Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein

female, 39 years old
No Logo, anti-globalization movement, writer, author, activist, Canadian…Anti-pornography movement, Labourmovement
Naomi Klein is a Canadian journalist, author and activist. Her grandfather was fired for labor organizing at Disney in the United States. Her...
Tom Mann

Tom Mann

male, deceased (1941)
briton, Self-educated, public speaker, British, From Coventry, Trade unionist…Labourmovement
Tom Mann (15 April 1856 - 13 March 1941) was a noted British trade unionist. Largely self-educated, Mann became a successful organiser and a...
Sylvia Pankhurst

Sylvia Pankhurst

female, deceased (1960)
Bolsheviks, Parliamentarism, communist party, British, Feminist, suffragist…Independent Labour Party, Labourmovement
Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst (May 5, 1882 - September 27, 1960) was a campaigner in the suffragette movement in the United Kingdom, and a prominent...
Bob White

Bob White

male, 74 years old
Ulster-Scottish Canadian, Canadian, Northern Irish, immigrant to Canada, Officer of the Order of Canada, Canadian trade union…Labourmovement, Canadian labour union leader
Bob White is an important leader in the Canadian trade union and labour movement. He was born in Upper Lands, Northern Ireland, on April 28 1935,...

David Lewis

male, deceased (1981)
Losz, Mine, Mill, Jewish Labour Bund, Winnipeg Declaration, Imperial Russian immigrants to Canada, Labourmovement…Canadian Labour Congress, british labour party
David Lewis (born Losz), CC, MA (June 23, or October 1909 -May 23, 1981) was a Russian-born Canadian labour lawyer and social democratic...
Al Richardson

Al Richardson

male, deceased (2003)
Trotskyism, anti-Stalinist left, Labourmovement, university of exeter, trade union, publishing house…Socialist Labour League, student movement
Al Richardson (20 December 1941 - 22 November 2003) was a British Trotskyist historian and activist. Born in Barnsley, Richardson studied theology...
Ralph Chaplin

Ralph Chaplin

male, deceased (1961)
Labor leader, American, russian revolution of 1917, pullman strike, New Deal, Solidarity…Labourmovement
Ralph Hosea Chaplin (1887-1961) became a labor activist, when at the age of seven, he saw a worker shot dead during the Pullman strike in Chicago,...

Carol Wall

female
Trade unionist, york university, Public Service Alliance of Canada, Ontario Federation of Labour, Labourmovement, Canadian Labour Congress…Canadian labour union leader, labour
A long-time labour and social justice activist, Carol Wall ran for the presidency of the Canadian Labour Congress in 2005, gaining 37% of the...
Irving Abella

Irving Abella

male, 69 years old
from Old Toronto, Rosalie Silberman Abella, Labor historian, Master of Arts, Order of Canada, Royal Society of Canada…Labourmovement, Canadian labour movement
Irving Martin Abella C.M., Ph.D., F.R.S.C. (born July 2, 1940) is a Canadian writer, historian and academic. He specializes in the History of the...

Otto Rühle

male, deceased (1943)
German, communist, Marxist theorist, capitalism, fascism, bourgeoisie…Labourmovement
Otto Rühle in 1916. The Spartacist League took an oppositional stance to Leninism, and was attacked by the Bolsheviks for inconsistency. Though K...