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  1. Abbey, Edward
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    American author and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues and criticism of public land policies. (1927-1989).
  2. Abu-Jamal, Mumia
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    An African-American activist who was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1981 murder of a Philadelphia police officer. His conviction was based on dubious evidence and dubious legal proceedings. (Born 1954).
  3. African-American Socialist Pioneer
    Against The Current vol. 144
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    In holding aloft the Banner of Ethiopia: Caribbean Radicalism in Early Twentieth-Century America, Winston James singled out Hubert Henry Harrison for his “pioneering role in what became known as the New Negro radicalism of the 1920s.” Yet, James noted, Harrison remained an understudied figure who had not been the subject of a major biography.
  4. Alinsky, Saul
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    American community organizer and writer. (1909-1972).
  5. 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.
  6. Anthony, Susan B.
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    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).
  7. Asch, Moses
    Connexipedia Article
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    Founder of Folkways Records. The label, founded in 1948, was instrumental in bringing folk music into the American mainstream. (1905-1986).
  8. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1964   Published: 1965
    The personal story of the man who become the most dynamic leader of the Black Revolution in the United States, completed shortly before his assassination.
  9. 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.
  10. Baez, Joan
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    Folk singer, songwriter and activist. (Born 1941).
  11. Baker, Ella
    Connexipedia Article
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    African American civil rights and human rights activis. (1903-1986).
  12. Barthel, Kurt
    Connexipedia Article
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    The father of the modern United States nudist movement.
  13. Baxandall, Lee
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    American writer, translator, editor, and activist, first known for his New Left engagement with cultural topics and then as a leader of the naturist movement. (1935-2008).
  14. Rosalyn Baxandall, Feminist Historian and Activist dies at 76
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Rosalyn Baxandall, a feminist historian who was among the first to bring scholarly attention to the historical role of women in the workplace and to expand the meaning of "women's work," has died.
  15. Berkman, Alexander
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    Anarchist known for his political activism and writing. (1870-1936).
  16. Berman, Marshall
    Connexipedia Article
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    American philosopher and Marxist Humanist writer. (Born 1940).
  17. Berra, Yogi
    Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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    (Born 1925). American philosopher and former Major League Baseball player and manager.
  18. Berrigan, Daniel
    Connexipedia Article
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    American poet, peace activist, and Roman Catholic priest. (Born 1921).
  19. Bertell, Rosalie
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian-American researcher who has worked in the field of environmental health. (Born 1929).
  20. Bibb, Henry
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    Author and abolitionist who was born a slave. (1815-1854).
  21. Boggs, Grace Lee
    Connexipedia Article
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    A Chinese-American author, anti-racist activist and feminist. (Born 1915).
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. Bookchin, Murray
    Connexipedia Article
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    American libertarian socialist-anarchist, political and social philosopher, environmentalist, conservationist, atheist, speaker, and writer. (1921-2006).
  25. Borsodi, Ralph
    Connexipedia Article
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    Economic theorist and practical experimenter interested in ways of living useful to the modern person or family desiring greater self-direction and self-reliance. (1886-1977).
  26. Bound for Glory
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1943   Published: 1970
    The autobiography of folk singer Woody Guthrie.
  27. The Boy Who Could Change the World
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Remembering the brief life of Aaron Swartz: programmer, activist, entrepreneur, community builder.
  28. Bridges, Harry
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    Australian-American union leader in the ILWU, a longshore (dock) and warehouse workers' union on the West Coast, Hawai'i and Alaska. (1901-1990).
  29. Brown, John
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    American abolitionist who advocated and practiced armed insurrection as a means to end slavery. (1800-1859).
  30. Bruce, Lenny
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    American stand-up comedian, writer, social critic and satirist of the 1950s and 1960s. (1925-1966).
  31. Bryant, Louise
    Connexipedia Article
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    American journalist and writer best known for her Marxist and anarchist beliefs and her essays on radical political and feminist themes. (1885-1936).
