(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL (#252) n° spécial -
Read: America collection Libertaria (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
Ask around what is anarchism in North and South America. The more aware you will probably
overcome the Zapatistas and Magon brothers, the Argentine Regional Workers' Federation,
the Sacco and Vanzetti case, Chilean IWW, the Uruguayan Foru or the influence of
anarcho-syndicalism in Cuba and the thought of Augusto César Sandino. But you can find
people probably long after I heard of anarchism in Peru, Paraguay, Ecuador and Brazil.
---- No need to look: a new collection was launched in October 2013 by giving precisely
this mission to reveal to the French audience a story largely unknown. This collection is
America Libertaria, a joint publication between recent editions Nada and Black & Red (and
the Libertarian Editions for the first volume), the album has an evocative name: the
Social Viva! The time brushed by various authors ranges from 1860 to 1930 and has the
great merit of evoking libertarian union movements in Argentina, Ecuador, Peru and
Paraguay. Certainly in the latter three countries, trade unions libertarians were never as
powerful as the Argentine Fora (which counted hundreds of thousands of members) but tens
of thousands of them are organized to conduct impressive battles virulence face a
postcolonial employers who do not really done in the "consultation".
Note also in this first volume, an article about the Argentine movement called
anarchaféministe Neither God nor master or husband! (written by Marie-Hélène Finet) which
focuses among other things, the engaging personality of Virginia Bolten, Louise Michel
overseas.
The second volume of this collection - America (s) Anarchist (s) - appeared in the last
quarter 2014 and constitutes the proceedings of a conference held in October 2013 at the
University of Montpellier-III. Less anchored in union and labor action, the papers in this
volume are more focused on the cultural dimension (at large) of the North American and
Latin American anarchism -it is also subtitled libertarian Expressions nineteenth the next
century. In four parts, the first three are devoted to the press, education and
libertarian art in the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Peru and Argentina (yet). The fourth
and last part is interested in our new millennium and made a detour to the Commune of
Oaxaca, the streets of Bogota and, oddly enough, concludes this impressive volume (two
times bigger than the previous one) in an article about the Nationalist music-anarchist
milieu étasunien which it is hard to understand how it approaches the libertarian movement
... However, this is still a wealth of information (almost 750 pages on both volumes! )
for those who wish to understand (some) wide, erythema, fruitful and cross - for
addressing all areas that make life - libertarian history of the American continent.
Guillaume (Toulouse)
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Lire-la-collection-America
