Malatesta Club photo gallery

Photographs of members of the anarchist Malatesta Club in the 1950s from collection of Sam Fanaroff. The first image below shows Leah Feldman, the "Makhnovist Granny" on left, front row and Rita Milton right, front row.

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Can anyone identify anyone

Can anyone identify anyone else in the picture? I think that's Donald Rooum between Leah and Rita.

BTW, have added the

BTW, have added the photograph of Irene Brown to this gallery.
Battlescarred, if you want to add any more photos please just click the edit tab and scroll down to upload additional images.

Huw Warburg at the front

Huw Warburg at the front maybe? And most likely the black man on the right was Manny Obahiagbon, who was the one who had the idea of hiring the Malatesta Club and was generally involved in the 1950s according to Donald Rooum (Freedom 7111, page 11).

I think that the older man…

I think that the older man in the back row is Bonar Thompson.

A few more photographs added…

A few more photographs added from the album of Sam Fanaroff. With thanks to Nick Heath. There are more to do - and I might rescan these at higher resolution too. (This is a first attempt at scanning quite a large format and old photograph album...)

Some more photographs added…

Some more photographs added from the Sam Fanaroff album today. I'm not sure if these all relate to the Malatesta Club or not. If they don't maybe we can start a new album for them... (more to come).

Captions can be added...

Intrigued by that circle-A…

Intrigued by that circle-A banner/wall hanging, that must be a very early use of it.

I'm not sure of the…

I'm not sure of the chronology R Totale - it may be that the circled A banner was from later... let's see what turns up!

I've added another twenty photos today and I think that is all of them - I will need to double check. One of them is incredibly dark so I will see if anything can be done about that.