1. Albert Isidore Meltzer was an English anarcho-communist activist and writer.
17 Facts About Albert Meltzer
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Albert Meltzer was attracted to anarchism at the age of fifteen as a direct result of taking boxing lessons where he met Billy Campbell, a seaman, boxer and anarchist.
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Albert Meltzer involved himself with smuggling arms from Hamburg to the CNT in Spain and acted as a contact for the Spanish anarchist intelligence services in Britain.
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Albert Meltzer took part in a mutiny in Cairo in late 1946.
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Albert Meltzer believed that the only true type of anarchism was communistic.
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Albert Meltzer opposed the individualist anarchism of people such as Benjamin Tucker, believing that the private police that some individualists support would constitute a government.
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Albert Meltzer was a contributor in the 1950s to the long-running anarchist paper Freedom before leaving in 1965 to start his own venture Wooden Shoe Press.
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Soon Albert Meltzer was to be involved in a long and bitter dispute with fellow anarchist and former comrade at Freedom Press Vernon Richards which entangled many of their associates and the organisations with which they were involved and continued after both their deaths.
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Albert Meltzer advocated a more firebrand and proletarian variety of anarchism than Richards and often denounced him and the Freedom collective as "liberals".
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Albert Meltzer was a co-founder of the anarchist newspaper Black Flag and was a prolific writer on anarchist topics.
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Albert Meltzer was involved in the founding of the Anarchist Black Cross.
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Albert Meltzer was involved in producing the library's publications, and helped shape its philosophy.
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Albert Meltzer joined the anarcho-syndicalist Direct Action Movement in the early 80s and was a member of it, and its successor organisation the Solidarity Federation until his death.
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Albert Meltzer was originally a member of the Central London Direct Action Movement branch, but when that wound up he joined the Deptford branch, as he lived in Lewisham.
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Albert Meltzer died after a stroke at the 1996 Solidarity Federation Conference in Weston-super-Mare.
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Albert Meltzer was later acquitted because she was under the mistaken belief that her son was being abused.
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Police examination of seized diaries and address books led them to interview a doctor specialising in diseases of the gums, something Albert Meltzer himself attributed to his poor handwriting and the similarity of the words gun and gum.