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These are the selected anniversaries for October that appear on the Anarchism portal. The "edit" links edit the portal subpages that are displayed as sections here.
October 1
- 1909 – The first notice of an Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) free speech fight appears in the "Industrial Worker", appealing to all members to join the struggle in Missoula, Montana
- 1936 – Spanish Revolution: The Central Committee of Antifascist Militias of Catalonia dissolves itself, returning governance of Catalonia back to the Generalitat.
October 2
- 1913 - End of the First International Syndicalist Congress in London
October 3
- 1879 – The anarchist periodical Freiheit (pictured) is founded by editor Johann Most
- 1884 – The birth of avant garde writer, poet, essayist, and Japanese translator of The Ego and Its Own Jun Tsuji (d. 1944) in Tokyo
- 1893 – The trial of Emma Goldman for aiding and abetting an unlawful assemblage begins
- 1901 – Militant anarchist, historian and collaborator of Max Nettlau Renee Lamberet is born in Paris
October 4
- 1879 – The American anarchist newspaper Freiheit (pictured) is first published by editor Johann Most
- 1884 – Jun Tsuji (d. 1944), Japanese avant garde writer and translator of Max Stirner's The Ego and its Own into Japanese is born in Tokyo
- 1893 – The trial of Emma Goldman for aiding and abetting an unlawful assemblage begins in New York
- 1917 – The trial of the French anarchist pacifist publishers of a clandestine issue of Le Libertaire begins in Paris
October 5
- 1839 – Future internationalist anarchist and elected member of the Paris Commune of 1871 Eugène Varlin is born in the vicinity of Paris.
- 1858 – While exiled in Tomsk, Siberia, "Godfather of anarchism" Mikhail Bakunin weds the daughter of a Polish merchant, Antonia Ksaverievna Kwiatkowska (couple pictured)
- 1917 – Mother Earth Bulletin is published for the first time by a collective including Emma Goldman
- 1923 – Swedish anarcho-syndicalist playwright and novelist Stig Dagerman (d. 1954) is born
- 1934 – Surrealist and anarchist filmmaker Jean Vigo (b. 1905) dies
October 6
- 1894 – A new initiative to have the prison sentence of Alexander Berkman commuted is launched by Emma Goldman
- 1900 – English anarchist author Ethel Mannin (d. 1984) is born in London
- 1934 – Spanish Revolution: Following a miners' uprising in Asturias, a Catalan republic is declared, but quickly suppressed by the Spanish Republic
- 1936 – Spanish Revolution: The Regional Defence Council of Aragon is established by the CNT to administer the eastern half of Aragon
- 1945 – The founding congress of the Fédération Anarchiste (FA) begins in Paris
- 1970 – Shortly before the Days of Rage, the Weathermen destroy a statue (pictured) in Haymarket Square, Chicago which commemorated the policemen who died in the Haymarket affair of 1886
October 7
- 1879 – Industrial Workers of the World trade union militant Joe Hill (pictured) is born in Gävle, Sweden
- 1911 – Zapatista revolutionaries conquer Axochiapan, Morelos, from government forces during the Mexican Revolution
- 1933 – Anarchist and labor organizer Joseph Labadie (b. 1850) dies in Detroit, Michigan
- 1936 – Spanish Revolution: The Unified Levantine Council for Agricultural Export is established by the CNT and UGT to coordinate orange exports from Valencia to other European countries.
- 1977 – Environmentalist activist Eric McDavid is born
- 1988 – Canada: Poole's Land is founded in Tofino, Vancouver Island.
