page_title: Annie Buller
section_title: Background
hierarchical_section_title: Annie Buller / Background
caption_attribution_description: English: Crowd gathered outside old City Hall, at Main Street and William Avenue, during the Winnipeg General Strike. Visible on the left are the Union Bank of Canada building and Leland Hotel.Français&#160;: Foule rassemblée aux alentours de l'ancien hôtel de ville de Winnipeg, sur Main Street et William Avenue, lors de la grève générale de Winnipeg de 1919.
context_page_description: Annie Buller, also 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.
context_section_description: Annie S. Buller was born on December 9, 1895 (or some time in 1896), in Ukraine to a Jewish family with three brothers. Her father was a carpenter. She emigrated to Montreal with her parents in the early 1900s.  She became politically active in socialist politics during World War I and followed her friend Becky Buhay (1896–1953) to study Marxist thought at the Rand School of Social Science in New York.  In May 1920, Algernon Lee, educational director, presided over the graduation of the second-largest class ever at Rand, whose members included:  John J. Bardsley, William D. Bavelaar, Annie S. Buller, Louis Cohan, Harry A. Durlauf, Clara Friedman, Rebecca Goldberg, William Greenspoon, Isabella E. Hall, Ammon A. Hennsey (Ammon Hennacy), Hedwig Holmes, Annie Kronhardt, Anna P. Lee, Victoria Levinson, Elsie Lindenberg, Selma Melms, Hyman Neback, Bertha Ruvinsky, Celia Samorodin, Mae Schiff, Esther T. Shemitz, Nathan S. Spivak, Esther Silverman, Sophia Ruderman, and Clara Walters.
  While at Rand, Buller helped raise funds in New York for Canadians in the Winnipeg General Strike.
caption: Buller supported the Winnipeg General Strike (June 21, 1919): here, a crowd gathers outside old City Hall
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