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  1. Abdi, Dekha Ibrahim
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Resource Type: Article
    A global peacemaker from rural Kenya who has engaged in peace work and conflict resolution in many of the world's most divided countries. Her comprehensive methodology combines grassroots activism, soft but uncompromising leadership, and spiritual motivation drawing on the teachings of Islam. (Born 1964).
  2. American Revolutionary 
    The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2014
    A documentary about the ideas and activism of 98-year-old Grace Lee Boggs, covering her lifetime of vital thinking and action, traversing the major U.S. social movements of the last century; from labour to civil rights, to Black Power, feminism, the Asian American and environmental justice movements and beyond. Boggs’s constantly evolving strategy -- her willingness to re-evaluate and change tactics in relation to the world shifting around her -- drives the story forward.
  3. Anderson, Doris
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian author, journalist and women's rights activist. (1921-2007).
  4. Anderson, Doris
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian author, journalist and women's rights activist. (1921-2007).
  5. Anthony, Susan B.
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    American civil rights leader who played a pivotal role in the 19th century women's rights movement to introduce women's suffrage into the United States. (1820-1906).
  6. The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1926   Published: 1971
    This is the first time that the complete autobiography which Alexandra Kollontai has been published. Written in 1926 under the pressure of the gradually sharpening Stalinist control, readers must realise the extent and intensity of corrections in which Kollontai was forced to make.
  7. The Autobiography of Mother Jones
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1925
    In spite of oppressors, in spite of false leaders, in spite of labor's own lack of understanding of its needs, the cause of the worker continues onward.
  8. Baez, Joan
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Folk singer, songwriter and activist. (Born 1941).
  9. Baker, Ella
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    African American civil rights and human rights activis. (1903-1986).
  10. Barlow, Maude
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian auther and activist. National chairperson of the Council of Canadians, a citizens' advocacy organization, co-founder of the Blue Planet Project, and an executive member of the International Forum on Globalization. (Born 1947).
  11. Barlow, Maude
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian auther and activist. National chairperson of the Council of Canadians, a citizens' advocacy organization, co-founder of the Blue Planet Project, and an executive member of the International Forum on Globalization. (Born 1947).
  12. Beauvoir, Simone de
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    French writer, philosopher, feminist, and social theorist. (1908-1986).
  13. Bertell, Rosalie
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian-American researcher who has worked in the field of environmental health. (Born 1929).
  14. Besant, Annie
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator, and supporter of Irish and Indian self rule. (1847-1933).
  15. Bhatt, Ela
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Resource Type: Article
    Advocate for self-employed women. Winner of the Right Livelihood Award in 1984. (Born 1933).
  16. Boggs, Grace Lee
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A Chinese-American author, anti-racist activist and feminist. (Born 1915).
  17. Grace Lee Boggs, Legendary Activist, Dead At 100
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Boggs spent her life actively supporting causes ranging from civil rights and labour to the Black Power and feminist movements.
  18. Grace Lee Boggs, Legendary Activist, Dead At 100
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Boggs spent her life actively supporting causes ranging from civil rights and labour to the Black Power and feminist movements.
  19. Grace Lee Boggs R.I.P.
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Grace Lee Boggs, founding member of the Johnson-Forest Tendency (where her party name was Ria Stone), has died at the age of 100 in Detroit. She was born on June 27, 1915 and passed away October 5, 2015.
  20. Brown, Rosemary
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian politician, prominent member of the New Democratic Party. (1930-2003).
  21. Bryant, Louise
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    American journalist and writer best known for her Marxist and anarchist beliefs and her essays on radical political and feminist themes. (1885-1936).
  22. Budiardjo, Carmel
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Resource Type: Article
    British human rights activist, founder of the organisation Tapol and a recipient of the Right Livelihood Award.
  23. Buller, Annie
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Union organizer and manager of various Communist Party of Canada (CPC) publications. (1895-1973).
  24. Callwood, June
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    Journalist, writer, broadcaster, civil libertarian 1924-2007. (1924-2007).
  25. Callwood, June
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Journalist, writer, broadcaster, civil libertarian 1924-2007. (1924-2007).
