Revolution

Born on Christmas Eve, he was one of the most bizarre radicals of the 19th century The radical past contains a range of characters.

On this day in 1979, Sandinista revolutionaries took power in Nicaragua - 45 years after Sandino's death “…our cause will live on through those who follow us.” These were the words of Augusto Cesar Sandino (1895-1934), the Nicaraguan revolutionary.

How the people of France captured a Parisian prison and brought down the French monarchy once said that a riot is the language of the unheard. For centuries before 1789, politics in the Kingdom of France concerned itself with kings and noblemen.

The story of how a tennis court became one of the most important sites in radical history... You might expect revolutions to start out in factories, shipyards, or prisons – not luxury tennis courts.

The man who was killed for trying to make the French Revolution even more radical...

Killed on this day in 1919, Zapata's radical legacy lives on...“Little star in the nightthat rides the sky like a witch,where is our chief Zapatawho was the scourge of the rich?" - Mexican BalladEmiliano Zapata, the Mexican revolutionary hero, was assassinated today in 1919.Alongside the likes of and , he symbolises the revolutionary tradition in Latin America.

In the late 1930s, African-Americans found more equality on the front line of a foreign civil war than they could on the front row of a bus in Alabama.

History counts - born today in 1783 - as one of its great winners. That's a fair point. Bolívar - 'South America's ' - did win countless battles in his long wars of liberation against the Spanish Crown in South America.

On this day in 1976, the schools of Soweto were empty. It wasn't a weekend or a bank holiday. The black students of the township in southern Johannesburg were on .

Hammersmith in West London was a bit of a melting pot for artsy types around the turn of the twentieth century. The revolutionary English socialist,, made his home there.