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  1. Adorno, Theodor W.
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    German-born international intellectual, sociologist, philosopher, musicologist, and composer. (1903-1969).
  2. Ali, Tariq
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    Historian, novelist, filmmaker, political campaigner, and commentator. (Born 1943).
  3. Alinsky, Saul
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    American community organizer and writer. (1909-1972).
  4. Allan Bérubé, 1946-2007
    Against The Current vol. 135

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    An inspiring and broad-ranging queer historian, Allan Bérubé died at the age of 61 on December 11, 2007. He left us with major contributions of exciting historical work, but also important unfinished work that needs to be continued.
  5. Always with the Oppressed
    A Farewell to Akiva Orr 1931 - 2013, Humanist, Radical, Heretic

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    In February 2013 I participated with a small group of Israelis and Arabs in bidding farewell to Akiva Orr.
  6. 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.
  7. Amilcar Cabral: Revolutionary Leadership and People's War
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
  8. Anton Pannekoek 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1960
    Anton Pannekoek's life span coincided with what was almost the whole history of the modern labour movement; he experienced its rise as a movement of social protest, its transformation into a movement of social reform, and its eclipse as an independent class movement in the contemporary world. But Pannekoek also experienced its revolutionary potentialities in the spontaneous upheavals which, from time to time, interrupted the even flow of social evolution. He entered the labour movement a Marxist and he died a Marxist, still convinced that if there is a future, it will be a socialist future.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. Benjamin, Walter
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    German-Jewish Marxist, literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. (1892-1940).
  12. Berkman, Alexander
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    Anarchist known for his political activism and writing. (1870-1936).
  13. Berrigan, Daniel
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    American poet, peace activist, and Roman Catholic priest. (Born 1921).
  14. Bethune, Norman
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia

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    Canadian Communist physician, and medical innovator who developed the first mobile blood-transfusion service in Spain in 1936. (1890-1939).
  15. Biography of Marx
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1892
  16. B.J. Widick, 1910-2008
    Against The Current vol. 136

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    On June 28, 2008, Branko J. Widick, known to everyone as “B.J.” or “Jack,” died at age 97 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Widick was a prominent figure in the history of U.S. Trotskyism and above all in the unorthodox political tendency known as the “Shachtmanites.” In the Great Depression, he was directly involved in the rise of the CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) and was a participant in General Motors sitdown strike of automobile workers.
  17. Blanqui, Louis Auguste
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    French political activist, founder of the revolutionary theory of Blanquism. (1805-1881).
  18. Boggs, Grace Lee
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    A Chinese-American author, anti-racist activist and feminist. (Born 1915).
  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. Bookchin, Murray
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    American libertarian socialist-anarchist, political and social philosopher, environmentalist, conservationist, atheist, speaker, and writer. (1921-2006).
  21. Bordiga, Amadeo
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    Italian Marxist, contributor to Communist theory, founder of the Communist Party of Italy, leader of the Communist International and, after World War II, leading figure of the International Communist Party. (1889-1970).
  22. Brinton, Maurice
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    Libertarian socialist writer and neurologist. (1923-2005).
  23. Brown, John
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    American abolitionist who advocated and practiced armed insurrection as a means to end slavery. (1800-1859).
  24. Bryant, Louise
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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).
  25. Jim Campbell, Remembered
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    It is two years today since Jim Campbell died of a heart attack, bicycling in rural Ontario with his partner Julie. He was 57, and had been looking forward to retiring in a few years, to finally being able to move out of the city.
  26. Castoriadis, Cornelius
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    Greek-French philosopher, libertarian socialist, and psychoanalyst. Author of the The Imaginary Institution of Society, co-founder of the Socialisme ou Barbarie group and 'philosopher of autonomy'. (1922-1997).
  27. Chartrand, Michel
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    Quebec union leader and activist. (1913-2010).
  28. Chester, Eric
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    Author, socialist political activist, and economics professor. (Born 1943).
  29. 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.
  30. C.L.R. James and Anti-/Postcolonialism
    Against The Current vol. 90

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2001
    C.L.R. James' proclamation in Beyond A Boundary (1963, a classic study of cricket and colonialism), after almost three decades of radical intellectual work, that “Thackeray, not Marx, bears the heaviest responsibility for me,” is a sententious political statement. It abounds with meanings, standing at once as an alluring paradox and a striking truism.
  31. Cohn-Bendit, Daniel
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    Political activist and politician, active in France and Germany. A student leader during the May 1968 revolt in France. (Born 1945).
  32. Coming Home to the Struggle
    Against The Current vol. 134

