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  1. Allende, Salvador
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    Democratically elected socialist president of Chile, overthrown and killed in a coup engineered by the CIA. (1908-1973).
  2. Anthony, Susan B.
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    American civil rights leader who played a pivotal role in the 19th century women's rights movement to introduce women's suffrage into the United States. (1820-1906).
  3. Bernstein, Eduard
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    German social democratic theoretician and politician, a member of the SPD, and the theorist of "evolutionary socialism" and revisionism. (1850-1932).
  4. Borsodi, Ralph
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    Economic theorist and practical experimenter interested in ways of living useful to the modern person or family desiring greater self-direction and self-reliance. (1886-1977).
  5. Buber, Martin
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    Austrian-born Jewish philosopher best known for his philosophy of dialogue, a religious existentialism centered on the distinction between the I-Thou relationship and the I-It relationship. (1878-1965).
  6. Cabet, Étienne
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    French philosopher and utopian socialist. He was the founder of the Icarian movement and led a group of emigrants to found a new society in the United States. (1788-1856).
  7. Carpenter, Edward
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    English socialist poet, anthologist, early gay activist and socialist philosopher. (1844-1929).
  8. Casgrain, Marie Thérèse (Forget)
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    Feminist, reformer, politician and senator in Quebec, Canada. (1896-1981).
  9. C.L.R. James and Anti-/Postcolonialism
    Against The Current vol. 90

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    Published: 2001
    C.L.R. James' proclamation in Beyond A Boundary (1963, a classic study of cricket and colonialism), after almost three decades of radical intellectual work, that “Thackeray, not Marx, bears the heaviest responsibility for me,” is a sententious political statement. It abounds with meanings, standing at once as an alluring paradox and a striking truism.
  10. Coaker, William Ford
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    Newfoundland union leader and politician and founder of the Fisherman's Protective Union and the Fishermen's Union Trading Co. (1871-1938).
  11. Libby Davies
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    Libby Davies CM is a Canadian politician from British Columbia. She was the Member of Parliament for Vancouver East from 1997 to 2015, House Leader for the New Democratic Party from 2003 to 2011, and the Deputy Leader of the party from 2007 until 2015.
  12. Dewey, John
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    American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer. (1859-1952).
  13. Edwards, Henrietta Muir
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    Canadian women's rights activist and reformer. (1849-1931).
  14. Friedan, Betty
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    American writer, activist and feminist. (1921-2006).
  15. Garrison, William Lloyd
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    American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer best known as the editor of the radical abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator, and as one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society. (1805-1879).
  16. Godwin, William
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    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).
  17. Hamer, Fannie Lou
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    American voting rights activist and civil rights leader. (1917-1977).
  18. Hayden, Tom
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    An American social and political activist and politician, most famous for his involvement in the animal rights, and the anti-war and civil rights movements of the 1960s. (Born 1939).
  19. Heap, Dan
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    Canadian politician with the New Democratic Party. (Born 1925).
  20. Heaps, Abraham Albert
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    Canadian politician and labour leader. (1885-1954).
  21. Heaps, Abraham Albert
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    Canadian politician and labour leader. (1885-1954).
  22. Hurtig, Mel
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    A Canadian publisher, author, political activist and political candidate. (Born 1932).
  23. Irvine, William
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    Canadian politician, journalist and clergyman. (1885-1962).
  24. Irvine, William
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    Canadian politician, journalist and clergyman. (1885-1962).
  25. King, Martin Luther Jr.
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    (1929-1968). Was an American clergyman, activist and prominent leader in the African-American civil rights movement.
  26. Landsberg, Michele
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    Canadian writer, social activist and feminist. (Born 1935).
  27. Laxer, James
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    Canadian political economist, professor and author. (Born 1941).
  28. Laxer, Robert
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    Canadian psychologist, professor, author, and political activist. (1915-1998).
  29. Lewis, David
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    Socialist politician, labour lawyer, and leader of the federal New Democratic Party. (1909-1981).
  30. Lewis, Stephen
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    Politician, diplomat, author, journalist, labour arbitrator, and former leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party. (Born 1937).
  31. Lount, Samuel
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    Blacksmith, politician, rebel. (1791-1838).
  32. MacInnis, Angus
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    Canadian social democratic politician. (1884-1964).
  33. MacInnis, Grace Winona
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    Canadian politician and feminist.
  34. MacInnis, Grace
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    Canadian politician and feminist. (1905-1991).
  35. Mackenzie
    A political biography of William Lyon Mackenzie

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    History has often dismissed William Lyon Mackenzie as a comical figure, or as the political hothead who bungled the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837. Former Toronto mayor John Sewell suggests he may actually be the best model this country has ever had of a responsible politician.
  36. Mackenzie, William Lyon
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    Journalist, politician, rebel. (1795-1861).
  37. Mackenzie, William Lyon
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    Journalist, politician, rebel. (1795-1861).
  38. Macphail, Agnes
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    Canadian political and activist. (1890-1954).
  39. Macphail, Agnes Campbell
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    Canadian polician. (1890-1954).
  40. Mazdak
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    A proto-socialist Persian reformer.
  41. Mercredi, Ovide William
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    Aboriginal Canadian politician and leader. (Born 1946).
  42. Morris, William
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    British artist, designer, author, and socialist. (1834-1896).
  43. Nader, Ralph
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    American attorney, author, lecturer, and political activist. (Born 1934).
  44. Neill, A. S.
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    Scottish progressive educator, author and founder of Summerhill school. (1883-1973).
  45. Ossietzky, Carl von
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    German radical pacifist. (1889-1938).
  46. Owen, Robert
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    English social reformer. (1771-1858).
  47. Pankhurst, Emmeline
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    English women's suffrage movement leader. (1858-1928).
  48. Papineau, Louis-Joseph
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    Lawyer, seigneur, politician, defender of the national heritage of French Canada. Led the fight for control of the political institutions of Lower Canada. (1786-1871).
  49. Randolph, A. Philip
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    African-American civil rights leader. (1889-1979).
  50. Rankin, Harry
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    Politician. (Born 1920).
  51. Russell, Dora
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    British author, feminist and socialist campaigner. (1894-1986).
  52. Saint-Simon, Henri de
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    French utopian socialist thinker. (1760-1825).
  53. Scott, Francis Reginald (Frank)
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    Founding member of the social-democratic movement in Canada. (1899-1985).
  54. Sinclair, Upton
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    American author and muckraker. (1978-1968).
  55. Spurr, Richard
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    English cabinet maker and lay preacher who was imprisoned for his part in leading the political movement Chartism. (1800-1855).
  56. Temple, William Horace
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    Canadian politician, trade union activist, businessman and temperance crusader. (1899-1988).
  57. Thompson, William
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    Irish political and philosophical writer and social reformer, developing from utilitarianism into an early critic of capitalist exploitation whose ideas influenced the Cooperative, Trade Union and Chartist movements. (1775-1833).
  58. Tutu, Desmond
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    South African cleric, activist and opponent of apartheid. (Born 1931).
  59. Watkins, Mel
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    Canadian political economist and activist. (Born 1932).
  60. Wilberforce, William
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    British politician, philanthropist and a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade. (1759-1833).
  61. Winstanley, Gerrard
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    English Protestant religious reformer and political activist, a member of the True Levellers. (1609-1676).
  62. Woodsworth, James Shaver
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    Methodist minister, social worker, politician. (1874-1942).

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