American author and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues and criticism of public land policies. (1927-1989).

Ali Hasan Abunimah is a Palestinian American journalist and co-founder of Electronic Intifada, a not-for-profit, independent online publication about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.

Laura Antoniou (born 1963) is an American novelist. She is the author of The Marketplace series of BDSM-themed novels, which were originally published under the pen name of Sara Adamson.

Israeli writer, human rights activist, and founder of the Gush Shalom peace movement. (Born 1923).

Ingeborg Bachmann (25 June 1926 - 17 October 1973) was an Austrian poet and author.

Canadian auther and activist. National chairperson of the Council of Canadians, a citizens' advocacy organization, co-founder of the Blue Planet Project, and an executive member of the International F...

French writer, philosopher, feminist, and social theorist. (1908-1986).

English art critic, novelist, painter and author. (Born 1926).

Journalist, historian, media personality. (1920-2004).

English poet, painter, and printmaker. Considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. (1757-1827).

Gloria Glickstein Brame (born August 20, 1955) is a U.S. writer and sex therapist based in Athens, Georgia.

German poet, playwright, theatre director, and radical. (1898-1956).

American stand-up comedian, writer, social critic and satirist of the 1950s and 1960s. (1925-1966).

English socialist poet, anthologist, early gay activist and socialist philosopher. (1844-1929).

American marine biologist and nature writer whose writings, especially 'Silent Spring', are credited with advancing the global environmental movement. (1907-1964).

Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – 25 October 1400) was an English author, poet, philosopher, bureaucrat, courtier and diplomat. Although he wrote many works, he is best remembered for his unfinished frame...

American linguist, philosopher, political activist, author, and lecturer. (Born 1928).

Medical professional, gerontologist, anarchist, pacifist, conscientious objector and writer. (1920-2000).

French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker, hypergraphist and founding member of the groups Lettrist International and Situationist International. (1931-1994).

American abolitionist, women's suffragist, editor, orator, author, statesman and reformer. (1818-1895).

American civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, historian, author, and editor. (1868-1963).

A documentary about author Elizabeth Smart, with Jackie Burroughts playing Elizabeth Smart.

German author, political theorist, philosopher, and father of communist theory, alongside Karl Marx. (1820-1895).

African former slave involved in the British movement for the abolition of the slave trade. (1745-1797).

Metallurgist, humanitarian, feminist, peace activist. (Born 1921).

Brazilian educator and influential theorist of critical pedagogy. (1921-1997).

American writer, activist and feminist. (1921-2006).

Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist (1940-2015). His best-known works are Las venas abiertas de América Latina (Open Veins of Latin America, 1971) and Memoria del fuego (Memory of Fire Trilogy, ...

Hugh Garner (1913 – 1979) was a British-born Canadian novelist.

French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature .

American poet best known for the poem "Howl", in which he celebrates fellow members of the Beat Generation and critiques what he saw as the destructive forces of materialism and conformity in the Unit...

English journalist, political philosopher and novelist, considered one of the first exponents of utilitarianism, and one of the first modern proponents of anarchism. (1756-1836).

Anarchist known for her political activism, writing and speeches. (1869-1940).

American sociologist, poet, writer, anarchist, social critic, and public intellectual. (1911-1972).

Italian Marxist philosopher, writer, politician and political theorist. (1891-1937).

Hannah Arendt was an influential German Jewish political theorist.

The historian Eric Hobsbawm dies at 95.

French-German author, philosopher, encyclopedist and a prominent figure in the French Enlightenment. (1723-1789).

Naturalist. (1769-1859).

Austrian philosopher, Roman Catholic priest and critic of the institutions of contemporary western culture. (1926-2002).

Author, urban advocate, economist, ecologist, and philosopher. (1916-2006).

American author, political activist and lecturer. (1880-1968).

A Canadian academic, author, and athlete.

Joy Kogawa is a Canadian writer.

Canadian writer, social activist and feminist. (Born 1935).

Canadian journalist and author. (1909-2003).

Marxist revolutionary. (1871-1919).

Canadian political scientist. (1911-1987).

Writer, lecturer and broadcaster. (Born 1962).

German philosopher, political economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist, communist, and revolutionary, whose ideas are credited as the foundation of modern communism. (1818-1883).

Karl Friedrich May (February 25, 1842 - March 30, 1912) was a German writer, noted mainly for books set in the American Old West, (best known for the characters of Winnetou and Old Shatterhand) and si...

Winner of the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize. (Born 1959).

Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 - February 10, 2005) was an American playwright and essayist. He was a prominent figure in American theatre, writing dramas that include plays such as All My Sons...

American sociologist. (1916-1962).

American historian and philosopher of technology and science. (1895-1990).

Interview with Noam Chomsky.

British author. (1903-1950).

Author, pamphleteer, radical, inventor, intellectual, revolutionary. (1737-1809).

Alan Stewart Paton (11 January 1903 – 12 April 1988) was a South African author and anti-apartheid activist. Contents

Canadian feminist, writer, and activist. (Born 1945).

Indian writer (in English) and activist. (Born 1961).

Philosopher, logician, mathematician, pacifist, social critic. (1872-1970).

British author, feminist and socialist campaigner. (1894-1986).

Edward Wadie Said was a Palestinian-American literary theorist and advocate for Palestinian rights.

French philosopher. (1905-1980).

American filmmaker.

Sir Walter Scott (15 August 1771 - 21 September 1832) was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet, popular throughout much of the world during his time.

Political activist and writer on municipal affairs. The mayor of Toronto, Canada from 1978 to 1980. (Born 1940).

William Lawrence Shirer (February 23, 1904 – December 28, 1993) was an American journalist, war correspondent, and historian, who wrote The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich a history of Nazi Germany...

Elizabeth Smart (December 27, 1913 – March 4, 1986) was a Canadian poet and novelist.

Website devoted to the journalism and life of radical journalist I.F. Stone (1907-1989).

American investigative journalist. (1907-1989).

Paul Marlor Sweezy (April 10, 1910 - February 27, 2004) was a Marxist economist and a founding editor of the magazine Monthly Review.

American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster. (1912-2008).

English historian, writer, socialist and peace campaigner (1924-1993).

American author and poet. (1817-1862).

Russian author. (1828-1910).

Obituary celebrating Le Guin's contributions as a community activist, a fighter for feminism, peace, freedom of speech, access to knowledge for everyone, and radical democracy in addition to her liter...

German author.

American historian, political scientist, social critic, activist and playwright. (1922-2010).