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    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.
  33. Connolly, James
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    Irish and Scottish socialist leader, executed by the British. (1868-1916).
  34. Culhane, Claire
    Connexipedia: Article from PrisonJustice.ca

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    Canadian social justice activist. (1918-1996).
  35. De Leon, Daniel
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    American socialist newspaper editor, politician, Marxist theoretician, and trade union organizer. (1852-1914).
  36. Debord, Guy
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    French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker, hypergraphist and founding member of the groups Lettrist International and Situationist International. (1931-1994).
  37. Dellinger, David
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    American radical pacifist and activist for nonviolent social change. (1915-2004).
  38. 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.
  39. Diemer, Ulli
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    First Published: 2010
    Canadian socialist publisher, writer, and archivist.
  40. Dolgoff, Sam
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    American anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist. (1902-1990).
  41. Dowson, Ross
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    Canadian Trotskyist. (1917-2002).
  42. Draper, Hal
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    American socialist activist, Marxist and author of a number of key works about Marxism. (1914-1990).
  43. Hal Draper, Introduction to
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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).
  44. Dunayevskaya, Raya
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    Founder of the philosophy of Marxist Humanism. (1910-1987).
  45. Dutschke, Rudi
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    Prominent spokesperson of the German student movement of the 1960s. (1940-1979).
  46. Emma Goldman and the American Left: Nowhere at Home
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    A biography of Emma Goldman.
  47. 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.
  48. 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.
  49. Engels, Friedrich
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    German author, political theorist, philosopher, and father of communist theory, alongside Karl Marx. (1820-1895).
  50. Enlightening Disillusionments
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    Memoirs of an Israeli whom the Zionist dispossession and oppression of the Palestinians turned into a humanist and therefore anti-Zionist.
  51. Farewell to Andres Nin
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1937
    Farewell, my friend. Your great courageous life is left to us, full of work and action. Your terrible death is left to us as well. Like you, we must hold out to the bitter end so that socialism be free.
  52. Finkelstein, Norman
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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).
  53. Fourier, Charles
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    French utopian socialist and philosopher. Credited with having originated the word féminisme in 1837. (1772-1837).
  54. Glaberman, Martin
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    An influential American Marxist, teacher, and autoworker. (1918-2001).
  55. Glezos, Manolis
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    Greek left wing politician and writer, known especially for his participation in the World War II resistance. (Born 1922).
  56. Global Crisis and Opportunity
    Against The Current vol. 134

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    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.
  57. Goldman, Emma
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    Anarchist known for her political activism, writing and speeches. (1869-1940).
  58. Gonick, Cy
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    Canadian socialist publisher, academic, and politician. (Born 1936).
  59. Gorter, Herman
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    Dutch poet and socialist. (1864-1927).
  60. Guérin, Daniel
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    French anarchist and author. (1904-1988).
  61. Guesde, Jules
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    French socialist journalist and politician. (1845-1922).
  62. Halper, Jeff
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    Co-founder and Coordinator of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD). (Born 1946).
  63. Having Little, Being Much
    A Chronicle of Fredy Perlman's Fifty Years

    Resource Type: Book
    A memoir with photos written by Fredy Perlman's companion of 27 years. Fredy's life began in Czechoslovakia in 1934 and ended in Detroit in 1985. In those fifty years he lived on three continents and incorporated in his written works his experiences in graphic arts, politics, communal enterprises, historical research, music, printing, journalism, education and publishing.
  64. Hayden, Tom
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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).
  65. Hekmat, Mansoor
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    Iranian Marxist theorist and leader of the worker-communist movement. (1951-2002).
  66. Hoffman, Abbie
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    Social and political activist in the United States who co-founded the Youth International Party ("Yippies"). (1936-1989).
  67. Horkheimer, Max
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    German philosopher and sociologist and member of the Frankfurt School. (1885-1973).
  68. Horton, Myles
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    American educator, socialist and cofounder of the Highlander Folk School. (1905-1990).
  69. Horton, Zilphia
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  70. Howard Zinn (1922-2010): In Lieu of Flowers, Organize
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    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.
  71. The Ideas of Victor Serge 
    A Life as a Work of Art

