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curtains with Anemones ...

a beautiful dragon shirt by Jacqueline

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"I am an enemy of property inividuelle. Declaration of Clement Duval Pirates of the assizes



On 12 January 1887, the jury of the Seine condemns Clement Duval, a locksmith for 37 years, the death penalty. Founding member of The Panther of Batignolles, he stole 4 October 1886 a mansion in the Rue Monceau, there for fifteen thousand francs stolen silverware and jewelry before setting it on fire. On 17 October, detectives are trying to capture him when he goes to a receiver. The cry of "the name of the law, I arrest you," he replied "on behalf of freedom, I'll break your head!" Before planting a knife in the body of Sergeant Nightingale. It is for theft, fire and attempted murder he was sentenced to death before his sentence was commuted to 28 February to penal servitude for life. His criminal conviction had already been a year in prison in 1878 and two days in 1883 for rebellion agents.
After 14 years in the Islands Hi, he finally manages to escape April 14, 1901 after countless attempts. He will end his life among Italian anarchists in New York from 1903 until his death, still illegal in this country in 1935. He wrote memoirs published in Italian, which only the first part exists in French: I Clement Duval, convict and anarchist, ed. Labor, 1991. The cuts are those of the book. His defense, published below was taken at that time to 50,000 copies.


Declaration Clement Duval

Although you do not recognize the right to ask me questions and requests you have made me, I've responded as a defendant.

Now it's accuser. I do not pretend to defend myself, what the rest would I want it in front of people as well armed as you are, with soldiers, guns, police, and finally an army of mercenaries who are your supporters.

Let's be logical, you are the strength, enjoy, and if you still need a head of anarchist, take the day of liquidation you will consider it, and I do hope that that day the anarchists will live up to their mission, they are ruthless because they never not reach the number of your victims!

It is not for you alone that I speak, but to the whole society, this selfish society, stepmother, corrupt, where we see the orgy on one side, the other the misery!

You accuse me of theft, as if a worker who has nothing can be a thief.

No, theft exists only in the exploitation of man by man, in short by those who live at the expense of the producing class. This is not a flight that I made, but a fair return on behalf of humanity, that money for use in the revolutionary propaganda by writing and by the fact. Make newspapers, brochures to show people the truth [sic] there long enough that the wrong. To him that feels wrong, show him the remedy. Look after

chemistry and things ready for the day of the battle, the day when workers are aware, out of their torpor, their sloppiness. For it is time that this diabolical machinations of the old world disappears to make way for the institutions in which all find a fairer deal, which only exists in the anarchist communism.

because anarchy is the negation of all authority.

And that authority is the greatest social evil, because man is not free, and man must be free to do whatever he wants, as long as it does not affect has the freedom of his fellows - or it becomes a despot in his turn.

In communism, the man bringing the company according to its abilities and its forces should receive according to his needs. The men are grouped, is seek according to their characters, their abilities, their affinities, modeled on the group that works best, discarding vanity, foolish pride, not seeking to do better than his comrade to comrade to do better than oneself.

So, these masterpieces is useful, most of these intelligences wiped out by capital, because people can move freely, no longer under the yoke of despotic authority, private property . And these groups can share each other without hindrance their products.

Learning, and feeling well-being to govern themselves, they federalize and will no longer be a large group of workers associated together for the good of all - one for all and all for one - recognizing only one law: the law of solidarity, of reciprocity.

More gold, base metal for which I am here and I despise. Base metal, because of all the evils of all evils which mankind is afflicted. Base metal, with which we buy the consciences of men. With

anarchist communism, more exploitation of man by man, most of these eaters sweat, the more of these traders to the mercantile spirit, raptors, selfish, poisoning, falsifying their products and commodities, leading to the degeneration of mankind.

You can not deny it because you are forced to watch until the merchants of toys that poison children with the toys already poor little creatures just born.

And these plants, where they play the lives of workers with a slip-none, such as white lead factories where after a few months the workers are paralysis and often death ... Tinsmiths the ice to mercury, which soon become bald, withered, have caries of bones and die in agony!