October 8
- 1886 – French anarcho-syndicalist, International Workingmen's Association activist and Spanish Revolution combatant Pierre Besnard (d. 1947) is born
- 1966 – Death of anarchist pacifist educator and Ferrer School activist Célestin Freinet
October 9
- 1870 – The Jura federation, the anti-authoritarian and anarchist section of the First International was founded on October 9, 1870 at a meeting in Saint-Imier, Switzerland
- 1880 – In its final meeting, in La Chaux-de-Fonds, the Jura federation adopts an anarchist communist stance, as a necessary consequence of the inevitability of the social revolution
- 1908 – Australian anarchist poet Harry Hooton, who participated in the Sydney Push scene in Sydney, is born in Doncaster, England
- 1922 – The International Anarchist Congress is held in Paris, France
- 1936 – The Italian anarchist journal Guerre de classe, founded by Camillo Berneri (pictured), appears for the first time
- 1970 – The Italian Trade Centre in London is bombed in the name of murdered anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli; the incident is one of many that year attributed to The Angry Brigade
- 1991 – The Serbian feminist and anti-nationalist organisation Women In Black is founded in Belgrade
October 10
- 1889 – The anarchist periodical L'Associazione is first issued in Nice by Errico Malatesta (pictured), who had returned from South America in September
- 1901 – Anarchist polemicist Laurent Tailhade (1854–1919) is jailed for a year for inciting murder in the pages of Le Libertaire
October 11
- 1917 – French anarchists are sentenced to one to three year prison terms for publishing a clandestine issue of the newspaper Le Libertaire
- 1935 – The Federación Anarco-Comunista Argentina, later renamed Federación Libertaria Argentina, is founded.
October 12
- 1909 – Catalan anarchist and founder of the Escuela Moderna initiative Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia (pictured) is summarily executed by firing squad during Tragic Week
- 1957 – American individualist anarchist and popularizer of the philosophy of Max Stirner Steven T. Byington dies
October 13
- 1909 - Francisco Ferrer, anarchist educator, murdered in Spain.
October 14
- 1894 - Sail Mohamed born in Kabylie, French Algeria.
- 1982 - Litton Industries is bombed by Direct Action in Toronto, Canada
October 15
- 1884 – Birth of French anarchist militant and educator Stephen Mac Say
- 1896 – Birth of anarchist educator and Modern School activist Célestin Freinet
- 1920 – Italian anarchist militant and writer Errico Malatesta (pictured) is arrested in connection with worker occupations of Milanese factories
- 1920 – Bolshevik and Makhnovist forces sign an agreement to co-operate against the White Army general Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel during the Russian Civil War
- 1926 – Japanese anarchist militant Nakahama Tetsu (aka Tomioka Makoto) is executed for acts of propaganda of the deed
October 16
- 1918 - The US Congress passed the second Anarchist Exclusion Act.
- 1919 - US Deportation Act for alien anarchists passed, in effect to this day.
October 17
- 2005 - Chinese anarchist Ba Jin died.
October 18
- 1843 - Italian anarchist Amilcare Cipriani (pictured) was born.
- 1927 - The trial of Sholom Schwartzbard began for killing Symon Petliura, who he blamed for the deaths of 15 members of his family in Pogroms in Ukraine.
October 19
- 1907 - Solidaridad Obrera (pictured) is founded in Barcelona, Spain, as the mouthpiece of the Solidaridad Obrera federation.
- 1910 - Luigi Lucheni hanged himself in his prison cell.
- 1922 - Ecuador: A railway workers' strike begins in the town of Durán.
October 20
- 1895 – Anarcho-syndicalist writer Gaston Leval, active in the Spanish Civil War, is born in Saint-Denis, France.
- 1905 – A general strike is called during the 1905 Russian Revolution
- 1917 – An anarchist-inspired motion is passed at the first Congress of Factory Councils in revolutionary Russia in favour of workers' self-management
- 1923 – Anarchist Beat poet Philip Whalen is born in Portland, Oregon.
- 1945 – In the course of the Spanish Revolution, anarchist guérillas "El Quico", Jaime "Abisinio" Pares Adán and Juan "Roget" Salas Millón, help three prisoners escape from a Barcelona jail at the behest of the Committee of Resistance of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo
- 2001 – The 20th annual Anarchist Bookfair is held in London
October 21
- 1894 – French anarchists incite a revolt on the penal colony of Île Saint-Joseph, French Guiana
- 1920 – Anarchist general Kim Jwa-jin] draws Japanese forces into an ambush, leading to the victory of Korean nationalists in the Battle of Chingshanli
- 1921 – Europe sees mass protests (pictured) in support of the imprisoned anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti
- 1949 – Spanish anarchist and anti-fascist insurgent Miguel García is arrested, later to be tried and sentenced to death for resisting the Franco regime
- 1981 – Black anarchist Kuwasi Balagoon is finally captured by the state following the Brinks robbery
October 22
- 1851 – French anarchist communist Joseph Déjacque receives a sentence of two years imprisonment for Lazaréennes: Socialist Fables & Poems, a volume of his poetry.
