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Sidney Solomon

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Sidney Solomon (died 2004 March 1 age of 92) was a long-time anarchist & painter who lived in New York.

Sidney participated in the international anarchist movement going back to the 1930s when he was a member of the Vanguard Group. Member of the New Trends Group in the 1940s, & the Libertarian Book Club from the 1940s through the 1980s.

His wife, Clara Solomon, was active in the movement in her teens, & in the 1930s agitating in support of anarchist revolutionaries in Spain. She met Sidney when he was drumming in an all-anarchist jazz band. [Her father, Samuel Freedman, was a garment-union activist who also served as business manager of the anarchist newspaper "Freie Arbeiter Stimme" (Free Voice of Labor.)]