Radical History Blog

Photo by Ra Dragon on Unsplash Today we're celebrating World Refugee Day and the refugees who wrote the story of radical history across the world You ask: What is the meaning of “homeland”?

Famous as a military event of great strategic ambition, D-Day is also a landmark in the story of Europe's radical pastToday, 6th June, marks the eightieth anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy.

Pemulwuy, an Aboriginal warrior, led resistance against early British colonialism in Australia "…with simple spears, rocks, boomerangs, stones, he defeated the British army that they sent here." The British empire did not conquer the continent of Australia without a fight.

Born on 29th May in 1918, Bert Corona was a leading twentieth-century activist and labor organiser The Mexican American labor movement during the twentieth century was bigger than just , formidable as he was.

Born on this day in 1926, Joe Slovo was a key player in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa “No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism.” Joe Slovo was born today in 1926, in Obeliai, in Lithuania.

Born in Wales on this day in 1771, Robert Owen took socialism to the United States “…the present arrangement of society is the most anti-social, impolitic, and irrational that can be devised…” The relationship between Wales and America has been in the news during the last few years thanks to the high-profile takeover of Wrexham football club by Hollywood stars Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds.

On this day in 1970, the National Guard opened fire on students protesting the Vietnam War The U.S. government was wrong to think that its war in Vietnam wouldn’t cause trouble at home.

Robert Tressell's great novel was a battle cry against a capitalist system based on exploitation and inequality Today marks 110 years since Robert Tressell's The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists was first published.

In eighteenth century Jamaica, Queen Nanny led liberated slaves in a guerrilla war against the British Empire Resistance can take many forms.

Enrique and Ricardo Flores Magón denounced the Díaz dictatorship and fought for revolution We are free, truly free, when we don’t need to rent our arms to anybody in order to be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths.