Author: Jong, Albert de [1891-1970]
Title: Fritz Brupbacher (1874-1945) en zijn verhouding tot het anarchisme
Description: Den Haag, Anarcho-Syndicalistische Per, 1952. orig. wrappers. 19x13cm, 77 pp. Inscribed by author on title-page.. Minor wear. VG. ¶ ["Albert Andries de Jong was born on 29 April 1891 in Amsterdam. His parents came from the Frisian region in northern Holland. His father was a baker and nightwatchman, and his mother was an enthusiast of the ideas of the anarchist Domela Nieuwenhuis. He started work as a teacher but was dismissed in 1916 when the Amsterdam City Council supported by the Social Democrats, found that he was in a free love relationship. From then until his death he worked as a stenographer. He discovered anarchist ideas thanks to the influence of Domela Nieuwenhuis whom he first met in 1914. He became the propagandist of Nieuwenhuis’s journal Vrij Socialist ( Free Socialist) and published his autobiography on his death in 1919. During many anti-war meetings held in Holland during World War One, he often spoke alongside Nieuwenhuis. He organised support for war-resisters with Bart de Ligt. In 1921 he and de Ligt were sentenced on the charge of “a call to revolt”, following a mass meeting in support of the war-resister Herman Groenendaaal then on hunger strike, where they called for a strike. He and de Ligt, together with Arthur Lehning set up the International Antimilitarist Bureau to coordinate antimilitarist action. He served for many years on the editorial board of De Syndikalist, the weekly paper of the Dutch syndicalist union the Nederlands Syndicalistisch Vakverbond. and wrote many articles on anarchism and anarcho-syndicalism. He visited Spain in 1937 and wrote a report on collectives there...." - libcom website].

Keywords: Anarchism, Anarchist, Dutch Politics, Netherlands, Anarcho-Syndicalist, , , ,