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    Victor Serge devoted his life and his brilliant pen to the revolution which for him knew no frontiers. An anarchist turned Bolshevik, he was unorthodox by nature, often a heretic but never a renegade. This important collection presents a still insufficiently known revolutionary figure through testimonials and essays on his literary praxis.
  72. 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.
  73. In the Crossfire 
    Adventures of a Vietnamese Revolutionary

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000   Published: 2010
    This book is the story of those other movements and revolts in Vietnam, caught in the crossfire between the French and the Stalinists, told by one of the few survivors.
  74. An Intimate Life
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1984
    Volume 1 of a biography of Emma Goldman.
  75. James, C. L. R.
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    Afro-Trinidadian historian, journalist, Marxist, socialist theorist and essayist. (1901-1989).
  76. James, C.L.R.
    Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People

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    Afro-Trinidadian historian, journalist, Marxist, socialist theorist and essayist. (1901-1989).
  77. James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890-1928
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2010
  78. Jogiches, Leo
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    Marxist revolutionary active in Lithuania, Poland, and Germany. (1867-1919).
  79. Jones, Mary Harris (Mother Jones)
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    American labour and community organizer, a Wobbly, and a Socialist. (1837-1930).
  80. Kamal, Meena Keshwar
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    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).
  81. Karl Korsch: His Contribution to Revolutionary Marxism 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1962
    For Korsch, all the imperfections of Marx's revolutionary theory which, in retrospect, are explainable by the circumstances out of which it arose, do not alter the fact that Marxism remains superior to all other social theories even today, despite its apparent failure as a social movement. It is this failure which demands not the rejection of Marxism but a Marxian critique of Marxism, that is, the further proletarisation of the concept of social revolution. There was no doubt in Korsch's mind, that the period of counter-revolution is historically limited like everything else -- that the new social productive forces embodied in a socialist revolution would re-assert themselves and find a revolutionary theory adequate to their practical tasks.
  82. Karl Marx: His Life and Works
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1928   Published: 1943
    Therewith our appraisement of Marx's personality has likewise been profoundly modified. Whereas persons of the last generation, in view of the opposing nature of their interests, reflected in their ideology, looked upon Marx either as a criminal disturber of the peace and a devil, or else as a saint and as an infallible pope-those of our own generation can admit him to have been a man equipped both with human weaknesses and with human strengths, both with human vices and with human virtues. We are, indeed, compelled to regard him thus, unless we would refuse to apply the materialist interpretation of history to individuals as well as to general processes. Marx had to be an obstinate, pig-headed, intolerant thinker and investigator; had to regard other people's opinions with suspicion; had to be hostile towards every alien trend; had to be cantankerous, dictatorial, fanatically obsessed with the rightness of his own convictions, fiercely opposed to any deviations from, any falsifications of, his ideas. He had to concentrate his genius, his understanding, his creative energy, for decade after decade, upon this one point, upon this one scientific task; had to neglect his calling, his family, his livelihood, his friends.
  83. Karl Marx: The Story of His Life
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1918   Published: 1936
    A biography of Karl Marx
  84. Keller, Helen
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    American author, political activist and lecturer. (1880-1968).
  85. Kelly, Petra
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    Left-wing German politician. (1947-1992).
  86. Kelly, Petra
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner

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    Left-wing German politician. (1947-1992).
  87. Knabb, Ken
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    American writer, translator, and radical theorist. (Born 1945).
  88. Korsch, Karl
    Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People

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    German Marxist theorist. (1886-1961).
  89. Kovel, Joel
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    American politician, academic, writer, and eco-socialist. (1936 - 2018).
  90. Labriola, Antonio
    Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People

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    Italian philosopher and socialist, 1843-1904.
  91. Lafargue, Paul
    Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People

