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African-American Socialist Pioneer: Against The Current vol. 144
Lang, Clarence
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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 N...
Anthony, Susan B.: Connexipedia Article
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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).
The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman
Kollontai, Alexandra
Book
1926
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 real...
Bakunin, Mikhail: Connexipedia Article
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Russian anarchist and revolutionary. (1814-1876).
Bebel, August: Connexipedia Article
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German social democrat who was one of the founders of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. (1840-1913).
Benjamin, Walter: Connexipedia Article
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German-Jewish Marxist, literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. (1892-1940).
Berkman, Alexander: Connexipedia Article
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Anarchist known for his political activism and writing. (1870-1936).
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).
Besant, Annie: Connexipedia Article
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Theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator, and supporter of Irish and Indian self rule. (1847-1933).
Bethune, Norman: Connexipedia Article
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Canadian Communist physician, and medical innovator who developed the first mobile blood-transfusion service in Spain in 1936. (1890-1939).
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).
Bibb, Henry: Connexipedia Article
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Author and abolitionist who was born a slave. (1815-1854).
Biography of Marx
Engels, Friedrich
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1892
Blanqui, Louis Auguste: Connexipedia Article
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French political activist, founder of the revolutionary theory of Blanquism. (1805-1881).
Bordiga, Amadeo: Connexipedia Article
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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...
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).
Brecht, Bertolt: Connexipedia Article
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German poet, playwright, theatre director, and radical. (1898-1956).
Brown, John: Connexipedia Article
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American abolitionist who advocated and practiced armed insurrection as a means to end slavery. (1800-1859).
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).
Buber, Martin: Connexipedia Article
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Austrian-born Jewish philosopher best known for his philosophy of dialogue, a religious existentialism centered on the distinction between the I-Thou relationship and the I-It relationship. (1878-1965...
Buck, Tim: Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
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Machinist, trade unionists, and a long-time leader of the Communist Party of Canada. (1891-1973).
Bukharin, Nikolai: Connexipedia Article
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Marxist theoretician, Bolshevik revolutionary, and Soviet politician. (1888-1938).
Bukharin, Nikolai: Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
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Marxist theoretician, Bolshevik revolutionary, and Soviet politician. (1888-1938).
Buller, Annie: Connexipedia Article
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Union organizer and manager of various Communist Party of Canada (CPC) publications. (1895-1973).
Carpenter, Edward: Connexipedia Article
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English socialist poet, anthologist, early gay activist and socialist philosopher. (1844-1929).
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).
Chaplin, Ralph: Connexipedia Article
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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).
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).
Connolly, James: Connexipedia Article
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Irish and Scottish socialist leader, executed by the British. (1868-1916).
Darrow, Clarence: Connexipedia Article
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American lawyer civil libertarian. (1857-1938).
Day, Dorothy: Connexipedia Article
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American journalist, social activist, distributist, anarchist, and devout Catholic. (1897-1980).
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).
Defender of the Movement: Albert Goldman for the Defense
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2011
A profile of the radical lawyer.
Dewey, John: Connexipedia Article
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American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer. (1859-1952).
Dietzgen, Joseph: Connexipedia Article
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Socialist philosopher and Marxist. (1828-1888).
Douglass, Frederick: Connexipedia Article
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American abolitionist, women's suffragist, editor, orator, author, statesman and reformer. (1818-1895).
Du Bois, W. E. B.: Connexipedia Article
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American civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, historian, author, and editor. (1868-1963).
Dumont, Gabriel: Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
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Métis leader in what is now western Canada. (1837-1906).
Dumont, Gabriel: Connexipedia Article
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Métis leader in what is now western Canada. (1837-1906).
Edwards, Henrietta Muir: Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
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Canadian women's rights activist and reformer. (1849-1931).
Emma Goldman and the American Left: Nowhere at Home
Morton, Marian
Book
1992
A biography of Emma Goldman.
Emma Goldman in Exile: From the Russian Revolution to the Spanish Civil War
Wexler, Alice
Book
1989
Volume 2 of a biography of Emma Goldman.
Emma Goldman: Voice of a Rebel: Against The Current vol. 141
Hill, Rebecca
Article
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...
Engels, Friedrich: Connexipedia Article
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German author, political theorist, philosopher, and father of communist theory, alongside Karl Marx. (1820-1895).
Evans, Arthur: Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
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Socialist, trade unionist. (1890-1944).
