An Anarchist Compendium

Abraham Guillén Sanz

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

Alexander Metodiev Nakov

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

Alfred Stieglitz

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

André Pierre Daunis

French 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

André Veidaux

Writer

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

Ángel Borda

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

Angelo Pellegrino Sbardellotto

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

Anton Makarovich Prudkin

Artist 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

Carlo Abate

Artist

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

Constant Anton Nieuwenhuys

Better 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

Étienne Roda-Gil

Poet 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

Félix Álvarez Ferrera

Catalan anarchist, anarcho-syndicalist, Civil War and Résistance fighter, writer and polyglot.

2 August 2009 – 2 August 2009

Fernando Tarrida del Mármol

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

François-Henri Jolivet

French 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

Ida Mett

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

Igor Yuryevich Podshivalov

Journalist

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

Jacques-Mécislas Charrier

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 August 1922 – 2 August 1922

Jeanne Humbert

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

José Sánchez Rosa

Teacher

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

Lola Iturbe

Militant

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

Mariola Milkova Sirakov

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

Omar Aziz

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

Paul Goodman

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…

2 August 1972 – 2 August 1972

Pierre Mauldes

Militant

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

Régis Messac

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

Stuart Fitzrandolph Merrill

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

Teresa Fabbrini

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

Vincent Ruiz Gutiérrez

Anarchist 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 – 15 July 1998

William Seward Burroughs II

American novelist, short story writer, essayist, painter, satirist, one-time junkie, celebrated queer and libertarian, died from complications of a heart attack.

2 August 1997 – 2 August 1997