Right for everyone
Recht voor Allen ( Right for All ) was a Dutch social democratic magazine, initially independent of any party, later the organ of the Sociaal –democratic Partij in Nederland (Social Democratic Party, Netherlands, SDP), published from 1879 to 1900. The editor in charge was the Social Democrat and later anarchist Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis .
history
On March 1, 1879, the first edition of Recht voor Allen , edited by Jan Antoon Fortuyn, appeared in his bookstore, later called Algemeene en sociale Bookhandel (literally: "General and social bookstore") in the Jordaan district of Amsterdam . The magazine was sold with a lot of propaganda on Saturday evening and there were often clashes with the police and part of the population. In 1879 FD Nieuwenhuis was responsible for the editorial department, with later collaboration from Alexander Cohen. At that time, Recht voor Allen appeared once a week. Christiaan Cornelissen became co-editor of the magazine on January 1, 1882.
On March 1, 1884, with the number 1 in the 6th year, Nieuwenhuis handed the magazine over to the Sociaal –democratic Bond (Social Democratic Union, SDB) and the subtitle was Orgaan van de sociaal –democratic Partij Nederland (“Organ of the Social Democratic Party of the Netherlands”) ). From January 1885, Recht voor Allen appeared twice a week and since 1886 three times a week. Because of lese majeste Nieuwenhuis was sentenced to one year in prison because of an article in April 1886 against the monarchy taught. It was unclear whether Nieuwenhuis was the author, but as the main editor he had taken on responsibility. He began his prison sentence on January 19, 1887 in Utrecht, " whereby he was treated as an ordinary criminal ". The editing was taken over by Cornelis Croll for this period. As a daily newspaper from Monday to Friday, Recht voor Allen appeared from January 2, 1889 at a price of 2 cents in The Hague with a circulation of 15,000 copies. Authors and collaborators included Han Kuijsten, Joan A. Nieuwenhuis and, at times, also as editors Harm Kolthek and JA Berg-Meijer.
As a daily newspaper, it could exist for a year. After the Supreme Court ( “Hoge Raad” ) banned the Social Democratic Federation on the grounds that it was an association that did not seek to change social and state power structures on the basis of the Basic Law, but rather to overturn the existing political order . Since 1890, the newspaper has had an increasingly critical orientation on a social democratic basis. Nieuwenhuis remained a member of the Social Democratic Federation until 1898, when he resigned as editor-in-chief of Recht voor Allen and founded the anarchist magazine De Vrije Socialist . In 1898 he definitely professed anarchism. Recht voor Allen continued to appear as a party newspaper.
Individual evidence
- ^ History of the Right of All . Dutch, accessed February 15, 2011
- ↑ Workers in de Jordaan . Dutch, accessed November 5, 2009
- ↑ Quotation from article on FD Nieuwenhuis
- ^ Author Ger Harmsen, in: Biografisch Woordenboek van het Socialisme en de Arbeidersbewegung Nederland (BWSA) . In BWSA 6, 1995. Pages 157 to 163. In the archive of the IISG (Amsterdam). Available online, in Dutch. Retrieved November 5, 2009