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Allende, Salvador: Connexipedia Article
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Democratically elected socialist president of Chile, overthrown and killed in a coup engineered by the CIA. (1908-1973).
Bernstein, Eduard: Connexipedia Article
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German social democratic theoretician and politician, a member of the SPD, and the theorist of "evolutionary socialism" and revisionism. (1850-1932).
Bhatt, Ela: Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
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Advocate for self-employed women. Winner of the Right Livelihood Award in 1984. (Born 1933).
Bolívar, Simón: Connexipedia Article
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South American political leader who played a key role in Latin America's successful struggle for independence from Spain. (1783-1830).
Brown, Rosemary: Connexipedia Article
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Canadian politician, prominent member of the New Democratic Party. (1930-2003).
Buller, Annie: Connexipedia Article
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Union organizer and manager of various Communist Party of Canada (CPC) publications. (1895-1973).
Cabral, Amílcar (Abel Djassi): Connexipedia Article
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African agronomic engineer, writer, Marxist and nationalist guerrilla and politician. (1924-1973).
Casgrain, Marie Thérèse (Forget): Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
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Feminist, reformer, politician and senator in Quebec, Canada. (1896-1981).
Chartrand, Michel: Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
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Quebec union leader and activist. (1913-2010).
Chartrand, Michel: Connexipedia Article
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Quebec union leader and activist. (1913-2010).
Coaker, William Ford: Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
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Newfoundland union leader and politician and founder of the Fisherman's Protective Union and the Fishermen's Union Trading Co. (1871-1938).
Coldwell, Major James William: Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
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Canadian social democratic politician, and leader of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation party from 1942 to 1960. (1888-1974).
De Leon, Daniel: Connexipedia Article
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American socialist newspaper editor, politician, Marxist theoretician, and trade union organizer. (1852-1914).
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).
Debs, Eugene V.: Connexipedia Article
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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).
Douglas, Tommy: Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
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Canadian social democratic politician, CCF premier of Saskatchean and leader of the federal New Democratic Party. (1904-1986).
Dowson, Ross: Connexipedia Article
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Canadian Trotskyist. (1917-2002).
Erasmus, Georges: Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
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Canadian Aboriginal politician, national chief of the Assembly of First Nations from 1985 to 1991. (Born 1948).
Gonick, Cy: Connexipedia Article
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Canadian socialist publisher, academic, and politician. (Born 1936).
Gordon, Walter: Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
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Canadian accountant, businessman, politician, and writer. (1906-1987).
Guesde, Jules: Connexipedia Article
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French socialist journalist and politician. (1845-1922).
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).
Heap, Dan: Connexipedia Article
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Canadian politician with the New Democratic Party. (Born 1925).
Heaps, Abraham Albert: Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
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Canadian politician and labour leader. (1885-1954).
Heaps, Abraham Albert: Connexipedia Article
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Canadian politician and labour leader. (1885-1954).
Irvine, William: Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
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Canadian politician, journalist and clergyman. (1885-1962).
Irvine, William: Connexipedia Article
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Canadian politician, journalist and clergyman. (1885-1962).
Joe Zuken, Citizen and Socialist
Smith, Doug
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1990
Examines the forces that dominated Winnipeg's social and political life from the 1930s to the 1980s - the impact of European migration, the growth of radicalism, the internment of communists in World ...
Kovel, Joel: Connexipedia Article
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American politician, academic, writer, and eco-socialist. (Born 1936).
Lewis, David: Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
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Socialist politician, labour lawyer, and leader of the federal New Democratic Party. (1909-1981).
Lewis, Stephen: Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
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Politician, diplomat, author, journalist, labour arbitrator, and former leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party. (Born 1937).
Lincoln, Abraham: Connexipedia Article
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President of the United States during the American Civil War. (1809-1865).
MacInnis, Angus: Connexipedia Article
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Canadian social democratic politician. (1884-1964).
MacInnis, Grace: Connexipedia Article
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Canadian politician and feminist. (1905-1991).
Mackenzie: A political biography of William Lyon Mackenzie
Sewell, John
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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 act...
Mackenzie, William Lyon: Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
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Journalist, politician, rebel. (1795-1861).
Mackenzie, William Lyon: Connexipedia Article
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Journalist, politician, rebel. (1795-1861).
Macphail, Agnes: Connexipedia Article
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Canadian political and activist. (1890-1954).
Mandela, Nelson: Connexipedia Article
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Anti-apartheid leader, first black to be elected President of South Africa. (Born 1918).
McClung, Nellie Letitia (Mooney): Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
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Canadian feminist, politician, and social activist. (1873-1951).
Mehring, Franz: Connexipedia Article
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German socialist publicist, politician and historian. (1846-1919).
Mercredi, Ovide William: Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
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Aboriginal Canadian politician and leader. (Born 1946).
Nyerere, Julius: Connexipedia Article
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African politician and socialist. (1922-1999).
Papineau, Louis-Joseph: Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
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Lawyer, seigneur, politician, defender of the national heritage of French Canada. Led the fight for control of the political institutions of Lower Canada. (1786-1871).
Parlby, Irene Marryat: Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
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Politician, farm women's leader. (1868-1965).
Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph: Connexipedia Article
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French politician, mutualist philosopher and socialist. (1809-1865).
Ralph Nader and the Legacy of Revolt (Part 3): Against The Current vol. 90
Sheasby, Walt Contreras
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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-twe...
Riel, Louis: Connexipedia Article
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Metis leader, founder of Manitoba, central figure in the North-West rebellion. (1844-1885).
Riel, Louis: Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
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Metis leader, founder of Manitoba, central figure in the North-West rebellion. (1844-1885).
Scargill, Arthur: Connexipedia Article
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British trade unionist and political party leader. (Born 1938).
Sewell, John: Connexipedia Article
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Political activist and writer on municipal affairs. The mayor of Toronto, Canada from 1978 to 1980. (Born 1940).
Temple, William Horace: Connexipedia Article
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Canadian politician, trade union activist, businessman and temperance crusader. (1899-1988).
Trotsky, Leon: Connexipedia Article
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Russian revolutionary. (1879-1940).
Vidal, Gore: Connexipedia Article
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American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, essayist, short story writer, actor and politician. (Born 1925).
The Vogeler Senate Campaign: Against The Current vol. 124
Sanson, Marc; Wunsch, Mike; Vogeler, Rae
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2006
With just four months until the general election, Green Party candidate Rae Vogeler has established herself as the main opposition to millionaire incumbent Senator Herb Kohl. Vogeler's campaign took o...
Wilberforce, William: Connexipedia Article
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British politician, philanthropist and a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade. (1759-1833).
Woodsworth, James Shaver: Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
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Methodist minister, social worker, politician. (1874-1942).

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Dalton Camp
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Canadian politician and commentator, 1920-2002.
Diefenbaker, John
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John George Diefenbaker, PC, CH, QC (September 18, 1895 - August 16, 1979) led Canada as its 13th Prime Minister, serving from June 21, 1957, to April 22, 1963.
Karl Jaffary
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Karl Jaffary is a former municipal politician in Toronto.
Trudeau, Pierre
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Pierre Trudeau was the 15th Prime Minister of Canada from 20 April 1968 to 4 June 1979, and again from 3 March 1980 to 30 June 1984.