Radical History Blog

A 19th century Mexican idealist helped birth two countries, only one of which survived The first vice-president of Texas was a Mexican.

The traditional labour movement may not have realised the transformative potential of the unemployed masses of the 1930s, but the British state was well aware of the risk NUUW march in London, 1930s.

He may be most famous for the fantasy worlds he created in his novels, but H.G. Wells was also a socialist campaigner and thinker “I’m a socialist.

The Native American radical who led the fight for the return of indigenous lands and self-government “The Iroquois are struggling for a renaissance.

The Austrian Marxist who tried to tackle the question of nationalism head-on “It is not the levelling of national particularities, but the promoting of international unity within national diversity that can and must be the task…” ‘The national question’ has been the bane of modern socialist thinkers since early in the nineteenth century.

Why do the US and Canada celebrate Labor Day in September, when almost everyone else celebrates in May? The US doesn't have a great reputation for the amount of holidays its workers typically get to take.

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.