  26. Carol L. McAllister (1947-2007)
    Against The Current vol. 131
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    I remember meeting Carol on a public transit bus, I believe in 1980 –- when, almost out of the blue, she approached me and started talking to me about Central America. She recognized me from some earlier meeting on repression and revolution in Central America and wanted to know if, by any chance, I had been in the audience viewing a documentary on women in El Salvador that she had just seen (I hadn’t) and if I would mind if she shared some thoughts about it.
  27. Caroline Lund-Sheppard, Sept. 24, 1944-Oct. 14, 2006: A Life Fully Lived
    Against The Current vol. 125
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    It's my favorite photograph of Caroline: She’s just a girl, standing straight up, hands neatly folded in front of her, wearing a long, white tunic, and an exuberantly silly grin.
  28. Carr, Shirley
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian union leader who was the first woman president of the Canadian Labour Congress.
  29. Carson, Rachel
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    American marine biologist and nature writer whose writings, especially 'Silent Spring', are credited with advancing the global environmental movement. (1907-1964).
  30. Casgrain, Marie Thérèse (Forget)
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    Feminist, reformer, politician and senator in Quebec, Canada. (1896-1981).
  31. Chang, Helen Mack
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Resource Type: Article
    Guatemalan businesswoman and human rights activist. Active in the struggle against impunity of political murderers. (Born 1952).
  32. Circle in the Darkness
    Memoir of a World Watcher
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2020
    Veteran journalist Diana Johnstone's memoir covers half a century of contemporary history. Johnstone recounts in detail how the Western Left betrayed its historical principles of socila justice and peace and let itself be lured into approval of aggressive U.S.-NATO wars on the fallacious grouns of "human rightss". Subjects range from caustic analysis of the pretentious confusion of French philosophers to the stories of many courageous individuals whose struggle for peace and justice ended in deep personal tragedy, with a great deal in between.
  33. Coming Home to the Struggle
    Against The Current vol. 134
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    I became a political activist at the age of 12, when I marched for open housing in Evanston, Illinois. We lived next to the Black community in Evanston; African-American students made up 40% of my grade school. At the local YWCA girls club my sister and I were the only whites. The young Black women I became close to helped me overcome painful shyness. Later my father, a Methodist minister, was arrested trying to integrate churches in Jackson, Mississippi.
  34. Culhane, Claire
    Connexipedia: Article from PrisonJustice.ca
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian social justice activist. (1918-1996).
  35. Deborah Cunningham, 1945-2015
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Deborah Cunningham was an ADAPT activist and Executive Director of the Memphis Center for Independent Living (MCIL). When she died on May 7, the movement lost a tireless, creative, committed activist, feminist and thinker.
  36. Cutural Warriors of the Freedom Struggle: Miriam Makeba and Odetta
    Against The Current vol. 138
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    It felt like the end of an era to realize that South Africa’s Miriam Makeba and our own Odetta died within weeks of one another, having been born only months apart, these twin pillars of the struggle for justice on opposite sides of the Atlantic.
  37. Dann, Mary and Carrie
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Resource Type: Article
    Leaders in the struggle of the Western Shoshone to retain their ancestral lands.
  38. Darcy, Judy
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian trade unionist and president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees from 1991 until 2003. (Born 1950).
  39. Day, Dorothy
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    American journalist, social activist, distributist, anarchist, and devout Catholic. (1897-1980).
  40. Defender of the Forests 
    Bonnie Phillips vs. the Timber Beasts, Gang Green and the Big Foundations
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Veteran forest advocate Bonnie Phillips passed away on May 4, 2015 in Olympia, Washington. This article is based on her final interview.
  41. Detroit celebrates Grace Lee Boggs' 100th birthday
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    About the weeklong celebration of the life of Grace Lee Boggs, radical activist, political theorist, and revolutionary.
  42. Diary of Bergen-Belsen
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    Hanna Lévy-Hass, a Yugoslavian Jew, emerged a defiant survivor of the Holocaust. Her observations, recorded in her own incomparable voice, shed new light on the lived experience of Nazi internment. Lévy-Hass stands alone as the only resistance fighter to report on her own experience inside the camps, and she does so with unflinching clarity in dealing with the political and social divisions inside Bergen-Belsen.
  43. Duckworth, Muriel
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian pacifist, feminist, social and community activist. (1908-2009).
