- Ken Livingstone
Kenneth Robert Livingstone (born June 17, 1945) is a British politician who became Mayor of London on the creation of the post in 2000. He was previously Leader of the Greater London Council from 1981 until it was abolished in 1986. After its abolition, he became Member of Parliament for Brent East, but was quoted as saying that being in the House of Commons was not enjoyable and made little impact there.
- Henry A. Kissinger
Newly declassified State Department documents obtained by the National Security Archive under the Freedom of Information Act show that in October 1976, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and high ranking U.S. officials gave their full support to the Argentine military junta and urged them to hurry up and finish the "dirty war" before the U.S. Congress cut military aid.
- Maximilien Robespierre
Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre is one of the best-known leaders of the French Revolution. His supporters knew him as The 'Incorruptible' because of his austere moral devotion to revolutionary political change. He was an influential member of the Committee of Public Safety and was instrumental in the period of the Revolution commonly known as the Reign of Terror that ended with his arrest and execution in 1794.
- Alan Sokal
Alan David Sokal (born 1955) is a professor of physics and faculty member of the mathematics department at New York University. In January 2006, he was appointed as the Chair of Statistical Mechanics & Combinatorics at University College London.
- Ollanta Humala
Ollanta Moisés Humala Tasso is a Peruvian left-leaning nationalist politician. He is a former Lieutenant Colonel of the Peruvian Army. At the end of December 2005, he officially registered to run in the 2006 presidential election under the Union for Peru ticket, with his own Peruvian Nationalist Party's support. After winning a plurality in the first round he lost the second round to Alan García on June 4, 2006.
- Robert Scheer
Robert Scheer, (born 1936) is an American journalist who writes a nationally syndicated op-ed column for the "San Francisco Chronicle" from a left perspective. He teaches communications as a professor at the University of Southern California and edits the online magazine Truthdig.
- Néstor Kirchner
"', full name Néstor Carlos Kirchner Ostoić"', is the President of Argentina, sworn in on May 25, 2003. A Justicialist with leftist leanings, Kirchner was previously governor of the province of Santa Cruz. A governor of a Patagonian province, Kirchner was little-known internationally and even domestically before his election, which he won by default with only 22 percent of the vote in the first round when former President Carlos Menem withdrew from the race.
- Oskar Lafontaine
Oskar Lafontaine (born September 16, 1943 in Saarlouis-Roden) is a left-wing German politician and a leading member of the Left Party. Lafontaine's views and remarks have made him a polarizing figure in German politics; most Germans are either fond of his politics or disdain them. Some have compared Lafontaine to Edmund Stoiber; both are close to the fringes of the German political mainstream, but come from opposite ends of the political spectrum.
- Zoe Williams
Zoe Williams (born 1973) is a British columnist and journalist who was educated at Lincoln College, Oxford where she read Modern History. Williams writes regularly for "The Guardian" and the "New Statesman", though her work has also appeared in other publications including "The Spectator" and the London Cycling Campaign's magazine "London Cyclist". Much of her work for "The Guardian" is in the form of short, lighthearted, …
- Fred Reed
Fred Reed (born 1945 in Crumpler, West Virginia) is a technology columnist for "The Washington Times," and the author of "Fred on Everything," a weekly independent column. He also writes books and other material. He has also written for The American Conservative and LewRockwell.com. A former Marine, Reed is a police writer, an occasional war correspondent, and an aficionado of raffish bars. His work, written in a unique and articulate style, …
- Uri Avnery
Uri Avnery (also transliterated Uri Avneri, born September 10, 1923 in Beckum, Germany as Helmut Ostermann), is a German-born Israeli journalist, left-wing peace activist, and former Knesset member, who was originally a member of the right-wing Revisionist Zionist movement.
- Samuel Gompers
Samuel Gompers (January 26, 1850-December 13, 1924) was an American labor union leader and a key figure in American labor history. Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and held the position as president of the organization for all but one year from 1886 until his death in 1924. He promoted harmony among the different craft unions that comprised the AFL. Focused on higher wages and job security, he fought against both socialism and the Socialist Party.
- Joan Smith
Joan Alison Smith (born August 27, 1953 in London) is an English novelist, journalist and human rights activist, who is a former chair of the Writers in Prison committee in the English section of International PEN. Smith read Latin at the University of Reading in the early 1970s. After a spell as a journalist in local radio in Manchester, she joined the staff of the "Sunday Times" in 1979 and stayed at the newspaper until 1984, …
- Joanna Senyszyn
Joanna Senyszyn is a Polish left-wing politician, vice-president of the Sojusz Lewicy Demokratycznej (SLD) and member of the Sejm (the lower house of the National Assembly of Poland).
