Dangerous Anarchist Strikers

Steve J. Shone is Lecturer in Political Science at Texas A&M University-Kingsville. He received his Ph.D. (1992) in political science from the University of California-Riverside. He has taught at Winona State University, Gonzaga University, and the University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley. He is the author of Lysander Spooner: American Anarchist (Lexington Books, 2010), American Anarchism (Brill, 2013), Women of Liberty (Brill, 2019), and Rose Summerfield: Australian Radical (Lexington Books, 2022).

Introduction


Part 1

Women in Action

1 Virginia Bolten: Myth and Reality

 1 The Origins of Anarchism in Argentina and Uruguay


 2 Virgina Bolten: the Myth


 3 Virginia Bolten: the Reality




2 Helen Armstrong: Champion of Labor, Women, and the Poor

 1 The Trials


 2 Meetings and Talk of Revolution


 3 Immigrants and British Subjects


 4 Forgotten Women


 5 Poverty and Women’s Pay




3 Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: a Star Who Ceased to Twinkle

 1 Before and after Spokane


 2 Elizabeth and the iww


 3 The Chicago iww Trial


 4 The Workers’ Defense Union and the aclu


 5 Sacco and Vanzetti, the ldc, and the ild


 6 Flynn the Communist




Part 2

Internationalists

4 Tom Barker: a Wobbly Who Wobbled

 1 New Zealand


 2 Australia


 3 Chile


 4 Argentina


 5 Europe, Conferences, and the Twelve


 6 Russia


 7 New York City


 8 England




5 Kōtoku, Shūsui: the Ringleader

 1 Kanno, Suga, “Wife,” and Other Wives


 2 Kōtoku’s Trajectory toward Anarchism


 3 Sugamo Prison and Six Months in the United States


 4 Ashio Copper Mine


 5 Kōtoku and the Japanese Language


 6 Kōtoku the Atheist


 7 Kōtoku’s Chinese Influences




 Conclusion




Bibliography


Index