Annie Buller, known as Annie Buller-Guralnick, was a union organizer as well as co-founder of the Communist Party of Canada and manager of many CPC publications.
12 Facts About Annie Buller
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Annie S Buller was born on December 9,1895, in Ukraine to a Jewish family with three brothers.
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Annie Buller emigrated to Montreal with her parents in the early 1900s.
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Annie Buller became politically active in socialist politics during World War I and followed her friend Becky Buhay to study Marxist thought at the Rand School of Social Science in New York.
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In 1940, during a crackdown on Communist Party members, Annie Buller was arrested along with Louis Guberman and Jock McNeil and jailed in Portage la Prairie.
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Annie Buller partook in the first national convention of the Labor-Progressive Party, when she was elected to the National Committee.
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Annie Buller remained active in the CPC until her retirement from her publication responsibilities in the late 1950s.
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Annie Buller wrote that she was 'greatly impressed' by the organization of the plant's workers and their working conditions.
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Annie Buller married Harry Guralnick, who was an activist in the Jewish Labor League; they had one son, Jimmy.
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Annie Buller met and knew "her American counterpart," Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, who supported Annie Buller's efforts in writing and public speaking.
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Annie Buller wrote for causes the Flynn supported, including Sacco and Vanzetti.
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Annie Buller was friends with French-born Jeanne Corbin.