  32. Callenbach, Ernest
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    American writer, known as an author of green books, namely as author of the ecological utopias Ecotopia (1975) and Ecotopia Emerging (1981). (Born 1929).
  33. Ron Carey, Militant Union Reformer
    Against The Current vol. 138
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    “Ron Carey was the nation’s most charismatic and successful labor leader as the twentieth century was coming to an end. He will be remembered as a major figure in American labor history on the basis of just two of his accomplishments: In 1991, running as a reformer with the backing of Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU), he was elected general president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. In 1997, he led the successful 15-day strike against the giant United Parcel Service, the biggest victory organized labor had experienced in at least three decades.”
  34. Carmichael, Stokely
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    Trinidadian-American black leader active in the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement. (1941-1998).
  35. Carson, Rachel
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    American marine biologist and nature writer whose writings, especially 'Silent Spring', are credited with advancing the global environmental movement. (1907-1964).
  36. Chaplin, Ralph
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    Labour activist at the age of 7, after witnessing a worker shot dead diurng the Pullman strike in Chicago, Illinois. (1887-1961).
  37. Chávez, César
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    Mexican American farm worker, labour leader, and civil rights activist who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers (UFW). (1927-1993).
  38. Chomsky, Noam
    Connexipedia Article
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    American linguist, philosopher, political activist, author, and lecturer. (Born 1928).
  39. 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.
  40. Barry Commoner 1917-2012
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Barry Commoner, biologist, environmental, socialist, humanist, and one of the central leaders of the anti-nuclear-testing movement, dies at 95. He is particularly remembered for the “Four Laws of Ecology” he laid out in his book The Closing Circle: (1) Everything is connected to everything else. (2) Everything must go somewhere. (3) Nature knows best. (4) There is no such thing as a free lunch.
  41. 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.
  42. Daly, Herman
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Resource Type: Article
    American ecological economist and professor. (Born 1938).
  43. 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.
  44. Darrow, Clarence
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    American lawyer civil libertarian. (1857-1938).
  45. Day, Dorothy
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    American journalist, social activist, distributist, anarchist, and devout Catholic. (1897-1980).
  46. De Leon, Daniel
    Connexipedia Article
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    American socialist newspaper editor, politician, Marxist theoretician, and trade union organizer. (1852-1914).
  47. De Leon, Daniel
    Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
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    American socialist newspaper editor, politician, Marxist theoretician, and trade union organizer. (1852-1914).
  48. Debs, Eugene V.
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    American socialist politician and union leader, one of the founding members of the International Labor Union and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). (1855-1926).
  49. 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.
  50. Defender of the Movement
    Albert Goldman for the Defense
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    A profile of the radical lawyer.
  51. Deganawida (The Great Peacemaker)
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    The founder of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy.
  52. Dellinger, David
    Connexipedia Article
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    American radical pacifist and activist for nonviolent social change. (1915-2004).
  53. 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.
  54. Dewey, John
    Connexipedia Article
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    American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer. (1859-1952).
  55. Dolgoff, Sam
    Connexipedia Article
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    American anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist. (1902-1990).
  56. Douglass, Frederick
    Connexipedia Article
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    American abolitionist, women's suffragist, editor, orator, author, statesman and reformer. (1818-1895).
  57. Draper, Hal
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    American socialist activist, Marxist and author of a number of key works about Marxism. (1914-1990).
  58. Hal Draper, Introduction to
    Connexipedia Article
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    Link to brief biography of Hal Draper, an American socialist activist, Marxist and author, and participant in the Berkeley, California Free Speech Movement. (1914-1990).
  59. Du Bois, W. E. B.
    Connexipedia Article
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    American civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, historian, author, and editor. (1868-1963).
  60. Ellsberg, Daniel
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Resource Type: Article
    Peace campaigner. (Born 1931).
  61. Evers, Medgar
    Connexipedia Article
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    African American civil rights activist from Mississippi, murdered in 1963. (1925-1963).
