Augustin Souchy Bauer (28 August 1892 – 1 January 1984) was a German

anarchist Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is skeptical of all justifications for authority and seeks to abolish the institutions it claims maintain unnecessary coercion and hierarchy, typically including, though not neces ...

antimilitarist Antimilitarism (also spelt anti-militarism) is a doctrine that opposes war, relying heavily on a critical theory of imperialism and was an explicit goal of the First and Second International. Whereas pacifism is the doctrine that disputes (especi ...

labor union A trade union (labor union in American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers intent on "maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment", ch. I such as attaining better wages and benefits ( ...

official and journalist. He traveled widely and wrote extensively about the

Spanish Civil War The Spanish Civil War ( es, Guerra Civil Española)) or The Revolution ( es, La Revolución, link=no) among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War ( es, Cuarta Guerra Carlista, link=no) among Carlists, and The Rebellion ( es, La Rebelión, lin ...

and

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. He was born in Ratibor, Germany (now

Racibórz Racibórz (german: Ratibor, cz, Ratiboř, szl, Racibōrz) is a city in Silesian Voivodeship in southern Poland. It is the administrative seat of Racibórz County. With Opole, Racibórz is one of the historic capitals of Upper Silesia, being t ...

, Poland).

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These are Souchy's works that have been translated into English: * ''The Tragic Week in May'', CNT-FAI, 1937 (account of sectarian violence in Spain during the Spanish Revolution) * ''With the Peasants of Aragon'', Cienfuegos Press, 1982 (Souchy's account of Spanish peasant cooperatives) * ''Beware! Anarchist!'', Charles H. Kerr, Chicago, 1992 (Souchy's autobiography) For a more complete listing, see the German Wikipedia article at :de:Augustin Souchy

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at Theory and Practice 1892 births 1984 deaths 20th-century German journalists 20th-century German male writers 20th-century German non-fiction writers Anarchist writers Anarcho-syndicalists German anarchists German anti-capitalists German anti-war activists German libertarians German male journalists German male non-fiction writers German opinion journalists German people of the Spanish Civil War Libertarian socialists Members of the Free Workers' Union of Germany People from the Province of Silesia People from Racibórz {{Anarchist-stub

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