Radical History Blog

He jumped on a café table and called his fellow Parisians to arms in the name of the 'Third Estate' - the French peopleAbove: H.

Claudia Jones, born 109 years ago today, was deported by the US and left her mark on Britain insteadClaudia Jones blue plaque in Notting Hill, London. Credit: The Notting Hill Carnival was founded by a communist.

Oppenheimer's star rose and fell with the fortunes of left-wing politics in the US between the 1930s and 50sFellow physicists Einstein and Oppenheimer in around 1950 Today marks 57 years since J. Robert Oppenheimer passed away.

Another Radical tried and deported by the British state for advocating democracy, George Mealmaker was born on 10th February 1768 "Our armour shall be reason and truth… Our whole aim is to secure Annual Parliaments and Universal Suffrage.

Abd El-Krim, who died on 6th February in 1963, made it to the cover of Time magazine and showed that European empires weren't invincible The world-renowned Abd el-Krim on the cover of Time magazine in 1925 Abd el-Krim was the Che Guevara of the 1920s – and Che Guevara knew it.

Born January 30th in 1919, Fred Korematsu took a stand against the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII "I would like to see the government admit that they were wrong and do something about it so this will never happen again to any American citizen of any race, creed, or color." - Fred Korematsu War tends to bring out the worst in government and society.

Jim Larkin, who has a statue in central Dublin, was a rallying cry for the Irish Left Jim Larkin's statue outside the General Post Office in Dublin At the start of the twentieth century, political radicalism in Ireland was about more than just independence from British rule.

Brewer, printer, anarchist, anti-Semite.

Born today in 1897, Amy Ashwood Garvey was a pioneer of black liberation all over the Atlantic Black liberation was a thoroughly international affair during the twentieth century.

2024 is looking like another year stuffed full of important dates in radical history... "…may I wish you in advance every happiness for the new year.