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    French revolutionary Marxist socialist journalist, literary critic, political writer and activist. (1842-1911).
  92. Lappé, Frances Moore
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    Activist and writer on food, hunger, economics, and democracy. (Born 1944).
  93. The Legacy of CLR James
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    First Published: 2002
    Facing Reality is an often maddening book containing a marvellous critique of the pretentiousness of the numerous little vanguards, and at other times a telling naivety about opposition forces in society.
  94. 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.
  95. Liebknecht, Karl
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    German socialist, revolutionary, and a co-founder of the Spartacist League. (1871-1919).
  96. Liebknecht, Wilhelm
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    German social democrat, one of the founders of the SPD. (1826-1900).
  97. A Life of Struggle: Farewell to Hermann Gorter
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  98. A Lifetime for Socialism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1997
    An obituary of Milt Zaslow.
  99. Lilburne, John
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    English political agitator before, during and after English Civil Wars 1642-1650. (1614-1657).
  100. Little, Frank
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    American labour leader who organized miners, lumberjacks and oil field workers. (1879-1917).
  101. Living My Life
    Resource Type: Book
  102. 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.
  103. L'ouverture, Toussaint
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    Leader of the Haitian Revolution. (1743-1803).
  104. Love, Anarchy, and Emma Goldman
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984   Published: 1990
  105. 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.
  106. Luxemburg, Rosa
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    Marxist revolutionary. (1871-1919).
  107. Luxemburg, Rosa
    Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People

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    Marxist revolutionary. (1871-1919).
  108. Macdonald, Dwight
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    American writer, editor, social critic, philosopher, and political radical. (1906-1982).
  109. Mackenzie
    A political biography of William Lyon Mackenzie

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2002
    History has often dismissed William Lyon Mackenzie as a comical figure, or as the political hothead who bungled the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837. Former Toronto mayor John Sewell suggests he may actually be the best model this country has ever had of a responsible politician.
  110. The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    A biography of John Brown.
  111. Marat, Jean-Paul
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    Radical journalist and politician from the French Revolution. (1743-1793).
  112. Marcos, Subcomandante
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    Spokesman for the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN).
  113. Marcuse, Herbert
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    Marxist philosopher, political theorist and sociologist. (1898-1979).
  114. Mariátegui, Jose Carlos
    Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People

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    Peruvian socialist. (Born 1894).
  115. Martha (Marty) Quinn, 1939-2018
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Obituary for Martha Quinn, a founding member of Solidarity.
  116. Martin Glaberman: 1918 - 2001
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2001
  117. Marx, Eleanor
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    Socialist author and activist. (1855-1898).
  118. Marx, Karl
    Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People

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    Brief biography of Karl Marx. (1818-1883).
  119. Marx, Karl
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    German philosopher, political economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist, communist, and revolutionary, whose ideas are credited as the foundation of modern communism. (1818-1883).
  120. The Marxism of Karl Korsch
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1964
  121. Mattick Paul
    Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People

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    Marxist writer and activist. (1904-1981).
  122. Mattick, Paul
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    Marxist writer and activist. (1904-1981).
  123. 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.
  124. Memoir of General Toussaint L'Ouverture
    Written by Himself

    Resource Type: Book
  125. A Memory of Howard
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    A recollection of the late Howard Zinn.
  126. Michel, Louise
    Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People

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    French anarchist, school teacher and medical worker. (1830-1905).
  127. Moffatt, Gary
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    First Published: 2010
    Canadian anarchist and activist.
  128. Morris, William
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    British artist, designer, author, and socialist. (1834-1896).
  129. Müntzer, Thomas
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    Resource Type: Article
    An early Reformation-era German theologian and Anabaptist. (1488-1525).
  130. Muste, A. J.
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    A socialist active in the pacifist movement, the labour movement, and the US civil rights movement. (1885-1967).
  131. My Life
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1930   Published: 1970
    Trotsky's autobiography, published in 1930.
  132. Nearing, Scott
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    American radical economist, educator, writer, political activist, and advocate of simple living. (1883-1983).
  133. Nin, Andrés
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Spanish Communist revolutionary. (1892-1937).
  134. Obituary: Leon Sedov
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1938
    In Leon Lvovich, Trotsky has lost more than a son of his own blood - he has lost a son in spirit, an irreplaceable companion in struggle.
  135. An Opposing Man
    The Autobiography of a Romantic Revolutionary

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969   Published: 1974
    The memoirs on Ernst Fischer, a socialist literary and art critic.
  136. 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.
  137. Ossietzky, Carl von
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    German radical pacifist. (1889-1938).
  138. Otto Rühle and the German Labour Movement
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1935
  139. Paine, Thomas
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Author, pamphleteer, radical, inventor, intellectual, revolutionary. (1737-1809).
  140. A Parable of Women's Liberation
    Against The Current vol. 134

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Interview with Meredith Tax.
  141. Parent, Madeleine
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada

