Emma Goldman
Articles by and about anarchist, feminist and birth control advocate, described as "one of the most dangerous women in America", Emma Goldman.
1892: The Homestead Strike
Extracts from Louis Adamic, Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman describing the Homestead Strike in 1892, and the circumstances of Berkman’s shooting of Henry Clay Frick, the head of the Carnegie Steel Company’s strike-breaking operation.
Document One: from Dynamite: a century of class violence in America 1830–1930, Louis Adamic, 1934 (reprinted by Rebel Press, London, 1984)
Letter from Emma Goldman to Upton Sinclair 26 January 1932
A scanned letter between Emma Goldman and Upton Sinclair.
Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940
A short biography of legendary anarchist Emma Goldman, "one of the most dangerous women in America" according to J. Edgar Hoover.
Emma Goldman was born in 1869 in a Jewish ghetto in Russia where her family ran a small inn. When she was 13 the family moved to St Petersburg. It was just after the assassination of Alexander II and so was a time of political repression. The Jewish community suffered a wave of pogroms.
Obituary for Ross Winn, 1871-1912 - Emma Goldman
Obituary for Texan anarchist Ross Winn written by Emma Goldman.
Marriage and Love
THE popular notion about marriage and love is that they are synonymous, that they spring from the same motives, and cover the same human needs. Like most popular notions this also rests not on actual facts, but on superstition.
Women's Suffrage
WE BOAST of the age of advancement, of science, and progress. Is it not strange, then, that we still believe in fetich worship? True, our fetiches have different form and substance, yet in their power over the human mind they are still as disastrous as were those of old.
The Traffic in Women
OUR REFORMERS have suddenly made a great discovery--the white slave traffic. The papers are full of these "unheard-of conditions," and lawmakers are already planning a new set of laws to check the horror.
The Modern Drama: A Powerful Disseminator of Radical Thought
SO LONG as discontent and unrest make themselves but dumbly felt within a limited social class, the powers of reaction may often succeed in suppressing such manifestations.
Anarchy Defended by Anarchists
A rare article defending anarchism, by two of its principle proponents in the early-20th Century United States
Kronstadt 1921: An analysis of Bolshevik propaganda - Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman analyzes the Bolshevik propaganda over Kronstadt, including the claim it was a "White Plot" led by the Tsarist general Kozlovsky (pictured)
Kronstadt 1921: An Analysis of Bolshevik Propaganda
