Naomi Klein is a Canadian journalist, author and activist. Her grandfather was fired for labor organizing at Disney in the United States. Her father Michael, a physician, was a Vietnam War resister (draft dodger) and became a member of Physicians for Social Responsibility. Her film-maker mother, Bonnie, won fame with her anti-pornography film, "Not a Love Story". Her brother Seth is director of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

Tom Mann (15 April 1856 - 13 March 1941) was a noted British trade unionist. Largely self-educated, Mann became a successful organiser and a popular public speaker in the labour movement.

Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst (May 5, 1882 - September 27, 1960) was a campaigner in the suffragette movement in the United Kingdom, and a prominent left communist. She was born in Manchester, a daughter of Dr. Richard Pankhurst and Emmeline Pankhurst, members of the Independent Labour Party and much concerned with women's rights. Her sister, Christabel, would also become an activist.

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, and emigrated to Canada at age 13, settling in Woodstock, Ontario.

David Lewis (born Losz), CC, MA (June 23, or October 1909 -May 23, 1981) was a Russian-born Canadian labour lawyer and social democratic politician. He was national secretary of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) from 1936 to 1950, and was one of the key architects of the New Democratic Party (NDP) in 1961. He was the NDP's national leader from 1971 to 1975. His politics were heavily influenced by the Jewish Labour Bund and because of that, …

Al Richardson (20 December 1941 - 22 November 2003) was a British Trotskyist historian and activist. Born in Barnsley, Richardson studied theology at Hull University before becoming a lecturer at the University of Exeter. He joined the Communist Party of Great Britain, but left after reading Isaac Deutscher's biography of Leon Trotsky. Convinced of Trotskyism, he joined the Socialist Labour League (SLL), …

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, Illinois. He had moved with his family from Ames County, Kansas to Chicago in 1893. During a time in Mexico he was influenced by hearing of the execution squads established by Porfirio Diaz, and became a supporter of Emiliano Zapata. On his return, he began work in various union positions, most of which were very poorly paid.

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 popular vote while running against incumbent Ken Georgetti. Her campaign was widely seen as part of a broader movement to set the Labour Congress back on a more militant path. She first became involved in labour politics during the seventeen years she spent working for the "Toronto Star", holding various positions in its ranks, …

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 Jews in Canada and the Canadian labour movement Born in Toronto, Ontario, he received his Bachelor of Arts degree (1963), Master of Arts (1964) degree, and Ph.D. (1969) from the University of Toronto.

Otto Rühle in 1916. The Spartacist League took an oppositional stance to Leninism, and was attacked by the Bolsheviks for inconsistency. Though Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg were murdered in 1919 for their involvement in the German Revolution, Rühle lived on to participate in the left opposition of the German labour movement, developing both an early critique of Bolshevism, and an early opposition to Fascism.

Barrie John Unsworth (b. 16 April 1934), is an Australian politician

Jean Maitron was a French historian specialist of the labour movement. A pionneer of such historical studies in France, he introduced it to University and gave it its archives base, by creating in 1949 the "Centre d'histoire du syndicalisme" (Historic Center of Trade-Unions) in the Sorbonne, which received important archives from activists such as Paul Delesalle, Émile Armand, Pierre Monatte, and others. He was the Center's secretary until 1969.

John McGovern (13 December 1887 - 14 February 1968) was a Scottish socialist politician. Born into a Roman Catholic family, McGovern soon became involved in the Labour movement and anarchism. Active in opposition to World War I, he joined the Anti-Parliamentary Communist Federation and became its treasurer, but soon left after disagreements with Guy Aldred.

Hubert Nathaniel Critchlow (born Georgetown, 1884, died 1958) is known as the father of the Guyanese labour movement. After leaving school he worked as a dock labourer and helped to represent the interests of waterfront workers in wage negotiations. He founded the British Guiana Labour Union (BGLU) in 1919.

