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Arnold Amber - IFJ mourns loss of true champion of working journalists’ rights
2017-09-11
International Federation of Journalists
Working journalists have lost a true champion and the IFJ has lost a dear friend.
Betty Peterson Leaves a Legacy of Peacework
2018-02-27
Canadian Voice of Women for Peace
It is with great sadness and immense appreciation of her contribution to peace and justice that we let you know of the peaceful passing of our mentor, inspiration and “grandmother with a hug”, 100...
CEC mourns the loss of Jack Layton
2011-08-25
Canadian Ethnocultural Council
The Canadian Ethnocultural Council, (CEC) its members and supporters are saddened by the passing of the Honourable Jack Layton, Leader of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition and Leader of the New Democrati...

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Abbey, Edward
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American author and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues and criticism of public land policies. (1927-1989).
Abu-Jamal, Mumia
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An African-American activist who was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1981 murder of a Philadelphia police officer. His conviction was based on dubious evidence and dubious legal proceedings. ...
Abunimah, Ali
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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.
Allende, Salvador
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Democratically elected socialist president of Chile, overthrown and killed in a coup engineered by the CIA. (1908-1973).
Antoniou, Laura
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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.
George Armstrong
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Hockey player.
Asch, Moses
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Founder of Folkways Records. The label, founded in 1948, was instrumental in bringing folk music into the American mainstream. (1905-1986).
Avnery, Uri
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Israeli writer, human rights activist, and founder of the Gush Shalom peace movement. (Born 1923).
Bachmann, Ingeborg
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Ingeborg Bachmann (25 June 1926 - 17 October 1973) was an Austrian poet and author.
Baez, Joan
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Folk singer, songwriter and activist. (Born 1941).
Baker, Ella
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African American civil rights and human rights activis. (1903-1986).
Bannister, Roger
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British runner, first to run the mile in under four minutes.
Barlow, Maude
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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...
Bathgate, Andy
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Hockey player.
Baum, Gregory
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2018
Wikipedia
A brief biography of Gregory Baum, one of Canada's most influential and controversial theologians and a participant in the Second Vatican Council.
Baum, Gregory - obituary
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2017
The Tablet
Obituary for renowned Canadian theologian Gregory Baum, 94, who died Oct. 18, 2017.
Baun, Bob
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Hockey player.
Rosalyn Baxandall, Feminist Historian and Activist dies at 76
Grimes, William
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2015
New York Times
Rosalyn Baxandall, a feminist historian who was among the first to bring scholarly attention to the historical role of women in the workplace and to expand the meaning of "women's work," has died.
Beauvoir, Simone de
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French writer, philosopher, feminist, and social theorist. (1908-1986).
Berger, John
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English art critic, novelist, painter and author. (Born 1926).
Berra, Yogi
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(Born 1925). American philosopher and former Major League Baseball player and manager.
Berrigan, Daniel
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American poet, peace activist, and Roman Catholic priest. (Born 1921).
Berton, Pierre
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Journalist, historian, media personality. (1920-2004).
Grace Lee Boggs, Legendary Activist, Dead At 100
Bellware, Kim
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2015
Huffington Post
Boggs spent her life actively supporting causes ranging from civil rights and labour to the Black Power and feminist movements.
Grace Lee Boggs R.I.P.
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2015
Grace Lee Boggs, founding member of the Johnson-Forest Tendency (where her party name was Ria Stone), has died at the age of 100 in Detroit. She was born on June 27, 1915 and passed away October 5, 20...
Bower, Johnny
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The Boy Who Could Change the World
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2016
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Remembering the brief life of Aaron Swartz: programmer, activist, entrepreneur, community builder.
Brame, Gloria
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Gloria Glickstein Brame (born August 20, 1955) is a U.S. writer and sex therapist based in Athens, Georgia.
Brewer, Carl
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Hockey player.
Bulldog Brower (Richard T. Gland)
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Wrestler.
Luke Brown (Man Mountain Campbell)
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Wrestler.
Brown, Rosemary
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Canadian politician, prominent member of the New Democratic Party. (1930-2003).
Bruce, Lenny
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American stand-up comedian, writer, social critic and satirist of the 1950s and 1960s. (1925-1966).
