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Abbey, Edward: Connexipedia Article
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American author and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues and criticism of public land policies. (1927-1989).
Ali, Tariq: Connexipedia Article
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Historian, novelist, filmmaker, political campaigner, and commentator. (Born 1943).
Alinsky, Saul: Connexipedia Article
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American community organizer and writer. (1909-1972).
Allan Bérubé, 1946-2007: Against The Current vol. 135
Kinsman, Gary
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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 ...
Anderson, Doris: Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
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Canadian author, journalist and women's rights activist. (1921-2007).
Anderson, Doris: Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
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Canadian author, journalist and women's rights activist. (1921-2007).
Avnery, Uri: Connexipedia Article
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Israeli writer, human rights activist, and founder of the Gush Shalom peace movement. (Born 1923).
Bakunin, Mikhail: Connexipedia Article
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Russian anarchist and revolutionary. (1814-1876).
Barlow, Maude: Connexipedia Article
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Canadian auther and activist. National chairperson of the Council of Canadians, a citizens' advocacy organization, co-founder of the Blue Planet Project, and an executive member of the International F...
Barlow, Maude: Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
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Canadian auther and activist. National chairperson of the Council of Canadians, a citizens' advocacy organization, co-founder of the Blue Planet Project, and an executive member of the International F...
Baxandall, Lee: Connexipedia Article
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American writer, translator, editor, and activist, first known for his New Left engagement with cultural topics and then as a leader of the naturist movement. (1935-2008).
Beauvoir, Simone de: Connexipedia Article
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French writer, philosopher, feminist, and social theorist. (1908-1986).
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).
Bello, Walden: Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
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Filipino author, academic, and political analyst. (Born 1945).
Benjamin, Walter: Connexipedia Article
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German-Jewish Marxist, literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. (1892-1940).
Berger, John: Connexipedia Article
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English art critic, novelist, painter and author. (Born 1926).
Berkman, Alexander: Connexipedia Article
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Anarchist known for his political activism and writing. (1870-1936).
Berman, Marshall: Connexipedia Article
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American philosopher and Marxist Humanist writer. (Born 1940).
Berton, Pierre: Connexipedia Article
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Journalist, historian, media personality. (1920-2004).
Berton, Pierre: Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
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Journalist, historian, media personality. (1920-2004).
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).
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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Birney, Alfred Earle: Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
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Canadian poet, twice winner of the Governor General's Award for Literature. (1904-1995).
Blake, William: Connexipedia Article
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English poet, painter, and printmaker. Considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. (1757-1827).
Boff, Leonardo: Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
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A theologian, philosopher and writer, known for his active support for the rights of the poor and excluded. One of the founders of liberation theology. (Born 1938).
Boggs, Grace Lee: Connexipedia Article
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A Chinese-American author, anti-racist activist and feminist. (Born 1915).
Bookchin, Murray: Connexipedia Article
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American libertarian socialist-anarchist, political and social philosopher, environmentalist, conservationist, atheist, speaker, and writer. (1921-2006).
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).
Brinton, Maurice: Connexipedia Article
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Libertarian socialist writer and neurologist. (1923-2005).
Bruce, Lenny: Connexipedia Article
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American stand-up comedian, writer, social critic and satirist of the 1950s and 1960s. (1925-1966).
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).
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).
Cabral, Amílcar (Abel Djassi): Connexipedia Article
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African agronomic engineer, writer, Marxist and nationalist guerrilla and politician. (1924-1973).
Callenbach, Ernest: Connexipedia Article
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American writer, known as an author of green books, namely as author of the ecological utopias Ecotopia (1975) and Ecotopia Emerging (1981). (Born 1929).
Callwood, June: Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
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Journalist, writer, broadcaster, civil libertarian 1924-2007. (1924-2007).
Callwood, June: Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
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Journalist, writer, broadcaster, civil libertarian 1924-2007. (1924-2007).
Carpenter, Edward: Connexipedia Article
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English socialist poet, anthologist, early gay activist and socialist philosopher. (1844-1929).
Carson, Rachel: Connexipedia Article
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American marine biologist and nature writer whose writings, especially 'Silent Spring', are credited with advancing the global environmental movement. (1907-1964).
Castoriadis, Cornelius: Connexipedia Article
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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'. (1...
Chester, Eric: Connexipedia Article
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Author, socialist political activist, and economics professor. (Born 1943).
Chomsky, Noam: Connexipedia Article
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American linguist, philosopher, political activist, author, and lecturer. (Born 1928).
Clarke, Tony: Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
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Canadian social justice advocate. (Born 1944).
