Switzerland

Sam Mainwaring and the Autonomist Tradition

Next year (1987) marks the centenary of the first, August 1887, Socialist propaganda tour of Pontypridd, the Rhondda Fach, Aberdare and Merthyr…

Minnig, Albert, 1911-1968

A short biography of Albert Minnig, Swiss anarchist volunteer in Spain

Friend: Peter Kropotkin

Dumartheray, Francois, 1842-1931

A short biography of possibly the founder of anarchist communism, Francois Dumartheray of France.

Communist paper headline from the time

1932: The Geneva Massacre

An account of the shooting of over 100 people by the Swiss army at an anti-fascist demonstration.

Portrait of Clara Thalmann from a photo taken in 1953.

Thalmann, Clara, 1910-1987

A biography of Swiss anarchist Clara Thalmann, who travelled to Spain to fight in the Durruti Column in the Civil War.

Lucien Tronchet

Tronchet, Lucien, 1902-1981

A short biography of Swiss building worker, labour organiser and anarcho-syndicalist Lucien Tronchet.

Boesiger, Andre, 1913-2005

The biography of a veteran Swiss anarchist militant