biographies

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

Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman

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…

Friedetzky, Heinrich, 1910-1998

Heinrich Friedetzky was a German anarchist who preserved his beliefs despite the experiences of Nazism, prison and concentration camps.

Storione, Lawrence 1867-1922

A short biography of Lawrence Storione, miner and founder of the Anarchist Communist League in Fife.

Aniela Wolberg

Wolberg, Aniela Franciszka 1907-1937

A short biography of Polish anarchist Aniela Wolberg.

Wilkens, Jack (1897-1936) aka Vilkens aka Ivan aka Jaime Salan aka J Galan aka Manuel Fernandez Alvar

A short biography of the shadowy and mysterious figure of Wilkens, intrepid Spanish anarchist who was one of the first in Western Europe to offer serious criticisms of the Bolsheviks.

Lev Zadov

Zadov, Lev Nikolaevich aka Zinkovsky aka Leva aka Levka the Bandit 1893-1938

Short biography of Lev Zadov, anarchist communist, metalworker and (in)famous organiser of the…