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Voltairine de Cleyre, “Our Present Attitude” (1908)

July 29, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

THE present organization of society, working logically and inexorably, has brought about a situation which both Socialists and Anarchists have all along foreseen and foretold. It was no more to be avoided than the leap […]

Voltairine de Cleyre, “The Chain Gang” (1907)

July 29, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

It is far, far down in the southland, and I am back again, thanks be, in the land of wind and snow, where life lives. But that was in the days when I was a […]

Voltairine de Cleyre, “At the End of the Alley” (1907/1911)

July 29, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

IT is a long narrow pocket opening on a little street which runs like a tortuous seam up and down the city, over there. It was at the end of the summer; and in summer, […]

Voltairine de Cleyre, “To Strive and Fail” (1908)

July 29, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

There was a lonely wind crying around the house, and wailing away through the twilight, like a child that has been refused and gone off crying. Every now and then the trees shivered with it, […]

Voltairine de Cleyre, “The Case of the Imprisoned Italians in Philadelphia” (1908)

July 29, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

ALL readers of Mother Earth are familiar with the story of last February’s “riot,” and the subsequent arrest, trial, and discharge of H. Weinberg and myself. What they are not so familiar with is the […]

Voltairine de Cleyre, “The Philadelphia Farce” (1908)

July 28, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

After the lapse of nearly four months from “the riot” of last February, the case of the “Commonwealth of Pennsylvania vs. Hyman Weinberg and Voltairine de Cleyre” was called for trial on the 17th of […]

Voltairine de Cleyre, “They Who Marry Do Ill” (1908)

July 28, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

THEY WHO MARRY DO ILL By VOLTAIRINE DE CLEYRE. (A lecture presenting the negative side of the question, whose positive was argued under the heading “They Who Marry Do Well,” by Dr. Henrietta P. Westbrook; […]

Voltairine de Cleyre, “November 11, Twenty Years Ago” (1907)

July 28, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

A PEACEABLE MEETING of protest against a murderous attack of the police on strikers, a meeting already half dispersed because of an approaching storm; an unprovoked attack by two hundred police upon the remnant of […]

Voltairine de Cleyre, “McKinley’s Assassination from the Anarchist Standpoint” (1907)

July 28, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

SIX years have passed since William McKinley met his doom at Buffalo and the return stroke of justice took the life of his slayer, Leon Czolgosz. The wild rage that stormed through the brains of […]

Voltairine de Cleyre, “Hugh O. Pentecost” (1907)

July 28, 2017 Shawn P. Wilbur

EIGHTEEN or nineteen years ago, away out in a sleepy little Michigan town, there fell into my hands a tiny bit of a paper “no bigger than a man’s hand”; there were only four sheets […]

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Year: 2017

Voltairine de Cleyre, “Our Present Attitude” (1908)

Voltairine de Cleyre, “The Chain Gang” (1907)

Voltairine de Cleyre, “At the End of the Alley” (1907/1911)

Voltairine de Cleyre, “To Strive and Fail” (1908)

Voltairine de Cleyre, “The Case of the Imprisoned Italians in Philadelphia” (1908)

Voltairine de Cleyre, “The Philadelphia Farce” (1908)

Voltairine de Cleyre, “They Who Marry Do Ill” (1908)

Voltairine de Cleyre, “November 11, Twenty Years Ago” (1907)

Voltairine de Cleyre, “McKinley’s Assassination from the Anarchist Standpoint” (1907)

Voltairine de Cleyre, “Hugh O. Pentecost” (1907)