Radical History Blog

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.

Born on 25th December in 1886, Malak Hifni Nasif is a key figure in the global history of feminism Malak Hifni Nasif was born in Cairo on 25 December 1886.

Born on 13th December in 1903, Ella Baker shunned the limelight and devoted herself to the hard graft of political activism...

Executed on this day in 1549, Robert Kett led 16,000 rebels in their struggle for land and justice Reactionaries have often celebrated pre-modern England as an era when the masses ‘knew their place’ – a time before radical history.

Killed in action on this day in 1936, Durruti led 6,000 Anarchists in the fight against Francisco Franco “We carry a new world in our hearts.” The Spanish Civil War made strange bedfellows.

On 13th November in 1886, the Victorian socialist William Morris published the first instalment of A Dream of John Ball... During the nineteenth century, as capitalism conquered the world, people began to long for a pre-industrial past.

Born on 9th November in 1828, Friedrich Sorge went on to play a key role in American radical history Some of you might have heard of the San Francisco 49ers, named after the California Gold Rush of 1849.