Today in Labor History December 27, 1918: The Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine (RIAU) seized 7 airplanes, establishing an Insurgent Air Fleet. The RIAU was an anarchist peasant army led by Nestor Makhno. During the Ukrainian War of Independence, they created a stateless libertarian communist society known as the Free Territory, or Makhnovshchina. Roughly 7 million people lived there. The peasants who lived there refused to pay rent to the landowners and seized the estates and livestock of the church, state and private landowners, setting up local committees to manage them and share them among the various villages and communes of the Free State. They implemented a system of common land ownership among the peasantry and they established hospitals, schools and children’s communes. Their influence extended over nearly one-third of the country.

In 1919, Trotsky banned the 4th Ukrainian Congress of Free Soviets with Order #1824. He also declared Nestor Makhno an outlaw. In 1920, the Bolsheviks began attacking Makhnovshchina, after the Maknovists had defeated White Army, their common enemy. But many soldiers in the Red Army defected and joined the Makhnovists in their fight against the Bolsheviks. Nevertheless, the Bolsheviks ultimately crushed Makhnovshchina in 1921. Nester Makhno barely escaped, and with serious injuries. He died in exile in Paris, July 25, 1934.

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Today in Labor History October 26, 1889: The Ukrainian anarchist general Nestor Makhno was born in Huliaipole,. Makhno led a large insurrectionary army of peasants and helped defeat the reactionary White armies. His Black Army ultimately liberated and held onto the Free Territory within Ukraine, known as Makhnovia, from 1918 to 1921. It was a stateless, anarchist society that was defended by the Black Army. Roughly 7 million people lived in the area. The peasants who lived there refused to pay rent to the landowners and seized the estates and livestock of the church, state and private landowners, setting up local committees to manage them and share them among the various villages and communes of the Free State. His uprising was eventually crushed by Trotsky. Makhno died in exile in Paris, July 25, 1934.

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Today in Labor History September 18, 1945: Russian anarchist Volin died of tuberculosis in Paris. He participated in both the Russian and Ukrainian Revolutions before the Bolsheviks forced him into exile. He also participated in the protests that culminated in Bloody Sunday (1905). During the ensuing strikes he led the creation of the first St. Petersburg Soviet. He criticized the October Revolution for bringing the Bolsheviks to power and then left for Ukraine, where he became an important figure and, eventually, Chairman of the Military Revolutionary Council, of the anarchist Makhnovshchina, a large enclave in Ukraine, lasting about 4 years, organized under anarcho-communist principles.

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Today in Labor History December 27, 1918: The Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine (RIAU) seized 7 airplanes, establishing an Insurgent Air Fleet. The RIAU was an anarchist peasant army led by Nestor Makhno. During the Ukrainian War of Independence, they created a stateless libertarian communist society known as the Free Territory, or Makhnovia. It lasted from 1918 to 1921, when it was ultimately crushed by the Bolsheviks.

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Today in Labor History October 26, 1889: The Ukrainian anarchist general Nestor Makhno was born in Huliaipole,. Makhno led a large insurrectionary army of peasants and helped defeat the reactionary White armies. His Black Army ultimately liberated and held onto the Free Territory within Ukraine, known as Makhnovia, from 1918 to 1921. It was a stateless, anarchist society that was defended by the Black Army. Roughly 7 million people lived in the area. The peasants who lived there refused to pay rent to the landowners and seized the estates and livestock of the church, state and private landowners, setting up local committees to manage them and share them among the various villages and communes of the Free State. His uprising was eventually crushed by Trotsky. Makhno died in exile in Paris, July 25, 1934.

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Today in Labor History September 18, 1945: Russian anarchist Volin died of tuberculosis in Paris. He participated in both the Russian and Ukrainian Revolutions before the Bolsheviks forced him into exile. He participated in the protests that culminated in Bloody Sunday (1905). During the ensuing strikes he led the creation of the first St. Petersburg Soviet. He criticized the October Revolution for bringing the Bolsheviks to power and then left for Ukraine, where he became an important figure and, eventually, Chairman of the Military Revolutionary Council, of the anarchist Makhnovshchina, a large enclave in Ukraine, lasting about 4 years, organized under anarcho-communist principles.

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Today in Labor History December 27, 1918: The Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine (RIAU) seized 7 airplanes, establishing an Insurgent Air Fleet. The RIAU was an anarchist peasant army led by Nestor Makhno. During the Ukrainian War of Independence, they created a stateless libertarian communist society known as the Free Territory, or Makhnovia. It lasted from 1918 to 1921, when it was ultimately crushed by the Bolsheviks.

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Today in Labor History October 26, 1889: The Ukrainian anarchist general Nestor Makhno was born in Huliaipole,. Makhno led a large insurrectionary army of peasants and helped defeat the reactionary White armies. His Black Army ultimately liberated and held onto the Free Territory within Ukraine, known as Makhnovia, from 1918 to 1921. It was a stateless, anarchist society that was defended by the Black Army. Roughly 7 million people lived in the area. The peasants who lived there refused to pay rent to the landowners and seized the estates and livestock of the church, state and private landowners, setting up local committees to manage them and share them among the various villages and communes of the Free State. His uprising was eventually crushed by Trotsky. Makhno died in exile in Paris, July 25, 1934.

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Today in Labor History September 18, 1945: Russian anarchist Volin died of tuberculosis in Paris. He participated in both the Russian and Ukrainian Revolutions before the Bolsheviks forced him into exile. He participated in the protests that culminated in Bloody Sunday (1905). During the ensuing strikes he led the creation of the first St. Petersburg Soviet. He criticized the October Revolution for bringing the Bolsheviks to power and then left for Ukraine, where he became an important figure and, eventually, Chairman of the Military Revolutionary Council, of the anarchist Makhnovshchina, a large enclave in Ukraine, lasting about 4 years, organized under anarcho-communist principles.

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