  44. Duckworth, Muriel
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian pacifist, feminist, social and community activist. (1908-2009).
  45. Dunayevskaya, Raya
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Founder of the philosophy of Marxist Humanism. (1910-1987).
  46. Edwards, Henrietta Muir
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian women's rights activist and reformer. (1849-1931).
  47. Elissa Karg Chacker, 1951-2008
    Against The Current vol. 135
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Elissa Karg Chacker, a longtime member of Solidarity and previously the International Socialists (IS) in Detroit, died Sunday, May 11 from injuries suffered in an accident a week earlier. Riding her bicycle home after a Solidarity meeting, she was struck by a car and never regained consciousness. Her daughters Sasha and Nina stayed with her in the hospital, where many comrades and friends maintained a vigil throughout the week.
  48. Emma Goldman and the American Left: Nowhere at Home
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    A biography of Emma Goldman.
  49. Emma Goldman in Exile: From the Russian Revolution to the Spanish Civil War
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    Volume 2 of a biography of Emma Goldman.
  50. Emma Goldman: Voice of a Rebel
    Against The Current vol. 141
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Emma Goldman's name for many is synonymous with Anarchism. Indeed, as we can see in the first two volumes of the Documentary History of the American Years from the Emma Goldman Papers Project, now out in a welcome paperback edition, she did much to define anarchism to Americans.
  51. Hedy Epstein
    Resource Type: Website
    The website of the late Hedy Epstein 1924-2016), Holocause survivor, human rights advocate, and speaker.
  52. Fernandez, Irene
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Resource Type: Article
    Malaysian advocate for the right of women, migrants, and poor workers. (Born 1946).
  53. Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Labour leader, activist, and feminist who played a leading role in the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). (1890-1964).
  54. Franklin, Ursula
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    Metallurgist, humanitarian, feminist, peace activist. (Born 1921).
  55. Franklin, Ursula
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Metallurgist, humanitarian, feminist, peace activist. (Born 1921).
  56. Franklin, Ursula
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Metallurgist, humanitarian, feminist, peace activist. (Born 1921).
  57. Friedan, Betty
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    American writer, activist and feminist. (1921-2006).
  58. Miriam Garfinkle
    Connexipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    Miriam Garfinkle was a Canadian physician and social justice activist.
  59. Miriam Garfinkle 1954 - 2018
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Obituary for Miriam Garfinkle, who died on September 15, 2018.
  60. Genefke, Inge
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Resource Type: Article
    Campaigner and worker on behalf of torture victims.
  61. Geonzon, Winefreda
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Resource Type: Article
    Advocate for prisoners. Responsible for setting up the Free Legal Assistance Volunteers Association (FREELAVA) as a legal aid office for victims of human rights violations, prisoners who could not afford lawyers to act for them and people whose cases had implications for social justice.
  62. Goldman, Emma
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Anarchist known for her political activism, writing and speeches. (1869-1940).
  63. Gough, Kathleen
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Anthropologist, Marxist. (1925-1990).
  64. Grace Paley (1922-2007)
    Against The Current vol. 131
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    Grace Paley described herself as a “somewhat combative pacifist and a cooperative anarchist,” and saw the role of the artist as that of “listener” who would relay stories of those made invisible by society. And she told it plain.
  65. Hamer, Fannie Lou
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    American voting rights activist and civil rights leader. (1917-1977).
  66. Hartman, Grace
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian labour union activist. (1918-1993).
  67. Hauser, Monika
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Resource Type: Article
    German human rights advocate. (Born 1959).
  68. Holocaust survivor and activist for justice Hedy Epstein dies at 91
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Holocaust survivor Hedy Epstein, 91, died at her home in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, on May 26, 2016. An internationally renowned, respected and admired advocate for human and civil rights, Hedy was encircled by friends who lovingly cared for her at home.
  69. Horton, Zilphia
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
  70. Huerta, Dolores
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    The co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO, and prominent member of the Democratic Socialists of America. (Born 1930).
  71. An Intimate Life
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1984
    Volume 1 of a biography of Emma Goldman.
  72. Jacobs, Jane
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Author, urban advocate, economist, ecologist, and philosopher. (1916-2006).
  73. Jacobs, Jane
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Author, urban advocate, economist, ecologist, and philosopher. (1916-2006).