Well there are scientists who know that we can replace these unhealthy products by other harmless products. Physicians who see these unfortunate twist in such cruel agony, and leave those committing crimes against humanity. It is even better, we decorate the heads of factories, they were awarded honorary awards in memory of their services to industry and humanity.

And how many of these industries is unhealthy, there would be too large to list them all, not to mention the foul and unhealthy capitalist sweatshops where workers, imprisoned for ten or twelve hours, forced to keep the bread his family to suffer the humiliation, the humiliation of a galley insolent which lacks only the whip to remind us of the heyday of ancient slavery and serfs of the Middle Ages.

And these unfortunate children, locked up for five or six hundred feet below ground, seeing the day often than once a week and when, weary of so much misery and suffering, they raise their heads to demand their right to the sun and the banquet of life: an army quickly in the field, serving exploiters, and we shot this rabble! Proofs are not lacking. And

exploitation of man by man is nothing compared to that of woman. Nature, already so ungrateful for it, makes it sickly fifteen days a month [sic], but we do not take into account: flesh profit flesh pleasure, is the fate of women. How many girls arriving from the countryside, full of strength and health, which is locked in workshops, rooms where there is room for four, and they are fifteen, twenty, having thus not seem necessary, do a breathing polluted air: hardship they are forced to helping win, after six months they are anemic. Hence, illness, weakness, distaste for work are not sufficient for their needs drive these unfortunate prostitution.

What is the company for these victims? She rejects outside its ranks, such as leprosy, the card sets, enrolls them in the police informer and made their lovers. (...)

And do you think a worker, the noble and generous sentiments, can see the picture of human life unfold before his eyes constantly without the revolt? He feels that all effects, which is always the victim, morally, physically and materially: we take him to twenty years to pay the blood tax, use grape flesh to defend the properties and privileges his masters : And if he returns to the slaughter, and it comes back maimed, or with a disease making a half crippled, while driving from hospital to hospital, serving as fodder to experience these gentlemen of science. I speak wisely, that I came back from the carnage with two injuries and rheumatism, a disease that already earned me four years of hospital and that keeps me from working six months of the year. To reward, if you do not have the courage to give my mind that you are asked, I will die in prison.

And these crimes are committed in broad daylight, after being plotted in the corridors of offices, under the influence of a coterie, or caprice of a woman [sic], shouting over the rooftops: the people are sovereign, sovereign nation, and under the patronage of high-sounding words: Glory, Honor, Country, as if there were several homelands between all living beings the same planet.

No! Anarchists have a homeland is humanity.

is also the name of civilization, these expeditions where thousands of men kill themselves with fierce savagery. In the name of civilization as we plunder, we fire, we killed all the people who only ask to live in peace with him. And these crimes are committed with impunity, because the code does not reach this kind of theft, robbery, armed robbery, on the contrary, are awarded to those flippers who led many to end all this carnage, medals mercenaries who took part in memory of their good deeds, and these unconscious are proud to wear this badge, which is a degree murder. But in contrast

code severely punishes a worker who refuses the society's right to exist and has the courage to take it lacks the necessary where there is unnecessary. Oh! then this one, it is treated as a thief, he was brought before the courts and is returned to end his days in prison.

That is the logic of modern society.

Well, that's what crime I am here: to not recognize the right of people to die while the plethora of producers, creators of all social wealth, are starving. Yes I am the enemy of private property, and long ago I say with Proudhon property is theft.

Indeed, how does one acquire the properties, if not stealing, exploiting his fellows, giving three francs to operate on a job that brings back ten to the exploiter? And small exploiters are not inferior in any way to large. Proof: I seen my girlfriend do some work at second hand, two small parts of trimmings, beading, which he was paid seven cents and half the room. Fifteen days later, doing the same work at first hand, he was paid fifty-five cents piece. (...)

So do you realize that a worker could be fool enough, the day of expiry of the term [the payday of rent], to return to the same exploitative part-owner of wages it has been given? And he sees his wife and children forced to do without the things most necessary to the existence, during that idle, with that money will go to the Exchange or elsewhere speculate agioter on the people's misery, or in some fashion to boudoir wallowing in the arms of an unhappy girl, to live, is forced to make his flesh to flesh pleasure, despite the disgust he felt at such a cad.

