(en) Brazil, Uni?o Popular Anarquista (UNIP) - Women who did not have time to be scared: Tribute to the anarchist revolutionary Fanya Baron Anisimova (pt)

The revolutionary struggle requires responsibility, discipline and conviction of socialism 
as the only way to emancipation of humanity. These three qualities were not lacking to 
Fanya Baron, who was also known for his generosity and courage. She was able to not only 
transgress the role imposed on women of her time, but also firmly confront the statist 
violence of the U.S. police, police of Tsarist and Bolshevik political police, without 
giving a minute. ---- Fanya was born in 1887 in Lithuania. Even in youth migrated to the 
United States where he met, in 1912, the anarchist baker and Aron Baron. Fanya passes to 
frequent anarchist circles and then meets the greats of anarchism as Lucy Parsons and Jane 
Adams. Logo acts on the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). It is working in this 
organization for the first time facing police repression, being brutally beaten and 
arrested along Lucy Parsons and nine others dia17 in January 1915, when organizing an 
event to raise funds to strike.

Fanya In 1917, Aron and Boris Yelensky return to Russia in order to fight for the 
revolution. Go to Moscow where they work until the second half of 1918 when they decide to 
go to Ukraine. With the Bolshevik domination, the anarchist movement was fully confused 
and fragmented in Russia, while in southern Ukraine anarchism was the majority political 
force in the peasant movement, which guaranteed that period the autonomy of the Soviets 
there. Arriving in Ukrainian soil, Fanya participated as a delegate to the founding of the 
Ukrainian Anarchist Confederation (Nabat).

Starting from its operations in Nabat, Fanya begins to approach the Black Army led by 
Nestor Makhno's anarchist revolutionary, where he worked in the political and cultural 
education sector, where much of the anarchist movement of the time condemned the Black 
Army of Nestor Makhno and the figure . The Makhno policy represented the resumption of 
anarchism as a revolutionary direction, as it was conceived by Bakuninists. She contrasted 
the anarcho-communist conception conceived anarchism as an auxiliary of the revolution 
personified position in Russia in the figure and work of Peter Kropotkin who was in 
constant dialogue with the Bolsheviks. Inside the Nabat was also hostile to maknovistas 
sectors, who rejected a theoretical and practical break with the anarcho-communist 
revisionism. But Fanya, Aaron, Volin, Arshinov, Olga Ruvinskaia and other militants Nabat 
always committed and politically acted together with Nestor Makhno. Because of this 
relationship have become prime targets of the Bolshevik secret police, the Checka.

In 1920 the Bolshevik party begins the hunt for Makhnovists and their supporters, 
anarchists in classifying the "ideological" (propagandists and educationalists, who posed 
no danger) and "false anarchists" or "bandits" (revolutionaries). Were frequent statements 
in newspapers such as Leon Trotsky:

"They were just thieves and robbers who tarnished the name of anarchism. Anarchism is an 
ideology, even being utopian should be respected, but vandalism is vandalism ... "

It is during this period that Fanya is arrested by the Cheka with other anarchists in a 
conference held in Kharkhov on November 25, 1920. She was sent to prison in Ryazan until 
July 10, 1921, where can escape by fleeing to Moscow, being welcomed by a clandestine 
anarchist network. Out came to engineer the escape of Aron Baron and eventually recaptured 
at Brother Aron, who was a member of the Bolshevik Party, on August 17, 1921. You never 
knew if he gave or had agents deployed in the clandestine anarchist network.

On September 29, 1921 Fanya Baron, the poet Lev Tcherny anarchists and nine were found 
guilty of being "complicit in anti-Soviet acts" and shot by Bolshevik political police. 
Fanya did not follow orders and resisted bravely during the path to implementation. What 
Fanya left anarchism was a legacy of endurance, strength and consistency, without having 
taken any step back in revolutionary struggle, which should not only be remembered but 
also be followed.

Do not forget and do not forgive!