Emma Goldman was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1869 and died in Toronto in 1940). She was an important libertarian activist, relevant to the development of the libertarian cushion in the United States in the early twentieth century. He acted through political demonstration actions, conferences and writings on the social issues of the female condition and libertarian politics.
In 1885 he emigrated from Konos (then part of the Russian Empire) to the United States, where he was deported in 1918 to Soviet Russia.
In the United States it is part of the libertarian movement, where it participates in the various union struggles and collaborates with the press of the time defending female emancipation and union rights.
In 1918, following several workers’ struggles, together with hundreds of activists, she was deported to the then Soviet Union, where in the early days she joined the Bolshevik-led revolution. After his initial adhesion to the Soviets, he quickly distanced himself, manifesting himself against the use of violence to manipulate the freedom of action of union leaders.
Disappointed with the Russian Revolution, she emigrates to Germany and England, where in 1923 she writes a series of articles on the experience of her experience in Soviet Russia, later published in two books “My Disillusionment in Russia”. He eventually settled in Canada where he will die in 1940, where he writes his autobiography Living My Life.
A rebel and free thinking woman, she is already 60 years old and travels to Spain in 1936 to support the libertarian revolution in Catalonia.