  62. Finkelstein, Norman
    Connexipedia Article
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    An American political scientist and author, whose primary fields of research are the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the politics of the Holocaust. (Born 1953).
  63. Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley
    Connexipedia Article
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    Labour leader, activist, and feminist who played a leading role in the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). (1890-1964).
  64. The Forgotten Socialist History of Martin Luther King Jr.
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    King believed that a multiracial working-class movement was required to overcome the failings of capitalism.
  65. Frank Fried (1927-2015)
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Frank Fried, a revolutionary U.S. socialist, passed away on January 13, 2015.
  66. Friedan, Betty
    Connexipedia Article
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    American writer, activist and feminist. (1921-2006).
  67. Garrison, William Lloyd
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    American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer best known as the editor of the radical abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator, and as one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society. (1805-1879).
  68. Ginsberg, Allen
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    American poet best known for the poem "Howl", in which he celebrates fellow members of the Beat Generation and critiques what he saw as the destructive forces of materialism and conformity in the United States. (1926-1997).
  69. Glaberman, Martin
    Connexipedia Article
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    An influential American Marxist, teacher, and autoworker. (1918-2001).
  70. Global Crisis and Opportunity
    Against The Current vol. 134
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Ben Terrall interviews Mike Davis. Mike Davis is a veteran writer and activist who cut his progressive teeth in the 1960s civil rights and antiwar movements. He has worked as a meat cutter, long-distance trucker, and currently teaches history at UC Irvine.
  71. Goldman, Emma
    Connexipedia Article
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    Anarchist known for her political activism, writing and speeches. (1869-1940).
  72. Goodman, Paul
    Connexipedia Article
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    American sociologist, poet, writer, anarchist, social critic, and public intellectual. (1911-1972).
  73. Gould, Stephen Jay
    Connexipedia Article
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    American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. (1941-2002).
  74. Guthrie, Woody
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    American singer-songwriter and folk musician. (1912-1967).
  75. Hagerty, Thomas J.
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    American Roman Catholic priest from New Mexico, and one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World. (Born 1862).
  76. Halper, Jeff
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    Co-founder and Coordinator of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD). (Born 1946).
  77. Hamer, Fannie Lou
    Connexipedia Article
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    American voting rights activist and civil rights leader. (1917-1977).
  78. Hayden, Tom
    Connexipedia Article
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    An American social and political activist and politician, most famous for his involvement in the animal rights, and the anti-war and civil rights movements of the 1960s. (Born 1939).
  79. Haywood, Bill (Big Bill Haywood)
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    American unionist and communist, one of the founders of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) (1869-1928).
  80. Hennacy, Ammon
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    American pacifist, Christian anarchist, vegetarian, social activist, member of the Catholic Worker Movement and a Wobbly. (1893-1970).
  81. Herman, Edward S.
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    Economist and media analyst with a specialty in corporate and regulatory issues as well as political economy and the media. (Born 1925).
  82. Hill, Joe
    Connexipedia Article
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    Swedish-American labour activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World. (1879-1915).
  83. Hoffman, Abbie
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    Social and political activist in the United States who co-founded the Youth International Party ("Yippies"). (1936-1989).
  84. Horton, Myles
    Connexipedia Article
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    American educator, socialist and cofounder of the Highlander Folk School. (1905-1990).
  85. Horton, Zilphia
    Connexipedia Article
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  86. Howard Zinn (1922-2010): In Lieu of Flowers, Organize
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Where other leftish icons have spent these decades gnashing their teeth, lecturing and bemoaning how awful everything that happens up above has been (as if most folks born down below didn't already know that by the time we were eight), Howard answered the call, again and again, to help us do something about it. He walked out to the picket lines every time he was called - by neighborhood organizers fighting against his university's real estate grabs, by striking workers that cleaned and fed the students and professors, by almost anyone who organized and fought that asked, and often before they asked, for his support.
  87. Huerta, Dolores
    Connexipedia Article
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    The co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO, and prominent member of the Democratic Socialists of America. (Born 1930).
