ANARCHIST HISTORY:

NEW FROM THE NESTOR MAKHNO ARCHIVE:


Here's the latest announcement from the online library, the Nestor Makhno Archive. Makhno was, of course, the famous Ukranian anarchist who fought both Whites and Reds during the Russian Revolution. The Nestor Makhno Archive is attempting to make his writings and materials on him available to thye worldwide anarchist community in a variety of languages, as the following item illustrates.

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Nestor Makhno Archive - update:
by Nestor McNab
- The Nestor Makhno Archive makhno_archive at yahoo dot com




Nestor Makhno Archive - update
The Nestor Makhno Archive has been updated, with the addition of a large number of new documents in Arabic, Italian, English, Portuguese, French, Spanish, Greek, Macedonian, Indonesian and Polish.




One major new addition is Makhno's second reply to Errico Malatesta, which we now publish in five languages!




Other important additions are the first translations of the Organizational Platform into Arabic, Macedonian and Indonesian. We are also including a large number of Polish and Greek translations of Makhno's articles.




Unfortunately, it was not possible to include all the documents in our possession into this update. They will be included next time round, so apologies to anyone if material they sent in is absent. As usual, all contributions of documents for inclusion, suggestions etc. are gratefully received.
In solidarity,
Nestor McNab
web-maintainer
NEW ON THE ARCHIVE SINCE LAST UPDATE
Arabic:
Organizational Platform of the General Union of Anarchists, Group of Russian Anarchists Abroad
Italian:
Una seconda lettera a Malatesta, Nestor Makhno
French:
Une deuxième lettre à Malatesta, Nestor Makhno
English:
*A Second Letter To Malatesta, Nestor Makhno
*An Unsolved Mystery - the "Diary of Makhno's Wife", V. N. Litvinov
*Atamansha, The life of Marusya Nikiforova, Malcolm Archibald
Spanish:
*Una Segunda Carta a Malatesta, Néstor Makhnó
*Carta a las anarquistas españoles, Néstor Makhnó
*El Primero de Mayo: Símbolo de una nueva era en la vida y la lucha de los trabajadores, Néstor Makhnó
*Sobre la responsabilidad colectiva, Errico Malatesta
*Contexto de la "Plataforma", Frank Mintz
Portuguese:
O velho e o novo no anarquismo, Piotr Arshinov
Greek:
*Sympliroma stin Organotiki Platforma (Erotiseis kai Apantiseis), Omada Delo Truda
*To provlima tis organosis kai i ennoia tis synthesis, Omada Delo Truda
*Apantisi stous sygkhusmenous tou anarkhismou, Omada Delo Truda
*Deuteri epistoli pros ton Malatesta), Nestor Makhno
*Gia tin epanastatiki peitharkhia, Nestor Makhno
*To palio kai to neo ston anarkhismo, Piotr Arshinov
*I Platforma den einai pleon mono gia tous platformistes, Jeff Shantz kai P.J. Lilley
Macedonian:
Organizatsiona Platforma na Generalniot Sojuz na Anarkhisti, Delo Truda Grupa
Bahasi Indonesia:
Platform Organisasional Perserikatan Umum Anarkis, Kelompok "Delo Truda"
Polish:
*Nasza organizacja, Nestor Machno
*Idea równosci a bolszewicy, Nestor Machno
*Pamieci powstania w Kronsztadzie, Nestor Machno
*Historia Rewolucji Hiszpanskiej [1931 r.], Nestor Machno
*1 Maja - symbol nowej epoki w zyciu i walce pracujacych, Nestor Machno
*Machnowszczyzna a antysemityzm, Nestor Machno
*Kilka slów na temat kwestii narodowej na Ukrainie, Nestor Machno
*Wladza radziecka - jej terazniejszosc i jej przyszlosc, Nestor Machno
Related Link:
http://www.nestormakhno.info

Today in History: Sept 26th
1919: Anarchist Makhnovist army counterattacks the forces of White Army General Denekin near the village of Peregonovka, routing the forces arrayed against them. The Makhnovischina goes on to cut the supply lines of Denekin's forces driving towards Moscow, forcing him to abandon the advance. The Bolsheviks repay this kindness by betrayal of their anarchist allies on more than one occasion. For more on Nestor Makhno see the 'Nestor Makhno Archive' at http://www.nestormakhno.info
1936: Oops !!! Three anarchists, Juan Domenech, Juan Fabregas and Antonio Garcia Birian compromise and betray anarchist principles by joining the government of the Catalan Generalidad. This is the first move in a series of depressing compromises that the Spanish anarchists make in the name of "anti-fascist unity". The main beneficiary of these compromises is the previously insignificant PCE - The Spanish Communist Party. This Stalinist party-of course- goes on to betray its allies, anarchist and otherwise. Do we see a pattern here ? Finally the great and glorious bastion of the working class against fascism forms a "temporary, eternal friendship" with guess who on the signing of the Hitler Stalin pact.
For more on some of the anarchist opposition to the collaborationist policies of the CNT-FAI see 'The Friends of Durruti Group:1937-1939' (Agustin Guillamin) at http://www.spunk.org/library/places/spain/sp001780 .
1969: Eighth Conference of the Situationalist International held in Venice. The SI lasted until 1972 when it dissolved at the point when it had only two members. Most of the internal activity of the group consisted of the search for grounds for expulsion. Hence the fact that it rarely had more than 10 or 15 members at a time. You might say that heresy hunting was a "matter of everyday life" for them. Despite admirable bursts of creativity the SI remained a basically incoherent group. There was thus always good grounds for expulsions. Should it have continued until only Debord remained the combination of incoherence and megalomania would possibly have led him to expel himself. But that would be expecting a little too much from someone fantastically convinced of his own importance.
Anyways see the Wikipedia article on the SI at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situationalist
. You can also access the actual texts of the SI at the 'Situationalist International Online' at http://www.cddc.vt.edu/sionline .
All being said the SI was more than a slight cut above some of its progeny.
That's about it for today. Sorry about the slim picking.
Molly.