Pieter Jelles Troelstra was a Dutch lawyer,journalist and politician active in the socialist workers' movement. He is most remembered for his fight for universal suffrage and his failed call for revolution at the end of World War I. From 1888 to 1904,Troelstra was married to Sjoukje Bokma de Boer,a well-known children's book writer,under the pen name of Nienke van Hichtum.
The Socialist Party,also called the "Kolthek party" after its founder Harm Kolthek,was a Dutch revolutionary syndicalist political party. It was represented in Parliament between 1918 and 1922.
George Wilhelm Kettmann or George Kettmann Jr. was a Dutch poet,writer,journalist and publisher who promoted Nazism in the Netherlands. With his wife,he founded the best known Dutch Nazi publishing house,De Amsterdamsche Keurkamer. Until 1941 he was editor in chief of Volk en Vaderland,the weekly journal of the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands (NSB),the movement of Anton Mussert.
Josephus Johannes Maria (Jos) van der Lans is a cultural psychologist,journalist and writer. Between 1999 and 2007 he was member of the Dutch Senate for GreenLeft
De Arbeiderspers is a Dutch publishing company,started as a socialist enterprise. The name means 'The Workers' Press'.
Emanuel ("Manus") Boekman was a Dutch social democratic politician,statistician,demographer and typographer. He is remembered for his activities as a municipal executive board member for education and culture (wethouder) in Amsterdam and his advocacy for an active state cultural policy.
Hendrik "Hein" Vos was a Dutch politician of the defunct Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP) and later the Labour Party (PvdA) and economist.
Sadet Karabulut is a Dutch politician and former civil servant and trade unionist of Kurdish descent. As a member of the Socialist Party,she has been an MP since 30 November 2006. She focuses on matters of social affairs,female emancipation,and social integration.
David Joseph Wijnkoop was a Dutch communist leader in the first half of the twentieth century.
Frans Johannes Goedhart was a Dutch journalist,politician and during World War II member of the Dutch resistance. Having spent most of his youth in orphanages and having received little formal education Goedhart became a journalist for several local and regional newspapers in the 1930s. During this period Goedhart became a fierce anti-communist and anti-fascist and became wishful of political reform based on socialism.
Saul "Paul" de Groot was a Dutch politician of the Communist Party of the Netherlands (CPN). He was also a member of the House of Representatives for the CPN and chief editor of the party newspaper De Waarheid.
Hendrick Peter Godfried Quack was a Dutch legal scholar,economist and historian,who is best known for his work De socialisten:Personen en stelsels.
Anton Levien Constandse was a Dutch anarchist author and journalist.
Jan Luiten van Zanden is a Dutch economic historian and professor of Global Economic History at Utrecht University. He is a widely acknowledged specialist in Dutch,European and Global Economic History.
Willem Banning was a Dutch theologian,philosopher,sociologist and politician,who played an important role in Dutch 20th-century politics.
Hans Cools is a historian of early-modern Europe. He is a professor at the KU Leuven and a senior research fellow of the Fryske Akademy.
Liede Tilanus was a Dutch politician,socialist,and feminist. She was a member of the Amsterdam City Council and was on the national board of the Association of Social Democratic Women's Clubs.
Anarchism in the Netherlands originated in the second half of the 19th century. Its roots lay in the radical and revolutionary ideologies of the labor movement,in anti-authoritarian socialism,the free thinkers and in numerous associations and organizations striving for a libertarian form of society. During the First World War,individuals and groups of syndicalists and anarchists of various currents worked together for conscientious objection and against government policies. The common resistance was directed against imperialism and militarism.
Robert Frank Ruers is a Dutch politician and attorney. On behalf of the Socialist Party (SP) he was a member of the Senate four times and briefly a deputy of the provincial executive of Limburg.
