Guiseppe Pinelli
Anarchist. Born Milan, Italy. Worked as a railroad fitter. One of a number of anarchists who were taken in for questioning following a bomb that went off in Milan killing 17 people. Pinelli was see...
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Gerrard Winstanley
Protestant reformer, political philosopher, and activist. Co-founder of the True Levellers. Born Wigan. 1630 came to London, became an apprentice and, 1638, a freeman of the Merchant Taylors' Compa...
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Francois Rabelais
Writer and physician. Born France, between 1483 and 1494, but probably November 1494. Became a monk and studied Latin and Greek, then left to study medicine. Died Paris.
Person, Literature, Medicine, Politics & Administration, Religion, France
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Francisco Ferrer
Catalan free-thinker and anarchist. Born near Barcelona. Executed for armed rebellion in Barcelona.
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Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis
Politician, socialist-anarchist. Born Amsterdam. Began as a Lutheran preacher, lost his faith and then seems to have continued moving left-wards all his life. Born and died in the Netherlands.
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Federica Montseny
Anarchist and writer. Born Spain. As Minister of Health during the social revolution she was the first woman to be a minister of a Western European country. During Franco's rule, she lived in Franc...
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Errico Malatesta
Anarchist. Born Italy. Spent many years in exile in various countries. From 1881 he was often in London. In 1910 he had an electrical workshop at 15 Duncan Terrace, from which he provided cutting ...
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Emma Goldman
Political activist and writer. Born in what is now Lithuania. Emigrated to US 1885. Lover and life-long friend of Alexander Berkman. Imprisoned and then deported from the US. Moved to London in 192...
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Emiliano Zapata
Leading figure in the Mexican Revolution, the main leader of the peasant revolution in the state of Morelos, and the inspiration of the agrarian movement called Zapatismo. Born Mexico and died ther...
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Elisee Reclus
Geographer, writer and anarchist. Born France. Visited Britain during 1852-7. Supported the Paris Commune of 1871. In 1872 was sentenced to perpetual banishment from France and settled in Switzerla...
Person, Politics & Administration, Belgium, France, Switzerland
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