Dalton Camp
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Canadian politician and commentator, 1920-2002.
Carmichael, Stokely
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Trinidadian-American black leader active in the 1960s American Civil Rights Movement. (1941-1998).
Carson, Rachel
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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).
Celebrating Bob Carty (1950 - 2014)
Foster, John
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2014
LAWG: Hay Camino History Project
Tribute given by John Foster at the pass of Bob Carty
Chartrand, Michel
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Quebec union leader and activist. (1913-2010).
Chávez, César
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Mexican American farm worker, labour leader, and civil rights activist who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers (UFW). (19...
Chomsky, Noam
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American linguist, philosopher, political activist, author, and lecturer. (Born 1928).
Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg
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Claus Philipp Maria Justinian Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (15 November 1907 – 21 July 1944) was a German army officer and Catholic aristocrat who was one of the leading members of the failed 20 Jul...
C.L.R. James and Anti-/Postcolonialism
Against The Current vol. 90
Farred, Grant
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2001
Against The Current
C.L.R. James' proclamation in Beyond A Boundary (1963, a classic study of cricket and colonialism), after almost three decades of radical intellectual work, that “Thackeray, not Marx, bears the heavie...
Comfort, Alex
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Medical professional, gerontologist, anarchist, pacifist, conscientious objector and writer. (1920-2000).
Barry Commoner 1917-2012
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2012
Climate & Capitalism
Barry Commoner, biologist, environmental, socialist, humanist, and one of the central leaders of the anti-nuclear-testing movement, dies at 95. He is particularly remembered for the “Four Laws of Ecol...
Comrade and Friend: Bob Strowiss 1919-1999
Kovacs, Edmund
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1999
Against the Current
Work and accomplishments of Bob Strowiss
Conacher, Lionel
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All-round athlete.
Deborah Cunningham, 1945-2015
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2015
News & Letters
Deborah Cunningham was an ADAPT activist and Executive Director of the Memphis Center for Independent Living (MCIL). When she died on May 7, the movement lost a tireless, creative, committed activist,...
Debord, Guy
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French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker, hypergraphist and founding member of the groups Lettrist International and Situationist International. (1931-1994).
Detroit celebrates Grace Lee Boggs' 100th birthday
Dettlinger, Madison
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2015
Detroit Metro Times
About the weeklong celebration of the life of Grace Lee Boggs, radical activist, political theorist, and revolutionary.
Diemer, Ulli
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2010
Connexions Information Sharing Services
Canadian socialist publisher, writer, and archivist.
Duckworth, Muriel
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Canadian pacifist, feminist, social and community activist. (1908-2009).
Durelle, Yvon
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Boxer.
Edelman, Marek
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Jewish-Polish political and social activist and cardiologist. (1919-2009).
Eileen Gersh, 1913-1998
Feeley, Dianne
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1998
Against the Current
EILEEN SUTTON GERSH, a revolutionary socialist since the 1930s, died in London on March 18, 1998. Like many of her generation, she became radicalized by the political and economic crisis of the 1930s,...
Elie Wiesel: Poseur for Peace
Grosso, Joseph
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2016
CounterPunch
In the midst of another Israeli operation in Lebanon, this one in 2006, Wiesel stood in front of a crowd in Manhattan (along with then Senator Hillary Clinton) and declared "Israel defends herself, an...
Evers, Medgar
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African American civil rights activist from Mississippi, murdered in 1963. (1925-1963).
A Farewell and Tribute: Rose Lesnik, 1924-1998
Baur, Estar
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1999
Against the Current
ROSE LESNIK, LIFELONG socialist, activist and humanist, died of pancreatic cancer on August 1, 1998. Rose, born in 1924, grew up in a socialist household. Her father, Harry Gold, and her brother join...
Franklin, Ursula
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Metallurgist, humanitarian, feminist, peace activist. (Born 1921).
Freire, Paulo
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Brazilian educator and influential theorist of critical pedagogy. (1921-1997).
Friedan, Betty
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American writer, activist and feminist. (1921-2006).
