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The story of the black activists who accused the United States of genocide ‘The responsibility of being the first in history to charge the government of the United States of America with the crime of genocide is not one your petitioners take lightly.’ Eleanor Roosevelt called it ‘ridiculous’, but the Civil Rights Congress went ahead anyway.

A radical poet whose work was burned by the Nazis in Germany... spent his life interpreting the cold facts of political economy, but he still managed to find time for poems. Poetry, he believed, could make vivid the struggle of the masses.

William Lloyd Garrison, circa 1870 The abolitionist you probably haven't heard of...

The story of the strike that ended in a massacre... American democracy, both political and economic, took huge strides forward when the Union won the Civil War in 1865. locked in the abolition of slavery and black voting rights.

The story of Wolfe Tone and the origins of Irish Republicanism... Theobald Wolfe Tone, the founder of Irish republicanism, died today in 1798 while awaiting execution by the British state.

The story of how Sun Yat-sen became the first President of the Republic of China "For forty years, I have devoted myself to the cause of the people’s revolution with but one aim in view – the elevation of China to a position of freedom and equality among the nations." Before the Chinese Communist Revolution of 1949, there was the Chinese Republican Revolution of 1911, and Sun Yat-sen was one of its main characters.

The story of how the British government sent troops into the coalfields of South Wales... Throughout the 20th century, coal miners were the steely vanguard of the British working class.

The story of the British radical you probably haven't heard of... There’s a passionate internationalist tradition among British radicals. Through thick and thin, many figures on the left have shown solidarity with radical struggles around the world.

Some say statues aren’t political: they’re there to preserve history, not make it. How about we test that theory against the most famous statue in the world? The late 1860s and early 1870s were a brief high point for black liberation in the US.

Oliver Tambo was essential to the global success of the fight against Apartheid...