    Resource Type: Article
    Trade unionist. (Born 1918).
  142. Parent, Madeleine
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia

    Resource Type: Article
    Trade unionist. (Born 1918).
  143. Parsons, Lucy
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Radical American labour organizer and anarchist communist. (1853-1942).
  144. Paul Buhle's Tim Hector
    Against The Current vol. 125

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Paul Buhle's account of Tim Hector, Caribbean radical of Antiguan origin who passed away in 2002, is provocative and welcome. Its span is broad and appropriate for a general rather than specialist readership.
  145. Penner, Jacob
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia

    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian radical. (1880-1965).
  146. Perlman, Fredy
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Radical author, publisher and activist. (1934-1985).
  147. The Power of Women United
    Against The Current vol. 134

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Interview with Kipp Dawson.
  148. Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    French politician, mutualist philosopher and socialist. (1809-1865).
  149. 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.
  150. 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.
  151. la red del Che : the Che network
    Resource Type: Website
    Website devoted to the life and work of Che Guevara.
  152. 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.
  153. Reed, John
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    American journalist and communist activist. (1887-1920).
  154. Reich, Wilhelm
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. (1897-1957).
  155. 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.
  156. Revolutionary Optimist 
    An interview with Martin Glaberman

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
  157. Rocker, Rudolf
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    (1873-1958). Anarcho-syndicalist writer and activist.
  158. Rosa Luxemburg
    Abridged Edition

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1966   Published: 1969
    A biography of Luxemburg by a British academic.
  159. 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.
  160. Rosa Luxemburg. Im Lebensrausch, trotz alledem
    Eine Biographie

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
  161. Rosa Luxemburg: A Reappraisal
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1975
  162. Rowbotham, Sheila
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    British socialist feminist theorist and writer. (Born 1943).
  163. Rowley, Robert Kent
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia

    Resource Type: Article
    Trade unionist. (1917-1978).
  164. Rühle, Otto
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    German Marxist. (1874-1943).
  165. Sandino, Augusto César
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Nicaraguan revolutionary. (1895-1934).
  166. Santas, Apostolos
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Greek veteran of the Resistance against the Axis Occupation of Greece during World War II. (Born 1922).
  167. Serge, Victor
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Writer and revolutionary. (1890-1947).
  168. Singer, Daniel
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Socialist writer and journalist. (1926-2000).
  169. 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.
  170. Sofri, Adriano
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Italian radical intellectual, a journalist and a writer. (Born 1942).
  171. Spurr, Richard
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    English cabinet maker and lay preacher who was imprisoned for his part in leading the political movement Chartism. (1800-1855).
  172. Starhawk
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    American writer, anarchist activist. (Born 1951).
  173. Stone, I. F.
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    American investigative journalist. (1907-1989).
  174. Thompson, E. P.
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    English historian, writer, socialist and peace campaigner (1924-1993).
  175. Tresca, Carlo
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Anarchist, newspaper editor, and labour agitator. (1879-1943).
  176. 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.
  177. 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.
  178. Leon Trotsky
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1940
    Trotsky's works, and most of all his History of the Russian Revolution, will immortalize his name as a writer and politician. But there is a real need to oppose the development of the Trotsky legend which will make out of this leader of the Russian state capitalist revolution a martyr of the international working class - a legend which must be rejected together with all other postulates and aspects of bolshevism.
  179. Vallieres, Pierre
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia

    Resource Type: Article
    Writer, radical. (1938-1998).
  180. Vaneigem, Raoul
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Belgian writer and philosopher. (Born 1934).
  181. Wilkerson, Cathy
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    American radical. (Born 1945).
  182. Winstanley, Gerrard
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    English Protestant religious reformer and political activist, a member of the True Levellers. (1609-1676).
  183. Wollstonecraft, Mary
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    British writer, philosopher, and feminist. (1759-1797).
  184. 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.
  185. Zapata, Emiliano
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    A leading figure in the Mexican Revolution of 1910. (1879-1919).
  186. Zasulich, Vera
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Russian Marxist and revolutionary 1849-1919.
  187. Zetkin, Clara
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    German socialist. (1857-1933).
  188. Zetkin, Clara
    Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People

    Resource Type: Article
    German socialist. (1857-1933).
  189. Zinn, Howard
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    American historian, political scientist, social critic, activist and playwright. (1922-2010).

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