* * * The brain and skull of Giovanni Passannante, an Italian anarchist, are finally buried more than a century after he tried to kill King Umberto I, although the interment occurs under a cloak of secrecy. [NYTimes]
* * * Toronto anarchist causes a scandal by leaking the Conservative government’s environmental plan. He is led away from work in handcuffs, though he has not been charged with any crime. [The Toronto Star]
* * * Heavily redacted documents are released that detail a portion of the police’s surveillance of activists prior to Republican National Convention in New York City in August 2004. [NYTimes]
* * * A new book on anarchist history is scheduled for release this August: Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism (Oakland: AK Press, 500 pages). The description says: “Black Flame is the first of two volumes that reexamine anarchism’s democratic class politics, its vision of a decentralized planned economy, and its impact on popular struggles in five continents over the last 150 years. From the nineteenth century to today’s anticapitalist movements, it traces anarchism’s lineage and contemporary relevance. It outlines anarchism’s insights into questions of race, gender, class, and imperialism, significantly reframing the work of previous historians on the subject, and critiquing Marxist approaches to those same questions.” Authors Lucien van der Walt and Michael Schmidt both live in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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