Farewell to Andres Nin
Serge, Victor
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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 fre...
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).
From Prince to Rebel: Peter Kropotkin
Woodcock, George; Avakumociv, Ivan
Book
1990
A bigraphy of the anarchist intellectual Peter Kropotkin.
Gandhi, Mohandas: Connexipedia Article
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The pre-eminent political and spritual leader of India during the Indian independence movement. (1869-1948).
Garrison, William Lloyd: Connexipedia Article
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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. (...
Goldman, Emma: Connexipedia Article
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Anarchist known for her political activism, writing and speeches. (1869-1940).
Goodwin, Albert (Ginger): Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
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Labour leader, and socialist who inspired the first General Strike in Canada on August 2, 1918 in Vancouver, British Columbia. (1887-1918).
Goodwin, Albert (Ginger): Connexipedia Article
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2012
Canadian labour leader. (1887-1918)
Gorter, Herman: Connexipedia Article
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Dutch poet and socialist. (1864-1927).
Gramsci, Antonio: Connexipedia Article
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Italian Marxist philosopher, writer, politician and political theorist. (1891-1937).
Guesde, Jules: Connexipedia Article
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French socialist journalist and politician. (1845-1922).
Ha'aretz: Periodical profile
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Israeli daily newspaper
Hagerty, Thomas J.: Connexipedia Article
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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).
Haywood, Bill (Big Bill Haywood): Connexipedia Article
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American unionist and communist, one of the founders of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) (1869-1928).
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).
Hennacy, Ammon: Connexipedia Article
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American pacifist, Christian anarchist, vegetarian, social activist, member of the Catholic Worker Movement and a Wobbly. (1893-1970).
Hill, Joe: Connexipedia Article
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Swedish-American labour activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World. (1879-1915).
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Halberstam, David
Book
1971
A portrait of Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh.
Horkheimer, Max: Connexipedia Article
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German philosopher and sociologist and member of the Frankfurt School. (1885-1973).
The Ideas of Victor Serge: A Life as a Work of Art
Weissman, Susan
Book
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....
In the Crossfire: Adventures of a Vietnamese Revolutionary
Van, Ngo
Book
2000
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.
An Intimate Life
Wexler, Alice
Article
1984
Volume 1 of a biography of Emma Goldman.
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).
Jaurès, Jean: Connexipedia Article
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French Socialist leader. (1859-1914).
Jogiches, Leo: Connexipedia Article
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Marxist revolutionary active in Lithuania, Poland, and Germany. (1867-1919).
Jones, Mary Harris (Mother Jones): Connexipedia Article
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American labour and community organizer, a Wobbly, and a Socialist. (1837-1930).
Karl Marx
Korsch, Karl
Book
1938
It is the purpose of this book to restate the most important principles and contents of Marx's social science in the light of recent historical events and of the new theoretical needs which have arise...
Kautsky, Karl: Connexipedia Article
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German social democrat and a leading theoretician of Marxism. (1854-1938).
Kautsky, Karl: Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
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German social democrat and a leading theoretician of Marxism. (1854-1938).
Keller, Helen: Connexipedia Article
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American author, political activist and lecturer. (1880-1968).
Kinsey, Alfred: Connexipedia Article
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American biologist and sexologist. (1894-1956).
Korsch, Karl: Connexipedia Article
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German Marxist theorist. (1886-1961).
Kropotkin, Peter: Connexipedia Article
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Geographer, zoologist, and anarchist. (1842-1921).
Labour Martyr: Joe Hill
Smith, Gibbs M
Book
1972
The story of the rebel songwriter and union activst Joe Hill, who was murdered by the state of Utah in 1915.
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).
Larkin, James: Connexipedia Article
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Irish trade union leader and socialist activist. (1876-1947).
The Legacy of Rosa Luxemburg
Geras, Norman
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2015
Norman Geras sets out to interrogate and refute the myths that have developed around Rosa Luxemburg's work.
Lenin
Lih, Lars T.
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2011
Leopold, Aldo: Connexipedia Article
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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).
The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg
Luxemburg, Rosa (edited by Georg Adler, Peter Hudis, and Annelies Laschitza)
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1990
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 comp...
Liebknecht, Karl: Connexipedia Article
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German socialist, revolutionary, and a co-founder of the Spartacist League. (1871-1919).