  74. Jagannathan, Krishnammal and Sankaralingam
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winners
    Resource Type: Article
    Gandhian activists who have protested against social injustice.
  75. Jagger, Bianca
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Resource Type: Article
    A Nicaraguan-born social and human rights advocate and a former actress and fashion icon. (Born 1950).
  76. Jones, Mary Harris (Mother Jones)
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    American labour and community organizer, a Wobbly, and a Socialist. (1837-1930).
  77. Kamal, Meena Keshwar
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    An Afghan women's rights activist, founder of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA), a group organized to promote equality and education for women. (1956-1987).
  78. Keller, Helen
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    American author, political activist and lecturer. (1880-1968).
  79. Kelly, Petra
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Left-wing German politician. (1947-1992).
  80. Kelly, Petra
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Resource Type: Article
    Left-wing German politician. (1947-1992).
  81. Klein, Bonnie Sherr
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    Filmmaker, author, disability rights activist. (Born 1941).
  82. Kruhonja, Katarina
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Resource Type: Article
    Croatian peace activist. (Born 1962).
  83. Landsberg, Michele
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian writer, social activist and feminist. (Born 1935).
  84. Langer, Felicia
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Resource Type: Article
    Israeli human rights lawyer, winner of the Right Livelihood Award.
  85. Berta Langston, 1926-2010
    Against The Current vol. 147
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Berta Langston (1926-2010), a founder and member of Solidarity, died of lung cancer at age 84 in Norwalk, Connecticut on June 23. Born Berta Green on the Lower East Side of New York City, she was one of four sisters. She joined the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in the mid-1940s and throughout nearly four decades of activity she was widely esteemed on the Left as one of the party’s most devoted and capable militants, a person who could work with sundry individuals to develop coalitions and political defense committees of national and international import. From time to time she used the party name “Berta Graham,” and she received a Marxist education at the “Trotsky School” at Mountain Spring Camp in New Jersey. During the mid-1960s she served briefly on the SWP National Committee.
  86. Lappé, Frances Moore
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Activist and writer on food, hunger, economics, and democracy. (Born 1944).
  87. Lappé, Frances Moore
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Resource Type: Article
    Activist and writer on food, hunger, economics, and democracy. (Born 1944).
  88. Lavell, Jeannette Vivian Corbiere
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    Native women's rights activist. (Born 1942).
  89. LeBourdais, Isabel
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian journalist and author. (1909-2003).
  90. The Legacy of Rosa Luxemburg
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2015
    Norman Geras sets out to interrogate and refute the myths that have developed around Rosa Luxemburg's work.
  91. Lemke, Birsel
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Resource Type: Article
    Turkish environmentalist. (Born 1950).
  92. The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990   Published: 2011
    Blending a passionate sensibility and a steely intellect with an unshakeable commitment to revolutionary socialism, Rosa Luxemburg is one of the towering figures of the twentieth century. In this comprehensive collection selection of Luxemburg's letters, her political concerns are revealed alongside the story of a vivid inner life.
  93. Livesay, Dorothy
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Poet, journalist, writer of short fiction, autobiography and literary criticism. (1909-1996).
  94. Living My Life
    Resource Type: Book
  95. Livingstone, Kay
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    Social activist, radio host. (1918-1975).
  96. Longuet, Jenny
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Socialist activist. Daughter of Jenny von Westphalen and Karl Marx. (1844-1883).
  97. Love, Anarchy, and Emma Goldman
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984   Published: 1990
  98. Love and Capital 
    Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    A biography of Karl and Jenny Marx.
  99. Luxemburg, Rosa
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Marxist revolutionary. (1871-1919).
  100. Luxemburg, Rosa
    Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
    Resource Type: Article
    Marxist revolutionary. (1871-1919).
  101. Maathai, Wangari
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Winner of the1984 Right Livelihood Award and the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize. (Born 1940).
  102. Maathai, Wangari
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Resource Type: Article
    Winner of the 1984 Right Livelihood Award and the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize. (1940-2011).
  103. MacInnis, Grace Winona
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian politician and feminist.
  104. MacInnis, Grace
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian politician and feminist. (1905-1991).
  105. Macphail, Agnes
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian political and activist. (1890-1954).
