Author Mark Bray created a twitter thread to discuss his new book Anarchist Education and the Modern School: A Francisco Ferrer Reader just released on PM Press. For those not on Twitter we created this blog post so you can read along and learn about Francisco Ferrer. (We apologize for the duplicate tweets)
1) THREAD. I'm so psyched to finally have a copy of Anarchist Education and the Modern School: A Francisco Ferrer Reader in my hands! But who the hell was Francisco Ferrer? @PMPressOrg pic.twitter.com/7v5DcKoqu3
— Mark Bray (@Mark__Bray) October 15, 2018
3) In his youth, Ferrer was a revolutionary republican who worked with Manuel Ruiz Zorrilla to foment military insurrection against the Spanish crown. All of their efforts failed and Ferrer fled from Spain to France in 1885. pic.twitter.com/NTiR6kS504
— Mark Bray (@Mark__Bray) October 15, 2018
4) In France, Ferrer became disillusioned with republicanism after witnessing the French Third Republic firsthand. He moved toward anarchism in the midst of a revival of anti-authoritarian unionism in the form of revolutionary syndicalism.
— Mark Bray (@Mark__Bray) October 15, 2018
6) In 1906 the school was shut down when Ferrer was accused of being an accomplice to Mateo Morral who bombed a royal procession on Calle Mayor in Madrid on May 31, 1906. pic.twitter.com/N050MhXVzD
— Mark Bray (@Mark__Bray) October 15, 2018
8) Ferrer was arrested again in 1909 for his alleged role as 'mastermind' of the Tragic Week revolt in Barcelona against conscription for a colonial war in Morocco. It involved a general strike, popular insurrection, + the burning and looting of churches and convents. pic.twitter.com/ZNpX0JYrM9
— Mark Bray (@Mark__Bray) October 15, 2018
10) Ferrer's execution sparked an international wave of protests, riots, and general strikes. Over the coming decades it also sparked the creation of the Modern School Movement as Ferrerian schools were founded around the world. pic.twitter.com/5226gurG2s
— Mark Bray (@Mark__Bray) October 15, 2018
11) If this sounds interesting, check out Anarchist Education and the Modern School: A Francisco Ferrer Reader which I co-edited with Robert Haworth on @PMPressOrg. It has a wide variety of Ferrer's writings on education insurrection general strike + more https://t.co/tE9wr44VyN pic.twitter.com/DJ9ZJwvEnE
— Mark Bray (@Mark__Bray) October 15, 2018