Comfort, Alex: Connexipedia Article
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Medical professional, gerontologist, anarchist, pacifist, conscientious objector and writer. (1920-2000).
Condorcet, Marquis de: Connexipedia Article
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(1743-1794).French philosopher, mathematician, and early political scientist.
Daly, Herman: Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
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American ecological economist and professor. (Born 1938).
Debord, Guy: Connexipedia Article
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French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker, hypergraphist and founding member of the groups Lettrist International and Situationist International. (1931-1994).
Deutscher, Isaac: Connexipedia Article
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Marxist historian, journalist and political activist. (1907-1967).
Douglass, Frederick: Connexipedia Article
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American abolitionist, women's suffragist, editor, orator, author, statesman and reformer. (1818-1895).
Draper, Hal: Connexipedia Article
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American socialist activist, Marxist and author of a number of key works about Marxism. (1914-1990).
Hal Draper, Introduction to: Connexipedia Article
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Link to brief biography of Hal Draper, an American socialist activist, Marxist and author, and participant in the Berkeley, California Free Speech Movement. (1914-1990).
Du Bois, W. E. B.: Connexipedia Article
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American civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, historian, author, and editor. (1868-1963).
Dunayevskaya, Raya: Connexipedia Article
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Founder of the philosophy of Marxist Humanism. (1910-1987).
Eduardo Galeano, ¡Presente!
La Botz, Dan
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La Botz reflects on Eduardo Galeano's works and ideas.
Engels, Friedrich: Connexipedia Article
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German author, political theorist, philosopher, and father of communist theory, alongside Karl Marx. (1820-1895).
Equiano, Olaudah: Connexipedia Article
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African former slave involved in the British movement for the abolition of the slave trade. (1745-1797).
The Expo Files: Articles by the Crusading Journalist
Larsson, Stieg
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Collected here for the first time are Stieg Larsson's essays and articles on right-wing extremism and racism, on violence against women and women's rights, on homophobia and honour killings.
Fanon, Frantz: Connexipedia Article
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Psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary, and author from Martinique. (1925-1961).
Fathy, Hassan: Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
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Egyptian architect who pioneered appropriate technology for building in Egypt, especially by working to re-establish the use of mud brick and traditional as opposed to western building designs and lay...
Finkelstein, Norman: Connexipedia Article
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An American political scientist and author, whose primary fields of research are the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the politics of the Holocaust. (Born 1953).
Fowler, Cary: Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Awad Winner
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Winner of the Right Livelihood Award for his work to save the world's genetic plant heritage. (Born 1949).
Franklin, Ursula: Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
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Metallurgist, humanitarian, feminist, peace activist. (Born 1921).
Franklin, Ursula: Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
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Metallurgist, humanitarian, feminist, peace activist. (Born 1921).
Franklin, Ursula: Connexipedia Article
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Metallurgist, humanitarian, feminist, peace activist. (Born 1921).
Freire, Paulo: Connexipedia Article
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Brazilian educator and influential theorist of critical pedagogy. (1921-1997).
Friedan, Betty: Connexipedia Article
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American writer, activist and feminist. (1921-2006).
Galeano, Eduardo: Wikipedia article
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Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist (1940-2015). His best-known works are Las venas abiertas de América Latina (Open Veins of Latin America, 1971) and Memoria del fuego (Memory of Fire Trilogy, ...
Garcés, Juan: Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
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Human rights activist. (Born 1967).
Ginsberg, Allen: Connexipedia Article
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American poet best known for the poem "Howl", in which he celebrates fellow members of the Beat Generation and critiques what he saw as the destructive forces of materialism and conformity in the Unit...
Godwin, William: Connexipedia Article
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English journalist, political philosopher and novelist, considered one of the first exponents of utilitarianism, and one of the first modern proponents of anarchism. (1756-1836).
Goldman, Emma: Connexipedia Article
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Anarchist known for her political activism, writing and speeches. (1869-1940).
Goldsmith, Edward: Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
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Was an Anglo-French environmentalist, writer and philosopher. (Died 2009).
Gonick, Cy: Connexipedia Article
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Canadian socialist publisher, academic, and politician. (Born 1936).
Goodman, Paul: Connexipedia Article
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American sociologist, poet, writer, anarchist, social critic, and public intellectual. (1911-1972).
Gordon, Walter: Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
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Canadian accountant, businessman, politician, and writer. (1906-1987).
Gorter, Herman: Connexipedia Article
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Dutch poet and socialist. (1864-1927).
