biographies

Pasotti, Giuseppe, 1888-1951

Submitted by Steven. on Feb 19 2006 10:17

A short biography of Italian anarchist, Giuseppe Pasotti, who ran a network to smuggle militants and materials into Spain during the Civil War.

Giuseppe Pasotti - The Network Man
Born 10 February 1888 - Italy, died 21 April 1951 - Tunis, Tunisia

Radowitzky, Simon, 1891-1956

Submitted by Steven. on Feb 18 2006 09:57

A biography of Ukrainian-born anarchist Simon Radowitzky, who assassinated a police chief responsible for the killings of workers.

Simon Radowitzky
Aka Szymon Radowicki, born 10 September or November 1891 - Ukraine, died 29 February 1956 - Mexico

Szymon Radowicki (more usually known in Argentina as Simon Radowitzky) was born on either the 10th of September or November 1891 into a workers family in the Jewish community in the little Ukrainian village of Stepanice (Stapanesso).

Rexroth, Kenneth, 1905-1982

Submitted by Steven. on Feb 18 2006 09:48

A short biography of poet, anarchist and pioneer of the Beat movement Kenneth Rexroth.

Labor power on the market,
Firepower on the battlefield,
It is all one merely two
Aspects of the same monster.
The Dragon and the Unicorn

Rothziegel, Leo, 1892-1919

Submitted by Steven. on Feb 18 2006 09:38

Leo Rothzeigel, right, in Budapest. Egon Erwin Kisch is beside him.

A short biography of Austrian anarchist Leo Rothziegel, who was killed in the fighting following the Hungarian Revolution of 1918.

Leo Rothziegel
Born 5 December 1892 - Austria, died 29 April 1919 - Hungary

Roussenq, Paul, 1885-1949

Submitted by Steven. on Feb 18 2006 09:21

A short biography of French anarchist Paul Roussenq, who spent much of his life in prison camps.

Paul Roussenq
Born 1885 - France, died August 1949 - France

The jailbird of Saint Gilles

Tronchet, Lucien, 1902-1981

Submitted by Steven. on Feb 14 2006 14:11

A short biography of Swiss building worker, labour organiser and anarcho-syndicalist Lucien Tronchet.

Born in Geneva in 1902 while a building workers’ strike in favour of the 60-hour working week was underway (it was Switzerland's first general strike) Lucien Tronchet became an anarcho-syndicalist militant from 1920 onwards and played his part in all of the social disputes in Switzerland.

Xuhat, Ngo Van, 1913-2005

Submitted by Steven. on Feb 14 2006 13:25

A short biography of Vietnamese libertarian socialist and metal worker Ngo Van Xuhat.

Ngo Van Xuhat Born 1913, Vietnam, died 2005, France

Ngo Van Xuhat , author of The Saigon Commune, started his political career as a Trotskyist but by the end of his life had developed libertarian analyses.

Orive, Wenceslao Jimenez 'Wences', 1922-1950

Submitted by Steven. on Jan 19 2006 10:54

Guerrilla - Wenceslao Jimenez 'Wences' Orive

A short biography of Wenceslao Jimenez 'Wences' Orive, Spanish anarchist who fought in the guerrilla resistance to Franco following the fascist victory in the Civil War.

Wenceslao Jimenez ‘Wences' Orive
Born Spain, 28 January 1922, died Spain, 9 January 1950

Wences was born in Gijon (Asturias) on the 28th January 1922. He was the oldest of four brothers. His father was a railway worker, ticket collector and activist in the anarcho-syndicalist union the CNT.