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Voltairine de Cleyre, “The Chain Gang” (1907)
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 […]
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Voltairine de Cleyre, “At the End of the Alley” (1907/1911)
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, […]
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Voltairine de Cleyre, “To Strive and Fail” (1908)
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, […]
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Voltairine de Cleyre, “The Case of the Imprisoned Italians in Philadelphia” (1908)
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 […]
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Voltairine de Cleyre, “The Philadelphia Farce” (1908)
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 […]
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Voltairine de Cleyre, “They Who Marry Do Ill” (1908)
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; […]
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Voltairine de Cleyre, “November 11, Twenty Years Ago” (1907)
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 […]
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Voltairine de Cleyre, “McKinley’s Assassination from the Anarchist Standpoint” (1907)
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 […]
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Voltairine de Cleyre, “Hugh O. Pentecost” (1907)
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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Voltairine de Cleyre, “Events are the True Schoolmasters” (1907)
I count it as one of the best fortunes of my life that in my early days as an anarchist it was my privilege to know Dyer D. Lum. These thirteen years he is in […]