Radical History Blog

The Latina activist who became a hero of the American labor movement tends to dominate the popular memory of Latina/Latino activism in the U.S. during the twentieth century. But he wasn’t alone.

Native Americans were key allies in the struggle for women's suffrage in the United States On the 18th of August, 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution went into effect when it was by the last of the holdout states.

I've been a father for 16 months now. I think you can make a case that children are pretty radical right from the beginning.

Propagandist Willi Münzenberg stood up to authoritarians across the continent in his quest to support the European Left Willi Münzenberg was born on this day in 1889, in Erfurt, Saxony.

Coauthor with Karl Marx of The Communist Manifesto, Friedrich Engels has always been slightly overshadowed by his more famous communist friend“From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of capitalist civilisation.”Friedrich Engels died on this day in 1895.

On this day in 1918, Albert "Ginger" Goodwin was shot dead by a policeman on Vancouver Island, catalysing the Canadian labour movement “...we know that all this misery is the outcome of someone's carelessness, and that ‘someone’ is the capitalists, those who own the machinery of production...” In May 1887, Albert “Ginger” Goodwin was born in the village of Treeton in Yorkshire, England.

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.

Commemorating the annual Tolpuddle Martyrs' Festival which takes place each July in Dorset we recall the story of the martyrs from whom it takes its name We raise the watch-word liberty; We will, we will, we will be free!

Executed on this day in 1822, Denmark Vesey organised a mass slave rebellion in South Carolina In the 1820s, a spectre was haunting white supremacy – the spectre of the . Slaveowners in the U.S.

The Trinidadian communist and anti-imperialist George Padmore was one of the luminaries of black radicalism in the twentieth century "The black man certainly has to pay dear for carrying the white man’s burden." Malcolm Ivan Meredith Nurse – known to history by his communist penname George Padmore – was born today in the British colony of Trinidad in 1903.