Maia Ramnath - Decolonizing Anarchism.pdf - Libcom

The Anarcho-syndicalists
In the years between two seismic events-geologic in
1906, geopolitical in 1914-the San Francisco Bay Area
rivaled Paris in its plenitude of international revolutionaries
and progressives of all sorts. It was a milieu suffused by
various aspects of individual as well as social anarchism that
brought together bohemian counterculture, artistic and
spiritualistic experimentation, efforts toward women's suf.
frage, reproductive rights and sexual freedom, and militant
labor activity. This was the headquarters of the Indi,m expatriate
Ghadar move ment, which bonded migrant laborers
and radical students-including some Swadeshi and India
House veterans-into a revolutionary anticolonial force
from 1913 onward.
In "\X1hat Hindus \X1ant" (in the contemporary U.S.
context, "Hindus" referred generically to Indians of all
faiths), Chandra, editor of the Ghadar's eponymous news
and propaganda organ from 1914-17, divided the anticolonial
mobilization into three parties: moderates who
wanted self-rule within the empire like the Canadians and