biographies

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

Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman

Juana Rouco Buela

Buela, Juana Rouco 1889-1969

A short biography of Juana Rouco Buela, formidable fighter for women's liberation and anarchism

Mendez Guerra, Esteban 1896-1979

A short biography of Mexican anarchist Esteban Mendez Guerra who fought with Pancho Villa and was a close associate of the outstanding anarchist Librado Rivera

Kaplan and his wife Rosa in 1900

Kaplan, Iacov aka Jacob Caplan, 18??-1933

A short biography of Jacob Caplan, stirring anarchist orator, active in Leeds and London.

Virginia Bolten

Bolten, Virginia 1870-1960?

A short biography of Virginia Bolten, aka the Louise Michel of Rosario, fearless fighter for anarchism and women's liberation

Alexander 'Sascha' Schapiro.

Sacha Piotr (Sascha Pjotr) aka Alexander Shapiro aka Sergei 1889/1890-1942(?)

A short biography of the obscure figure of Ukrainian anarchist Sacha Piotr-real name Alexander…

Borisov, Sergei Makarovich, aka Sasha Ciorniyi, Makar Sliahovsky, Piotr, Seeii, 1884-1910

A short biography of Sergei Borisov, organiser of anarchist combat groups in south…

Olga Taratuta

Taratuta, Olga Ilyinichna 1876-1938 (real name Elka Golda Elievna Ruvinskaia)

A short biography of Olga Taratuta the “grandmother” of the Russian anarchist movement and a founder…

Zhuk, Iustin Petrovich 1887-1919

A short biography of Iustin Zhuk, an heroic figure of Russian anarchism

Christakis, Leonidas, 1928-2009

A short biography of Leonidas Christakis, publisher of the first counterculture antiauthoritarian magazines in Greece during the colonels' junta,…

De Jong, Albert 1891-1970

A short biography of Albert de Jong, Dutch anarchist veteran.

Meschi, Alberto 1879-1958

A short biography of Alberto Meschi, great figure of Italian anarchism and still remembered fondly in Carrara.

Gustav Doster standing on left at illegal FAUD meeting in 1933.

Doster, Gustav aka Gustl 1904-1977

Gustav Doster was a leading light in the anarchist movement in the Rhineland. He organised underground anarchist networks under Nazism and…