List Your Fav little known Revolutionary/Commi/Anarch ect and why we should know them

[EspirituDeAmaru]

Lets list some of our favorite little known revolutionaries, communists, feminists, economists, anarchists, leaders and others and write a little about them on why we should know about them.

Ill start simply..

Mehdi Ben Barka - Moroccan left wing politician during the 60s assassinated by the CIA in france

Emma Goldman- Feminist Anrachist during the US 'progressive era'

Mother Jones- Prominent Unionizer and activist

Gander Frank- Former student of Milton freidman; Went rogue and wrote against free marke capitalism and advanced dependency theory and core periphery

[Tim Finnegan]

John Maclean - Scottish Marxist and syndicalist, and one of the senior proponents of revolutionary socialism in Scotland in the 1910s and early 1920s. He was imprisoned during the First World War for his advocacy of Revolutionary Defeatism, and later declared an honorary vice-president of the Congress of Soviets and appointed Soviet consul in Scotland.

Willie Galacher - A compatriot of Maclean's, he was a leading figure in the Shop Stewards' Movement (http://libcom.org/history/articles/red-clydeside), and a founding member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. One of only three Communists to become elected to parliament outside of the Labour Party, serving as MP for West Fife between 1935-1950.

[DDR]

Enrique Líster: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrique_L%C3%ADster

Jose Díaz: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_D%C3%ADaz_Ramos

Joan García Oliver: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Garc%C3%ADa_Oliver

Ernst Thälmann: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Th%C3%A4lmann

Camilo Cienfuegos: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camilo_Cienfuegos

[The Man]

http://undergroundcoders.com/forums/uploads/1275200534/gallery_1_3_57968.jpg

[RED DAVE]

Victor Serge (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Serge)

RED DAVE

[bcbm]

jules bonnot- prolific criminal anarchist, invented the automobile getaway, had to be taken out by like half the french army with their newly invented machine guns

[Robespierre Richard]

Leon Trotsky (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin)

[HEAD ICE]

http://www.revleft.com/vb/picture.php?groupid=9&pictureid=7204

Fausto Atti: Militant and founding member of the Left Fraction of the Communist Party of Italy, Atti's internationalist agitating landed him in German prisons, expelled from France, and imprisoned on an island in Italy. After the fall of Mussolini, Atti was released and joined the Internationalist Communist Party. His activities in encouraging partisans to take up autonomous class struggle instead of national "liberation" led to his assassination by Palmiro Togliatti, where a gang killed Atti in his sleep.

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[hatzel]

No question about it: Gustav Landauer (http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_archives/bright/landauer/landauerbioHorrox.html)

This will of course come as absolutely no surprise to anybody who's spent too much time listening to my rantings and ravings :)

[Robespierre Richard]

Okay, now to be serious, these guys are more or less my personal heroes. Cash Money legends.

Amilcar Cabral (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amílcar_Cabral)

Robert F. Williams (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Williams)

[NoOneIsIllegal]

Victor Serge (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Serge)
Haymarket Books has been showing him some love this year by reprinting two books (both are collections of essays, articles, etc.)
http://www.haymarketbooks.org/search?keys=victor+serge
("Revolution in Danger" in January, and "Witness to the German Revolution" this month)

Lets list some of our favorite little known revolutionaries...
Emma Goldman- Feminist Anrachist during the US 'progressive era'
wat. Goldman is to Anarchism as Marx (or maybe Engels) is to Marxism.

[DuracellBunny97]

Victor Serge, Josip Broz Tito, Antonio Gramsci

[Red_Struggle]

Bill Bland
William Z Foster
Harry Kumar (AML Admin)
Hardial Bains

[Tim Finnegan]

Josip Broz Tito
:confused: Tito's is one of the few revolutionaries that a lot of non-leftist could actually name. (Maybe not just anyone, perhaps, but certainly anyone with even a cursory interest in 20th century history.)

[hatzel]

As everybody else seems to be naming stupidly well-known people...how about we break down some barriers and suggest this guy?

http://www.martinspribble.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/517px-Portrait_of_Friedrich_Nietzsche.jpg

[EspirituDeAmaru]

Yes we are getting pretty redundant .. how about ilich ramirez or Jose Carlos Mariategui

[bcbm]

Haymarket Books has been showing him some love this year by reprinting two books (both are collections of essays, articles, etc.)
http://www.haymarketbooks.org/search?keys=victor+serge
("Revolution in Danger" in January, and "Witness to the German Revolution" this month).

victor serge was such a wiener


mario buda- anarchist who invented the car bomb, friend of sacco and vanzetti (who were hardcore motherfuckers, make no mistake)

[Os Cangaceiros]

Osugi Sakae and Ito Noe: Japanese anarchists who pissed off the Japanese state. They were both executed extrajudicially in the aftermath of the Great Kanto Earthquake. They were the Japanese anarchist versions of Liebneckht and Luxemburg.

Carlo Tresca: Italian labor organizer who fled Italy at a young age and came to the USA, where he proceeded to piss of the authorities, resulting in repeated arrests. He also was an outspoken opponent of Stalin and the Italian Mafia. That wasn't good for his health, as he was later gunned down in a suspected Mafia hit.

[Admiral Swagmeister G-Funk]

All the men and women behind the anti-capitalist struggles - those men and women who take up arms and fight back, not those who have a personality cult built around them. Perhaps the ordinary workingman from Saint Petersburg who armed himself and fought against the Tsar, only to be betrayed by those revolutionaries he had faith in.

[28350]

Abraham Leon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Leon)
Jiang Qing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiang_Qing)

[black magick hustla]

i also like fausto atti. myasnikov, flores magon, and clr james are cool too

[black magick hustla]

victor serge was such a wiener



man victor serge was so cool dude. i mean he was a bit of a weiner but so were a lot of cool people at the end, like kollontai.

[RedStarOverChina]

Yang Jingyu:
http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2008-02/22/xin_2520205211811062566119.jpg
The leader of the communist resistance movement in Manchuria during the Sino-Japanese War.

He waged a guerrilla war against the Japanese occupation and caused major headache for the occupiers. He was finally cornered after being sold out by traitors. Refusing to surrender, he fought to exhaustion and finally died.



Unable to understand Yang's source of perseverance (Yang had not eaten for over 6 days), the Japanese ordered an autopsy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopsy) after cutting off and preserving Yang's head. When they cut open Yang's stomach, they found only tree bark (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_bark), cotton (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton) batting (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batting_%28material%29) and grass (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grass) roots (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root) within — not a single grain of rice (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice).[citation needed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)] It was said that the Japanese commander at the scene, Ryuichiro Kishitani (岸谷隆一郎), was so shocked at the revelation that he "went silent, and appeared aged a lot within the next day". Kishitani committed seppuku (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seppuku) after Japan's defeat, but wrote in his will (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_%28law%29) that "His Majesty (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirohito) might be wrong in launching this war (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Sino-Japanese_War). China has steely soldiers like Yang Jingyu, and it would not fall."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Jingyu

[bcbm]

man victor serge was so cool dude. i mean he was a bit of a weiner but so were a lot of cool people at the end, like kollontai.

idk about his later life i dont know much so i won't comment but in paris he hung with bonnot and that whole individualist milieu and wrote in one of the journals and supported criminality and then when the pigs closed in he sold them all out and was like "i just wrote stuff, i didn't mean it, i don't really support these guys" and was just a shit idk