On this day in 1890, writer and revolutionary #VictorSerge was born. Originally an anarchist, Serge travelled to revolutionary Russia and became a Bolshevik and revolutionary socialist.

Read more about his life here: bit.ly/3n17r8G

Ausführliche Rezension des Buches *Le Jeune #VictorSerge*.

Image is a caricature of the Bonnot gang in their getaway car. By Unknown author - Le Figaro (Bibliothèque nationale de France), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5144161

Today in #LaborHistory 12/21/1911: Anarchist Bonnot Gang pulled off 1 of the 1st bank robberies ever with a getaway car. Also among the 1st to use repeating rifles. Connected with “L’Anarchie,” edited by #VictorSerge.

#workingclass #anarchism #russia #banks #Revolution #prison

“The truth is never fixed…” #victorserge #plutopress #DoorstoppersInDecember As I mentioned in my post on Victor Serge’s “Unforgiving Years”, this was a book I’d been hoping to get to all year. However, when I finally picked it up at the end of Novem…

On the Ramblings today - my thoughts on a stunning new biography of #VictorSerge from @plutopress.bsky.social - more here! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/12/18/t...

“The hoops of danger tighten without warning and you can’t breathe.” #victorserge Victor Serge is an author whose name has turned up many, many times on the Ramblings; I love his writing and I’ve read most of his titles released by NYRB Classics. Some of these have been my…

On the blog today - my thoughts on the astounding final novel by #victorserge "Unforgiving Years" - just stunning. @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/12/11/t...

Portrait of a young Victor Serge, with round glasses. By Unknown author - http://www.letraslibres.com/index.php?art=9649, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3975547

Today in #LaborHistory 11/17/1947: #Revolutionary & #author #VictorSerge died. Journalist for L’anarchie, Paris. Participated in #Barcelona #anarchis #uprising. Wrote for #CNT newspaper. #Russia 1918, initially in support of communists, who imprisoned him. Wrote #novels from #prison.

Foto 2 er Buchcover, Victor Serge antiquarisch

#VictorSerge, Revolutionär & #Anarchist † 17. November 1947

Während der Fokus im Roman „Geburt unserer Macht“ auf die Frage gerichtet war „KÖNNEN wir die Macht übernehmen?“ verschiebt er sich in „Eroberte Stadt“: „Was wird aus uns, wenn wir (die) Macht haben?“
Ungebrochene Aktualität.
#Anarchismus

"He who does not cry out the truth when he knows the truth becomes the accomplice of the liars and falsifiers."

✒ #VictorSerge, Belgian-born Russian revolutionary, novelist, and historian, #DOTD 17 November 1947. #History #Literature

Buchcover Le jeune Victor Serge

#VictorSerge, 1890 in Brüssel geboren, 1947 in Mexiko-Stadt gestorben, Schriftsteller; Revolutionär, als illegalistischer #Anarchist in Paris in den 1910er Jahren, Mitglied der #Bonnot -Bande, Zeitung L' #Anarchie, Zeitung Tierra y Libertad..
Spannende politische Biografie (frz.) der Jahre 1890-1919

20 authors you’d recommend to a friend. One author per day, no particular order. #booksky #books #bookchallenge #readingchallenge
Day 5 #VictorSerge

A Serge of Interest – 3:AM Magazine "His remaining a revolutionary to the very end takes with it a whiff of suspicion for the literary liberal elite. He is tainted by the crimes of communism despite being one of the very first to point ...

A piece I wrote a few years back on Victor Serge for 3:AM a few years back. Serge is one of the most inspiring political and literary figures of the last century, and chronically overlooked. #victorserge www.3ammagazine.com/3am/a-serge-...

Illustration of the robbery of Société Générale Bank in Chantilly on 25 March 1912. By Le Petit Journal - This file comes from Gallica Digital Library and is available under the digital ID bpt6k717003q/f4, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3922545

Today in #LaborHistory 4/21/1913: Andre Soudy & Raymond Callemin of anarchist #BonnotGang executed. Callemin started paper "L'anarchie" with #author & #revolutionary #VictorSerge. #Anarchist Bonnot Gang funded their movement through robberies. Among first to use cars & automatic rifles in robberies.

Greg Afinogenov · Thank God for Dynamite: Victor Serge in the Archives Victor Serge’s self-conscious marginality, the cause of enormous struggle during his life, became a posthumous badge...

A review of: "What Every Radical Should Know about State Repression: A Guide for Activists" by Victor Serge, and "Revolutionary Philanthropy: Aid to Political Prisoners and Exiles in Late Imperial Russia" by Stuart Finkel.

#VictorSerge #Revolution

Image is a caricature of the Bonnot gang in their getaway car. By Unknown author - Le Figaro (Bibliothèque nationale de France), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5144161

Today in #LaborHistory 12/21/1911: Anarchist Bonnot Gang pulled off 1 of the 1st bank robberies ever with a getaway car. Also among the 1st to use repeating rifles. Connected with “L’Anarchie,” edited by #VictorSerge.

#workingclass #anarchism #russia #banks #Revolution #prison

However I am currently vexed by a bookish dilemma… do I read #victorserge or #dostoevsky next??? 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

"He who does not cry out the truth when he knows the truth becomes the accomplice of the liars and falsifiers."

✒ #VictorSerge, Russian anarchist, novelist, and historian, #DOTD 17 November 1947. #History #Literature