Well, not wanting to make me an accomplice of such ignominy, that's why I did not pay for term (what you blame me), not wanting to let me rob by the thief, this vulture is known as owner and that is why we gave the wrong information about me in the various local I inhabited. There is good information as for the vile and crawling, for those who have the spine flexible.

Because the law is in all things being the accomplice of those who own, you throw the anathema to workers who fall head proudly, which retain their dignity by revolting against abuse, injustice, against such monsters which society is composed of the wealthy.

But long ago I lost count with my conscience, I am making fun of fools and villains, being sure to have the esteem of men of heart who have known me closely. Therefore I say unto you, that's not a thief you condemn me, but a conscious worker, do not consider themselves as a beast of burden, treated as chattel and thank you, and recognizing the undeniable right which nature gives to every human being: the right al'existence. And when the company denied this right, he should take it and not reach out, it is cowardice in a society where everything is full, where everything is in abundance, which should be a source of well-being and does is currently a source of misery ... Why? Because everything is monopolized by a handful of idlers who are dying of indigestion while workers are constantly in search of a morsel of bread.

No! I'm not a thief but a stole, a judge, who says that everything is all, and this tight logic of the anarchist idea that makes you shake your shins.

No I am not a thief, but a genuine revolutionary, having the courage of his convictions and dedicated to his cause [sic].

In today's society, money is the sinews of war, I would have done everything in my power to get me to serve the cause so just, so noble, which is freeing humanity of all tyrannies, the persecution she suffered so cruelly.

Ah! I have one regret is to be dropped so early in your hands, thus preventing me to assuage an implacable hatred, a thirst for vengeance that I dedicated to a society as infamous.

But what consoles me is that there are fighters on the go, because despite all the persecutions of the anarchist idea germinated, and the theoretical development and will soon ends up in practice, the action. Oh! then that day, rotten society, rulers, magistrates, exploiters of all kinds, you have lived.

live the social revolution, long live anarchy ...

Bathtub Clogged With Concrete

all countries, the golden age of piracy Atlantic (1716-1726)

Specialist undisputed piracy and World Sea Marcus Rediker has written the thousand-headed Hydra-The Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic - and The Slave Ship. His thesis released in France under the name of the convicts sea.

p.21:

Pirates have brought practical solutions to all the practical issues of their times.

The problem of concentration of powers?

elect leaders, limit their authority and make them accountable to the community, by all means necessary.

The problem of the hierarchy?

Redefining the division of labor and give everyone the same share of resources.

The problem of salary? The

abolish and transform each into risk-sharing partner.

The problem of poor health?

Create a state minimum social security aboard the ship.

The problem of poverty?

Capture the wealth of the rich and distribute them equitably.

These responses, and resistance to an already globalized capitalist economy, illustrate the major reasons why these pirates always interest us. [...] singing "We're all hackers! "Soon resound throughout the world during mobilizations and struggles for social justice.

Pirates have had the courage to try to live differently and to create an alternative lifestyle when they were confronted with extreme conditions of oppression.

They opposed the authority and the state. Egalitarian, collectivist, democratic, these "villains" of all nations deserve to be remembered in history, in France as elsewhere.

p.20:

Libertalia was a republic at the time of the monarchy, a democracy of despotism at the time [...] a place of freedom in an era of slavery. Misson notes: "The trade beings of our own species can not be acceptable in the eyes of divine justice. Because no man has any right to freedom of another. The sailors often saw themselves as slaves and Misson "has not ripped from his neck the unbearable yoke of slavery, and asserted his own freedom to enslave other human beings. " It is for these reasons that the hijackers freed the Africans found on the slave ships they captured and they were incorporating into their heterogeneous crews.

p.33:

Pirates do not consider themselves as "vulgar thieves," but as men without a country. Sewing their black flag, the symbol of an anti-national gang of outlaws proletarians, they declare war on the world.

p.39:

The pirates hold discourse of revolt, shouting that "the pirate's life is the only worthy a man of spirit. "

p.60:

Sailors "invent" the strike in a pay dispute in London in 1768, from boat to boat, slashing and lowering the sails, to impose their demands on the merchants.

