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Why Vaillant Threw the Bomb! (1894)

July 11, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

PRICE ONE HALF-PENNY. Why Vaillant Threw the Bomb! FELLOW-WORKERS,— We feel it our duty, as English comrades, in the face of what has been said by the smug faced hirelings of the capitalist press concerning […]

A Handwritten Manuscript by Ravachol (1892)

July 11, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

A HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT BY RAVACHOL Since his condemnation to death, Ravachol has written a great deal in prison. Here is a long handwritten text that we have been able to obtain, not without great difficulties. […]

A jailhouse fragment (April 13, 1892)

July 11, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

A Jailhouse Fragment Conciergerie, Cell 1, April 13, 1892 Individual interest, the source of all of men’s wrongs, must, if we wish to establish harmony in humanity, be replaced by the common interest. Koningstein

“Ravachol’s Experiment” (April 17, 1892)

July 11, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

RAVACHOL’S EXPERIMENT. He Felt the Revolutionary Pulse and Found It Does Not Beat. Paris, April 17. — In an interview with his brother today Ravachol said: “I am neither a visionary nor a firebrand. I […]

The Voice of the Penal Colony (1893)

July 11, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

THE VOICE OF THE PENAL COLONY While the populations panic and cheer the hangman tsar, while the bourgeois and the governmentals congratulate themselves on the success of their stratagems and observe that human stupidity is […]

“A Whisky Anarchist” (Cleveland, OH, 1887)

July 11, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

A WHISKY ANARCHIST A Young Man Excites People by Calling for Nitro-Glycerine to Make Bombs With. George A. Schroeder, who keeps a drug store at No. 423 St. Clair Street, telephoned the central police station […]

Max Nettlau on the Ravachol Meetings (July 20, 1892)

July 11, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

[one_third padding=”0 0px 0 0px”][/one_third][two_third_last padding=”0 0px 0 0px”] [MAX NETTLAU ON THE RAVACHOL MEETINGS] JULY 20, 1892 Comrade, Having been present at the two meetings held with the object to discuss Ravachol’s acts, I […]

An Unexpected Interview (March 28, 1892)

July 11, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

AN UNEXPECTED INTERVIEW Conversation with the untraceable anarchist A reporter who has long followed the socialist and anarchist meetings came last night to tell us that, in a café near one of our great stations, […]

The Interview of the Two Brothers (April 18, 1892)

July 11, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

THE RAVACHOL CASE Publication of the indictment. — Proceedings against “La Lanterne.” In our issue bearing the date of April 16, we published the indictment against Ravachol. For that, our manager today received a summons […]

Octave Mirbeau, “Ravachol” (May 1, 1892)

July 10, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

Ravachol by Octave Mirbeau Translated and introduced by Robert Helms Francois-Claudius Koeningstein (Oct. 14, 1859 — July 11, 1892), known to posterity as Ravachol, was born to Dutch and French parents at Saint-Chamond, near St. […]