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Killed in action on this day in 1936, Durruti led 6,000 Anarchists in the fight against Francisco Franco “We carry a new world in our hearts.” The Spanish Civil War made strange bedfellows.

Born on this day in 1805, Auguste Blanqui devoted his life to the dream of revolution “The Republic means the emancipation of the workers, it’s the end of the reign of exploitation, it’s the coming of a new order that will free labour from the tyranny of capital.” When did the end?

Born on this day, Algernon Sidney was one of England's greatest revolutionaries “This hand, enemy to tyrants, by the sword seeks peace with liberty.” The second half of the seventeenth century was the great revolutionary period of British history.

The story of how Spanish fascism came to an end and democracy finally prevailed In March 1939, after a heroic defence, Madrid fell to the armies of Francisco Franco. A few days later, the fascist dictator proclaimed victory in the .

Everyone's heard of the French Revolution - but did you know there was more than one? Revolutions don’t usually begin with dinner parties. By 1848, France had been the European champion of revolutionary politics for half a century.

The British Communist and scholar who died fighting fascists in the Spanish Civil War"I am not just paying a conventional tribute to a dead man when I say that he was a real hero." On this day in 1936, Ralph Winston Fox was killed.

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.