Rudolf Rocker (March 25, 1873 - September 19, 1958) was an anarcho-syndicalist writer, historian and prominent activist.

Avram Noam Chomsky, Ph.D (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, political activist, and a prolific author and lecturer. He is the Institute Professor Emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Chomsky is credited with the creation of the theory of generative grammar, considered to be one of the most significant contributions to the field of linguistics made in the 20th century.

Sam Dolgoff (1902-1990) was an American anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist. Dolgoff was born in Russia, moving as a child to New York City, where he lived in the Bronx and in Manhattan's Lower East Side where he died. His father was a house painter, and Dolgoff began house painting at the age of 11, a profession he remained in his entire life. Sam joined the Industrial Workers of the World in the 1920s and remained an active member his entire life, …

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon was a French mutualist political philosopher of the socialist tradition. He was the first individual to call himself an "anarchist" and is considered among the first anarchist thinkers. He was a workingman, a printer, who taught himself to read Latin so as to print books in that language well. Proudhon is most famous for his assertion that "Property is theft!", in "What is Property? Or, …

Fernand Pelloutier was a French anarchist (anarcho-syndicalist). He was the leader of the "Bourses du Travail", a major French trade union, from 1895 until his death in 1901. He was succeeded by Yvetot. In 1902, the Bourses du Travail merged with the Confédération Générale du Travail. Pelloutier's theories were exceptionally important to the Revolutionary Syndicalism movement in Italy that appeared towards the end of the nineteenth century, …

Francisco Ascaso Budría was a leading Anarcho-syndicalist figure in Spain. A baker and waiter, Ascaso joined the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) and one of its armed groups, "Los Justicieros". He left for Barcelona in 1922, where the group came to be known as "Los Solidarios", integrating Anarchist figures such as Buenaventura Durruti, Juan García Oliver, Antonio Ortiz and Gregorio Jover.

Federica Montseny i Mañé was a Spanish anarchist, intellectual and Minister of Health during the social revolution that occurred in Spain parallel to the Civil War. She is also known as a poet, novelist, essayist, and children's writer. Federica Montseny was, in her own words, the "[d]aughter of a family of old anarchists"; her father was the anti-authoritarian writer and propagandist Joan Montseny (Federico Urales); her mother, Soledad Gustavo, …

Gaston Leval was an anarcho-syndicalist, combatant and historian of the Spanish Revolution. The son of a French Communard, Leval escaped to Spain in 1915 to avoid conscription. There he joined the anarcho-syndicalist CNT trade union. Leval left for Argentina during the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera where he would live from 1923 to 1936, returning to Spain to document the revolution and the urban and rural anarchist collectives.

Juan García Oliver (1901, Reus, Tarragona Province-1980) was a Spanish Anarcho-syndicalist revolutionary, and a leading figure of Anarchism in Spain. During the General Strike of 1917, García Oliver arrived in Barcelona and got involved in trade union activities. Along with Buenaventura Durruti and Francisco Ascaso, he founded "Los Solidarios", an Anarchist group responsible for various assassinations, including an attempt on King Alfonso XIII's life.

Agostino Lanzillo (1886-1952) was an Italian anarcho-syndicalist leader who became a member of Benito Mussolini's Fascist movement. A follower of George Sorel, he joined Benito Mussolini at the paper "Il popolo d'Italia". Lanzillo entered Italy's Parliament as a member of the National Fascist Party, and was a member of the single-party National Council of Corporations in 1931.

Ángel Pestaña Nuñez was a Spanish Anarcho-syndicalist and later Syndicalist leader.

Ramón Acín Aquilué Spanish anarcho-syndicalist, teacher, writer and avant-garde artist murdered by fascists in the first year of the Spanish Civil War. Acin was a friend of film director Luis Buñuel and provided some of the money for "Las Hurdes: Tierra Sin Pan" (1932) and so is credited as co-producer of the film.

Grigori Petrovitch Maximoff (1893-1950) was a Russian born anarcho-syndicalist who was involved in Nabat, a Ukrainian anarcho-syndicalist movement. Along with several other anarchists, he was imprisoned on 8 March 1921 following a Cheka sweep of anarchists in the area. After a hunger strike attracted the attention of visiting syndicalists, Maximoff was one of the 10 anarchists who were released from prison and deported.

Valeriano Orobón Fernánez was a Spanish Anarcho-syndicalist theoretician, trade-union activist, translator and poet, who wrote the lyrics of the revolutionary song "To The Barricades". Born in Cistérniga, Valladolid Province, Orobón was active in labour movement struggles from an early age. An intellectual with a facility for languages, he translated the biography of the well-known German anarchist Max Nettlau written by Rudolf Rocker.

Britta Gröndahl was a Swedish writer and anarcho-syndicalist. Gröndahl was active within the Swedish syndicalist movement, and particularly within SAC, during a major part of her life. She has written several books; biographies, historical reports and theoretical works.

Carlos Cortez (August 13, 1923 - January 19, 2005) was a poet, graphic artist, photographer, muralist and political activist, active for six decades in the Industrial Workers of the World. Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1923, the son of a Mexican-Indian Wobbly union organizer father and a German socialist pacifist mother, …

Aaron Elliott (born 1968), better known as Aaron Cometbus, is a drummer, lyricist, self-described "punk anthropologist" and author of "Cometbus", a seminal punk rock zine. Born in Berkeley, California, Aaron Cometbus started writing fanzines in 1981 with Jesse Michaels of Operation Ivy, and started his own after Jesse moved to Pennsylvania in October 1981.

Hiski Salomaa, born Hiskias Möttö (born May 17, 1891 in Kangasniemi, Finland; died July 7, 1957 in New York City, USA) was a Finnish American folk singer and song writer. Born in Kangasniemi, Finland, Salomaa moved to the Upper Peninsula, Michigan, in 1908 after the death of his mother. There, he made his living as a tailor.

Brian Behan (November 10 1926 - November 2 2002) was an Irish writer and trade unionist. Behan was born in Dublin, the son of Stephen Behan, younger brother of Brendan Behan and older brother of Dominic Behan. After being caught stealing money, he was sent to a Christian Brothers school in Crumlin. After leaving, he joined the Irish Army's construction corps. In 1950, Behan moved to London to work as a labourer.

Per Johansson (born 1960 ?) is a Swedish trade unionist, a Communist and labor organizer. He worked for Connex in the Stockholm Metro and was the leader of the local branch of the Swedish Union for Service and Communications Employees ("SEKO"), "club 119". Johansson was fired in late September 2005. According to SEKO it was due to complaints of neglected security and safety conditions for workers and passengers, …

Melchor Rodríguez García, was a Spanish politician and statesman, a notable anarcho-syndicalist, and the head of prison authorities in Madrid during the Spanish Civil War.

Simon Oosterman is a New Zealand political activist and trade unionist. He is best known for coordinating the Unite Union campaign Supersizemypay.com which targeted the fast food industry and led to (among other results) the worlds first Starbucks strike, and for his involvement in the World Naked Bike Ride on which he was arrested for indecent exposure.

A colorful individual apt in the use of technology for social progress; exerting passion for people — hardly ever flabbergasted by anyone's occasional demotion from rationale; oft loves sharing great new comedic material in the ongoing joke…

Theodor Otto Richard Plievier (February 12 1892 in Berlin – March 12 1955 in Avegno, Switzerland) was the German author of "Stalingrad", (1945), "Moscow" (1952) and "Berlin" (1954). Plievier was born in Berlin in 1892. During Plievier's young adult life, he traveled and worked as a sailor in Europe and overseas. Through his travels he was exposed to anarchist-syndicalist philosophies that would influence his later work.

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