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Militant
Spanish anarchist militant, author, economist, educator, and theorist of cooperativism and self-management, who was a lifelong member of the CNT, both in Spain and in exile in South…
9 March 1913 – 1 August 1993
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Catalan writer, journalist and anarchist intellectual.
Catalan writer, journalist and anarchist intellectual.
1 July 1915 – 1 December 1960
View entryAnarchist Militant
Catalan dancer, actress, feminist, anarchist militant and member of Mujeres Libres, and later a communist.
3 August 1916 – 24 June 1999
View entryFrench syndicalist roofer, union activist and libertarian; whose death at the hands of the military-style discipline camp at Djenan al-Dar, Algeria, incited the Aernoult–Rousset affair.
Albert Aernoult was born on 19 October 1886 in Romainville, Seine, son of a laborer. He became a ditch digger. He was a trade union activist, and played…
19 October 1866 – 2 July 1909
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Antifascist Militant
Alexander Nakov had started working after his primary studies as a farm worker. Then he left for the mining region of Pernik where, in 1937, he participated in…
1 August 1919 – 10 November 2018
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American photographer and anarchist.
Renowned both for his photography and his promotion of modern art through his galleries "291" and "The Intimate Gallery", and magazines such as '291' and 'Camera Work'. He…
1 January 1964 – 13 July 1946
View entryFrench railway worker, farmer, electrician, mason and militant libertarian communist. The son of a fisherman, André Daunis joined for four years in 1915 and was called to the…
1 August 1897 – 19 July 1985
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André Veidaux (anagrammatic pseudonym of Jean-Baptiste Adrien Devaux; b. 1868), French Symbolist writer, poet, critic and anarchist sympathiser. Based in Paris as a young adult, André Veidaux quickly…
17 July 1868 – 1 August 1927
View entrySyndicalist and Artist
Argentinian anarchist, anarcho-syndicalist, trades union organiser, popular library founder, autodidact, sculptor, story and song (chamarritas and coplas) writer. A leader of Entre Ríos trade unionism and the Federation…
2 August 1901 – 12 March 1980
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Antifascist Assassin
Angelo Sbardellotto was born on the 1st August 1907, the fifth of eleven children, into a numerous, and therefore poor family originally from the village of Villa; to…
1 August 1907 – 17 June 1932
View entryArtist and Revolutionary
Russo-Bulgarian sea captain, adventurer, anarchist, revolutionary, spy, smuggler, writer and artist, is sentenced to death and executed after being captured by the Germans trying to blow up gas…
16 January 1880 – 1 August 1941
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Portuguese anarchist, humanist, vegetarian, poet and essayist, born. Founder of the Comuna da Luz, the first anarchist community in Portugal. A travelling salesman, he spent most of his…
3 August 1886 – 20 December 1967
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Italian-American anarchist sculptor and teacher, who was the printer and engraver for the militant Italian language journal 'Cronaca Sovversiva'.
20 October 1859 – 1 August 1941
View entryItalian revolutionary, anti-authoritarian precursor of libertarian socialism and the first Italian (and essentially Proudhonian) anarchist.
Pisacane was born in Naples on 22 August 1818 to an impoverished noble family, and he entered the Neapolitan army in 1839; but having become imbued with Mazzinian…
2 August 1818 – 2 July 1857
View entrySpanish singer, poet, songwriter, journalist, one-time communist but later an anarchist and CNT member.
José Antonio Sánchez Ferlosio, later known by the nickname "Chicho", was born in 1940. He was the third son of the Falangist leader Rafael Sánchez Mazas, and the…
8 April 1940 – 1 July 2003
View entryBetter known simply as Constant (b. 1920), Dutch painter, sculptor, graphic artist, author and musician, who was a founding member of both CoBrA and the Internationale Situationniste, and…
21 July 1920 – 1 August 2005
View entryPoet and Songwriter
French-born poet, songwriter, screenwriter, libertarian and anarcho-syndicalist, born. The son of militant libertarian Spanish exiles, he was born in the Montauban (Tarn-et-Garonne) refugee camp [his father was interned…
1 August 1941 – 31 May 2004
View entryWriter and Warfighter
Catalan anarchist, anarcho-syndicalist, Civil War and Résistance fighter, writer and polyglot.
8 June 1921 – 2 August 2009
View entryChilean writer, shoemaker, tailor, coal seller, boxer, proofreader, propagandist, salesman and Tolstoyan anarchist.
Chilean writer, shoemaker, tailor, coal seller, boxer, proofreader, propagandist, salesman and Tolstoyan anarchist.
1 July 1886 – 12 July 1973
View entryTheorist
Spanish anarchist theorist, Cuban-born and Catalonian raised. A writer, free-thinker, engineer, teacher, mathematics professor, and director of the Escuela Politecnica of Barcelona. a mathematics professor born in Cuba…
2 August 1861 – 15 March 1915
View entryCzech poet, novelist, short story writer, Impressionist playwright, anti-militarist and anarchist rebel.
