Book contents
- Anarchists of the Caribbean
- Global and International History
- Anarchists of the Caribbean
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- A Biographical Prologue
- Introduction
- 1 Anarchist Straits
- 2 Anarchists versus Yanquis
- 3 ¡Tierra y Libertad!
- 4 The Caribbean Red during the Red Scare
- 5 Anarchists versus Yanquis II
- 6 Bolivarianismoanarquista
- 7 Down but Not Out
- A Literary Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
2 - Anarchists versus Yanquis
The Anarchist Network Resists US Neocolonialism, 1898–1915
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 April 2020
- Anarchists of the Caribbean
- Global and International History
- Anarchists of the Caribbean
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- A Biographical Prologue
- Introduction
- 1 Anarchist Straits
- 2 Anarchists versus Yanquis
- 3 ¡Tierra y Libertad!
- 4 The Caribbean Red during the Red Scare
- 5 Anarchists versus Yanquis II
- 6 Bolivarianismoanarquista
- 7 Down but Not Out
- A Literary Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Chapter 2 explores the decade and a half following the Cuban War, noting how anarchists emerged and evolved across the region. In Cuba, the visit by Errico Malatesta and the creation of ¡Tierra! helped anarchists build Havana into the network hub. Meanwhile, anarchists in Florida and Puerto Rico developed dual relationships by working with the anti-anarchist American Federation of Labor (AFL) unions on the ground while communicating with and funding ¡Tierra! as their newspaper. By the early 1910s, anarchists in Florida abandoned the AFL associations and forged the first Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) Locals in the network. In Panama, anarchists migrated to the construction project shortly after it began, organized anarchist groups throughout the Canal Zone, linked themselves with Havana, and in 1911 created the isthmus’s first anarchist publication. Throughout all of this, anarchists – no matter where they were – attacked US intervention, capitalism in the region, oversight of the canal, and US-designed political systems then being developed across the Caribbean.
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- Anarchists of the CaribbeanCountercultural Politics and Transnational Networks in the Age of US Expansion, pp. 64 - 124Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020