Albert Libertad

Joseph Albert (known as Albert Libertad or Libertad) [Libertad, Le Culte de la charogne. Anarchisme, un état de révolution permanente (1897-1908), Éditions Agone, 2006. ISBN 2-7489-0022-7 (see also [http://atheles.org/agone/memoiressociales/lecultedelacharogne/] .] (24 November 1875 — 12 November 1908) was an individualist anarchist in France. He was born in Bordeaux, and died in Paris. Abandoned by his parents as a baby, Libertad was a child of the Public Assistance in Bordeaux. As a result of a childhood illness, he lost the use of his legs, but he put his handicap to good use: he used his crutches as weapons against the police. He moved to Paris at 21, where he immediately was active in anarchist circles, going so far as to live in the offices of the journal “Le Libertaire.” Member of various anarchist groups, and a supporter of “propaganda by the deed,” he was nevertheless an abstentionist candidate in Paris’s 11th arrondissement in 1902 and 1904, seeing his candidacy as a means of spreading anarchist ideas. During the Dreyfus affair, he founded the Anti-Militarist League (1902).

In 1905, Libertad founded what was probably the most important individualist anarchist journal, "l’Anarchie", which included among its collaborators André Lorulot, Emile Armand, and Victor Serge and his companion Rirette Maitrejean.

He also worked as corrector with Aristide Briand, editing the review, "La Lanterne", and then with Sébastien Faure. An activist of the free love, Libertad wrote in EnDehors, a famous newspaper founded by Zo d'Axa.

External links

* [http://www.marxists.org/archive/libertad/index.htm Albert Libertad Library]

Notes

* Libertad, Le Culte de la charogne. Anarchisme, un état de révolution permanente (1897-1908), Éditions Agone, 2006. ISBN 2-7489-0022-7
* [http://endehors.org/ EnDehors website]

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