Liebknecht, Wilhelm: Connexipedia Article
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German social democrat, one of the founders of the SPD. (1826-1900).
Lincoln, Abraham: Connexipedia Article
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President of the United States during the American Civil War. (1809-1865).
Little, Frank: Connexipedia Article
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American labour leader who organized miners, lumberjacks and oil field workers. (1879-1917).
Living My Life
Goldman, Emma
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Longuet, Jenny: Connexipedia Article
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Socialist activist. Daughter of Jenny von Westphalen and Karl Marx. (1844-1883).
Love, Anarchy, and Emma Goldman
Falk, Candace
Book
1984
Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution
Gabriel, Mary
Book
2011
A biography of Karl and Jenny Marx.
Lukács, Georg: Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
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Hungarian Marxist philosopher, writer, literary critic, and socialist. (1885-1971).
Lukács, György: Connexipedia Article
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Hungarian Marxist philosopher, writer, literary critic, and socialist. (1885-1971).
Luxemburg, Rosa: Connexipedia Article
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Marxist revolutionary. (1871-1919).
MacInnis, Angus: Connexipedia Article
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Canadian social democratic politician. (1884-1964).
Macphail, Agnes: Connexipedia Article
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Canadian political and activist. (1890-1954).
Makhno, Nestor: Connexipedia Article
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Ukrainian anarcho-communist guerrilla leader. (1888-1934).
Malatesta, Errico: Connexipedia Article
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Italian anarcho-communist. (1853-1932).
The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights
Reynolds, David S.
Book
2005
A biography of John Brown.
Mann, Tom: Connexipedia Article
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British trade unionist. (1856-1941).
Marcuse, Herbert: Connexipedia Article
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Marxist philosopher, political theorist and sociologist. (1898-1979).
Martí, José: Connexipedia Article
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Cuban poet and rebel. (1953-1895).
Marx, Eleanor: Connexipedia Article
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Socialist author and activist. (1855-1898).
Marx, Karl: Connexipedia Article
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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).
May 5, 1818: Birth of Karl Marx: Seeds of Fire
Diemer, Ulli
Article
2013
Marx breathes dialectics and revolution. For Marx, radicalism means going to the root, and Marx's radicalism seeks to go to the root of capitalism, to comprehend its essence dialectically, to understa...
McClung, Nellie Letitia (Mooney): Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
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Canadian feminist, politician, and social activist. (1873-1951).
McNaughton, Violet: Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
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Feminist, journalist and activist. (1879-1968).
The Measure of a Revolutionary: Remembering Eugene V. Debs
Harris, Mark
Article
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...
Meeting Alexandra Kollontai: Against The Current vol. 139
Quinn, Abra
Article
2009
My first encounter with Wikipedia was several years ago when I was looking up some female Bolsheviks — there was very little about them by way of normal Googling, and I had never tried this collective...
Mehring, Franz: Connexipedia Article
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German socialist publicist, politician and historian. (1846-1919).
Memoirs of a Revolutionary 1901- 1941
Serge, Victor
Book
1943
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 express...
Michael Bakunin
Carr, E. H.
Book
1937
Michael Bakunin: Roots of Apocalypse
Mendel, Arthur P.
Book
1981
Michel, Louise: Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
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French anarchist, school teacher and medical worker. (1830-1905).
Morris, William: Connexipedia Article
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British artist, designer, author, and socialist. (1834-1896).
Mumford, Lewis: Connexipedia Article
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American historian and philosopher of technology and science. (1895-1990).
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).
My Life
Trotsky, Leon
Book
1930
Trotsky's autobiography, published in 1930.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave & Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Douglass, Frederick; Jacobs, Harriet; (Introduction by Kwame Anthony Appiah)
Book
2000
Two first-person accounts of African-American slavery.
Nearing, Scott: Connexipedia Article
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American radical economist, educator, writer, political activist, and advocate of simple living. (1883-1983).
Neill, A. S.: Connexipedia Article
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Scottish progressive educator, author and founder of Summerhill school. (1883-1973).
Nettlau, Max: Connexipedia Article
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German anarchist and historian. (1865-1944).
Nin, Andrés: Connexipedia Article
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Spanish Communist revolutionary. (1892-1937).
On Darwin's 200th Anniversary: Against The Current vol. 143
Fayyazuddin, Ansar
Article
2009
The year 2009 is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, as well as the 150th anniversary of the publication of his celebrated book On The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection...
