My Eighty-One Years of Anarchy: A Memoir - Couverture souple

Picqueray, May

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1849353220 ISBN 13 : 9781849353229

Editeur : AK Press, 2019

Synopsis

May Picqueray (1898-1983) missed none of the major events in history during her lifetime. In 1921, she sent a parcel bomb (it exploded without casualties) to the US ambassador in Paris, to protest against the infamous conviction and death sentence of Sacco and Vanzetti. In November 1922 she was commissioned by the CGTU Metal Federation at the Congress to attend the Red Trade Union International in Moscow, where she stood on a table and denounced the congress for feasting while the Russian workers starved. She then refused to shake hands with Leon Trotsky, to whom she had come to ask for the pardon of anarchist political prisoners. Years later, she was closely involved in the movements of May 1968 and the Fight for Larzac in 1975. Picqueray's story is closely entangled with those of Sébastien Faure, Nestor Makhno, Emma Goldman, Alexander Berckman, Marius Jacob, and Buenaventura Durruti, among so many others. Her autobiography, My Eighty-one Years in Anarchy, is available here in English for the first time, translated by Paul Sharkey.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

May Picqueray (1898-1983) was a French anarchist-feminist and antimilitarist activist.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: AK Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1849353220
• ISBN 13: 9781849353229
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 220
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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