biographies

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

Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman

Tsironis, Vasilis (1929-1978), the rebel assassinated doctor

A biography of doctor Tsironis, the radical maverick killed in his apartment in 1978 by the greek…

Bricianer, Serge, 1923-1997

A biography of French left communist Serge Bricianer.

Gogou, Katerina: Athens' anarchist poetess, 1940-1993

A biography of Katerina Gogou the anarchist poetess of Exarcheia.

Belogiannis, Nikos, the man with the carnation

A biography of Nikos Belogiannis, communist militant executed in 1952 by the Athens court-marshall, whose trials caused mass protest marches…

Chatterton portrait & a cover of The Scorcher

Chatterton, Dan autobiography

Written a few years before he died, Chatterton describes his time as a lifelong London working class radical and revolutionist.

Tom Barclay

Barclay, Tom, 1852-1933

A short biography of Tom Barclay, a founder of the Socialist League in Leicester.

Alfred Marsh

Marsh, Alfred 1858-1914

A short biography of Alfred Marsh, English anarchist communist who doggedly kept the Freedom newspaper going for many years

Tom Cantwell ( back left) with Charles Mowbray ( centre) and others

Cantwell, Thomas Edward, 1864-1906

A short biography of Tom Cantwell, anarchist active in the Socialist League and with Freedom

Karl Korsch: a Marxist friend of anarchism - A.R. Giles-Peters

A look at the life of Marxist theoretician Karl Korsch, and the relevance of his theoretical work to anarchism.

Anarkhiia, paper of Moscow Federation of Anarchist Groups - November 1917

Barmash, Vladimir Vladimirovich aka Gorbonos aka Valya aka Lonya, 1879-1938+

A short biography of Vladimir Barmash, prominent anarchist communist in Russia who perished in the…

Piotr Rybin (Zonov)

Rybin, Piotr (Rivkin; Zonov; Rybin-Zonov) (? - 1920)

A short biography of Piotr Rybin (Zonov) anarchist worker murdered by the Bolsheviks

Boris Veretelnik (front, left),

Veretelnik, Boris, c,1889?-1919

A short biography of Boris Veretelnik , Left Socialist Revolutionary and then anarchist and Makhnovist