Parris, Touzeau, 1839-1907
Submitted by Battlescarred on Mar 7 2012 17:28
A short biography of Touzeau Parris, secularist and anarchist, active in the Socialist league
Thomas Collins Touzeau Parris, usually known throughout his life as Touzeau Parris, was born in Honiton, Devon. He attended Bristol Grammar School and Bristol Baptist College. He became a Unitarian minister and chaplain for Samuel Courtauld, the mill owner. He helped his father sell books in Bristol.
Lahr, Johanna, 1867-1904
Submitted by Battlescarred on Mar 5 2012 09:47
A short biography of Johanna Lahr, anarchist active in the Socialist League
"The journeymen bakers of London are at last making themselves heard, being urged on by the lessons taught by the skilled and unskilled Labour Strike of the dockers, and the sweated tailors in the East End, which showed what can be done if workers are united and organised...do you toil and suffer such lives under these wretched conditions for yourselves and your families, or your masters?
Practical anarchists, we’: social revolutionaries in Dublin, 1885–7 - Fintan Lane
Submitted by flaneur on Jan 19 2012 04:42
Article by Fintan Lane on the pocket of anarchism in Ireland in the 1880s.
When we think of revolutionaries in late nineteenth-century Ireland, we think of Fenians rather than the anarchist agitators who were then making their presence felt on the Continent. Irish revolutionary thought focused on republicanism rather than on class politics—at least until the twentieth century.
Deakin, Joseph Thomas 1858-1937
Submitted by Battlescarred on May 5 2011 21:20
A short biography of Joe Deakin, anarchist ensnared in the Walsall bomb plot provocation
“A far away, dreamy, poetic look, almost reminding one of the portraits of Shelley (Walsall Free Press, 9th January 1892)
Leggatt, Edward (Ted) -18?-1935
Submitted by Battlescarred on Apr 28 2011 14:14
A short biography of Ted Leggatt, anarchist and carman
“I belong to the highest class in the land- the working class- who keep those who neither toil nor spin”. Ted Leggatt, 1895.
Parker, William Brand, 18??- 193?
Submitted by Battlescarred on Feb 6 2011 14:59
A short biography of William Brand Parker (usually known as W.B. Parker), anarchist active in the Socialist League who later moved to the ILP and pro-war politics.
W. B. Parker was a stalwart of the Socialist League and an anarchist within it. He had been a founder of the Social Democratic Federation and appears to have joined the League in 1886. He took a regular part in SL propaganda work and was often a speaker and lecturer.
Liberty: A journal of anarchist communism
Submitted by Boris Badenov on Mar 26 2010 22:29
Founded in London in 1894 by James Tochatti and Louisa Sarah Bevington, Liberty (subtitled A Journal of Anarchist Communism) was a short-lived but influential anarchist publication. Contributors included William Morris, Sam Mainwaring, Errico Malatesta, Peter Kropotkin, Louise Michel, F. D. Nieuwenhuis and others.
Barclay, Tom, 1852-1933
Submitted by Battlescarred on Mar 8 2010 12:52
A short biography of Tom Barclay, a founder of the Socialist League in Leicester.
Thomas Patrick Barclay was born to an impoverished Irish immigrant family in Leicester in 1852. Tom’s parents from Limerick and Mayo had been forced to quit Ireland because of the potato famine. They lived in a two-room hovel. He never went to school and was taught to read by his mother. His father scraped a living as a rag and bone man.
Cantwell, Thomas Edward, 1864-1906
Submitted by Battlescarred on Feb 6 2010 17:22
A short biography of Tom Cantwell, anarchist active in the Socialist League and with Freedom
"Cantwell was neither a great writer nor speaker, yet he did both well whenever he made the attempt. His specialty was spade work. He often comes to my mind when I listen to the excuses of those who think they cannot be useful without genius.
How shall we live then? William Morris
How shall we live then? is the text of the speech given by William Morris in 1889 about life under socialism.
This text is taken from the manuscript of a lecture first given by Morris at a meeting sponsored by the Fabian Society at Bloomsbury Hall London on March 1st 1889 and repeated two days later at a meeting of the Hammermith Branch of the Socialist League. It was given at least three times more in London and Leicester during January and February the following year.
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