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  1. 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.
  2. Allende, Salvador
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Democratically elected socialist president of Chile, overthrown and killed in a coup engineered by the CIA. (1908-1973).
  3. 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.
  4. Beauvoir, Simone de
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    French writer, philosopher, feminist, and social theorist. (1908-1986).
  5. Bebel, August
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    German social democrat who was one of the founders of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. (1840-1913).
  6. Bernstein, Eduard
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    German social democratic theoretician and politician, a member of the SPD, and the theorist of "evolutionary socialism" and revisionism. (1850-1932).
  7. Biography of Marx
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1892
  8. 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.
  9. Bookchin, Murray
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    American libertarian socialist-anarchist, political and social philosopher, environmentalist, conservationist, atheist, speaker, and writer. (1921-2006).
  10. Brinton, Maurice
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Libertarian socialist writer and neurologist. (1923-2005).
  11. 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.
  12. Carpenter, Edward
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    English socialist poet, anthologist, early gay activist and socialist philosopher. (1844-1929).
  13. Chester, Eric
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Author, socialist political activist, and economics professor. (Born 1943).
  14. 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.
  15. Coldwell, Major James William
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian social democratic politician, and leader of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation party from 1942 to 1960. (1888-1974).
  16. 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.
  17. Connolly, James
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Irish and Scottish socialist leader, executed by the British. (1868-1916).
  18. De Leon, Daniel
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    American socialist newspaper editor, politician, Marxist theoretician, and trade union organizer. (1852-1914).
  19. Debs, Eugene V.
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    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).
  20. Diemer, Ulli
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Canadian socialist publisher, writer, and archivist.
  21. Dietzgen, Joseph
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Socialist philosopher and Marxist. (1828-1888).
  22. Douglas, Tommy
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian social democratic politician, CCF premier of Saskatchean and leader of the federal New Democratic Party. (1904-1986).
  23. 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.
  24. Evans, Arthur
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Socialist, trade unionist. (1890-1944).
  25. Finkelstein, Norman
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    An American political scientist and author, whose primary fields of research are the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the politics of the Holocaust. (Born 1953).
  26. Frank Fried (1927-2015)
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Frank Fried, a revolutionary U.S. socialist, passed away on January 13, 2015.
  27. Miriam Garfinkle
    Connexipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    Miriam Garfinkle was a Canadian physician and social justice activist.
  28. Miriam Garfinkle 1954 - 2018
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Obituary for Miriam Garfinkle, who died on September 15, 2018.
  29. Goodwin, Albert (Ginger)
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Labour leader, and socialist who inspired the first General Strike in Canada on August 2, 1918 in Vancouver, British Columbia. (1887-1918).
  30. Gorter, Herman
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Dutch poet and socialist. (1864-1927).
  31. Gough, Kathleen
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Anthropologist, Marxist. (1925-1990).
  32. Guesde, Jules
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    French socialist journalist and politician. (1845-1922).
  33. Harvey, David
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Geographer and social theorist. (born 1935.)
  34. Haywood, Bill (Big Bill Haywood)
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    American unionist and communist, one of the founders of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) (1869-1928).
  35. 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.
  36. 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.
  37. In Memory of Tim Costello
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Remembering Tim Costello.
  38. 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.
  39. James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890-1928
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2010
  40. Jaurès, Jean
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    French Socialist leader. (1859-1914).
  41. Journey of an Unrepentant Socialist
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2014
    Kneen describes his book as his “political theological autobiography.” The book is a personal life-story with a focus on the 1950s and '60s, coming from someone who was active in the peace and social justice movements in the USA and Canada over the past 5 decades or so. It starts with an inside story of the New Left and the peace and Civil Rights movements in North America, and the Prague-based Christian Peace Conference, and continues with his life as a farmer and writer in Canada.
  42. 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.
  43. 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.
  44. Kautsky, Karl
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    German social democrat and a leading theoretician of Marxism. (1854-1938).
  45. Kautsky, Karl
    Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
    Resource Type: Article
    German social democrat and a leading theoretician of Marxism. (1854-1938).
  46. Kollontai, Alexandra
    Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
    Resource Type: Article
    Russian Communist revolutionary. (1872-1952)
  47. Kuruma, Samezo
    Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
    Resource Type: Article
    Japanese Marxist economist. (1893-1982).
  48. Larkin, James
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Irish trade union leader and socialist activist. (1876-1947).
  49. The Legacy of CLR James
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
  50. Lenin
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
  51. 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.