- Greg Sheridan
Greg Sheridan is the most influential foreign affairs commentator in Australia. He has spent 30 years in the field. He knows Asia - its leaders and societies - intimately. He has had unparalleled access to the decision-makers in Asia and America and around the world.
- Gudrun Ensslin
Gudrun Ensslin was a founder of the German terrorist group Red Army Faction (Rote Armee Fraktion, or RAF, also known as the Baader-Meinhof Gang.) After becoming romantically involved with co-founder Andreas Baader, Ensslin was influential in the radicalization of Baader's left-wing beliefs and the intellectual head of the RAF.
- Hilary Wainwright
Hilary Wainwright (born 1949) is a British socialist and feminist, best known for being editor of "Red Pepper" magazine. Wainwright is a Fellow of the Transnational Institute, Amsterdam, Senior Research Fellow of the International Labour Studies Centre at University of Manchester, and the Centre for Global Governance at the London School of Economics. Formerly on the editorial board of "New Left Review", …
- Carlos The Jackal
Vladimir Ilich Ramírez Sánchez is a Venezuelan-born self-proclaimed leftist revolutionary and mercenary. He was given the "nom de guerre" Carlos the Jackal when he became a member of the leftist Popular Front for Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). After several bungled bombings, Ramírez Sánchez obtained notoriety for a 1975 raid on the OPEC headquarters, resulting in the deaths of three people.
- China Miéville
China Tom Miéville is a British "fantastic fiction" writer. He is fond of describing his work as "weird fiction" (after early 20th century pulp and horror writers such as H.P. Lovecraft), and belongs to a loose group of writers sometimes called New Weird who consciously attempt to move fantasy away from commercial, genre clichés of Tolkien epigons. He is also active in left-wing politics as a member of the Socialist Workers Party.
- Stephen Schwartz
Stephen (Suleiman) Schwartz (born 1948) is an American journalist, columnist and author. His background is on the political left, but now describes himself as a neoconservative. He is a practicing Muslim and vocal critic of Islamic terrorism. Schwartz is also the executive director of the Center for Islamic Pluralism.
- Bruce Cumings
Bruce Cumings is a historian, and professor at the University of Chicago, specializing in modern Korean history and contemporary international relations in East Asia. Starting July 1, 2007, he will start a three-year term as Chair of the Department of History. In his youth, Cumings was a Peace Corps volunteer in South Korea. He was one of the founding members of the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars and published extensively in its journal, …
- Heloísa Helena
Heloísa Helena Lima de Moraes Carvalho, pron., (born June 6, 1962 in Pão de Açúcar, Alagoas) is a left-wing politician in Brazil. Trained as a nurse, Helena helped found the Center of Health at the Federal University of Alagoas. She was also involved in the student movements against the military dictatorship. She became a member of the left-wing Workers' Party (PT) and a leader of Socialist Democracy, a Trotskyist caucus in the PT. In 1992, …
- Alberto Bayo
Alberto Bayo y Giroud was a Cuban military leader of the defeated left-wing Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War. He was also a poet and essayist. He was born in Cuba and studied in the United States and Spain. Bayo's most significant action during the Spanish Civil War was his invasion and retreat from the island of Mallorca. After that war was lost, Bayo had a furniture factory in Mexico, and is said to have been an instructor at the Military Academy of Guadalajara.
- Diane Ravitch
Diane Ravitch 's June 7 Gadfly article took the New York City Department of Education to task for hyping the most recent reading scores for students in More...
- Frank Ryan
Frank Ryan (1902, Elton, Co. Limerick-June 10 1944, Dresden) was a prominent member of the Irish Republican Army, editor of "An Phoblacht", leftist activist and leader of Irish volunteers on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War.
- Maryscott O'Connor
Maryscott O'Connor (born April 29, 1968), aka MSOC, is the founder and main author of My Left Wing, a left-wing weblog focusing on progressive, liberal and Democratic Party politics. Describing herself as "A Radical Leftist Liberal Socialist Commie Feminist Pinko from Hell," Maryscott O'Connor writes in an intensely passionate, personal, earthy, colloquial style and often draws on incidents from her own life to explain and dramatize her opinions.
- Cynthia Tucker
Cynthia Tucker is an American syndicated columnist, and the editor of the opinion section of "The Atlanta Journal-Constitution". She was recognized with a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2007 "for her courageous, clear-headed columns that evince a strong sense of morality and persuasive knowledge of the community"; she was a Pulitzer-nominated finalist in 2004 and 2006.
