Rudolf Rocker
Prominent anarcho-syndicalist who organised extensively amongst the Jewish community in the East End of London.
Rocker, Rudolf, 1873-1958
Biography of famed German anarcho-syndicalist, Rudolf Rocker, who amongst other things organised Jewish garment workers in London's East End.
Rudolf Rocker
Born 25 March 1873 - Mainz, Germany, died 19 September 1958 - New York, USA
Maximov, Gregori Petrovich - a short biography, 1893-1950
A short account of the life of a prominent exiled Russian anarcho-syndicalist, perhaps best known for his compilation of Bakunin's writings and also The Guillotine At Work (1940) - his epic survey of Bolshevik state repression from 1918 onwards.
Gregori Petrovich Maximov was born on November 10, 1893, in the Russian village of Mitushino, province of Smolensk. After studying for the priesthood, he realised this was not his vocation and went to St. Petersburg, where he graduated as an agronomist at the Agricultural Academy in 1915.
Introduction to Rudolf Rocker
Rudolf Rocker, 1873-1958
Born in Germany, Rocker was a bookbinder and socialist. He later became an anarcho-syndicalist and moved to London where, though a Gentile, he became a leading figure in the Jewish anarchist movement and edited the weekly anarchist Yiddish paper.
Later deported, he was forced to flee Nazi Germany and settled in the US until his death.
Key text(s): Anarchism and Anarcho-Syndicalism, Anarcho-Syndicalism
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Anarcho-Syndicalism - Rudolf Rocker
Classic extended work of Rudolf Rocker on anarcho-syndicalism
Anarchism and Anarcho-Syndicalism
Ideology of Anarchism
Anarchism is a definite intellecutal current of social thought, whose adherents advocate the abolition of economic monopolies and of all political and social coercive institutions within society.
The Tragedy of Spain - Rudolf Rocker
German anarcho-syndicalist Rudolf Rocker's history of the Spanish Civil War and Revolution.
July 19th was the anniversary of the day on which a gang of militarist adventurers rose against the republican regime in Spain and, with the assistance of outside powers and foreign troops, plunged the country into a bloody war.
Anarchism and Sovietism
The Soviet System or the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
Perhaps the reader thinks he has found a flaw in the above title and that the soviet system and the dictatorship of the proletariat are one and the same thing? No. They are two radically different ideas which, far from being mutually complementary, are mutually opposed.
Marx and Anarchism
SOME YEARS AGO, shortly after Frederick Engels died, Mr. Eduard Bernstein, one of the most prominent members of the Marxist community, astonished his colleagues with some noteworthy discoveries. Bernstein made public his misgivings about the accuracy of the materialist interpretation of history, and of the Marxist theory of surplus value and the concentration of capital.