Czech poet, novelist, short story writer, Impressionist playwright, anti-militarist and anarchist rebel.
19 January 1877 – 1 July 1952
View entryIndividualist
Italian individualist anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist, dies in a Soviet gulag.
4 October 1893 – 3 August 1942
View entryFrench worker-poet, anarchist and pacifist songwriter, born. Member of La Muse Rouge goguette, participated in the Vache Enragée's fêtes ouvrières and the pacifist 'La Patrie Humaine'. [www.ephemanar.net/aout01.html#1 militants-anarchistes.info/spip.php?article7303…
1 August 1875 – 31 October 1955
View entryAuthor and Feminist
French woman of letters (novels, biographies, essays, poetry, memoirs, etc.) and libertarian feminist, whose ceaseless campaigning led to her one of the most influential and best-known leaders of…
12 March 1920 – 3 August 2005
View entryPoet
American poet, literary critic, "old-line anarchist" and "rural communist with a small c".
3 August 1921 – 29 September 2008
View entryGerman poet, essayist and novelist; Author of 'Der Steppenwolf' (1927).
Hermann Hesse (born July 2, 1877, Calw, Germany—died August 9, 1962, Montagnola, Switzerland) was a German novelist and poet who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in…
2 July 1877 – 9 August 1962
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Author and Syndicalist
Belarusian-born anarchist, syndicalist and author. Member of the Dielo Truda (Дело Труда / Workers' Cause) group from 1925 to 1928. Author of 'The Kronstadt Uprising' (1921) and 'The…
20 July 1901 – 27 June 1973
View entryJournalist
Russian journalist and prominent Siberian anarchist activist, born. Author of 'Siberian Makhnovshchina : Siberian Anarchists in the Russian Civil War (1918-1924)', 2011, which was published as 'Анархия в…
2 August 1962 – 1 August 2006
View entrySyndicalist Educator
Catalan nurse, syndicalist, member of the International and rationalist educator, who is considered to have been a pioneer of syndicalism in Catalonia.
3 August 1843 – 23 December 1896
View entryJewish Russian anarchist theorist, historian, later a Christian socialist and Bolshevik sympathiser and Prolekult propagandist.
His published works include a history of revolutionary Narodism, its ties with the First International and the Paris Commune, as well as titles on anarchist theory and various…
2 July 1878 – 18 February 1965
View entryIllegalist
French individualist anarchist and illegalist, guillotined in Paris for an attempted train robbery in which a person was killed. Charrier was not the killer, but he defended his…
2 May 1895 – 25 July 1922
View entryEssayist and Publisher
French writer, essayist, translator and publisher, post-situationist and libertarian anti-industrialist, who founded the post-situationist journal 'Encyclopédie des Nuisances' and the linked publishing house Éditions de l'Encyclopédie des Nuisances.
26 July 1947 – 3 August 2010
View entryShoe-maker guillotined for taking revenge against police after a wrongful conviction of for pimping.
Jean-Jacques Liabeuf was born in Saint-Étienne to André Louis Liabeuf and Marie Vignal. His father died when he was four years old and his mother had to bring…
11 January 1886 – 1 July 1910
View entryFeminist
French writer, journalist, pacifist and anarchist militant, who belonged to the néo-Malthusien movement, fighting for sexual freedom and for contraception and abortion rights, dies. She was sent to…
24 January 1890 – 1 August 1986
View entryTeacher
Spanish autodidact, teacher, anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist. A few days after the fascist uprising of 18 July 1936 he is arrested. A squad of Francoist Requetés loaded a truck…
22 October 1864 – 1 August 1936
View entrySpanish teacher, libertarian pedagogy researcher and militant advocate, and anarcho-feminist, who co-founded the Escuela Libre Paideia in Mérida (Badajoz) in 1978 with fellow libertarian education activists Concepción Castaño Casaseca i María Jesús Checa Simó.
She organized Nertóbriga, a boarding school, in Fregenal de la Sierra (Badajoz province), Spain. Nertóbriga was noted for its philosophy that children learn best with freedom from coercion.…
1 July 2009
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Uruguayan former soldier, autodidact, writer, poet, journalist and anarchist, born in Paysandú.
3 August 1888 – 14 August 1954
View entryMilitant
Catalonian militant anarcho-syndicalist and member of Mujeres Libres, born. Wrote many of her Mujeres Libres article under the pseudonym Kyralina, in tribute to the famous novel by Panaït…
1 August 1902 – 5 January 1990
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Revolutionary
Mariola Sirakova was born in Kilifarevo on 14 August 1904, the daughter of the district chief of Veliko Tarnovo. During her school years, she spent her free time…
14 August 1904 – 28 May 1925
View entryEnglish Professor of archaeology specialising in Early Medieval landscape archaeology, vegetarian, naturist, anarchist and atheist, who was best known for the Channel 4 programme 'Time Team'.