An Opposing Man: The Autobiography of a Romantic Revolutionary
Fischer, Ernst
Book
1969
The memoirs on Ernst Fischer, a socialist literary and art critic.
Osceola: Connexipedia Article
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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).
Ossietzky, Carl von: Connexipedia Article
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German radical pacifist. (1889-1938).
Tom Paine, restless democrat: Profile of a radical
Marqusee, Mike
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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."
Pankhurst, Emmeline: Connexipedia Article
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English women's suffrage movement leader. (1858-1928).
Pannekoek, Anton: Connexipedia Article
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Scientist and Marxist. (1873-1960).
Parlby, Irene Marryat: Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
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Politician, farm women's leader. (1868-1965).
Parsons, Lucy: Connexipedia Article
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Radical American labour organizer and anarchist communist. (1853-1942).
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist
Berkman, Alexander
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Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph: Connexipedia Article
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French politician, mutualist philosopher and socialist. (1809-1865).
The Radical Life of Rosa Luxemburg: A graphic novelization of the revolutionary life and legacy of "Red Rosa"
Evans, Kate
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2015
An excerpt from Red Rosa, a graphic biography of Rosa Luxemburg.
Randolph, A. Philip: Connexipedia Article
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African-American civil rights leader. (1889-1979).
Reclus, Élisée: Connexipedia Article
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French geographer, writer and anarchist. (1830-1905).
Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg
Evans, Kate; Buhle, Paul
Book
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 beaut...
Reed, John: Connexipedia Article
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American journalist and communist activist. (1887-1920).
Reich, Wilhelm: Connexipedia Article
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Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. (1897-1957).
A Review of Mary Gabriel's Love and Capital and Some Thoughts Prompted by the Review
Garvey, John
Article
2012
So much of what parades as Marxism has very little to do with Karl Marx. Mary Gabriel knows Marx and we know him better after we read her book.
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).
Rivera, Diego: Connexipedia Article
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Mexican artist. (1886-1957).
Robeson, Paul: Connexipedia Article
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Musician, actor, speaker, lawyer, radical. (1898-1976).
Rocker, Rudolf: Connexipedia Article
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(1873-1958). Anarcho-syndicalist writer and activist.
Rosa Luxemburg: Abridged Edition
Nettl, Peter
Book
1966
A biography of Luxemburg by a British academic.
Rosa Luxemburg: A Reappraisal
Basso, Lelio
Book
1975
Rühle, Otto: Connexipedia Article
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German Marxist. (1874-1943).
Russell, Bertrand: Connexipedia Article
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Philosopher, logician, mathematician, pacifist, social critic. (1872-1970).
Russell, Dora: Connexipedia Article
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British author, feminist and socialist campaigner. (1894-1986).
Sacco and Vanzetti: Connexipedia Article
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Labourers and anarchists who were tried, convicted and executed in Massachusetts in 1927.
Sacco and Vanzetti
Goldman, Emma; Berkman, Alexander
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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 Van...
Saint John, Vincent: Connexipedia Article
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American labour leader and prominent Wobbly. (1876-1929).
Sandino, Augusto César: Connexipedia Article
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Nicaraguan revolutionary. (1895-1934).
Schweitzer, Albert: Connexipedia Article
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German-French theologian, musician, philosopher, and physician. (1875-1965).
Scott, Francis Reginald (Frank): Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
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Founding member of the social-democratic movement in Canada. (1899-1985).
Serge, Victor: Connexipedia Article
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Writer and revolutionary. (1890-1947).
Shadd, Mary Ann: Connexipedia Article
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A key figure in the Underground Railroad and a subscription agent for William Lloyd Garrison's abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator. (1823-1893).
Souchy, Augustin: Connexipedia Article
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German anarchist, antimilitarist, and journalist. (1892-1984).
Sousa Mendes, Aristides de: Connexipedia Article
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Portuguese diplomat who ignored and defied the orders of his own government for the safety of war refugees fleeing from invading German military forces in the early years of World War II. (1885-1954).
Spurr, Richard: Connexipedia Article
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English cabinet maker and lay preacher who was imprisoned for his part in leading the political movement Chartism. (1800-1855).
Stalin – An Appraisal of the Man and his Influence
Trotsky, Leon
Book
1941
Trotsky's unfinished biography of Stalin.