Gorz, André: Connexipedia Article
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Marxist, social philosopher. (1923-2007).
Grace Paley (1922-2007): Against The Current vol. 131
Huber-Humes, Sonya
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2007
Grace Paley described herself as a “somewhat combative pacifist and a cooperative anarchist,” and saw the role of the artist as that of “listener” who would relay stories of those made invisible by so...
Gramsci, Antonio: Connexipedia Article
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Italian Marxist philosopher, writer, politician and political theorist. (1891-1937).
Guérin, Daniel: Connexipedia Article
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French anarchist and author. (1904-1988).
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
Halper, Jeff: Connexipedia Article
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Co-founder and Coordinator of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD). (Born 1946).
Having Little, Being Much: A Chronicle of Fredy Perlman's Fifty Years
Perlman, Lorraine
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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 ...
Herman, Edward S.: Connexipedia Article
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Economist and media analyst with a specialty in corporate and regulatory issues as well as political economy and the media. (Born 1925).
Hill, Christopher: Connexipedia Article
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English Marxist historian and author. (1912-2003).
Hill, Joe: Connexipedia Article
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Swedish-American labour activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World. (1879-1915).
Hoffman, Abbie: Connexipedia Article
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Social and political activist in the United States who co-founded the Youth International Party ("Yippies"). (1936-1989).
Holbach, Baron d': Connexipedia Article
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French-German author, philosopher, encyclopedist and a prominent figure in the French Enlightenment. (1723-1789).
Humboldt, Alexander von: Connexipedia Article
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Naturalist. (1769-1859).
Hurtig, Mel: Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
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A Canadian publisher, author, political activist and political candidate. (Born 1932).
Illich, Ivan: Connexipedia Article
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Austrian philosopher, Roman Catholic priest and critic of the institutions of contemporary western culture. (1926-2002).
Jacobs, Jane: Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
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Author, urban advocate, economist, ecologist, and philosopher. (1916-2006).
Jacobs, Jane: Connexipedia Article
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Author, urban advocate, economist, ecologist, and philosopher. (1916-2006).
James, C. L. R.: Connexipedia Article
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Afro-Trinidadian historian, journalist, Marxist, socialist theorist and essayist. (1901-1989).
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).
Karl Marx: The Story of His Life
Mehring, Franz
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1918
A biography of Karl Marx
Keller, Helen: Connexipedia Article
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American author, political activist and lecturer. (1880-1968).
Kidd, Bruce: Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
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A Canadian academic, author, and athlete.
Ki-Zerbo, Joseph: Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
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Scholar, activist, and advocate for endogenous development. (1922-2006).
Klein, Bonnie Sherr: Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
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Filmmaker, author, disability rights activist. (Born 1941).
Knabb, Ken: Connexipedia Article
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American writer, translator, and radical theorist. (Born 1945).
Kolko, Gabriel: Connexipedia Article
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An American revisionist historian and author. (Born 1932).
Korsch, Karl: Connexipedia Article
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German Marxist theorist. (1886-1961).
Kovel, Joel: Connexipedia Article
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American politician, academic, writer, and eco-socialist. (Born 1936).
Kropotkin, Peter: Connexipedia Article
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Geographer, zoologist, and anarchist. (1842-1921).
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).
Laing, R. D.: Connexipedia Article
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Scottish psychiatrist who wrote extensively on mental illness. (1927-1989).
Landsberg, Michele: Connexipedia Article
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Canadian writer, social activist and feminist. (Born 1935).
Lappé, Frances Moore: Connexipedia Article
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Activist and writer on food, hunger, economics, and democracy. (Born 1944).
Lappé, Frances Moore: Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
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Activist and writer on food, hunger, economics, and democracy. (Born 1944).
Laxer, James: Connexipedia Article
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Canadian political economist, professor and author. (Born 1941).
Laxer, Robert: Connexipedia Article
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Canadian psychologist, professor, author, and political activist. (1915-1998).
LeBourdais, Isabel: Connexipedia Article
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Canadian journalist and author. (1909-2003).
The Legacy of CLR James
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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 soci...
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).
Lessons of Life and Death from Henry Spira: By Any Compromise Necessary?: Against The Current vol. 85
Hunter, Kim
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A friend of Henry Spira once asked him why he left teaching in New York City, where he was successful and loved by the students, to go into the animal rights struggle. Spira said that humans were more...
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).
Livesay, Dorothy: Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
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Poet, journalist, writer of short fiction, autobiography and literary criticism. (1909-1996).
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).
Lynd, Staughton: Connexipedia Article
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American author, activist, historian, and lawyer. (Born 1929).
