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Clara Zetkin (1857 – 1933) is known to many as the founder of international women’s day, but she was not just a women’s rights activist. Clara was also an important Marxist thinker and as such, her aim was not simply to free women in order for them to compete
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Madeleine Johansson discusses the political thought and contribution of Russian feminist and revolutionary socialist, Alexandra Kollantai. Alexandra Kollontai was a pioneer in terms of women in politics. She was one of the first female elected representatives, the first female Minister and member of Cabinet in Russia – before such a feat
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Paul le Blanc continues the Revolutionaries Reviewed series by assessing Leon Trotsky, a leading revolutionary of the 1917 Russian Revolution. Born in 1879, he was the commander of the Red Army and the chairman of the Petrograd Soviet, and was later killed by Stalinist agents whilst living in exile in
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Paul le Blanc continues the Revolutionaries Reviewed series with a discussion on Antonio Gramsci. An Italian Marxist imprisoned by Mussolini’s fascist regime, he famously wrote what would become The Prison Notebooks – notes which continue to influence activists the world over. The fascist dictator Benito Mussolini once referred to Italian
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Karl Marx and Frederick Engels were not only active revolutionaries, they were philosophers, sociologists, & historians. For the Revolutionaries Reviewed series, Paul le Blanc discusses the founders of Marxism & the core concepts they developed. Some people make a big point about separating Karl Marx and Frederick Engels from each
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To marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Lenin we’re sharing the latest installment of Paul LeBlanc’s series Revolutionaries Reviewed, on Vladimir Lenin – a central leader of the Russian Revolution of 1917, which overthrew tsarist rule and attempted to bring about a new socialist society. Vladimir Ilyich
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In the first of a series of Revolutionaries Reviewed, Paul LeBlanc looks back at the life and politics of Rosa Luxemburg. Born in Poland in 1871, Rosa became a rabble rousing activist. Eventually, she ended up in Germany as one of the leading revolutionaries in the German Social Democratic Party,