Jörg Friedrich
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Jörg Friedrich is a Berlin-based author of books on history commonly described as an "independent German Historian". Friedrich is best known for his publication Der Brand (2002) in which he portrays t...
Fromm, Erich
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Internationally renowned social psychologist, psychoanalyst, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. (1900-1980).
Galeano, Eduardo
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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, ...
Miriam Garfinkle 1954 - 2018
Diemer, Ulli
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2018
Obituary for Miriam Garfinkle, who died on September 15, 2018.
Hugh Garner
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Hugh Garner (1913 – 1979) was a British-born Canadian novelist.
Ghada Karmi
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Ghada Karmi is a Palestinian doctor of medicine, author and academic.
Gilad Atzmon
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Gilad Atzmon is an Israeli-born British jazz saxophonist, novelist and anti-Zionist political activist and writer.
Ginsberg, Allen
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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...
Goodman, Paul
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American sociologist, poet, writer, anarchist, social critic, and public intellectual. (1911-1972).
Gould, Stephen Jay
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American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. (1941-2002).
Guthrie, Woody
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American singer-songwriter and folk musician. (1912-1967).
Hall, Glenn
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Hockey player.
Arendt, Hannah
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Hannah Arendt was an influential German Jewish political theorist.
Hans Blumenfeld 1892-1988
Salaff, Stephen
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1988
Peace Magazine
A look at the accomplishments of Hans Blumenfeld, a German-Canadian architect and city planner who was also active throughout his life in promoting peace.
Harvey, Doug
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Hockey player.
Hiss, Alger
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Alger Hiss (1904 - 1996) was an American lawyer, civil servant, businessman, author, and lecturer. He was involved in the establishment of the United Nations both as a U.S. State Department and UN off...
Eric Hobsbawm 1917-2012
Historian in the Marxist tradition with a global reach
Kettle, Martin; Wedderburn, Dorothy
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2012
Guardian
The historian Eric Hobsbawm dies at 95.
Holocaust survivor and activist for justice Hedy Epstein dies at 91
Lee, Dianne
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2016
Mondoweiss
Holocaust survivor Hedy Epstein, 91, died at her home in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, on May 26, 2016. An internationally renowned, respected and admired advocate for human and civil rights, Hedy was enc...
Horton, Myles
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American educator, socialist and cofounder of the Highlander Folk School. (1905-1990).
Horton, Tim
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Howe, Gordie
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Hockey player.
I Don't have to be what you want me to be
Malik, Kenan
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2016
Pandaemonium
'A strange fate befell Muhammad Ali in the 1990s', Mike Marqusee writes in Redemption Song, his wonderful, illuminating study of 'Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties'. ‘The man who had defied t...
Illich, Ivan
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Austrian philosopher, Roman Catholic priest and critic of the institutions of contemporary western culture. (1926-2002).
In Memory of A Chinese Revolutionary: Zheng Chaolin, 1901-1998
Wang, Fanxi
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1998
Against the Current
ZHENG CHAOLIN, A veteran of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and of the Chinese Trotskyist movement, died August 1 in Shanghai. He devoted his entire life to the cause of the liberation of the Chines...
The Information Sage
Meet Edward Tufte, the graphics guru to the power elite who is revolutionizing how we see data
Yaffa, Joshua
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2011
Washington Monthly
Jacobs, Jane
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Author, urban advocate, economist, ecologist, and philosopher. (1916-2006).
Jacoby, Russell
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Russell Jacoby (born April 23, 1945) is a professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), an author and a critic of academic culture. His fields of interest are twentieth-cen...
Karl Jaffary
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Karl Jaffary is a former municipal politician in Toronto.
Ingemar Johansson
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Boxer.
John Holt: Homeschooling Pioneer and Visionary Progressive
Nall, Jeffrey
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2014
Toward Freedom
The stereotype of homeschooling as the haven for conservative, religious ideologues overshadows the movement's radically progressive roots. One of the movement's foremost pioneers, John Holt, was an e...
Red Kelly
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Hockey player.
Kidd, Bruce
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A Canadian academic, author, and athlete.
King, Martin Luther Jr.
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(1929-1968). Was an American clergyman, activist and prominent leader in the African-American civil rights movement.
