Daniil Novomirsky (Yakob Kirillovsky (1882-c.1936) is credited with coining the term ‘anarcho-synidcalist’ was born in northern Ukraine, studying law in Odessa and Paris. He joined the RSDLP in 1900 and settled in Odessa. Arrested 1904 and again in 1907, in that time he wrote the Anarcho-Communist Manifesto (translated here) and The Anarcho-Syndicalist Programme,. Convicted and sentenced to 8 years in Moscow’s Butyrki prison. Exiled to Siberia in 1915, he escaped tot he United States, where he was active in revolutionary New York emigre circles and published his older works into English. Returning to Russia after the Revolution, Novomirsky became one of the so-called ‘anarchist Bolsheviks’, joining the Party in 1920 and working alongside Lunacharsky in the Commissariat of Education and the Comintern. On left he was utterly opposed to the NEP and would later leave the Party, writing books on the history of Russian anarchism. He, and his wife, were arrested and disappeared during the Purges in the mid-1930s.

The Anarchist-Communist Manifesto by Daniil Novomirsky. Published by the Anarchist Communist Group, New York. 1921.

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