August Teodor Palm (February 5, 1849 - March 14, 1922) was a Swedish socialist activist and a key person in introducing the Social Democratic labour movement in Sweden, leading it in a reformism direction.

Daniel Desmond Sheehan, usually known as D. D. Sheehan (28 May 1873 - 28 November 1948) was an Irish nationalist, politician, labour leader, journalist, barrister and author. He served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1901 to 1918 for Mid Cork, a constituency within the districts of Ballincollig, Blarney, Ballyvourney, Coachford, Macroom and Millstreet. As co-founder and President of the Irish Land and Labour Association, …

Antonio Ramon Villaraigosa (born Antonio ("Tony") Ramon Villar, Jr. on January 23, 1953) is the mayor of Los Angeles, California. He is the first Latino mayor of Los Angeles since Cristobal Aguilar in 1872. Villaraigosa was elected mayor of Los Angeles in a run-off election on May 17, 2005, in which he defeated incumbent mayor James Hahn. Prior to his service as mayor, Villaraigosa was the California State Assemblyman for the 45th District, …

Captain Arthur Andrew Cipriani (1875-1945) was a Trinidad and Tobago labour leader and politician. He served as mayor of Port of Spain, elected member of the Legislative Council, leader of the Trinidad Workingmen's Association and founder of the Trinidad Labour Party. Cipriani served with the West Indies Regiment during World War I and was impressed by how the West Indians adapted to the business of modern war.

Abraham Cahan (July 7, 1860 - August 31 1951) was an Russian-American novelist and labor leader. He was born in Podberezhye, Lithuania, into a Jewish Orthodox family. His grandfather was a rabbi and preacher in Vidz, Vitebsk; and his father was a teacher of Hebrew and Talmud. The family, which was devoutly Orthodox, moved in 1866 to Wilna; there young Cahan received the usual Jewish preparatory education for the rabbinate.

Marcus Møller Thrane was the leader of the first Norwegian labour movement, later known as the Thranitter movement, which at its height had approximately 30,000 members, making it the third largest labour movement at the time, second only to those in France and the United Kingdom, and the largest counting per capita (Norway having only 1.4 million inhabitants).

Ed W. Ewasiuk was a labour activist, a city councilor in Edmonton, Alberta and a NDP Member of the Legislative Assembly in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. He was born on September 24, 1933 in Vegreville, Alberta. Ewasiuk, a native of Edmonton of Ukrianian descent was a labour activist with what is now the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union. He served as a president of his local and then as a national vice-president.

Lau Chin Shek (Chinese: 劉千石, born 12 September 1944 in Guangzhou, Guangdong with family root in Shunde, Guangdong) is the President of the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions and a Vice Chairman of the Hong Kong Christian Industrial Committee. He was born in Guangzhou and had a secondary school education. He has been a member of the Legislative Council since 1991. Lau smuggled from Guangzhou to Hong Kong in 1960.

Frank Corbett is a Canadian politician and member of the Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia. He represents the riding of Cape Breton Centre for the NDP. He is from New Waterford, Nova Scotia. Previously, he had been an NDP and Labour activist for over 25 years with Communications, Energy, and Paperoworkers Union. Corbett was first elected in 1998 and was subsequently re-elected in 1999, 2003, and 2006.

Valeriano Orobón Fernánez was a Spanish Anarcho-syndicalist theoretician, trade-union activist, translator and poet, who wrote the lyrics of the revolutionary song "To The Barricades". Born in Cistérniga, Valladolid Province, Orobón was active in labour movement struggles from an early age. An intellectual with a facility for languages, he translated the biography of the well-known German anarchist Max Nettlau written by Rudolf Rocker.