  106. Macphail, Agnes Campbell
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian polician. (1890-1954).
  107. Manorama, Ruth
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Resource Type: Article
    Advocate for the right of Dalit women. (Born 1952).
  108. Martha (Marty) Quinn, 1939-2018
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Obituary for Martha Quinn, a founding member of Solidarity.
  109. Marx, Eleanor
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Socialist author and activist. (1855-1898).
  110. A Marxian Oddity
    A review of Marxiam and Freedom. From 1776 Unitl Today, by Raya Dunayevskaya
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1958
    Paul Mattick says although Raya Dunayevskaya’s interpretation of Marxian doctrine is occasionally true and eloquent, this book as a whole is a scatterbrained hodge-podge of philosophical, economic and political ideas that defy description and serious criticism.
  111. McClung, Nellie Letitia (Mooney)
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian feminist, politician, and social activist. (1873-1951).
  112. McNaughton, Violet
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    Feminist, journalist and activist. (1879-1968).
  113. Menchú, Rigoberta
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Winner of the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize. (Born 1959).
  114. Mer-Khamis, Arna
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Resource Type: Article
    Israeli educator and human rights activist. (1929-1995).
  115. Michel, Louise
    Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
    Resource Type: Article
    French anarchist, school teacher and medical worker. (1830-1905).
  116. One Woman Army
    The Life of Claire Culhane
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    A biography of Claire Culhane, member of the Canadian Communist Party, crusader for prison abolition, and peace activist opposed to the Vietnam war.
  117. Pankhurst, Emmeline
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    English women's suffrage movement leader. (1858-1928).
  118. A Parable of Women's Liberation
    Against The Current vol. 134
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Interview with Meredith Tax.
  119. Parent, Madeleine
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    Trade unionist. (Born 1918).
  120. Parent, Madeleine
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Trade unionist. (Born 1918).
  121. Parlby, Irene Marryat
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    Politician, farm women's leader. (1868-1965).
  122. Parsons, Lucy
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Radical American labour organizer and anarchist communist. (1853-1942).
  123. The Passing of Ronnie Gilbert
    A Great Woman Has Died
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Ronnie Gilbert, an original member of the legendary folk group, the Weavers, has died .
  124. Politkovskaya, Anna
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Russian journalist, author and human rights activist. (1958-2006).
  125. The Power of Women United
    Against The Current vol. 134
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Interview with Kipp Dawson.
  126. The Radical Life of Rosa Luxemburg 
    A graphic novelization of the revolutionary life and legacy of "Red Rosa"
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    An excerpt from Red Rosa, a graphic biography of Rosa Luxemburg.
  127. Rebick, Judy
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian feminist, writer, and activist. (Born 1945).
  128. Red Rosa 
    A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2015
    A giant of the political left, Rosa Luxemburg is one of the foremost minds in the canon of revolutionary socialist thought. Red Rosa gives Luxemburg her due as a radical and human being. In this beautifully drawn work of graphic biography, writer and artist Kate Evans has opened up her subject’s intellectual world to a new audience, grounding Luxemburg’s ideas in the realities of an inspirational and deeply affecting life.
  129. Remembering Dorothy Healey: An Activist with Vision
    Against The Current vol. 125
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Dorothy Healey had a grand vision of a world in which there was no poverty, racism, or war, a world of genuine democracy. To me she represented what was most appealing about the Old Left — commitment, dedication, selflessness.
  130. RIP Betty Dodson, Sex Revolutionary
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2020
    The great sex revolutionary and Godmother of Masturbation, Dr. Betty Dodson (1929-2020), one of my most beloved mentors, died on the Blue Moon of Halloween night.
  131. Roback, Léa
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    Union organizer, social activist. (1903-2000).
  132. Rosa Luxemburg
    Abridged Edition
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1966   Published: 1969
    A biography of Luxemburg by a British academic.
  133. Rosa Luxemburg in Retrospect
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1978
    Mattick reconsiders the legacy of Rosa Luxemburg, particularly her critique of Bolshevism and her economic theory.
  134. Rosa Luxemburg. Im Lebensrausch, trotz alledem
    Eine Biographie
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
  135. Rosa Luxemburg: A Reappraisal
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1975
  136. Rowbotham, Sheila
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    British socialist feminist theorist and writer. (Born 1943).
