Raoul Vaneigem is a Belgian writer known for his 1967 book The Revolution of Everyday Life.
Anarchism in France can trace its roots to thinker Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, who grew up during the Restoration and was the first self-described anarchist. French anarchists fought in the Spanish Civil War as volunteers in the International Brigades. According to journalist Brian Doherty, "The number of people who subscribed to the anarchist movement's many publications was in the tens of thousands in France alone."
Libero International was an English language Japanese anarchist journal published in Kobe between January 1975 and March 1980. The publisher was the CIRA-Nippon group. The magazine was published in English. "Wat Tyler" was the name adopted by one of the editorial collective.
Josefa Carpena-Amat, known by the pseudonym Pepita Carpeña, was a militant trade unionist, writer, and Spanish anarchist.
Maria Suceso Portales Casamar was an Extremaduran anarcho-feminist.
Maurice Laissant Began his career working for the French national railway company before taking a job as a sales representative. He became progressively more widely known as a militant anarchist individualist, free thinker and pacifist. He was a co-founder in 1953 of the newly regrouped Paris based Anarchist Federation.
Le Libertaire is a Francophone anarchist newspaper established in New York City in June 1858 by the exiled anarchist Joseph Déjacque. It appeared at slightly irregular intervals until February 1861. The title reappeared in Algiers in 1892 and was then produced in Brussels between 1893 and 1894.
Maurice Fayolle was an electrician based in Versailles, best known as an influential libertarian communist militant. A couple of years before his death from lung cancer he inspired the political regrouping that formed the Revolutionary Anarchist Organisation .
Louis Mercier-Vega was a militant libertarian and syndicalist, originally from Belgium.
Anarchist archives preserve records from the international anarchist movement in personal and institutional collections around the world. This primary source documentation is made available for researchers to learn directly from movement anarchists, both their ideas and lives.
Nicolas Lazarévitch was a Belgian-born French electrician, a building worker, a proof-reader and, most consistently, a libertarian-anarchist writer and activist. He was born and grew up in Belgium, the child of Russian exiles.
The Anarchist-Communist Federation of Occitania was a platformist federation, founded by Guy Malouvier, which operated in Occitania from 1969 to 1975.
Anarchism spread into Belgium as Communards took refuge in Brussels with the fall of the Paris Commune. Most Belgian members in the First International joined the anarchist Jura Federation after the socialist schism. Belgian anarchists also organized the 1886 Walloon uprising, the Libertarian Communist Group, and several Bruxellois newspapers at the turn of the century. Apart from new publications, the movement dissipated through the internecine antimilitarism in the interwar period. Several groups emerged mid-century for social justice and anti-fascism.
Chiquet Mawet was a playwright, storyteller, poet, social activist and professor of ethics. Part of the generation between Stalingrad 1942 and May 1968, Beaujean, at 20, was fascinated by the hope of self-managed socialism (Titoism) in Yugoslavia. At 30, she became a pioneer of the anti-nuclear movement in Belgium. At 50, she flirted with anarchists.
Anarchism in Morocco has its roots in the federalism practiced by Amazigh communities in pre-colonial Morocco. During the Spanish Civil War, Moroccan nationalists formed connections with Spanish anarchists in an attempt to ignite a war of national liberation against Spanish colonialism, but this effort was not successful. Despite the brief establishment of an anarchist movement in post-war Morocco, the movement was suppressed by the newly independent government, before finally reemerging in the 21st century.
André Bösiger was a Swiss anarcho-syndicalist. An activist of the Building Action League in Geneva, he collaborated with the Réveil anarchiste and the International Center for Research on Anarchism (Lausanne).
Lucien Tronchet (1902–1982) was a Swiss anarcho-syndicalist activist. An emblematic figure of trade unionism in Geneva, he took action alongside Italian anti-fascist refugees and Spanish libertarians during the Spanish Civil War. A convinced antimilitarist, he spent two times, in 1920 and 1940, in prison for "refusing to serve" in the Swiss Army.
Anarchism in Switzerland appeared, as a political current, within the Jura Federation of the International Workingmen's Association (IWA), under the influence of Mikhail Bakunin and Swiss libertarian activists such as James Guillaume and Adhémar Schwitzguébel. Swiss anarchism subsequently evolved alongside the nascent social democratic movement and participated in the local opposition to fascism during the interwar period. The contemporary Swiss anarchist movement then grew into a number of militant groups, libertarian socialist organizations and squats.
Ernest "Ernestan" Tanrez was a theoretician of Libertarian socialism and an important figure in Belgian anarchism.
