Anarchist demonstration in Hiroshima on 6 Aug 2005

by Oliver - Capital Terminus Thu Aug 04, 2005 23:39

Neat stuff about the demo, haven't heard anything from Japanese anarchists since I met some at the Million Workers March, but it's always good to hear new stuff from other countries.

Anyways, here's my question in case this group reads this site, or if anyone else knows: Is this an anarchist group which uses Esperanto? The words 'Saluton' and 'Nigraj Flagoj' are straight out of Esperanto...

by rebel_JILL - rebel_factory/ ex_"la organo de federacio anarkiista, japanio" Fri Aug 05, 2005 08:48

Comrade;

saluton again. i am an activist of homeless liberation struggle in osaka, japanese islands. i often use some words of "esperantoj".
for, i studied esperanto a little by myself. in japanese islands, old anarkiistoj often use esperanto as a
"no imperialistic language". in these islands, an anarchist=Sakae Oosugi helped to teach the esperanto on early 20 century. he supported to establish an "association of esperanto in japan". unfortunately, most of youth-anarkiistoj do not study esperanto at all. so, some of them might say "i do not know the language of esperanto, are there any esperantists in the anarchists' movement?" however, in japanese islands, some members of SAT are there. and on early 90's in japanese islands, "la Libera Volo"=organo de federacio anarkiista, japanio
used a part of esperanto articles. dankon. Ghis revido!

by KAT Fri Aug 05, 2005 13:37 madness_of_civilization at yahoo dot com Manila, Phils.

Hi! it's good to see Japanese anarchists givin updates on this site.

For the past few months we've been tryin to contact Japanese/koreans/Chinese anarchists for the upcoming "inter-Border gathering" we've initiated in south east asia, we plan to conduct the said event next month (sept.) in malaysia.

Tomorrow we will be having an online meet on Yahoo conference at 7 pm (Phils. time) . Please add my YM id above - madness_of_civilization if you want to be included on the preparation for the said event.

stay in touch.

yours in solidarity,

KAT

by Oliver - Capital Terminus Sat Aug 06, 2005 13:05

Yes, there are many interesting links between Esperanto and Anarchism in 'the West' that I've run across as well. For instance:

According to Alexandre Skirda at the international anarchist congress there was a motion to use Esperanto in communication. I think he dates this at 1904, which would be a year before the first international Esperanto congress.

Also according to Skirda, Nestor Makhno learned Esperanto while he was in prison in exile.

I've also read that anarchist youth in Portugal learned Esperanto in the early part of the century.

Anyways I've wanted to find anarchists from other countries who spoke esperanto, because so far the only ones i've seen were in the Anarchist Federation (UK).

My esperanto skills are middle-strength, but i've wanted to start an anarchist translation collective for quite some time, which could for instance translate from polish to japanese using esperanto.

by yerry - Jakarta Anarkis Mon Aug 08, 2005 18:15 arm_da_spirit at yahoo dot com

no nuke, no goverment !!!

jakarta, indonesia

by J.B. Arend - De Vrije Sun Aug 14, 2005 20:17 Arend at devrije dot nl

In the old Dutch anarchist movement before 1940 most young anarchists learned Esperanto. After an international meeting in Soest (1926) the Anarchist Youth International was formed and the Dutch youth tried to set up an international bulletin in Esperanto. They failed because there wasn't enough money to do so. (An old intelligence report stated the boys in quetion used the money for themselves...) From this you may conclude Esperanto was also an issue in the anarchist youth movement in Germany, Belgium and France. Also the anarchist weekly 'De Arbeider' (yes the Dutch movement was quite strong) published in the twenties a course about how to learn Esperanto.
Many of these Dutch anarchist were members of SAT and promoted Esperanto until the eighties. In the Netherlands there a still a few younger anarchists who promote Esperanto. At our yearly gathering in Appelscha (see www.pinksterlanddagen.nl) they sometimes plan meetings about the subject. But it is not a very popular subject, and a bit oldfashioned, due to the fact everyone speaks English these days.

by Aleks - AJNE Sat Sep 24, 2005 16:01

Hej! You asked, if there is some anarchist esperantists...
yes!
AJNE (anyhow): Anarkiista Junularo Nun Esperantu (The anarchist youth now in esperanto)
http://ajne.net but the site is broken...

(excuse me for my poor englishlanguagewriting, but i never leanr this language)

by Rudolf Mühland - FAU-IAA Wed Mar 07, 2007 17:10

dear comrades!

i'm looking for contacts (mail and homepages/blogs) with anarchists in "nippon"

please get in toch with me an send me some adresses .-) i will publich them on our homepage (www.fau-duesseldorf.org)

best wisches

Rudolf Mühland