Macdonald, Dwight: Connexipedia Article
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American writer, editor, social critic, philosopher, and political radical. (1906-1982).
Macpherson, C. B.: Connexipedia Article
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Canadian political scientist. (1911-1987).
Malik, Kenan: Connexipedia Article
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Writer, lecturer and broadcaster. (Born 1962).
Marcos, Subcomandante: Connexipedia Article
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Spokesman for the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN).
Martí, José: Connexipedia Article
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Cuban poet and rebel. (1953-1895).
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).
Mattick, Paul: Connexipedia Article
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Marxist writer and activist. (1904-1981).
McNaughton, Violet: Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
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Feminist, journalist and activist. (1879-1968).
Mehring, Franz: Connexipedia Article
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German socialist publicist, politician and historian. (1846-1919).
Menchú, Rigoberta: Connexipedia Article
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Winner of the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize. (Born 1959).
Mills, C. Wright: Connexipedia Article
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American sociologist. (1916-1962).
Montenegro, Raúl: Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
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Environmental and indigenous rights activist. (Born 1949).
Mooney, Pat: Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
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Winner of the Right Livelihood Award for his work to save the world's genetic plant heritage. (Born 1947).
Mumford, Lewis: Connexipedia Article
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American historian and philosopher of technology and science. (1895-1990).
Nearing, Scott: Connexipedia Article
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American radical economist, educator, writer, political activist, and advocate of simple living. (1883-1983).
Noam Chomsky - Everyday Anarchist
Wilson, Michael S.
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Interview with Noam Chomsky.
On the anniversary of the birth of Erich Fromm
Dunayevskaya, Raya
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1980
The many articles that poured forth in 1980 when Erich Fromm died on March 18 all praised him only as a "famous psychoanalyst." The press, by no accident at all, failed to mention that he was a Social...
Orwell, George: Connexipedia Article
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British author. (1903-1950).
Paine, Thomas: Connexipedia Article
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Author, pamphleteer, radical, inventor, intellectual, revolutionary. (1737-1809).
Pauling, Linus: Connexipedia Article
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American chemist, peace activist, author, and educator. (1901-1994).
Perlman, Fredy: Connexipedia Article
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Radical author, publisher and activist. (1934-1985).
Phillips, Utah: Connexipedia Article
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Labor organizer, folk singer, storyteller, and poet. (1935-2008).
Politkovskaya, Anna: Connexipedia Article
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Russian journalist, author and human rights activist. (1958-2006).
Rebick, Judy: Connexipedia Article
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Canadian feminist, writer, and activist. (Born 1945).
Reclus, Élisée: Connexipedia Article
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French geographer, writer and anarchist. (1830-1905).
Reed, John: Connexipedia Article
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American journalist and communist activist. (1887-1920).
Rowbotham, Sheila: Connexipedia Article
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British socialist feminist theorist and writer. (Born 1943).
Roy, Arundhati: Connexipedia Article
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Indian writer (in English) and activist. (Born 1961).
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).
Said, Edward, Critical Notes on
Habib, Irfan
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Edward Said was admired by the anti-imperialist left for his courageous defence of Palestinian rights. However, Irfan Habib argues that unfortunately Said's scholarly work, notably his major work 'Ori...
Saint-Simon, Henri de: Connexipedia Article
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French utopian socialist thinker. (1760-1825).
Sartre, Jean-Paul: Connexipedia Article
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French philosopher. (1905-1980).
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).
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).
Shahak, Israel: Connexipedia Article
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Polish-born Israeli chemist, professor, radical political thinker and author and activist for the defense of the human and civil rights. (1933-2001).
Shiva, Vandana: Connexipedia Article
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Philosopher, environmental activist, eco feminist and author. (Born 1952).
Shiva, Vandana: Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
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Environmental and women's activist. (Born 1952).
Sinclair, Upton: Connexipedia Article
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American author and muckraker. (1978-1968).
Singer, Daniel: Connexipedia Article
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Socialist writer and journalist. (1926-2000).
Sofri, Adriano: Connexipedia Article
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Italian radical intellectual, a journalist and a writer. (Born 1942).
Souchy, Augustin: Connexipedia Article
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German anarchist, antimilitarist, and journalist. (1892-1984).
Spry, Graham: Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
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Journalist, diplomat, international business executive, political organizer, advocate of public broadcasting. (1900-1983).
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).
The website of I.F. Stone
Stone, I.F.
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Website devoted to the journalism and life of radical journalist I.F. Stone (1907-1989).