  52. Liebknecht, Karl
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    German socialist, revolutionary, and a co-founder of the Spartacist League. (1871-1919).
  53. Liebknecht, Wilhelm
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    German social democrat, one of the founders of the SPD. (1826-1900).
  54. A Lifetime for Socialism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1997
    An obituary of Milt Zaslow.
  55. Living principles: In memory of Ed Finn
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2020
    Born in Spaniard’s Bay, Newfoundland, in 1926, Ed Finn grew up in Corner Brook, where he later became first a printer’s apprentice, then a reporter, columnist, and editor of that city’s daily newspaper, the Western Star. His long career as a journalist later included two years at the Montreal Gazette and 14 years at the Toronto Star. During his four-year fling in politics in Newfoundland (1959-1962), he served as the first provincial leader of the NDP. He worked closely with Tommy Douglas and helped defend and promote his pioneering Medicare legislation in Saskatchewan. And throughout the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s, he did communications work for several labour unions, and served on the board of directors of the Bank of Canada. From 1994 to 2014 he was Senior Editor at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, and Editor of the CCPA Monitor. On November 27, 2020, Ed was appointed to the Order of Canada.
  56. 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.
  57. Mariátegui, Jose Carlos
    Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
    Resource Type: Article
    Peruvian socialist. (Born 1894).
  58. Martin Glaberman: 1918 - 2001
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2001
  59. 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.
  60. Mazdak
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A proto-socialist Persian reformer.
  61. McLachlan, James Bryson
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Labour leader. (1869-1937).
  62. 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.
  63. Memoirs of a Revolutionary 1901- 1941 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1943   Published: 1967
    Victor Serge, who was bron in 1890 and died in 1947, was an anarchist, a Bolshevik, a Trotskyist, and a revisionist-Marxist. Belgian by birth and upbringing, French by adoption and in literary expression, Russian by parentage and later by citizenship, he eventually became stateless and was put down as a Spanish national for purposes of his funeral documents. He was a journalist, a poet, a pamphleteer, a historian, a political prisoner, an agitator, and a novelist.
  64. Morris Slavin: 1913-2006
    Against The Current vol. 124
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Morris Slavin, a historian of the French Revolution and one of the last remaining veterans of the American Trotskyist movement of the early 1930s, died on February 6 in Denver, Colorado, at the age of 92. The vast majority of Slavin's years were spent in Youngstown, Ohio, but his childhood took place in Russia.
  65. Müntzer, Thomas
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    An early Reformation-era German theologian and Anabaptist. (1488-1525).
  66. 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.
  67. Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent
    Resource Type: Article
  68. Noam Chomsky - Everyday Anarchist
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Interview with Noam Chomsky.
  69. Nyerere, Julius
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    African politician and socialist. (1922-1999).
  70. 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.
  71. Otto Rühle and the German Labour Movement
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1935
  72. Panitch, Leo
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian political scientist. (Born 1945).
  73. 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.
  74. Plekhanov, Georgi Valentinovich
    Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
    Resource Type: Article
    Russian socialist. (1856-1918).
  75. Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    French politician, mutualist philosopher and socialist. (1809-1865).
  76. 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.
  77. 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.
  78. 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.
  79. Remembering C.L.R. James
    A review of C.L.R. James, A Political Biography
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1998
    Worcester's biography of James is both critical and yet sympathetic.
  80. 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.
  81. 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.
  82. Russell, Bertrand
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Philosopher, logician, mathematician, pacifist, social critic. (1872-1970).
  83. Russell, Dora
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    British author, feminist and socialist campaigner. (1894-1986).
  84. Saint-Simon, Henri de
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    French utopian socialist thinker. (1760-1825).
  85. John S. Saul
    Connexipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    John S. Saul (born 1938) is a Canadian political economist and activist whose work has focused on the liberation struggles of southern Africa, from the 1960s to the present.
  86. Scott, Francis Reginald (Frank)
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Founding member of the social-democratic movement in Canada. (1899-1985).
  87. Singer, Daniel
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Socialist writer and journalist. (1926-2000).
  88. 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.
  89. Victor Serge: For Our Time
    Against The Current vol. 136
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
  90. 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.
  91. William Morris
    From Romantic to Revolutionary
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1955   Published: 1977
    A biography of the nineteenth-century socialist, designer, artist, and intellectual William Morris.
  92. Wood, Ellen Meiksins
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Marxist scholar. (Born 1942).
  93. Zetkin, Clara
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    German socialist. (1857-1933).
  94. Zetkin, Clara
    Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
    Resource Type: Article
    German socialist. (1857-1933).
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