Extracts from the Tragedy of a Jewish Teenager - Stanislaw Smajzner
Submitted by Fluffy on Jul 11 2017 15:42
The personal account of Stanislaw Smajzner of his time spent in the Extermination camp at Sobibor. From the start of his journey to Sobibor, through to his participationin the mass escape.
Alfred Temba Qabula: A Working Life, Cruel Beyond Belief
The autobiography of the South African worker poet Alfred Temba Qabula (1942 - 2002)
The rebel girl: an autobiography, my first life 1906-26
Submitted by Anonymous on Dec 7 2016 11:29
An epic firsthand account of women and the working class in the early years of the 20th century by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. The fiery socialist and Industrial Workers of the World union organiser writes vividly of her early life.
Beware! Anarchist! A life for freedom - Augustin Souchy
Submitted by Anonymous on Aug 4 2016 22:58
The incredible autobiography of an incredible man. Souchy fought in the Spanish Revolution; was a serious and knowledgeable student of Proudhon, Bakunin, Kropotkin, and Gustav Landauer; a consistent war-resister; a prolific pamphleteer; a major figure in the International Workers' Association (IWA); an anarcho-syndicalist determined to put theory into practice; one of the best informed specialists on the varieties of workers' control and self-management. These are memoirs par excellence, with a forward by Theo Waldinger, and an afterward by Sam Dolgoff.
Introduction to Emma Goldman's Living my life - Miriam Brody
Introduction to the Penguin Classics edition (2006) of Emma Goldman's Living my life, ed. Miriam Brody.
My first years in Philadelphia - Joseph Cohen
Submitted by Steven. on Dec 10 2015 16:40
A chapter from the autobiographical memoirs of Joseph Cohen, a Philadelphia-based Jewish anarchist at the turn of the 19th/20th centuries. Translated by Emil Kerenji.
Forty years in the struggle: memoirs of a Jewish anarchist - Chaim Leib Weinberg
Submitted by Steven. on Dec 10 2015 16:28
Autobiographical memoir of Philadelphia-based Jewish anarchist, Chaim Leib Weinberg, translated by Naomi Cohen. It gives a great snapshot into the Jewish and Yiddish-speaking anarchist and working class movements in the US in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The Russian Enigma - Ante Ciliga
Originally written in 1936-37 and published in Paris, 1938 under the title "Au Pays du Grand Mensonge". The first part of his account of his time in the Soviet Union, The Russian Enigma, was distributed by the Labour Book Service in 1940, and the complete text was published under the same title by Ink Links in 1979.
Black Bolshevik: Autobiography of an Afro-American Communist
Submitted by Juan Conatz on Jun 5 2015 02:50
The autobiography of Harry Haywood, a long-time member of the Communist Party USA. We do not necessarily agree with Haywood's politics, but reproduce this for reference and discussion.
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