  137. Roy, Arundhati
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Indian writer (in English) and activist. (Born 1961).
  138. Russell, Dora
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    British author, feminist and socialist campaigner. (1894-1986).
  139. Scholl, Sophie
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A member of the White Rose non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany. (1921-1943).
  140. Shadd, Mary Ann
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A key figure in the Underground Railroad and a subscription agent for William Lloyd Garrison's abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator. (1823-1893).
  141. She never was afraid
    The biography of Annie Buller
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1976
    The story of Annie Buller, a Canadian trade union activist and Communist.
  142. Shiva, Vandana
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Philosopher, environmental activist, eco feminist and author. (Born 1952).
  143. Shiva, Vandana
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Resource Type: Article
    Environmental and women's activist. (Born 1952).
  144. Social Activist Grace Lee Boggs on Shaking Up the Status Quo in America
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2007
    Grace Lee Boggs has been a part of almost every major movement in the United States in the last 75 years, including: Labor, Civil Rights, Black Power, Women’s Rights and Environmental Justice.
  145. The Socialist Legacy of Helen Keller
    Resource Type: Article
    Helen Keller became a member of the Socialist Pary in 1909 and by 1912, she had become a national voice for socialism and working class solidarity.
  146. Starhawk
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    American writer, anarchist activist. (Born 1951).
  147. The Story of Tatania
    Resource Type: Book
    The life of the young Russian revolutionary who in 1906 assassinated a man who she believed was a Tsarist minister.
  148. Terselic, Vesna
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Resource Type: Article
    Croatian peace activist. (Born 1962).
  149. Triple Jeopardy and the Struggle
    Against The Current vol. 134
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Being bi- and female in the Asian movement also means putting in double, triple, quadruple time. The Third World Women’s Alliance, an offshoot of the Black Women’s Liberation Committee of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, dubbed this our “triple jeopardy” dilemma as women of color who have our hands, heads, hearts in multiple movements because of our race, gender and class status.
  150. Truth, Sojourner
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. (1797-1883).
  151. Tubman, Harriet
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    An African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the American Civil War. (1822-1913).
  152. Ursula K. Le Guin - Rest in Power
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Obituary celebrating Le Guin's contributions as a community activist, a fighter for feminism, peace, freedom of speech, access to knowledge for everyone, and radical democracy in addition to her literary acclaim.
  153. Violet McNaughton: the Mighty Mite Reformer From Saskatchewan
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Violet McNaughton deserves recognition as one of Canada's greatest and most formidable adult educators and co-operator of the twentieth century bar none
  154. The Vogeler Senate Campaign
    Against The Current vol. 124
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    With just four months until the general election, Green Party candidate Rae Vogeler has established herself as the main opposition to millionaire incumbent Senator Herb Kohl. Vogeler's campaign took off last September when the mother of two decided that Wisconsin needed a Senator to stand up for working people, end the war, and fund good jobs, quality education and affordable health care.
  155. Wangari Maathai was not a good woman. Kenya needs more of them.
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    25 September, 2015 marked four years since the passing of Kenyan environmentalist and feminist icon, Wangari Maathai. In Kenya, the celebrations were notably muted as her standing in the country has been ambiguous. Maathai challenged the notion of Kenyan women, who are forced to pretend to be "good" to satisfy societal expectations.
  156. Watt-Cloutier, Sheila
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    Inuit leader, activist.
  157. Wilkerson, Cathy
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    American radical. (Born 1945).
  158. Williams, Jody
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Winner of the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize. (Born 1950).
  159. Wollstonecraft, Mary
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    British writer, philosopher, and feminist. (1759-1797).
  160. Wood, Ellen Meiksins
    Resource Type: Article
  161. Wood, Ellen Meiksins
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Marxist scholar. (Born 1942).
  162. Zasulich, Vera
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Russian Marxist and revolutionary 1849-1919.
  163. Barbara Zeluck, 1923-2010
    Against The Current vol. 147
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Our comrade Barbara Zeluck died at her home June 5, 2010 in New York City.
  164. Zetkin, Clara
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    German socialist. (1857-1933).
  165. Zetkin, Clara
    Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
    Resource Type: Article
    German socialist. (1857-1933).
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