...Amparo Sánchez Cobos Anarchist Immigrants in Spain and Argentina . By Baer James A. . Urbana : University of Illinois Press , 2015 . Figures. Tables. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xviii, 240 pp. Cloth , $55.00 . Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016...

... resistencia) that they promoted, anarchists were among the first working-class organizers to draw attention to the topic of female subordination. When Clara Rosa González read her poem Into Battle to a large audience of men and women gathered at a union...

... overlap between anarchists and radical republicans, federalists, freethinkers, and masons during the 1870s and 1880s; a period of separation as anarchists became more radicalized and sectarian during the surge of anarchist terrorism and state repression in the 1890s; and reconnection in the next decade...

... central thesis, not unlike Ruth Thompson's conclusion about the early anarchist movement, is that revolutionary rhetoric notwithstanding, unions were pragmatically inclined to seek piecemeal reforms and the state's protection. Caruso also unveils the alliances between subaltern personnel and their...

... Caribbean share a history of bonded labor and slavery. What was the position of Latin American anarchists toward slavery and abolition? Were people of African ancestry in Brazil, Cuba, Panama, and elsewhere active in the anarchist movement? If these groups were largely absent, it is appropriate to state...

... indifferent shrug of his shoulders and a dismissive remark: ‘Let's not be so theatrical, dear Minister’” (p. 153). Oxford University Press has positioned the book as a study of anarchism; recognizing the range of anarchist positions among his protagonists, Craib settles on a “broad perspective on anarchism...

... Porfirio Díaz initially enjoyed support because peasants accepted his pledge to defend their land rights against earlier liberal betrayals, and secondly, because once Díaz's own betrayal became clear, peasants followed radical leaders whose projects were framed in socialist and anarchist terms. Chapter 7...

... organized working-class movement under socialist and anarchist leadership. The very success of capital accumulation made the disparities in the distri- bution of income and wealth all the more evident, facilitating the diffusion of radical ideologies. Anarchist...

... by LF, El Obrero Ferroviario, issued by the FOF, and La Orga- nización Obrera, edited by the Federación Obrera Regional Argentina (FORA, Argentine Regional Workers’ Federation), I have also reviewed the left-­wing press, in particular the anarchist daily La Protesta and the socialist daily La...

... instance, examines the celebratory political and popular culture surrounding the transformation, or “monumentalization,” of the sunken battleship USS Maine into a historical memory icon (p. 41). Amparo Sánchez Cobos looks at the labor press, in particular the anarchist weekly ¡Tierra! , which became an...

... anarchist labor press in São Paulo took up the workers' cause in 1909 and declared a boycott on hiring, while the mainstream press came to the company's defense. The paulista labor federation backed the boycott, and after 1912 stoppages and strikes slowed progress. By 1913 the company was racing to...

... Argentine national coat of arms, the shaking hands were later adopted by Argentine anarchists, for whom they implied working-class solidarity. Peronism transformed the image by rotating it, so that the two arms were no longer horizontal. As Adamovsky convincingly argues, the new version was essentially...

... Agency (CIA) or, later, the Ford Foundation. (The Soviet WPC was much more parsimonious: the “Moscow gold” received by Mexican fellow travelers was largely mythical.) Thus Julián Gorkin, a central character in the story, went from Spanish anarchist émigré in the 1930s to opportunistic Cold Warrior in the...

... including anarchist and socialist parties, students, and workers. The Chaco War entered popular culture as a “war for oil,” in which the Bolivian oligarchy and international capitalism (represented by Standard Oil) betrayed national interests and acted as enemies of the Bolivian people (p. 21). Veterans...

... Chile,” Julio Pinto Vallejos appraises the impact of early socialist and anarchist activism in the nitrate fields of northern Chile from a perspective that questions both the socialists’ linear measures of working-class progress and the national-populist discourse of the authentic Chilean worker...

...); communists in Brazil (Anarchists and Communists in Brazil, 1973, and Brazilian Communism, 1983); the São Paulo Law School (São Paulo Law School and the Anti- Vargas Resistance, 1986); Carlos Lacerda (two volumes, 1991); and conservative lawyer Heráclito Sobral Pinto’s defense of human rights (2002 and...

... anarchist organizations had sought to distance themselves from the earlier mutual aid societies, which had developed strong ties to elite political parties, particularly the Partido Civil. Anarchist leaders such as the bakery workers Manuel Carraciolo Levano and Delfín Levano gained prestige and...

... 1913 and the articulation of a feminist politics tied to the anarchist and socialist labor movement of Chile’s north, the upper- class women’s “Club de Señoras” in 1916, the Partido Cívico Feminino in 1919, the establishment of middle-class women’s groups during...