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  1. Besant, Annie
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    Theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator, and supporter of Irish and Indian self rule. (1847-1933).
  2. Bridges, Harry
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    Australian-American union leader in the ILWU, a longshore (dock) and warehouse workers' union on the West Coast, Hawai'i and Alaska. (1901-1990).
  3. Buck, Tim
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    Machinist, trade unionists, and a long-time leader of the Communist Party of Canada. (1891-1973).
  4. Buller, Annie
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    Union organizer and manager of various Communist Party of Canada (CPC) publications. (1895-1973).
  5. Carr, Shirley
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    Canadian union leader who was the first woman president of the Canadian Labour Congress.
  6. Chartrand, Michel
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    Quebec union leader and activist. (1913-2010).
  7. Chartrand, Michel
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    Quebec union leader and activist. (1913-2010).
  8. Chávez, César
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    Mexican American farm worker, labour leader, and civil rights activist who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers (UFW). (1927-1993).
  9. Clarke, Tony
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    Canadian social justice advocate. (Born 1944).
  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. Darcy, Judy
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    Canadian trade unionist and president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees from 1991 until 2003. (Born 1950).
  12. Davidson, Joe
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    Trade unionist and self describe evolutionary socialist "with the proviso that evolution needed a shove at every opportunity." (1915-1985).
  13. De Leon, Daniel
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    American socialist newspaper editor, politician, Marxist theoretician, and trade union organizer. (1852-1914).
  14. De Leon, Daniel
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    American socialist newspaper editor, politician, Marxist theoretician, and trade union organizer. (1852-1914).
  15. Epifanio Camacho: a Militant Farmworker Brushed Out of History
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    Published: 2019
    Biographical info on Epifanio Camacho, a labor activist who fought alongside the less militant Cesar Chavez. He has been largely forgotten by history.
  16. Evans, Arthur
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    Socialist, trade unionist. (1890-1944).
  17. Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley
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    Labour leader, activist, and feminist who played a leading role in the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). (1890-1964).
  18. Glaberman, Martin
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    An influential American Marxist, teacher, and autoworker. (1918-2001).
  19. Goodwin, Albert (Ginger)
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    Labour leader, and socialist who inspired the first General Strike in Canada on August 2, 1918 in Vancouver, British Columbia. (1887-1918).
  20. Goodwin, Albert (Ginger)
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    Published: 2012
    Canadian labour leader. (1887-1918)
  21. Hartman, Grace
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    Canadian labour union activist. (1918-1993).
  22. Grace Hartman
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    Grace Hartman (née Fulcher, July 14, 1918 - December 18, 1993) was a Canadian labour union activist, whose 1975 election to the presidency of the Canadian Union of Public Employees made her the first woman in North America to lead a major labour union.
  23. Haywood, Bill (Big Bill Haywood)
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    American unionist and communist, one of the founders of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) (1869-1928).
  24. Hill, Joe
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    Swedish-American labour activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World. (1879-1915).
  25. Huerta, Dolores
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    The co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO, and prominent member of the Democratic Socialists of America. (Born 1930).
  26. Jackson, Clarence Shirley
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    (1906-1993). Was a trade union leader.
  27. Jones, Mary Harris (Mother Jones)
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    American labour and community organizer, a Wobbly, and a Socialist. (1837-1930).
  28. Larkin, James
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    Irish trade union leader and socialist activist. (1876-1947).
  29. Lawson, James
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    Theoretician and tactician of nonviolence within the American Civil Rights Movement. (Born 1928).
  30. Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich
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    Russian revolutionary. (1870-1924).
  31. Little, Frank
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    American labour leader who organized miners, lumberjacks and oil field workers. (1879-1917).
  32. Mann, Tom
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    British trade unionist. (1856-1941).
  33. Joyce Maupin, 1914-1998
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    Published: 1999
    JOYCE MAUPIN, A long-time revolutionary activist and writer and a founder of Union WAGE (Women's Alliance to Gain Equality), died last September 14. Joyce loved to recount the story about “women in line to pee” leading to the formation of Union WAGE, the organization they spent a decade building. Her friend, Jean Maddox (ex-Communist Party) attended a March, 1971 conference on Women's Day at UCB (Berkeley) called by NOW. Standing in line for the bathroom, Jean chatted with Anne...
  34. McLachlan, James Bryson
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    Labour leader. (1869-1937).
  35. Muste, A. J.
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    A socialist active in the pacifist movement, the labour movement, and the US civil rights movement. (1885-1967).
  36. Obituary: Flint Sitdowner: Olen Ham (1917-2012)
    Against The Current vol. 161

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    Published: 2012
    Obituary for Olen Ham.
  37. Parent, Madeleine
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    Trade unionist. (Born 1918).
  38. Parent, Madeleine
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    Trade unionist. (Born 1918).
  39. Parrot, Jean-Claude
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    Trade unionist. (Born 1936).
  40. Revolutionary Optimist
    An interview with Martin Glaberman

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    Published: 2000
  41. Léa Roback
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    Léa Roback (3 November 1903 – 28 August 2000) was a Canadian trade union organizer, social activist, pacifist, and feminist. She campaigned against exclusion, violence, racism and injustice.
  42. Rowley, Robert Kent
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    Trade unionist. (1917-1978).
  43. Saint John, Vincent
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    American labour leader and prominent Wobbly. (1876-1929).
  44. Scargill, Arthur
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    British trade unionist and political party leader. (Born 1938).
  45. Thompson, E. P.
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    English historian, writer, socialist and peace campaigner (1924-1993).
  46. White, Bob
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    Canadian trade unionist. (Born 1935).

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