Portal:Anarchism/Anniversaries/September/September 5

• 1869 – The Basle Congress of the International opens, in which the communist faction of Mikhail Bakunin (pictured) clashes with the majority Marxist faction
• 1872 – A commission to the investigate the anarchist Bakuninist Alliance meets during the International's Hague Congress in the Netherlands; Bakunin and his followers are expelled as a result
• 1882 – The Knights of Labor hold the first Labor Day celebration in the United States
• 1906 – Followers of the Flores Magón brothers, from Douglas, Arizona, attempt to capture the town of Agua Prieta in the Mexican state of Sonora
• 1912 – American avant garde anarchist composer John Cage is born in Los Angeles, California
• 1917 – In what is known as the Palmer Raids, United States federales attack Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) halls and offices in forty eight American cities
• 1924 – Emma Goldman leaves Paris for London in the hopes of finding an easier means of making a living
• 1936 – The death of 24-year-old anarchist Federico "Taino" Borrell is captured by Robert Capa in the iconic photo The Falling Soldier