  88. I Don't have to be what you want me to be
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    'A strange fate befell Muhammad Ali in the 1990s', Mike Marqusee writes in Redemption Song, his wonderful, illuminating study of 'Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties'. ‘The man who had defied the American establishment was taken into its bosom. There he was lavished with an affection which had been strikingly absent thirty years before, when for several years he reigned unchallenged as the most reviled figure in the history of American sports.' The global outpouring of grief, affection and tribute to Ali this weekend has been moving and heart-warming. Yet, there is a part of me that thinks that, as affection has washed away the old contempt with which he once was greeted by large sections, especially of American society, we have also lost something of the sense of Ali's true greatness.
  89. Noel Ignatiev, 1940-2019
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    Yesterday I learned that my friend and comrade Noel Ignatiev passed away. He’d been in poor health for some time, diagnosed with a rare form of gastrointestinal cancer that made it difficult for him to swallow properly or digest, but it still caught me off guard.
  90. In Memory of Tim Costello
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Remembering Tim Costello.
  91. Jackson, Wes
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Resource Type: Article
    American agronomist and advocate for sustainable agriculture.
  92. Jacobs, Jane
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
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    Author, urban advocate, economist, ecologist, and philosopher. (1916-2006).
  93. Jacobs, Jane
    Connexipedia Article
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    Author, urban advocate, economist, ecologist, and philosopher. (1916-2006).
  94. 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).
  95. James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890-1928
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2010
  96. Joel Kovel (1936-2018) 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Obituary for psychiatrist, teacher and author Joel Kovel.
  97. John Holt: Homeschooling Pioneer and Visionary Progressive
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    The stereotype of homeschooling as the haven for conservative, religious ideologues overshadows the movement's radically progressive roots. One of the movement's foremost pioneers, John Holt, was an egalitarian atheist who explicitly opposed patriarchy, corresponded with progressive thinkers including Paul Goodman and Noam Chomsky, and helped initiate the still emerging children’s rights movement.
  98. Jones, Mary Harris (Mother Jones)
    Connexipedia Article
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    American labour and community organizer, a Wobbly, and a Socialist. (1837-1930).
  99. Keller, Helen
    Connexipedia Article
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    American author, political activist and lecturer. (1880-1968).
  100. King, Martin Luther Jr.
    Connexipedia Article
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    (1929-1968). Was an American clergyman, activist and prominent leader in the African-American civil rights movement.
  101. Kinsey, Alfred
    Connexipedia Article
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    American biologist and sexologist. (1894-1956).
  102. Knabb, Ken
    Connexipedia Article
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    American writer, translator, and radical theorist. (Born 1945).
  103. Kolko, Gabriel
    Connexipedia Article
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    An American revisionist historian and author. (Born 1932).
  104. Kovel, Joel
    Connexipedia Article
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    American politician, academic, writer, and eco-socialist. (1936 - 2018).
  105. Kunstler, William
    Connexipedia Article
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    American radical lawyer and civil rights activist. (1919-1995).
  106. Lappé, Frances Moore
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
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    Activist and writer on food, hunger, economics, and democracy. (Born 1944).
  107. Lawson, James
    Connexipedia Article
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    Theoretician and tactician of nonviolence within the American Civil Rights Movement. (Born 1928).
  108. Leopold, Aldo
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    American ecologist, forester, and environmentalist who was influential in the development of modern environmental ethics and in the movement for wilderness preservation. (1887-1948).
  109. The Life, Loves, Wars and Foibles of Edward Abbey
    Monkeywrenching the Machine
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Fifty-three years ago, long before I had heard of Edward Abbey and Abraham Polonsky, I saw a film titled "Lonely are the Brave" that was based on Polonsky's adaptation of Abbey's novel "The Brave Cowboy".
  110. A Lifetime for Socialism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1997
    An obituary of Milt Zaslow.
  111. Lincoln, Abraham
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    President of the United States during the American Civil War. (1809-1865).
  112. Little, Frank
    Connexipedia Article
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    American labour leader who organized miners, lumberjacks and oil field workers. (1879-1917).
