Every day the Chicago police found a new bomb. In 1909, writer Frank Harris wrote that, “the whole American population was scared out of its wits by the Haymarket bomb. This brought a wave of terror: A bomb thrown at police in 1886 led to the Haymarket Riot, causing death and injury to over 70 policemen. Anarchist philosopher Prince Peter Kropotkin touted that a single attack could “make more propaganda than thousands of pamphlets.” Then the 1881 International Anarchist Congress adopted the strategy of Attentat! “propaganda by deed” - terrorism - to achieve it. Picasso was a proponent and Emma Goldman, who helped popularize the little theatre movement in the States.īrotherhood, a return to nature, and a stateless society must have seemed like utopia. The cultural freedom aspect of anarchism inspired great minds like Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Émile Zola in France Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman in the United States Friedrich Nietzsche in Germany and Leo Tolstoy in Russia. The first self-proclaimed anarchist (from the Ancient Greek anarkhia, meaning “without a ruler”), Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809–1865), was initially a friend of Karl Marx but split from the latter because “Communism replaces one set of rulers with another!” He favored workers co-operatives and credit-union style funding over nationalization of industry or farming. One must not confuse Anarchism with communism. In this industrial nightmare, anarchists offered a return to individual dignity and craftsmanship. In smoke-filled cities people walked through horse-muck (before electricity), living on meager wages, without plumbing or sanitation. However, the original proponents of Anarchism held a far different vision, one of brotherhood, fair pay and the dignity of labor that appealed to many thinking men and women.ġ892 homestead strike – Pinkertons vs union PittsburgĪnarchism was born from the ugliness of industrialization, as factory jobs replaced much farm work. Today that sounds like chaos, apocalypse, and anarchy. Imagine a world without government, money, organizations. Twenty-seven million people (almost half the US population) came to see the marvels of the world’s fair! When I learned that the World Convention of Anarchists gathered there that very summer, I was riveted by the possibilities. A towering figure in India, Swami Vivekananda introduced the western world to Vedanta philosophy, Hinduism and Yoga. When I read that Indian sage, Swami Vivekananda attended the fair, I knew this would be part of my next novel. This caught my interest, because in Murder in Old Bombay, my characters Captain Jim and Diana travel to the States in 1892. The killings represent a challenge for the far-right administration of President Jair Bolsonaro.Featured Image: Painting of Haymarket Riot-1886 ( Harper’s Weekly, in the public domain)Īt the Toronto Parliament of World Religions in 2019, I learned that the first Parliament was held during the 1893 Chicago’s World’s Fair. “Violence is to impress, to frighten, so that new (inmates) join the side of those who decapitate, and not the decapitated.” Gruesome violence is often used in Brazilian prisons to gain respect and send a strong message to new arrivals, he said. The professor said he had already seen promises of retaliations by members of Red Command for Monday’s attack. “The First Capital Command is losing grounds and it looks like Comando Classe A is helping them stop the hegemony of Red Command,” he said. Mr Deluchey said it is hard to confirm with certainty, but initial reports indicated that Comando Classe A, a local gang thought to have been created recently inside the Altamira prison, is linked to another powerful Brazilian gang, First Capital Command.

“It’s the same logic, the same movement,” Mr Deluchey said.Īccording to him, Red Command has a strong presence in the north and is trying to expand further in the region. In 2017, more than 120 inmates died in prisons across several northern states. In May, two days of unrest in the neighbouring state of Amazonas left 55 prisoners dead in four different prisons of that state’s capital, Manaus.

A woman comforts her daughter outside the coroner’s office (Raimundo Pacco/AP)

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