Stone, I. F.: Connexipedia Article
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American investigative journalist. (1907-1989).
Terkel, Studs: Connexipedia Article
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American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster. (1912-2008).
Thompson, E. P.: Connexipedia Article
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English historian, writer, socialist and peace campaigner (1924-1993).
Thompson, William: Connexipedia Article
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Irish political and philosophical writer and social reformer, developing from utilitarianism into an early critic of capitalist exploitation whose ideas influenced the Cooperative, Trade Union and Cha...
Thompson, William
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Born with the proverbial silver-spoon in his mouth, William Thompson (1775-1833) devoted his life to ameliorating the condition of those less fortunate than himself.
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.
Ursula K. Le Guin - Rest in Power
Kerley, Joyce
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2018
Obituary celebrating Le Guin's contributions as a community activist, a fighter for feminism, peace, freedom of speech, access to knowledge for everyone, and radical democracy in addition to her liter...
Vallieres, Pierre: Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Gordon, Stanley
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Writer, radical. (1938-1998).
Vaneigem, Raoul: Connexipedia Article
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Belgian writer and philosopher. (Born 1934).
Vidal, Gore: Connexipedia Article
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American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, essayist, short story writer, actor and politician. (Born 1925).
Weinstein, James: Connexipedia Article
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American historian and journalist. (1926-2005).
Wilson, Edmund: Connexipedia Article
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American writer and literary critic. (1895-1972).
Wollstonecraft, Mary: Connexipedia Article
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British writer, philosopher, and feminist. (1759-1797).
Wood, Ellen Meiksins: Connexipedia Article
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Marxist scholar. (Born 1942).
Zinn, Howard: Connexipedia Article
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American historian, political scientist, social critic, activist and playwright. (1922-2010).
Zola, Émile: Connexipedia Article
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French writer. (1840-1902).

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Abunimah, Ali
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Ali Hasan Abunimah is a Palestinian American journalist and co-founder of Electronic Intifada, a not-for-profit, independent online publication about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.
Antoniou, Laura
Laura Antoniou (born 1963) is an American novelist. She is the author of The Marketplace series of BDSM-themed novels, which were originally published under the pen name of Sara Adamson.
Bachmann, Ingeborg
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Ingeborg Bachmann (25 June 1926 - 17 October 1973) was an Austrian poet and author.
Brame, Gloria
Gloria Glickstein Brame (born August 20, 1955) is a U.S. writer and sex therapist based in Athens, Georgia.
Chaucer, Geoffrey
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Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – 25 October 1400) was an English author, poet, philosopher, bureaucrat, courtier and diplomat. Although he wrote many works, he is best remembered for his unfinished frame...
Elizabeth Smart: On the Side of the Angels
Gallus, Maya (director)
1991
A documentary about author Elizabeth Smart, with Jackie Burroughts playing Elizabeth Smart.
Hugh Garner
Wikipedia article
Hugh Garner (1913 – 1979) was a British-born Canadian novelist.
George Orwell: A Life
Crick, Bernard
1980
A biography of George Orwell.
André Gide
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French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature .
Arendt, Hannah
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Hannah Arendt was an influential German Jewish political theorist.
Eric Hobsbawm 1917-2012
Historian in the Marxist tradition with a global reach
Kettle, Martin; Wedderburn, Dorothy
2012
The historian Eric Hobsbawm dies at 95.
Joy Kogawa
2016
Joy Kogawa is a Canadian writer.
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...
Miller, Arthur
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Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 - February 10, 2005) was an American playwright and essayist. He was a prominent figure in American theatre, writing dramas that include plays such as All My Sons...
Paton, Alan
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Alan Stewart Paton (11 January 1903 – 12 April 1988) was a South African author and anti-apartheid activist. Contents
Said, Edward
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Edward Wadie Said was a Palestinian-American literary theorist and advocate for Palestinian rights.
Sayles, John
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American filmmaker.
Scott, Walter
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Sir Walter Scott (15 August 1771 - 21 September 1832) was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet, popular throughout much of the world during his time.
Shakespeare, William
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Shirer, William L.
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William Lawrence Shirer (February 23, 1904 – December 28, 1993) was an American journalist, war correspondent, and historian, who wrote The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich a history of Nazi Germany...
Smart, Elizabeth
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Elizabeth Smart (December 27, 1913 – March 4, 1986) was a Canadian poet and novelist.
Sweezy, Paul
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Paul Marlor Sweezy (April 10, 1910 - February 27, 2004) was a Marxist economist and a founding editor of the magazine Monthly Review.
Ury, Else
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German author.