  113. The Long Haul 
    An autobiography
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990   Published: 1991
    Myles Horton tells the story of the Highlander Folk School. A major catalyst for social change in the United States for over sixty years, this school has touched the lives of so many people, including Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, and Eleanor Roosevelt.
  114. A Long View from the Left
    Memoirs of an American Revolutionary
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    A memoir of a member of the American Communist Party.
  115. Lynd, Staughton
    Connexipedia Article
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    American author, activist, historian, and lawyer. (Born 1929).
  116. Macdonald, Dwight
    Connexipedia Article
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    American writer, editor, social critic, philosopher, and political radical. (1906-1982).
  117. Malcolm X Research Site
    Resource Type: Website
    A comprehensive website on the life and legacy of Malcolm X , with text, film, video, graphics and more, plus a large listing of African American scholars on the left, with links to their sites and works.
  118. The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    A biography of John Brown.
  119. The Man Who Recorded the World 
    A Biography of Alan Lomax
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    Documentarian of the folk culture of American life,, Lomax was diligent and tireless in preserving the irreplaceable vernacular cultures that have fallen into the past.
  120. Marcos, Subcomandante
    Connexipedia Article
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    Spokesman for the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN).
  121. Martha (Marty) Quinn, 1939-2018
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Obituary for Martha Quinn, a founding member of Solidarity.
  122. Martin Glaberman: 1918 - 2001
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2001
  123. Marxist Art Historian: Meyer Schapiro, 1914-1996
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1996
    Schapiro will no doubt be remembered for his brilliance, for the extraordinary range of his mind, but his legacy as a scholar belongs to those willing to engage his most profound and most challenging work, in particular the Marxist studies he produced during the 1930s.
  124. Mattick Paul
    Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
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    Marxist writer and activist. (1904-1981).
  125. Mattick, Paul
    Connexipedia Article
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    Marxist writer and activist. (1904-1981).
  126. The Measure of a Revolutionary: Remembering Eugene V. Debs
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Debs was an articulate, far-reaching critic of American society, staunchly anti-capitalist and opposed to both Democratic and Republican parties, which he saw as controlled by Wall Street. In his five campaigns as the Socialist Party candidate for President of the United States, Debs excoriated the economic exploitation of workers, including the then rampant abuses of child labor, with rare oratorical skill. He advocated for unions in all major industries and promoted a vision of socialism as grassroots economic democracy. In a deeply racist, patriarchal society, he was also staunchly anti-racist and pro-women's rights. When war hysteria swept the country, Debs openly defied the warmongers to oppose U.S. entry into World War I. He did so not as a pacifist, but because he saw the world war as an inter-imperialist dispute among the ruling classes of competing capitalist nations.
  127. A Memory of Howard
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    A recollection of the late Howard Zinn.
  128. Mills, C. Wright
    Connexipedia Article
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    American sociologist. (1916-1962).
  129. Morrison, Norman
    Connexipedia Article
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    Baltimore Quaker best known for committing suicide in an act of self-immolation to protest United States involvement in the Vietnam War. (1933-1965).
  130. Mumford, Lewis
    Connexipedia Article
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    American historian and philosopher of technology and science. (1895-1990).
  131. Muste, A. J.
    Connexipedia Article
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    A socialist active in the pacifist movement, the labour movement, and the US civil rights movement. (1885-1967).
  132. A. J. Muste
    Wikipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    Abraham Johannes Muste (January 8, 1885 - February 11, 1967) was a Dutch-born American clergyman and political activist. Muste is best remembered for his work in the labour movement, pacifist movement, antiwar movement, and the Civil Rights Movement.
  133. My Studs Terkel, and Yours
    Against The Current vol. 138
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    When Against The Current asked me to write a piece on Studs Terkel, I wondered why me? But after I pondered the idea, I thought, of course me. And you. All readers of his books, Against the Current and other magazines, large and small that serve as a mouthpiece for those with the desire for a better world and anger against the hypocrisy of our times.