Joy Kogawa
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2016
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Joy Kogawa is a Canadian writer.
Kunstler, William
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American radical lawyer and civil rights activist. (1919-1995).
Hedy Lamarr
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Hedy Lamarr, born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler, 9 November 1914 – 19 January 2000) was an Austrian and American film actress and inventor. After an early and brief film career in Germany, which included a...
Landsberg, Michele
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Canadian writer, social activist and feminist. (Born 1935).
LeBourdais, Isabel
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Canadian journalist and author. (1909-2003).
Lindsay, Ted
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Hockey player.
MacInnis, Grace
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Canadian politician and feminist. (1905-1991).
Macpherson, C. B.
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Canadian political scientist. (1911-1987).
Frank Mahovlich
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Hockey player, Senator.
Malik, Kenan
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Writer, lecturer and broadcaster. (Born 1962).
Mandela, Nelson
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Anti-apartheid leader, first black to be elected President of South Africa. (Born 1918).
Marek Edelman: A True Mensch
Rosenberg, David
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2009
The Third Estate
To be a Jew means always being with the oppressed and never the oppressors.
Joyce Maupin, 1914-1998
Boone, Barri
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1999
Against the Current
JOYCE MAUPIN, A long-time revolutionary activist and writer and a founder of Union WAGE (Women's Alliance to Gain Equality), died last September 14. Joyce loved to recount the story about “women in li...
McCarthy, Joseph
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Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14, 1908 - May 2, 1957) was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. Beginning in...
Memorial to Dagmar Baur
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This site is dedicated to the memory of Dagmar Baur - March 1941 - April 2010.
A Memory of Howard
Ellsberg, Daniel
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2010
Countercurrents
A recollection of the late Howard Zinn.
Menchú, Rigoberta
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Winner of the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize. (Born 1959).
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...
Mills, C. Wright
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American sociologist. (1916-1962).
Moffatt, Gary
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2010
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Canadian anarchist and activist.
Moore, Archie
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Boxer.
Nader, Ralph
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American attorney, author, lecturer, and political activist. (Born 1934).
Noam Chomsky - Everyday Anarchist
Wilson, Michael S.
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2013
Modern Success
Interview with Noam Chomsky.
Obituary: Eric Hobsbawm: 1917-2012
Against The Current vol. 161
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2012
Against The Current
An obituary for Eric Hobsbawm.
Obituary: Flint Sitdowner: Olen Ham (1917-2012)
Against The Current vol. 161
Feeley, Dianne
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2012
Against The Current
Obituary for Olen Ham.
Ochs, Phil
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U.S. protest singer (or, as he preferred, a topical singer) and songwriter who was known for his sharp wit, sardonic humor, earnest humanism, political activism, insightful and alliterative lyrics, an...
Olmstead, Bert
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Hockey player.
Omido, Phyllis
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Phyllis Omido is a Kenyan environmental activist.
Oppenheimer, J. Robert
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Julius Robert Oppenheimer (April 22, 1904 - February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist and professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is best known for his role a...
Orwell, George
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British author. (1903-1950).
Paret, Benny
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Benny "Kid" Paret, born Bernardo Paret (March 14, 1937 - April 3, 1962), born in Santa Clara, Cuba, was a Cuban welterweight boxer.
Parks, Rosa
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African American civil rights activist. (1913-2005).
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
Patterson, Floyd
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Boxer.
Plante, Jacques
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Hockey player.
Rebick, Judy
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Canadian feminist, writer, and activist. (Born 1945).
Richard, Maurice
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Hockey player.
Riefenstahl, Leni
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Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl; 22 August 1902 - 8 September 2003) was a German film director, actress and dancer widely noted for her aesthetics and innovations as a filmmaker. Her most famo...
Rosenberg, Julius and Ethel
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Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg (September 28, 1915 - June 19, 1953) and Julius Rosenberg (May 12, 1918 - June 19, 1953) were American communists who were executed in 1953 for conspiracy to commit espionag...
Roy, Arundhati
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Indian writer (in English) and activist. (Born 1961).
Said, Edward
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Edward Wadie Said was a Palestinian-American literary theorist and advocate for Palestinian rights.
