Marie Goldsmith Project

We are so excited to share what we’ve been working on at the Marie Goldsmith Project for the past few months! First, we are publishing not one, but *nine* new translated and annotated articles by Goldsmith in the July issue of @BlackFlagReview.

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For more on Goldsmith based on archival sources, check out our biographical article: blog.pmpress.org/2023/07/19/mar… Or: mariegoldsmith.uk/wp-content/upl…

The Molly Mew article linked on the WCH page is a fine starting place (and for a while was one of the best bios available on Goldsmith in English), but lacks some key details and has a few factual inaccuracies.

Just to correct the record, Marie Goldsmith had Jewish heritage but was not Jewish as far as any records we know of are concerned. x.com/wrkclasshistor…

#OtD 21 Dec 1919 Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman were deported from the US alongside 247 fellow worker activists, anarchists and radicals on board the SS Buford bound for Russia stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9360/g…

In Berlin, 50,000 communists gather to greet Erich Müsham, an anarchist who has been imprisoned since 1919 until his release in a general amnesty yesterday. The crowd becomes a mob, and 100 people are wounded in subsequent rioting and looting.

In this quote, Graeber echoes the words and ideas of Marie Goldsmith, the evolutionary biologist and anarchist who sought to connect the evolution of consciousness to sociality and moral evolution. Stay tuned for our upcoming book chapter on this very subject!

And remember, if you want to support our work, please consider giving to our charitable fundraiser at JustGiving: justgiving.com/fundraising/ma…

Huge thank you to our translator, Alexandra Agranovich, for her hard work. Now begins (or really, continues) the editing and annotation process... See you on the other side!

Our team is excited to announce that the first ever full English draft translation of Revolutionary Syndicalism and Anarchism: Struggle with Capital and Power is finished!

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#OtD 13 Nov 1938 American screen icon and Black Panther supporter Jean Seberg, who was hounded to death by the FBI, was born. She was targeted by COINTELPRO, which planted fake stories leading to the death of her premature baby and then her suicide stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8516/j…

Voltairine de Cleyre–the pearl of Anarchy–was an anarchist, freethinker, and a prolific poet and writer. Fellow anarchist Emma Goldman called de Cleyre “the most gifted and brilliant anarchist woman America ever produced.”

#OtD 13 Nov 1909 suffragette Theresa Garnett attacked then-Home Secretary Winston Churchill with a horsewhip in Bristol, shouting "Take that in the name of the insulted women of England!" Learn more about this and hundreds of other stories in our book: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/worki…

I gave a talk on what historical anarchists thought about authority. youtube.com/watch?v=D8qamR…

#OtD 31 Oct 1969 lifelong militant and anarchist feminist Juana Rouco Buela died in Buenos Aires, aged 80. She took part in many strikes and rent strikes, and faced repression from police in Spain, Argentina and Uruguay, where she was jailed for a year stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10394/…

Good episode from one of my fav podcasts. English radical social movements in the 17th century provide an excellent demonstration of the fact that religion does not, by itself, necessarily lead to authoritarianism.

New micro video about how much Rudolf Rocker loved his wife Milly Witkop. The things he says about her are so sweet. youtube.com/watch?v=Y0K1py…

Glad we don't live in the 17th century, sounds awful.