  134. Nader, Ralph
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    American attorney, author, lecturer, and political activist. (Born 1934).
  135. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave & Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    Two first-person accounts of African-American slavery.
  136. Nearing, Scott
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    American radical economist, educator, writer, political activist, and advocate of simple living. (1883-1983).
  137. Newton, Huey P.
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Co-founder and leader of the Black Panther Party. (1942-1989).
  138. Noam Chomsky - Everyday Anarchist
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Interview with Noam Chomsky.
  139. Noam Chomsky: Moral & Social Thinker
    Against The Current vol. 145
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Noam Chomsky is a powerhouse of insightful thought – this book attests to that. So analyzing or even summarizing Anthony Arnove’s The Essential Chomsky is no simple task. A moderately lengthy and notably chronological collection of texts plucked from Chomsky’s enormous output, The Essential Chomsky leaps from linguistics to Palestine to libertarian socialism and back to linguistics again. Given the political nature of Against the Current, we will focus on Chomsky’s views on political philosophy, morality, U.S. foreign and domestic policy, and propaganda, ending with thoughts on the editing. But first, a few introductory remarks on the man himself.
  140. Ochs, Phil
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    U.S. protest singer (or, as he preferred, a topical singer) and songwriter who was known for his sharp wit, sardonic humor, earnest humanism, political activism, insightful and alliterative lyrics, and haunting voice. (1940 - 1976).
  141. The Oratory of Malcolm X
    Against The Current vol. 120
    Resource Type: Article
    Spike Lee closes his 1989 film “Do the Right Thing” with two quotes: In one, Malcolm X proclaims the right to self defense and in the other, Martin Luther King, Jr. insists upon non-violent protest. Each quote has the potential to produce a drastically different reading of the film, which ends in a police murder of an African-American youth and a subsequent street riot. Lee, however, chooses to maintain a tension between the two interpretations of the riot, asking his audience to juggle both or to choose for themselves.
  142. Osceola
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    War chief of the Seminole in Florida who led a small band of warriors in the Seminole resistance when the United States tried to remove the Seminoles from their lands. (1804-1838).
  143. Paine, Thomas
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Author, pamphleteer, radical, inventor, intellectual, revolutionary. (1737-1809).
  144. Tom Paine, restless democrat
    Profile of a radical
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Mike Marqusee celebrates the life, work and ideas of the great revolutionary who declared that "my country is the world and my religion is to do good."
  145. Papanek, Victor
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Designer and educator who became a strong advocate of the socially and ecologically responsible design of products, tools, and community infrastructures. (1927-1999).
  146. Parks, Rosa
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    African American civil rights activist. (1913-2005).
  147. Parsons, Lucy
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Radical American labour organizer and anarchist communist. (1853-1942).
  148. 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 .
  149. Pauling, Linus
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    American chemist, peace activist, author, and educator. (1901-1994).
  150. Peltier, Leonard
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    American activist and member of the American Indian Movement. (Born 1944).
  151. Perlman, Fredy
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Radical author, publisher and activist. (1934-1985).
  152. A Persistent Peace
    One Man's Struggle for a Nonviolent World
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007   Published: 2008
    Jesuit priest John Dear ministers to the needy at the margins of society. He is a pacifist and anti-war activist who has spoken out against the Pentagon and the wars in Afghanistan and in Iraq. His views about Christ's teachings on nonviolence have also made him a rebel in the Catholic Church.
  153. Phil Ochs: There but for Fortune
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2010   Published: 2011
    A documentary film on the life and times of folk singer-songwriter Phil Ochs.
  154. Phillips, Utah
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Labor organizer, folk singer, storyteller, and poet. (1935-2008).
  155. Utah Phillips 1935-2008
    Against The Current vol. 138
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Bruce “Utah" Phillips, who died in May 2008, was a living, singing museum of radical working-class culture. Through his songs and stories he connected three generations to the living memory of class struggle martyrs, hobo lore and life, and the pacifists and anarchists of the early 20th century. In addition to being a world beloved folksinger and performer, Phillips spent time as a peace campaigner, a freight train hopper, and a union organizer. Phillips will be best remembered for his countless renditions of the songs of Joe Hill and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), the Wobblies.
