Alexander Moissejewitsch Shapiro

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Alexander Schapiro

Alexander (Sanja) Moissejewitsch Schapiro ( Russian Александр (Абрам) Моисеевич Шапиро , also written as Abram Schapiro or Shapiro and Sapiro ; * 1883 in Rostov-on-Don ; † December 5, 1946 in Manhattan , New York ) was a Jewish-Russian anarcho -Syndicalist .

Life

Schapiro lived in London from 1901 to the First World War and was an activist in the anarchist movement, including in local unions against the conditions of exploitation in the sweat shops . At that time he was in contact with Errico Malatesta , Rudolf Rocker and Peter Kropotkin, whose secretary he was temporarily. He was an internationalist, his language skills made it easier for him, he spoke: Russian, Bulgarian, Turkish, Spanish, English, French, German and Yiddish. Among other things, he was together with R. Rocker representative of the Jewish-anarchist federation of London at the Anarchist Congress in 1907 in Amsterdam. During the First World War he was interned in England with Rudolf Rocker as an " enemy alien ".

After the February revolution in 1917 he was a member of the anarcho-syndicalist group "Golos Truda" in Russia, and as editor he edited the weekly and later daily newspaper of the same name. In 1921 he left Russia because of the terror of the Bolsheviks and their secret police Cheka, together with Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman .

He had been in Germany since October 1922, where he became a member of the Free Workers' Union of Germany (FAUD) and at the founding congress of the anarchosyndicalist International IAA , together with Augustin Souchy and Rudolf Rocker, its secretary. Subsequently, he was active there and translated and wrote articles in the theoretical organ Die Internationale , published by the International Workers' Association or FAUD and the FAUD weekly newspaper Der Syndikalist . After fleeing Germany he was with Augustin Souchy and Arthur Lehning in revolutionary Spain, where he turned against the course of the CNT after 1936. ( Incidentally, Arthur Lehning saw Schapiro as his political teacher throughout his life). In France, Alexander Schapiro was editor of the anarcho-syndicalist journal “La Voix du Travail” in Paris together with Pierre Besnard . In 1941 he came to the USA, where he edited the font “New Trends” in New York until his death. His companion, the anarchist Fanny Schapiro, also died in 1946.

literature

  • Struggle for a revolutionary working class international. History of the IAA (from 1921 to 1931). Verlag Der Syndikalist , Berlin 1931. (Other authors: A. Souchy, G.Wartenberg , Arthur Lehning ).
  • A. Schapiro Introduction to Pierre Besnard: Anarcho-Syndicalism and Anarchism (1937).

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Remarks

  1. ↑ In other sources the year of birth 1882 is mentioned.
personal data
SURNAME Schapiro, Alexander Moissejewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schapiro, Sanja (nickname); Шапиро, Александр Моисеевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian anarcho-syndicalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostov on Don
DATE OF DEATH December 5, 1946
Place of death Manhattan , New York