- 1921 – French anarchist musician Georges Brassens is born in Sète
- 1956 – During the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, proletarian workers begin to refuse to obey their managers, calling instead for workers' self-management
October 23
- 1894 - Marcel Body b. Typographer, Bolshevik, translator, and later, anarchist.
- 1921 - Massive demonstrations all over Europe in support of Sacco and Vanzetti.
October 24
- 1868 – Belgian-French explorer, anarchist, spiritualist, Buddhist and writer Alexandra David-Néel (pictured) is born in Saint-Mandé
- 1870 – Mikhail Bakunin stays one step ahead of his persecutors, sailing from Marseilles to Locarno
- 1886 – A letter by French anarchist militant Clément Duval of the Panther of Batignolles justifying the group's activities appears in Le Révolté
- 1924 – Italian anarchist militant Ernesto Bonomini is sentenced to eight years hard labor for killing fascist Nicola Bonservizi
- 1970 – A bomb explodes in a government office in Greenford, England during, one of a series of bomb attacks during a Council workers' strike that are credited to the Angry Brigade
- 1975 – Spanish anarchist and CNT activist Cipriano Mera dies in Saint-Cloud, France
October 25
- 1806 - Max Stirner was born in Bayreuth, Bavaria.
- 1878 - Spanish anarchist Juan Oliva Moncasi attempted to shoot Alfonso XII of Spain, but was disarmed by the crowd, and executed several weeks later.
- 2003 - The 22nd Anarchist Bookfair was held in London, England.
October 26
- 1888 – Nestor Makhno (pictured), renowned anarchist-communist military leader of the Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine, is born in Huliaipole.
October 27
- 2002 – British anarchist theorist John Moore dies
- 2006 – Anarchist documentarian and activist Brad Will (pictured) is shot dead during the 2006 Oaxaca protests in Mexico
October 28
- 1868 – The International Alliance of Socialist Democracy is founded by Mikhail Bakunin.
- 1902 – American anarchist feminist journalist Kate Austin (b. 1864) (pictured) dies
- 1913 – Radical film co-operative Le Cinéma du Peuple is created by Parisian anarchists
- 1954 – Enrique Flores Magón (b. 1877), Mexican revolutionary, journalist and publisher of Regeneración, dies in Mexico City
- 1984 – Sicilian anarchist Pippo Scarso is arrested and sentenced to a year in prison for refusing Italian military service
October 29
- 1978 - Recording of anarcho-punk band Crass's second album The Feeding of the 5000
- 1920 - Charles Ruthenberg and Isaac Ferguson sentenced to five years for "criminal anarchism".
- 1936 - Spanish Civil War: The anarchist Tiburcio Ariza is killed in a police raid, after refusing to be handcuffed.
October 30
- 1906 - Emma Goldman and 9 others arrested for inciting to riot.
October 31
- 1858 – Prolific individualist anarchist author George Mathias Paraf-Javal, who founded the Ligue Antimilitariste with Émile Armand, is born in Paris
- 1870 – Anarchist Louise Michel participates in a large demonstration in support of the Paris Commune in front of the town hall
- 1881 – Brazilian anarchist and labour activist Edgard Leuenroth (d. 1968, pictured) is born in São Paulo
- 1894 – The trial of the thirty, a show trial with the aim of repressing the French anarchist movement and restricting the freedom of the press, ends in Paris
- 1905 – The Russian revolutionaries demonstrate for amnesty in St Petersburg shortly after the formation of the Saint Petersburg Soviet
- 1922 – The headquarters of the Italian anarchist newspaper Umanità Nova are ransacked by fascists after Benito Mussolini is announced as prime minister
- 1926 – An assassination attempt against Benito Mussolini is carried out by Anteo Zamboni.
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