- Earl Robinson
Earl Hawley Robinson was a songwriter and composer from Seattle, Washington. Robinson is probably as well remembered for his left-leaning political views (a member of the Communist Party in the 1930s) as he is for his music, including the song "Joe Hill" and the cantata "Ballad for Americans". In addition, he wrote many popular songs and was a composer for Hollywood films. He studied violin, viola and piano as a child, …
- Schafik Handal
Schafik Jorge Handal was a Salvadoran politician. Born in Usulutan, he was the son of Palestinian immigrants.
- Elena Poniatowska
Elena Poniatowska (born May 19 1932 in Paris, France as Princess Hélène Elizabeth Louise Amelie Paula Dolores Poniatowska Amor) is a Polish-Mexican journalist and author. Poniatowska was born in Paris to Prince Jean Evremont Poniatowski Sperry and Paula Amor-Escandon. Her father was a Polish nobleman who was a direct descendant of King Stanislaus II of Poland, the last king of Poland. Her mother was a Mexican citizen of mixed French ancestry.
- Roque Dalton
Roque Dalton García (San Salvador, El Salvador, 14 May 1935 - Quezaltepeque, El Salvador, 10 May 1975) was a leftist Salvadoran poet and journalist. He is one of Latin America's most compelling poets. He wrote emotionally strong, sometimes sarcastic, and image-loaded works dealing with life, death, love, and politics.
- Arturo Frondizi
Arturo Frondizi Ercoli was the President of Argentina between 1 May 1958 and 29 March 1962 for the Intransigent Radical Civic Union. Frondizi was born in Paso de los Libres, Corrientes Province to immigrants from Umbria, Italy. They lived in Concepción del Uruguay, Entre Rios, and in Buenos Aires. Frondizi graduated from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) with an excellent law degree in 1930 and entered politics.
- Pehr Evind Svinhufvud
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud af Qvalstad (December 15, 1861 - February 29, 1944) was the President of Finland from 1931 to 1937. Serving as a lawyer, judge, and politician in the Russian Grand Duchy of Finland, he played a major role in the movement for Finnish independence. Svinhufvud was the first pre-presidential Head of State of independent Finland, first as Chairman of the Senate, and then subsequently as "Protector of State" or Regent.
- Paul Deschanel
Paul Eugène Louis Deschanel was a French statesman. He served as President of France from February 18, 1920 to September 21, 1920. Paul Deschanel, the son of Émile Deschanel (1819-1904), professor at the Collège de France and senator, was born at Brussels, where his father was living in exile (1851—1859), owing to his opposition to Napoleon III. Paul Deschanel studied law, and began his career as secretary to Deshayes de Marcère (1876), and to Jules Simon (1876-1877).
- Juan Velasco Alvarado
Juan Francisco Velasco Alvarado (June 16 1910 - December 24 1977) was a left-leaning Peruvian General who ruled Peru from 1968 to 1975 under the title of "President of the Revolutionary Government."
- Tim Yohannan
Tim Yohannan, born August 15, 1945, died April 3, 1998 in San Francisco, California of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, was the founder of "Maximum Rock and Roll" ("MRR"), a radio show and zine documenting the punk scene around the world. As the zine became popular and profitable, Yohannan donated those profits to zines and collectives, even as he continued blue-collar work in the Lawrence Hall of Science at University of California, Berkeley.
- Kurt Tucholsky
Kurt Tucholsky was a German journalist, satirist and writer. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Kaspar Hauser, Peter Panter, Theobald Tiger, Cornelius Jagdmann and Ignaz Wrobel. Born in Berlin-Moabit, he moved in 1924 to Paris and in 1930 to Sweden. Tucholsky was one of the most important journalists of the Weimar Republic.
- Terence Hallinan
Terence Hallinan was elected District Attorney of the City and County of San Francisco on December 12, 1995, after serving for seven years as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Mr. Hallinan was elected on a platform of change, stressing the need to focus on combating violent crime, streamline the operations of the District Attorney's office, and implement a vigorous neighborhood liaison program, as well as other innovations.
- Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías
Hugo Chavez for President! Of the United States!!
- Steve Brodner
Steve Brodner (born 1954 in Brooklyn, New York) is a satirical illustrator and caricaturist, known primarily for his work regarding the American political arena. His published output extends back to the mid-1970s, and includes a great number of thoroughly detailed drawings which make substantial use of visual metaphor. Much of Brodner's work has been done for left-wing publications such as "The Village Voice" and "Mother Jones".