Timeline of anti-anarchism

A timeline of anti-anarchism, or opposition to anarchism. This list excludes combat against anarchists.

## 1800s

* 1871 May: Anarchist Eugene Varlin is executed by the French army as revenge for his participation in the Paris Commune.
* 1886 May: (Haymarket affair) Following a bombing at a workers protest in Chicago, USA, anarchists are blamed and 8 are controversially arrested and put to trial. After the trial, 4 are executed and 1 commits suicide in prison. The historical consensus is that they were innocent.
* 1888 February (Rio Tinto massacre): 13 striking workers led by anarchists who trying to hand a petition to a town mayor are shot by Spanish police.
* 1891 August (Clichy Affair): 3 anarchists are arrested without charge - with 1 being shot - and beaten in a police station with some conservatives calling for their execution.
* 1894 August: (Trial of the Thirty) 30 anarchists are placed on trial in France on the charge of "criminal association". Most are acquitted by jury.

## 1900s

* 1903 March: The USA bans anarchists from immigrating to the USA with the *Immigration Act of 1903*, people with epilepsy are also banned, alongside beggars and "importers of prostitutes".
* 1908 June: Japanese police attack a small demonstration that celebrates the return of anarchist Koken Yamaguchi from prison. 10 anarchists are arrested.
* 1909 October: Prominent Spanish anarchist Francisco Ferrer is executed in retaliation for anti-conscription riots that happened in July. He is widely recognised as innocent.
* 1919 November: (Palmer Raids) police across the USA arrest 6000 people in 36 cities, many of them anarchists. 556 are deported (including Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman), mainly to Russia.
* 1923 June: An Argentine fascist is allowed to enter the jail cell of anarchist while armed with a rifle and executes him in revenge for the anarchists assassination of an Argentine policeman.
* 1923 August: (Sacco and Vanzetti) Anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are executed in the USA for their alleged role in a murder-robbery. While what happened is controversial, they are generally considered to be innocent.
* 1923 September: (Amakasu incident) 5 Japanese military police arrest 2 prominent anarchists (Osugi Sakae and Ito Noe) and Osugi's 6 year old nephew. They are all beaten to death and their bodies are thrown into a well. The military police were arrested and put on trial for their actions, but 3 of them are acquitted and the other 2 are given 3 and 10 years of hard labor as punishment.
* 1933 January: (Casas Viejas incident) 24 people are killed as Spanish police set fire to a house where anarchists and their families are sheltering and burn them alive. They then round up anyone in the village with a gun and shoot them next to the burnt out house as part of the repression of an ongoing anarchist uprising.
* 1936: The Great Purge begins in the Soviet Union and countless anarchists are executed.
* 1969 December: Following a bombing done by fascists in Milan, Italy. Anarchists are blamed and over 80 are arrested, with 1 dying in police custody (Giuseppe Pinelli).
* 1970 September (Barracks anarchist case) 5 anarchist youths in Italy were killed in a suspicious car crash after compiling evidence linking fascist terrorism to parts of the Italian government.
* 1973 September: The Pinochet regime in Chile begins to persecute anarchists. They arrest and torture Flora Sanhueza, and she dies a year later from the wounds sustained from torture.
* 1978 January: (Scala case) 4 workers - including 3 CNT members - burn to death after the firebombing of a nightclub in Spain. Spanish police claim that anarchists associated with the CNT carried out this act, but later evidence reveals it was done by a police informant.
* 1997 July: Lorenzo Komboa Ervin tries to travel to Australia to speak with anarchists and indigenous activists, however the conservative Australian government cancels his visa claiming he is "not of good character" and a "known terrorist and gun runner".
* 1998 September: Claudia Benaiges is shot by police in Chile while at a protest during the 25th anniversary of Pinochet's military coup.

## 2000s

* 2008 September: The social democrat leader of the Australian state of South Australia dismisses anti-war protesters as "feral anarchists" after he cancels an arms dealing convention.
* 2018 December: Ukraine's Security Services (SBU) search the homes of 7 anarchists due to allegations that they were involved in the stabbing of a war veteran. Computers and phones were confiscated from the anarchists in what anarchists consider an act of repression.
* 2019 January: An unnamed anarchist in Switzerland had his apartment raided by police and was arrested for alleged arson and property damage.
* 2020 April: The Indonesian government represses the anarchist movement, arresting many anarchists and confiscating their property.
* 2020 June: 3 14-year-old boys in Russia were arrested for allegedly being part of an anarchist terrorist cell. Some evidence for this includes the boys blowing up recreations of government buildings in Minecraft.
* 2023 January: During a raid of a Stop Cop City encampment in the USA, the anarchist Tortuguita is shot 57 times by Georgia State Police while surrendering.

## Sources

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne\_Varlin
2. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket\_affair
3. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio\_Tinto\_massacre
4. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clichy\_Affair
5. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial\_of\_the\_Thirty
6. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration\_Act\_of\_1903
7. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red\_Flag\_Incident
8. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco\_Ferrer
9. ↑ https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt\_Gustav\_Wilckens
10. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacco\_and\_Vanzetti
11. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amakasu\_Incident
12. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casas\_Viejas\_incident
13. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe\_Pinelli
14. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala\_case
15. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorenzo\_Kom%27boa\_Ervin#Australian\_speaking\_tour
16. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutiny\_Collective#Arms\_fair\_cancelled
17. ↑ https://www.anarchistnews.org/ukrainian\_anarchists\_targeted
18. ↑ https://www.anarchistnews.org/content/comrade-fermento-arrested
19. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism\_in\_Indonesia#Contemporary\_Indonesia
20. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansk\_affair
21. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing\_of\_Manuel\_Esteban\_Paez\_Ter%C3%A1n