Mollie Steimer, 1897-1980 - Paul Avrich The life of Mollie Steimer, a Jewish anarchist in New York who opposed the First World War, and later lived in exile in France and Mexico.
1930 Jewish anarchist memoirs are now online Wooden Shoe Books and the Dead Anarchists website are proud to announce the online release of Chaim Leib Weinberg’s Forty Years in the Struggle: The Memoirs of a Jewish Anarchist, which are translated by Naomi Cohen and edited by Robert P. Helms. We present this book for the first time in English, and in the only form that is now available to a general readership.
A review of Joe Jacob's 'Out of the Ghetto' - Al Richardson A review of the late Joe Jacob's excellent autobiography. Growing up in London's Jewish East End, Joe was variously a Communist Party militant, anti-fascist, Trotskyist, and in his later years a member of the Solidarity libertarian socialist group.
Muehsam, Erich, 1878-1934 A short biography of Erich Muehsam, German poet, playwright, bohemian and anarchist revolutionary.
1880-1945: Yiddish-speaking libertarians in France Short article tracing the development of the Jewish Yiddish language anarchist and syndicalists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in…
Doubinsky, Jacques, 1889-1959 A short biography of Ukrainian Jewish anarchist and Makhnovist Jacques Doubinsky, who was also active in France and Bulgaria.
Stetner, David, 1914-2002 A short biography of Romanian-Jewish anarchist and French resident David Stetner, who founded Yiddish anarchist journal Der Freie Gedank.
American defeat: an anti-state communist perspective on the war in Iraq, 2003 - Kevin Keating Keating's analysis of the US-UK war in Iraq, which we disagree with and which contains numerous flaws, including casual anti-semitism. We reproduce it for reference only.
Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940 A short biography of legendary anarchist Emma Goldman, "one of the most dangerous in America" according to J. Edgar Hoover, first director of…
Mett, Ida, 1901-1973 A short biography Ida Mett, Russian anarchist and author of The Kronstadt Commune about the uprising against the new Bolshevik dictatorship…
Rocker, Rudolf, 1873-1958 Biography of famed German anarcho-syndicalist, Rudolf Rocker, who amongst other things organised Jewish garment workers in London's East End.
The Brownshirts of Zionism - Abner Barnatan An article by a council communist on the fascistic qualities of 1930s Zionist revisionism. Originally published in "International Council…