familiar” (p129), it makes me commemorate that’s at work? want to know for sure: and to know what else he read. Kritz briefly mentions some of Edelshtat’s poems If you write something interesting, people will want to that were put to music (p51). I would have liked to know more! know more about this, since I suspect they are what Edelshtat’s anarchism was militant, uncompromis• have kept his name alive among anarchists and social• ing and self•sacrificing. The imagery of storms and ist Jews alike. “In kamf” (“In struggle”) and “Vakht blood•stained banners is probably alien to most oyf!” (“Wake up!”) were both used on the soundtrack contemporary anarchists. More alien will be the of The Free Voice of Labor: The Jewish Anarchists expectation of a final battle: “that success is near, and (Steven Fischler and Joel Sucher, 1980, reissued by more importantly, absolute” (p116). Although Edelsh• AK Press on the Anarchism in America DVD, 2006). tat was capable of falling in love, he refused be From there (I assume) they made their way to the distracted from the cause (p44). This is the attitude 1980s Spectacular Times compilation Songs of reacted against in her celebrated “I Anarchism and Revolution. want freedom, the right to self•expression, every• All of which suggests that David Edelshtat, body’s right to beautiful radiant things” outburst anarchist and sweatshop poet, has written himself into ( p56). Edelshtat has a lot in common history. The Poetics of Anarchy is recommended for with Alexander Berkman. Both were Russian• all who want to know more about him or his work. speaking Jews who brought to anarchism the moral fire of Russian populism. Of course there are differ• Towards a Yiddish anarchist anthology? ences: Berkman’s father was a successful business• It would have been good to have more of his poems man, Edelshtat’s a cantonist (a 25•year conscript in translated in the book along with some of his prose. the tsar’s army). By the end of 1892 Berkman was For example, “Der ershter shtral” (“The first ray [of beginning fourteen years of imprisonment; and light]”), his account of Di Varhayt, forerunner of the Edelshtat was dead. Fraye Arbayter Shtime is quoted from, but not Kritz provides Yiddish and English versions of the reproduced. Edelshtat’s poems on the Haymarket affair (“August There must be hundreds (if not thousands) of Spies”, “Louis Lingg”, “Der 11•ter november” [“The similar, virtually unknown, pieces of history, in eleventh of November”] and “Albert Parsons”) and Yiddish books, pamphlets and articles; covering the analyses them in depth as “revolutionary myth” history of the Yiddish•language anarchist movement, (p102), claiming he constructs a “civil religion of but also anarchists in the ; the communist anarchism” (p132). In this she is helped by Russian revolution and Bolshevik repression of the number of times Edelshtat appropriated religious anarchists; or anarchism in Poland, , Pales• terms: holy, prophet, martyr. As for Louis Lingg, “On tine, … his ‘vundersheynem gezikht’ (beautiful face, line 3) The edition of Chaim Weinberg’s Forty years in rests the ‘frayhayt helige shkhine’ (freedom’s holy the struggle: the memoirs of a Jewish anarchist Divine Presence, line 4). This metaphor links the (produced by and available at fictional Lingg with the Divine Presence, the Shekhi• www.deadanarchists.org) shows what can be done. I nah, the most important rabbinic designation for look forward to seeing more in the same vein. JP

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