  156. The Power of Women United
    Against The Current vol. 134
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Interview with Kipp Dawson.
  157. Ralph Nader and the Legacy of Revolt (Part 3)
    Against The Current vol. 90
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2001
    Ralph Nader has a complex relationship with the historical currents of change before World War I (populism, socialism and progressivism), but it may be his relationship to the Communism of the mid-twentieth century that has shaped his view of reform. Nader readily accepted the prevailing view that the Soviet regime exemplified the definition of socialism, that is, a concentration of bureaucratic power based on government ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution.
  158. Randolph, A. Philip
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    African-American civil rights leader. (1889-1979).
  159. Reed, John
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    American journalist and communist activist. (1887-1920).
  160. Reich, Wilhelm
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. (1897-1957).
  161. Remembering Dave Dellinger
    Against The Current vol. 112
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2004
    Dave Dellinger’s death on May 25th of this year, at the age of 88, marked the end of a remarkable life. Most readers know him from the event that, more than any other, made him a public figure — the infamous trial of the Chicago Eight, following the riots that marked the Democratic Party’s 1968 convention.
  162. Remembering Milt Zaslow
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1997
    Milt disdained inflated revolutionary bravado, but time and again his group were the first to put themselves in harm's way when activists in Southcentral or the Eastside of Los Angeles were under attack.
  163. Revolutionary Optimist 
    An interview with Martin Glaberman
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
  164. 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.
  165. Rivera, Diego
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Mexican artist. (1886-1957).
  166. Robeson, Paul
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Musician, actor, speaker, lawyer, radical. (1898-1976).
  167. Rocker, Rudolf
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    (1873-1958). Anarcho-syndicalist writer and activist.
  168. Lester Rodney: The Long Ball Hitter
    Against The Current vol. 145
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    I am writing this piece after reading the New York Times obituary of Lester Rodney, where both the role of the Daily Worker and Lester’s role as its sports writer were given their due credit in the fight to integrate major league baseball. Irwin Silber’s book Press Box Red has previously told Lester’s story in depth, and Dave Zirin’s recent articles round out his significance to sports in a more contemporary fashion.
  169. Sacco and Vanzetti
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Labourers and anarchists who were tried, convicted and executed in Massachusetts in 1927.
  170. Sacco and Vanzetti
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1929
    This struggle marks the real history of progress. Its heroes are not the Napoleons and the Bismarcks, not the generals and politicians. Its path is lined with the unmarked graves of the Saccos and Vanzettis of humanity, dotted with the auto-da-fé, the torture chambers, the gallows and the electric chair. To those martyrs of justice and liberty we owe what little of real progress and civilization we have today.
  171. Said, Edward, Critical Notes on
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2005
    Edward Said was admired by the anti-imperialist left for his courageous defence of Palestinian rights. However, Irfan Habib argues that unfortunately Said's scholarly work, notably his major work 'Orientalism,' was confused and sloppy to be point of being unethical.
  172. Saint John, Vincent
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    American labour leader and prominent Wobbly. (1876-1929).
  173. Savio, Mario
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    American activist. (1942-1996).
  174. The Science and Humanism of Stephen Jay Gould
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    Stephen Jay Gould was not only a leading paleontologist and evolutionary theorist, he was also a humanist with an enduring interest in the history and philosophy of science. The extraordinary range of Gould’s work was underpinned by a richly nuanced and deeply insightful worldview. Richard York and Brett Clark engage Gould’s science and humanism to illustrate and develop the intellectual power of Gould’s worldview, particularly with regard to the philosophy of science.
  175. Seeger, Pete
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    American folk singer. (Born 1919).
  176. 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).
  177. Sinclair, Upton
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    American author and muckraker. (1978-1968).
