(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #235 - Read: Frank Mintz, "History of the anarchist movement" (fr, pt)

Frank Mintz has signed a (why the hell the term "movement", anyway?) History of anarchism 
book whose first located in 1789, primarily due to the evocation of some pre-libertarian 
sans-culottes as Jacques Roux and Marechal. The main strength of this work is its 
international scope, offering a panorama from Europe to Asia through the Americas. An 
ambition which, unfortunately, often forced to ellipse. An example about Bulgaria - well 
known country of the author who, at one time signed Martin Zemliak: the first anarchists 
in this country have participated in the years 1890-1900, the guerrillas to free Macedonia 
Ottoman yoke. There are exciting things there to explore the link between social 
revolution and national liberation struggle. In 1903, the revolutionaries seized even for 
a few weeks, a territory they proclaimed independent, socialist, secular, and remained in 
history as the "Republic of Stranja." Ten years later, the Balkan war reactivation 
patriotic flame Bulgarian anarchists ... in the wrong direction this time, they swung in 
sacred union with their own government. Even if he did not elaborate, this book distills 
this kind of information, and many others.

Guillaume Davranche (AL Montreuil)

Frank Mintz, History of the anarchist movement (1789-2012) , ed. Black and Red, 2013, 336 
pages, 18 euros.