People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity
Any Social movements and organizing 1
Affiliation(set)

Most people

Any Spanish Republicstate 2 Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine (Makhnovists) 2 Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 1 Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) 1 Workers' Party of North Korea 1 International Workingmen's Association (First International) 1 Soviet Unionstate 1

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Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Workers' Party of North Korea 1

International organizations

International Workingmen's Association (First International) 1

Russia

Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 1

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 1 Soviet Unionstate 1

Spain

Spanish Republicstate 2 Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) 1

Ukraine

Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine (Makhnovists) 2
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Any Anarchists 1 Marxism and communism 1 Liberalism and republicanism 1
Citizenship
Any France 1
Background
Any France 1
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Any

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The age of the Internationals and empires1820–1917 1
International Workingmen's Association (First International) Anarchists Clear all
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Nathalie Le Mel

Nathalie Le Mel
International Workingmen's Association (First International) Anarchists France France 1826–1921

French bookbinder and activist in the Women's Union of the Paris Commune

Born in Brest in Brittany, Le Mel worked as a bookbinder in Paris and joined the workers' movement. In 1865 she helped win equal pay for women and men in bookbinding, joined the International Workingmen's Association, and ran the cooperative restaurant La Marmite with Eugène Varlin. During the 1871 Paris Commune she was a leading activist in the Women's Union and fought on the barricades. Arrested after the Commune's defeat, she was deported to New Caledonia with Louise Michel and returned to Paris under the 1880 amnesty.

Career timeline
  • 1865Helped win equal pay for women and men in bookbinding; joined the International Workingmen's Association.
  • 1860s–1871Ran the cooperative restaurant La Marmite with Eugène Varlin.
  • 1871Worked in the Women's Union of the Paris Commune and fought on the barricades.
  • 1871–1880Arrested and deported to New Caledonia; returned to Paris under the 1880 amnesty.