biographies

Biographies and autobiographies of key historical figures and thinkers, and ordinary people who have tried to change the world.

Khanifar, Gerard Ali, 1950-1997

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A short biography of French anarchist and Michelin worker Gerard Ali Khanifar.

This French comrade of Arab origin has died on 21 February 1997. Born on 10 August 1950 he went to the schools organised by Michelin for their workers.

Kitz, Frank, 1849-1923

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A short biography of British anarchist and dyer Frank Kitz who was active in London in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Frank Kitz
Born Francis Platt, 1849 – London, UK, died 1923 - London, UK

"One of the wittiest public speakers I have ever known."
- George Cores, Personal Recollections of the Anarchist Past

[i]"A bluff, breezy chap, fond of his beer and jolly company"
John Bruce Glasier, William Morris and the Early Days of the Socialist Movement

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