Still, William: Connexipedia Article
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An African-American abolitionist, conductor on the Underground Railroad, writer, historian and civil rights activist. (1819-1902).
Temple, William Horace: Connexipedia Article
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Canadian politician, trade union activist, businessman and temperance crusader. (1899-1988).
Thoreau, Henry David: Connexipedia Article
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American author and poet. (1817-1862).
Tolstoy, Leo: Connexipedia Article
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Russian author. (1828-1910).
Traven, B.: Connexipedia Article
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The nom de plume of an enigmatic twentieth century novelist.
Tresca, Carlo: Connexipedia Article
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Anarchist, newspaper editor, and labour agitator. (1879-1943).
Trotsky, Leon: Connexipedia Article
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Russian revolutionary. (1879-1940).
Tubman, Harriet: Connexipedia Article
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An African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the American Civil War. (1822-1913).
Turner, Nat: Connexipedia Article
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American slave who led a slave rebellion in 1831. (1800-1831).
Violet McNaughton: the Mighty Mite Reformer From Saskatchewan
Welton, Michael
Article
2018
Violet McNaughton deserves recognition as one of Canada's greatest and most formidable adult educators and co-operator of the twentieth century bar none
William Morris: From Romantic to Revolutionary
Thompson, E. P.
Book
1955
A biography of the nineteenth-century socialist, designer, artist, and intellectual William Morris.
Wilson, Edmund: Connexipedia Article
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American writer and literary critic. (1895-1972).
Woodsworth, James Shaver: Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
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Methodist minister, social worker, politician. (1874-1942).
Zapata, Emiliano: Connexipedia Article
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A leading figure in the Mexican Revolution of 1910. (1879-1919).
Zasulich, Vera: Connexipedia Article
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Russian Marxist and revolutionary 1849-1919.
Zetkin, Clara: Connexipedia Article
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German socialist. (1857-1933).
Zinoviev, Grigory: Connexipedia Article
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Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet Communist. (1883-1936).
Zola, Émile: Connexipedia Article
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French writer. (1840-1902).

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T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)
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Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence, CB, DSO (1888 - 1935), known professionally as T. E. Lawrence and popularly as Lawrence of Arabia, was a British Army officer renowned especially for his lia...
Mao Zedong
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Mao Zedong, (December 26, 1893 - September 9, 1976), was a Han Chinese revolutionary, political theorist and communist leader. He led the People's Republic of China (PRC) from its establishment in 194...
May, Karl
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Karl Friedrich May (February 25, 1842 - March 30, 1912) was a German writer, noted mainly for books set in the American Old West, (best known for the characters of Winnetou and Old Shatterhand) and si...
Mendel, Gregor
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Münzenberg, Willi
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Wilhelm "Willi" Münzenberg (1889 – 1940) was a communist political activist. Münzenberg was the first head of the Young Communist International in 1919-20 and established the famine-relief and propaga...
Niemoller, Martin
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Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemoller (14 January 1892 – 6 March 1984) was a German anti-Nazi theologian and Lutheran pastor. He is best known as the author of the poem First they came....
Nurmi, Paavo
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Finnish runner.
Palmer, Alexander Mitchell
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Alexander Mitchell Palmer (May 4, 1872 - May 11, 1936) was Attorney General of the United States from 1919 to 1921. He was nicknamed The Fighting Quaker and he directed the controversial Palmer Raids.
Parker, Dorothy
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Dorothy Parker (August 22, 1893 - June 7, 1967) was an American poet and satirist, best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th century urban foibles.
Quisling, Vidkun
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Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonssøn Quisling (July 18, 1887- October 24, 1945) was a Norwegian army officer and politician, who served as President of occupied Norway. Today in Norway and other parts of t...
Ruthenberg, Charles
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Charles Emil "C.E." Ruthenberg (1882 - 1927) was an American marxist politician and was a founder and head of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA).
Schlechter, Carl
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Chess player.
Sorel, Georges
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Georges Eugène Sorel (2 November 1847 in Cherbourg – 29 August 1922 in Boulogne-sur-Seine) was a French philosopher and theorist of revolutionary syndicalism. His notion of the power of myth in peo...
Steinitz, Wilhelm
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Chess player.
Ury, Else
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German author.
Vaillant Auguste
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Auguste Vaillant (27 December 1861 – 5 February 1894) was a French anarchist, most famous for his bomb attack on the French Chamber of Deputies on 9 December 1893.