Anti-Anarchism

**Anti-Anarchism** refers to a number of actions and people that opposed anarchism and aimed to undermine it as a movement.

## Anti-Anarchism by country

### Australia

In 1942 the anarchist immigrant from Italy Francesco Fantin is murdered in an internment camp in South Australia by a fascist. In 1971, the Australian government framed anarchist Julian Ripley for bombing the Labour and National Service Building in Perth. In 1996, an anarchist bookstore in Melbourne was attacked on several occasions by neo-nazis, seeing its windows smashed.

### Dominican Republic

In 1930, the military dictator Rafael Trujillo seized power and suppressed the anarchist movement.

### Italy

Police monitoring of the anarchist movement in Italy goes back as far as 1872, where a police spy was placed in a trade union meeting led by anarchists.

In the 1920s, the anarchist movement was attacked by fascism in Italy, with a number of anarchists being assassinated by fascists. Anarchists also fought major street battles against fascists. In 1926 the largest anarchist group in Italy the Italian Syndicalist Union was outlawed and forced underground.

In 1969, anarchists were accused of a bombing that killed 15 people. As a result, anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli was arrested and fell out of a window in police custody, with the most commonly accepted explanation being that he was murdered. In 1972, anarchist Franco Serantini was arrested at an anti-fascist demonstration and was later found dead in his cell.

### Nigeria

During the 1990s, anarchists affiliated with the Awareness League were subject to a number of arrests for their participation in protests. The first case of this was in May 1992, where 4 Awareness League members were arrested during nationwide protests against the military dictatorship and their neoliberal economic policies. These 4 were among 2000 arrested protesters across Nigeria. They were released in January 1993 on the condition that they report weekly to the "state security services".

### Panama

While Panama experienced a large boom of immigration during the construction of the Panama Canal, the USA feared the entry of anarchists into the country, and on 11 June 1904 the US passed an immigration law forbidding anarchists from immigrating into the country. This law was a total failure as Spanish Anarchists arrived in the country and began to form an anarchist movement in Panama.

### Singapore

In May 2014 5 teenagers were arrested for spraying anarchist symbolism and anti-government slogans on a high-rise roof.

## Notable anti-anarchists

* Adolf Hitler
* Francisco Franco
* Ho Chi Minh
* Joseph Stalin
* Leon Trotsky
* Teddy Roosevelt
* Vladimir Lenin

## Sources

1. ↑ http://www.takver.com/history/raa/raaintro.htm
2. ↑ http://www.takver.com/history/perth/ripley1971.htm
3. ↑ http://www.takver.com/history/melb/index.htm
4. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism\_in\_the\_Dominican\_Republic
5. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism\_in\_Italy#Origins
6. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism\_in\_Italy#The\_Fascist\_regime\_and\_afterwards
7. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe\_Pinelli
8. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco\_Serantini
9. ↑ English Wikipedia on the Awareness League in 1992 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awareness\_League#1992
10. ↑ Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, 1870-1940. "Tropical Libertarians:

Anarchist movements and networks in the Caribbean, Southern United States, and Mexico, 1890s–1920s"
11. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism\_in\_Singapore