  178. Skaggs, Joey
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    American prankster who has organized numerous successful media pranks, hoaxes, and other presentations. He is considered one of the originators of the phenomenon known as culture jamming. (Born 1945).
  179. 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.
  180. Starhawk
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    American writer, anarchist activist. (Born 1951).
  181. Stephen Jay Gould: Dialectical Biologist
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2002
    Gould, the world’s leading expert on the evolution of Bahamian land snails, and one of the most influential evolutionary theorists of his generation, shared Engels’ enthusiasm for understanding the natural world dialectically – in other words, seeing it as made up of complex and dynamic interactive processes.
  182. Still Black, Still Strong
    Survivors of the War Against Black Revolutionaries: Dhoruba Bin Wahad; Mumia Abu-Jamal; Assata Shakur
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
  183. Still, William
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    An African-American abolitionist, conductor on the Underground Railroad, writer, historian and civil rights activist. (1819-1902).
  184. The website of I.F. Stone
    Resource Type: Website
    Website devoted to the journalism and life of radical journalist I.F. Stone (1907-1989).
  185. Stone, I. F.
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    American investigative journalist. (1907-1989).
  186. Tecumseh
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Shawnee chief who attempted to form an alliance of tribes to combat American territorial ambitions and tried to rally the tribes in a common defence against the Americans. (1768-1813).
  187. Tecumseh
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Shawnee chief who attempted to form an alliance of tribes to combat American territorial ambitions and tried to rally the tribes in a common defence against the Americans. (1768-1813).
  188. Terkel, Studs
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster. (1912-2008).
  189. Thoreau, Henry David
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    American author and poet. (1817-1862).
  190. Toledo, Francisco
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Resource Type: Article
    Mexican community activist. (Born 1940).
  191. Traven, B.
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    The nom de plume of an enigmatic twentieth century novelist.
  192. Tresca, Carlo
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Anarchist, newspaper editor, and labour agitator. (1879-1943).
  193. A Tribute To American People's Historian - Howard Zinn
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    With the death of Howard Zinn there is no doubt that the anti-war and peace movement in the USA has lost one of its best activists and an honest historian.
  194. Truth, Sojourner
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. (1797-1883).
  195. Tubman, Harriet
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    An African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the American Civil War. (1822-1913).
  196. Turner, Nat
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    American slave who led a slave rebellion in 1831. (1800-1831).
  197. Vidal, Gore
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, essayist, short story writer, actor and politician. (Born 1925).
  198. Walter Reuther, 'Social Unionist'
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1996
    The book is full of self-serving quotations from Reuther and others that are accepted at face value. There is a very superficial understanding of the auto industry, of life in the union and on the shop floor, and of the left. The huge number of quotations and citations tends to conceal a high degree of inaccuracy and misunderstanding.
  199. Weinstein, James
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    American historian and journalist. (1926-2005).
  200. Wilkerson, Cathy
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    American radical. (Born 1945).
  201. William Blum, Renowned U.S. Foreign Policy Critic, Dead at 85
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Obituary for William Blum with biographical information and links to his work.
  202. Williams, Jody
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Winner of the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize. (Born 1950).
  203. Wilson, Edmund
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    American writer and literary critic. (1895-1972).
  204. Wood, Ellen Meiksins
    Resource Type: Article
  205. A Working-Class Hero Is Something To Be
    Against The Current vol. 133
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    As a 35-year veteran of union activity in America, I can personally attest that Tony Mazzocchi of the Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers (OCAW) was a rare bird, perhaps the last of his kind.
  206. Malcolm X
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    African-American Muslim minister, public speaker, and human rights activist. (1925-1965).
  207. You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
    A personal history of our times
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994   Published: 2002
    Zinn tells his personal stories about more than thirty years of fighting for social change, from teaching at Spelman College to recent protests against war.
  208. Zapata, Emiliano
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A leading figure in the Mexican Revolution of 1910. (1879-1919).
  209. Zinn, Howard
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    American historian, political scientist, social critic, activist and playwright. (1922-2010).
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