Lucille Corinne Templeton, better known as "Rini" Templeton, was an American graphic artist, sculptor, and political activist. She was most active in Mexico and the Southwestern United States, although she also volunteered in Cuba and Nicaragua after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution and the electoral victory of the F.S.L.N. Although her name is not well-known, her uncredited work has been used on countless fliers, posters, and banners for the labor, …

Carlos Bulosan (born to Ilocano parents in Pangasinan, Philippines on November 24 1913, died in Seattle, Washington on September 13 1956) was a Filipino American novelist best-known for the semi-autobiographical "America Is in the Heart". He was active in labor politics along the Pacific coast of the United States and edited the 1952 Yearbook for ILWU Local 37, a predominantly Filipino American cannery union based in Seattle.

Gideon Decker Robertson, PC (August 26 1874 - August 5 1933) was a Canadian Senator and Canadian Cabinet minister. Robertson was a telegrapher by profession and had links with conservatives in the labour movement. In January 1917, he was appointed to the Senate as a Conservative as a means of bringing in labour representation during the First World War.

Juan Lechín Oquendo was a legendary labor-union leader and head of the Federation of Bolivian Mine Workers (FSTMB) from 1944 to 1987 and the Bolivian Workers' Union (COB) from 1952 to 1987. He also served as vice president of Bolivia between 1960 and 1964. Lechín was born to a Lebanese immigrant father and a native Bolivian mother in Corocoro,link Varios Corocoro a city in the Department of La Paz. He worked in the Catavi and Siglo XX tin mines, …

Mark Dudzic is the National Organizer and Chairman of the United States Labor Party as well as a labor activist. For 18 years, prior to becoming Labor Party Chairman, Dudzic was president of Local 8-149 OCAW (a branch of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union).

Wieste (Vic) Ratsma (1934 - 2004) was a journalist and political activist. Born in the Netherlands, he came to Canada and worked as a quality control inspector for Canada Post well raising his family in the city of Winnipeg. He has been described as a "lifelong political activist, antiwar organizer, poet and essayist," but argued that he was not qualified to be called a poet and would prefer to be labeled as someone who "occasionally writes some poetry as well".

Dr. Hugh Peacock was the Member of Provincial Parliament for the district of Windsor West from 1967 to 1971. He was a member of the New Democratic Party. He served as a researcher for the UAW from 1962 to 1967. He first ran for office in 1965 for Member of Parliament in the now-defunct riding of Essex West. He was defeated by Herb Gray, and came in third with 5,739 votes or 14.96%. He was elected to the Ontario Legislature in 1967.

John Barkell Holman was a Member of the Western Australian Legislative Council for 23 years between 1901 and 1925. Born in Clunes, Victoria, on 26 February 1872, John Holman was the son of miner Edward Holman and Mary Anne nee Barkell. He was educated at Bendigo, then worked as a miner, first at Bendigo, where he became a member of the Bendigo Miners' Association in 1886; and later at Broken Hill, where he was involved in the strike of 1892.

George Eamon Park was born in 1916 in Monkstown, County Cork, Ireland. His father, Robert Park Sr., was in the Royal Navy and on manoeuvers at the time of his son's birth. Kathleen Park left Portsmouth, England to be with her family in Ireland to have the baby. George was the eldest of four children; Kathleen (called Kay), Thomas and Robert Jr. followed. In 1925 the family moved to Wales where Robert Park was working as a foreman at a mine.

Osvaldo Núñez was a member of the Canadian House of Commons from 1993 to 1997. His career has been in law, arbitration and labour. He was elected in the Bourassa electoral district under the Bloc Québécois party in the 1993 federal election, thus serving in the 35th Canadian Parliament. Núñez lost to Liberal Denis Coderre in the the 1997 federal election and did not return to Canadian politics.

Francisco de Barcelos Rolão Preto, <small>GCIH</small>; (February 5 1893, Gavião-December 18 1977, Lisbon) was a Portuguese politician, journalist, and leader of the Movimento Nacional-Sindicalista (MNS, also the "Blue Shirts" - "camisas azuis", following the tradition of uniformed far right groups), an organisation advocating Syndicalism and the corporatist state inspired by Fascism and Benito Mussolini's Italy.