anarchists

Remembering Ralph DiGia

Saii — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:01:14 +0000

On, February 1st, I got a call from Ruth Benn that Ralph DiGia, 93, had died at St. Vincent's in New York City. I had visited him recently and sensed he was losing his battle - he had fallen and broken a hip about two weeks before, got an infection in the hospital (hospitals in the US are notoriously dangerous places for the sick and .wounded to go!), and despite rallying several times, died.

Greenberg, Yiddelle 1909-194?

Ed — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:18:17 +0000

A salute to a comrade,

Rogdaev, Nikolai 188?-1932 aka Uncle Vanya

Battlescarred — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:02:14 +0000

Nikolai Ignatievich Rogdaev (Muzil) aka Uncle Vanya 188?-1932

Borrell, Federico 1912-1936

Battlescarred — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:44:51 +0000

Federico Borrell Garcia was born in Benilloba in Alicante, Spain on April 3 1912.

The son of Vicente Borrell and Maria Garcia, he was one of a large family with 3 brothers and 2 sisters, who lived in poverty-stricken conditions.

Gorelik, Grigorii aka Anatolii, 1889-1956

Battlescarred — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 18:17:00 +0000

Grigorii Gorelik, usually known as Anatolii Gorelik was born into a Jewish family in 1889. He became an anarchist in 1904, at the age of fourteen. He was active in the Ukraine, and was arrested several times by the Tsarist police.

Wess, Woolf, 1861-1946

Battlescarred — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 18:17:00 +0000

“He was the most modest of men” - Rudolf Rocker
Woolf Wess was born to a Jewish family in Vilkomar (or Ukmerge) near Kovno in Lithuania in 1861.

He was the son of a Hasidic master baker and at age of 12 was apprenticed to a shoemaker.

Berner, Rudolf, 1907-1977

Battlescarred — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 13:44:46 +0000

Berner, Rudolf (Rube) AKA Frank Tireur

Born on 14 July 1907 in Skövde (West Sweden), Rudolf Berner grew up in a small farmer and working-class family of many children. He attended school and learned painting and crafts.

Timmermann, Claus, 1866-1941

Battlescarred — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 10:49:56 +0000

“An ardent German anarchist…He had considerable poetic talent and wrote forceful propaganda…He was a likeable fellow and entirely trustworthy, though a considerable drinker”. - Living My Life. Emma Goldman

Estorach, Soledad

Battlescarred — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:05:34 +0000

Soledad Estorach Esteri was born on the 6th February 1915 at the small village of Albatarrech near Lerida.

Silva Cruz, Maria, 1915-1936

Battlescarred — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:43:25 +0000

Maria was born into a family of day labourers and charcoal burners in the impoverished village of Casas Viejas in Andalucia on 20 April 1915.

Her father Juan Silva Gonzalez and her uncle Jeronimo were in the CNT. Her grandmother read anarchist novels out loud to her as a young girl.

Jahn, Octave aka Octavio 1869-1917

Battlescarred — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:00:39 +0000

“A fervent propagandist of libertarian communism” - Max Nettlau

“A prototype even of the young anarchist of the heroic period of the movement” - Gaetano Manfredonia

Octave Jahn was born on 10 February 1869 in Cherbourg, France.

Eisenhauer, Theodor, 1850s/1860s?-1882

Battlescarred — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:58:51 +0000

Theodor Franz Eisenhauer was born in Luckau, in Brandenburg state in Germany.

He was one of the most committed and dedicated activists of the early German anarchist movement. He was a supporter of Johann Most and was associated with Peter Kropotkin in Switzerland in 1879.

Pfemfert, Franz aka Und Gaday 1879-1954

Battlescarred — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 13:49:30 +0000

Franz Pfemfert was born in the east Prussian town of Loetzen (today called Gizycko in Poland) on 20 November 1879. Soon after his birth his family moved to Berlin and Franz attended Joachimsthal High school.

Salamé Miro, José, 1920-2007

Battlescarred — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:56:32 +0000

José Salamé Miro was born in the small village of Vinebra in the Catalan province of Tarragona. His childhood was spent in Barcelona. His father was a saddler and sympathetic to the CNT, attending the libertarian ateneo of the neighbourhood. Jose was a choir boy as a child, but as he grew he started moving towards anarchist ideas. He became a member of the CNT and the Libertarian Youth (FIJL).

Ferrero, Pietro, 1892- 1922

Battlescarred — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:13:52 +0000

Pietro Ferrero was born at Grugliasco in Turin on 12th May 1892.

Garino, Maurizio, 1892-1977

Battlescarred — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:03:37 +0000

Maurizio Garino was born in November 1892, the son of Michele and Nicoletta Chiglioni in Ploaghe, Sardinia.

In 1895 the family moved to Turin and in 1900 to Cassine. After elementary school and a short stay in a religious school Maurizio became an apprentice carpenter and then a pattern-maker mechanic.

Del Papa, Ugo, 1875-1916

Battlescarred — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:01:27 +0000

Ugo Del Papa was, with Alberto Meschi, one of the founders of anarchism in the marble town of Carrara in Italy. He was born on 18th September 1875, the son of Romualdo and Lucia Pracchia. He became close to the anarchist movement from an early age. According to the police he was an enthusiastic “propagator of those criminal theories”.

Covelli, Emilio aka Mephistopheles, 1846 -1915

Steven. — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:29:26 +0000

Born in Trani into a family of wealthy aristocrats on 5th August 1846 Emilio was a classmate of Carlo Cafiero in Molfetta.

He studied for a law degree at the University of Naples in 1868 and then continued to study in Germany at the Universities of Heidelberg and Berlin. Here, according to Cafiero, he “tore off his bourgeois hide” and moved towards socialism.

Failla, Alfonso, 1906-1986

Battlescarred — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:02:07 +0000

Alfonso Failla was born in Siracusa, Sicily on 30th July 1906. He was drawn to the anarchist movement and was heavily involved in the activity of the movement.

Domaschi, Giovanni, 1891-1945

Battlescarred — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:54:42 +0000

Giovanni Domaschi was born on 30th December 1891 at Verona, the son of poor peasants.

They were never able to feed their eight children adequately, and three of them died young.

His hard life alerted him at an early age to social injustice and he began to see that the world was divided into two camps, the rich and the poor, those who rule and those who produce wealth.