English Professor of archaeology specialising in Early Medieval landscape archaeology, vegetarian, naturist, anarchist and atheist, who was best known for the Channel 4 programme 'Time Team'.
1 July 1946 – 24 June 2013
View entryBritish mathematical philosopher, author, computer graphics expert, anarcho-communist and the youngest member of the Committee of 100 and of Spies For Peace, ending up in Wormwood Scrubs along with most of the rest of the Committee at the age of just sixteen.
n 1992 he was the co-author, with Prof A. Wuensche, of the book The Global Dynamics Of Cellular Automata, published in the Santa Fe Institute's Reference Volumes. The…
28 September 1943 – 1 July 2015
View entryRussian revolutionary and philosopher, theorist of collectivist anarchism
Russian revolutionary and philosopher, theorist of collectivist anarchism, who was plagiarised mercilessly by Karl Marx (whilst at the same time being vehemently denouncing by him "a nonentity as…
30 May 1814 – 1 July 1876
View entryItalian anarchist and propagandist, co-founder with Ettore Molinari of 'Il Grido della Folla' (The Cry of the Crowd) and 'Umanità Nova'.
Nella Giacomelli (d. 1949), Italian anarchist and propagandist, co-founder with Ettore Molinari of 'Il Grido della Folla' (The Cry of the Crowd) in 1902 and of 'Umanità Nova'…
View entrytalian-American anarcha-feminist activist, who helped found Paterson's anarchist Gruppo Diritto all'Esistenza (Right to an Existence Group); co-founded a local feminist group and, with her companion Firmino Gallo, ran the Libreria Sociologica anarchist bookshop said to be "America's richest storehouse of extreme radical literature".
She grew up in Mongrando in the Piedmont region of Italy, where she met Firmino (or Fermino) Gallo, a silk weaver. Both were active in the anarchist movement…
2 July 1874 – 1 September 1969
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Syrian Anarchist and theorist advocating horizontal organisation
Syrian anarchist, intellectual, and revolutionary. He is known for his role in working with the Local Coordination Committees during the early stages of the Syrian Civil War and…
18 February 1949 – 16 February 2013
View entryPropagandist
French weaver, and anarchist individualist activist and propagandist. an anarchist individualist activist who was then residing at Paris 74 rue Castagnary (15th), had been kept reformed in 1914…
3 August 1887 – 11 September 1953
View entryAuthor and Psychotherapist
American anarchist cultural critic, poet, playwright, novelist and psychotherapist, dies. Author of 'Communitas: Means of Livelihood and Ways of Life' (1947); 'Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in…
11 September 1911 – 2 August 1972
View entryPrisoner
Known as the "anarchist convict" for the long prison sentences he endured following various offences against authority, dies.
5 May 1885 – 3 August 1949
View entryMilitant
French militant anarchist, collaborated on 'Libertaire', 'La Revue Anarchiste', 'La Revue Internationale Anarchiste', etc., born. [www.ephemanar.net/decembre19.html#mualdes]
1 August 1885 – 19 December 1966
View entryWriter and Militant
French teacher, union organiser, Résistance member, writer, novelist, poet, translator pacifist and anarchist, born. Like his parents, he was a teacher but suffers a serious brain injury during…
2 August 1893 – 1 August 1945
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Poet
American Symbolist poet, who wrote mostly in French, and anarchist sympathiser, born. Taught in Paris by Stéphane Mallarmé and by the time he published his first book of…
1 August 1863 – 1 February 1915
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Anarchist and Feminist propogandist
Teresa Fabbrini (Teresa Maria Anna Carolina Fabbrini Ballerini), Italian anarchist and feminist, who from a young age was distinguished both as a tireless propagandist of anarchist ideas and…
1 August 1855 – 3 July 1903
View entrySpanish labourer and anarcho-syndicalist militant in the CNT's sindical de carga y descarga (lit. loading and unloading). Murdered by police during strike in Valencia.
Spanish labourer and anarcho-syndicalist militant in the CNT's sindical de carga y descarga (lit. loading and unloading), whose death at the hands of the Policia Nacional – he…
1 July 1958 – 25 June 1979
View entryAnarchist Warfighter
Spanish anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist, who participated in the Spanish Civil War. [struggle.ws/vrf/biog.htm www.estelnegre.org/anarcoefemerides/0108.html]
1 August 1912 – 17 July 1998
View entryGerman carpenter and metal worker, who was a lifelong anarchist militant, active in the Föderation Kommunistischer Anarchisten Deutschlands (Anarchist-Communist Federation of Germany) and the Spanish Civil War.
German carpenter and metal worker, who was a lifelong anarchist militant, active in the Föderation Kommunistischer Anarchisten Deutschlands (Anarchist-Communist Federation of Germany) and the Spanish Civil War.
1 July 1897 – 27 April 1979
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American novelist, short story writer, essayist, painter, satirist, one-time junkie, celebrated queer and libertarian, died from complications of a heart attack.
5 February 1914 – 2 August 1997
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