biographies

A short biography of Emilienne Morin, active in France and Spain, companera of Buenaventura Durruti

Part of the series of biographies of Karl Marx. Isaiah Berlin was a Russian-British lecturer and…

Part of the series of biographies of Karl Marx. John Spargo was a founding member, intellectual and editor of the Socialist Party of America in…

Part of the series of biographies of Karl Marx. Keir Hardie founded, served as MP and led both the Independent Labour Party in 1893 and the…

Book length or pamphlet length (10,000 words+) or otherwise notable English-language biographies of the life of Karl Marx in chronological order

A biographical, political, and literary introduction to John Cornford, the first man to go from England to fight the fascist takeover in Spain in…

A detailed look at one of the most iconic rebels in history: Emiliano Zapata by Peter E Newell. Chronicles the development of the Mexican revolution in southern Mexico.

A short biography of James Morgan Brown, tailor, poet, gay socialist and anarchist communist.

This extract is from a centenary history of Freedom, published in 1986. Written by Heiner Becker, it offers as full a biography as we're likely…

A brief biography of a major figure in Russian anarchism, written by an Israeli journalist. [Joseph Nedava, Abba Gordin: A portrait of a Jewish…

Part of the series of biographies of Karl Marx. 'Karl Marx: The Story of His Life' (German: 'Karl Marx. Geschichte seines Lebens'), first…

A short biographical overview of the life of Jules Vallès