biographies

Biographies of revolutionaries, radicals, historical figures and working class activists.

Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman

The Life and Teaching of Karl Marx (1925) M. Beer

The Life and Teaching of Karl Marx (1925) M. Beer

Part of the series of biographies of Karl Marx. Max Beer was a member of the German Communist Party. We reproduce this text for reference.

Karl Marx: An Essay (1921) Harold Laski

Karl Marx: An Essay (1921) Harold Laski

Part of the series of biographies of Karl Marx. Harold Laski was a member of the Labour Party (UK) and this work was published for the Fabian…

Karl Marx: The Man and his Work (1918)

Karl Marx: The Man and his Work (1918) Karl Dannenburg

Part of the series of biographies of Karl Marx. Karl Dannenburg was a member of the Socialist Labor…

Nestor Maĥno

Biografio de la revoluciulo anarkiisto el Ukrainio.

Sebastiano Faŭro

Biografio pri la vivo de Sebastiano Faŭro Francio anarĥiisto.

The Japanese man who died on the Spanish front - Miyamoto Masao

An English translation from the Esperanto article on the life and death of the Japanese volunteer in…

Jose Sanchez Rosa.

Sanchez Rosa, Jose (1864-1936): The Shoemaker of Grazalema

A short biography of Jose Sanchez Rosa, noted Andalucian anarchist shot by the Francoists in 1936

Orobón Fernández and the Workers Alliance – Ramón Álvarez Palomo

A short biography of Valeriano Orobón Fernández, widely regarded as one of the great figures of…

Giuditta and Ilario

Zanella, Giuditta Maria (1885-1962)

A short biography of Giuditta Zanella, Italian anarchist who fought with the Durruti Column

Lola Iturbe

Iturbe, Lola aka Kyra Kyralina aka Kiralina (1902-1990)

A short biography of the Spanish anarchist Lola Iturbe, fighter for women's liberation

Headline of the underground newspaper Anarquía produced by FAI members in 1937

Merino Martínez, Julián (1897-1977) - Danny Evans

A short biography of the Spanish anarchist, who was a prominent ‘mid-level’ activist in the CNT, the FAI and the defence committees in Barcelona…

Marinus' mugshot, 1931

A half-blind communist with a sharp eye for the future. Marinus van der Lubbe (1909-1934) and his Reichstag Fire

Interesting history of Marinus van der Lubbe, the young communist building worker…