Sartre, Jean-Paul
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French philosopher. (1905-1980).
Sawchuk, Terry
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Hockey player.
Sayles, John
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American filmmaker.
Sewell, John
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Political activist and writer on municipal affairs. The mayor of Toronto, Canada from 1978 to 1980. (Born 1940).
Shack, Eddie
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Hockey player.
Shakur, Assata
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Assata Olugbala Shakur (born July 16, 1947 as JoAnne Deborah Byron, married name Chesimard) is an African-American activist and escaped convict who was a member of the Black Panther Party (BPP) and Bl...
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...
Skaggs, Joey
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American prankster who has organized numerous successful media pranks, hoaxes, and other presentations. He is considered one of the originators of the phenomenon known as culture jamming. (Born 1945).
Smart, Elizabeth
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Elizabeth Smart (December 27, 1913 – March 4, 1986) was a Canadian poet and novelist.
Social Activist Grace Lee Boggs on Shaking Up the Status Quo in America
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2007
Moyers & company
Grace Lee Boggs has been a part of almost every major movement in the United States in the last 75 years, including: Labor, Civil Rights, Black Power, Women’s Rights and Environmental Justice.
Stanley, Allan
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Hockey player (1926-2013).
Stephen Jay Gould: Dialectical Biologist
Gasper, Phill
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2002
International Socialist Review Issue
Gould, the world’s leading expert on the evolution of Bahamian land snails, and one of the most influential evolutionary theorists of his generation, shared Engels’ enthusiasm for understanding the na...
Patrick Stewart
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English film, television and stage actor.
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.
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American investigative journalist. (1907-1989).
Sugihara, Chiune
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A Japanese diplomat who helped several thousand Jews leave the country by issuing transit visas to Jewish refugees so that they could travel to Japan. (1900-1986).
Suzuki, David
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Canadian science broadcaster and environmental activist. (Born 1936).
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.
Terkel, Studs
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American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster. (1912-2008).
Thompson, E. P.
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English historian, writer, socialist and peace campaigner (1924-1993).
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.
Truscott, Steven
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Canadian who was sentenced to death in 1959, when he was a 14-year old student, for the allegedly murdering a classmate. (Born 1945).
Tutu, Desmond
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South African cleric, activist and opponent of apartheid. (Born 1931).
Ursula K. Le Guin - Rest in Power
Kerley, Joyce
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2018
Solidarity
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...
Wallenberg, Raoul
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A Swedish humanitarian who worked in Budapest, Hungary, during World War II to rescue Jews from the Holocaust. (1912-1947?)
Wangari Maathai was not a good woman. Kenya needs more of them.
Nyabola, Nanjala
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2015
African Arguments
25 September, 2015 marked four years since the passing of Kenyan environmentalist and feminist icon, Wangari Maathai. In Kenya, the celebrations were notably muted as her standing in the country has b...
Watkins, Mel
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Canadian political economist and activist. (Born 1932).
Williams, Jody
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Winner of the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize. (Born 1950).
Worsley, Gump
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Hockey player.
Worthy, William
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William Worthy, Jr. (b. 1921) is an African-American journalist, civil rights activist, and dissident who pressed his right to travel regardless of U.S. State Department regulations.
Malcolm X
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African-American Muslim minister, public speaker, and human rights activist. (1925-1965).
Zinn, Howard
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American historian, political scientist, social critic, activist and playwright. (1922-2010).
Zionism Boycotts the Funeral of Marek Edelman
Greenstein, Tony
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2009
Tony Greenstein's Blog
A sad farewell to Marek Edelman - the last surviving Commander of the Bund. The article describes his funeral in Warsaw, where he was buried, although he lived in Poland's second city, Lodz.
Zwicker, Barrie
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Barrie Zwicker (born 1934) is a Canadian journalist, documentary producer, and political activist.

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George Orwell: A Life
Crick, Bernard
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1980
A biography of George Orwell.
The Green Trees Beyond
A Memoir
Lawrence, R. D.
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1994
R.D. Lawrence, a self-taught biologist whose first years of life coincided with the Spanish civil war, and who later became a noted as well as self-taught Canadian biologist.


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