The shortage of food and drink is chronic, as well as infuriating system of hierarchy and privilege. The sailor is aware of the importance of equality: a fair distribution of risks increases the chances of survival of all. Separated from loved ones and the rest of society for long periods, it develops a distinct work culture, with its own language, its songs, rituals, and a special sense of brotherhood.

Its core values, which are based on collectivism, anti-authoritarianism, egalitarianism, are summarized in the phrase frequently imposed by browsers rebels: "They Were one and all resolved to stand by one another "(They were one and were all determined to rely on each other). All these cultural qualities are the result of work experience and all operate on both the decision to become a pirate and how to behave afterwards.

p.191:

Courage is usually perceived as a masculine value, but Read and Bonny prove otherwise. When a prisoner interrogated about the prospect of an agonizing death on the scaffold, Mary Read mischievously insisted on the fact that "men of courage," like her, do not fear. It is an indictment of the villains who are land and use the law as instruments of oppression. In so doing, it indirectly suggests the property relations, the enclosures, which are set place in his native England. Read sees courage as a resource, a skill that provides the poor with little protection in a labor market immoral. The same idea is expressed most clearly by the pirate leader Charles Bellamy, who preaches a captain in this way: "Damn you, you're a coward, come all who are willing to be governed by laws that rich men were drafted to ensure their own safety. They will pose as bandits, these miscreants, while there is a difference between us and them, they rob the poor under color of law while we are ripping the rich under the protection of our single heart. "

Courage is thus conceived as the antithesis of law. The total disregard for the authority of the state is evident in Bonny and Read, their marital and family situations demonstrate. The two women are engaged in what John Gillis called "proletarian practice of marriage and divorce itself." Read freely married her husband. Bonny, who is offered the prospect of easy life, renounces fast, marry a poor sailor, and sailed to a place known as "a receptacle and a shelter for pirates and scoundrels." practice of marriage intended to preserve the property of middle and upper classes do not interest him. [...]

By choosing the life of a pirate, a classroom practice and freedom, Bonny and Read challenge authority. They take part in the courageous adventure of a lifetime out of reach of the traditional powers of the family, state and capital.

p.243:

Pirates chose a life lived intensely, even if it lasts a short time. They build a better world than the merchant and military ships. They transform the brutal discipline a more flexible mode of operation and libertarian. They invert the realities of chronically meager rations in tumultuous and frequent feasts. Their democratic selection of officers by contrasting his strength and eloquence with the organization almost dictatorial command in the merchant service and in the Royal Navy. Ls based on collectivist values, anti-authoritarian and egalitarian class and lower decks, hackers realize their social, trends that have been dialectically created and eliminated in turn, in the ordinary course of business and life at sea These are signs of life emerged in the shadow of death, because if the dangers of ordinary life of the sailor are extreme, those who surround the pirate in battle, in prison or on the scaffold, spring even more violently. They look this grim reality in the eye and they laugh.

P.270:

According to Johnson, the pirates are not brutes or animals, but rather "sea heroes, the scourge of tyrants t of avarice, the brave guy claiming freedom. "[...] Romantic stories about Henry Avery," the Robin Hood of the seas ", circulating among the people [...] in the popular mind, the attacker is considered the freest man of humanity.

p.274: We like pirates because they are rebels because they are challenging the conventions of class, race, gender and nation. They are poor, but they express high ideals. Often exploited and deceived by merchant captains, they abolish the wage system, establish a different discipline, practice their own form of democracy and equality. They provide an alternative model of driving the boat on the high seas Pirates opposed to the elite and powerful of their time. By their actions, they become "rogues" of all nations. They revel in their role, even if this "short and happy life" contains a contradiction cruel. Most hackers build and use their independent existence, the more the authorities are determined to destroy them.

These off-the-law have led lives of courageous rebels. As long as necessary to resist the powerful and oppression, we must remember them.

-Marcus Rediker