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Revolution
Gregor MacGregor: The most absurd radical of the 19th century
Born on Christmas Eve, he was one of the most bizarre radicals of the 19th century The radical past contains a range of characters.
Zombie Revolutionary: Augusto Sandino and the Nicaraguan Revolution
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.
It's a Revolution: The Storming of the Bastille
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 Tennis Court Oath: How The French Revolution Began
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.
Too Radical for the Radicals: The Life of François-Noël Babeuf
The man who was killed for trying to make the French Revolution even more radical...
The Scourge of the Rich: Emiliano Zapata and the Mexican Revolution
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.
The Abraham Lincoln Battalion: Equality in the International Brigades
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.
Simón Bolívar: South America's 'El Libertador'
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.
Down With Afrikaans: The Story of the Soweto Uprising
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 .
W.B. Yeats: Ireland's Cultural Defendant in Chief
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.