Frantz Fanon was a French author from Martinique, essayist, psychoanalyst, and revolutionary. He was perhaps the preeminent thinker of the 20th century on the issue of decolonization and the psychopathology of colonization. His works have inspired anti-colonial liberation movements for more than four decades.

"' (born "' February 10, 1898 - August 14, 1956) was an influential German socialist, dramatist, stage director, and poet of the 20th century.

Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin was a German Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory and was also greatly inspired by the Marxism of Bertolt Brecht and Jewish mysticism as presented by Gershom Scholem. As a sociological and cultural critic, Benjamin combined ideas of historical materialism, German idealism, …

David Mertz (born 1964) is an author and columnist for IBM's developerWorks, Intel Developer Services, O'Reilly's ONLamp, and other online publications. Formerly an academic philosopher who specialized in postmodernism, he is currently vice-president and chief technology officer of the Open Voting Consortium and serves on the IEEE "Voting Systems Electronic Data Interchange" project. He maintains Gnosis Utilities, a widely used public domain Python package.

Gilbert Achcar (born 1951 in Senegal) is a Lebanese-French academic, writer, and socialist activist. He lived in Lebanon until moving to France in 1983. He is currently a professor of politics and international relations at the University of Paris VIII. From August 2007, Achcar will be Professor of Development Studies and International Relations at the School of Oriental and African Studies. He is a frequent contributor to "Le Monde Diplomatique", "ZNet", …

Peter Sedgwick (1934-1983) was a translator of Victor Serge, author of a number of books including "PsychoPolitics" and a revolutionary socialist activist.

Martin Glaberman was an influential American Marxist, teacher, and autoworker.

Colin Barker (born 1939) is a British Marxist writer and historian, a longstanding member of the Socialist Workers Party in Manchester and author of numerous articles and works on Marxism, most notably a history of Solidarity, Festival of the Oppressed. Colin Barker was a member of the International Socialism Group in Oxford and Manchester from 1962, and a member of the Executive and National Committee.

Bertell Ollman (b. 1936) is a professor of politics at New York University. He teaches both dialectical methodology and socialist theory. He has written and edited books including "Alienation: Marx's Conception of Man in Capitalist Society", "Social and Sexual Revolution: Essays on Marx and Reich", "Dialectical Investigations", "How to Take an Exam...and Remake the World", and most recently "Dance of the Dialectic: Steps in Marx's Method".

Richard "Dick" Levins is a mathematical ecologist, and political activist. He is most famous for his work on evolution in changing environments. Levins' writing and speaking is extremely condensed. This, combined with his intransigently radical orthodox Marxism has made his analyses less well known than those of some other ecologists and evolutionists adept at popularization.

Joel Kovel (born 27 August 1936) is an American politician, academic, writer and eco-socialist. A practicing psychiatrist and psychoanalyst until the mid-1980s, he has lectured in psychiatry, anthropology, political science and communication studies. He has published many books on his work in psychiatry, psychoanalysis and political activism. He is a member of the Green Party of the US (GPUS).

Margot Claire Heinemann was a British Marxist writer, drama scholar, and leading member of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB). She joined the CPGB in 1934, because of its active opposition to the British Union of Fascists. She was the lover of John Cornford, while a student at the University of Cambridge. The historian Eric Hobsbawm, there also at the time, …

E. San Juan, Jr. is a Filipino cultural critic and public intellectual. His works span a broad spectrum of fields and disciplines, from cultural studies, comparative literary scholarship, ethnic and racial studies, postcolonial theory, semiotics to philosophical inquiries in historical materialism. His books and controversial articles have been widely quoted, referenced, and discussed.

Américo Alberto de Barros e Assis Boavida, generally known as Dr. Américo Boavida, was an Angolan physician active in his country's nationalist movement. Also known as "Ngola Kimbanda" ("chief healer"), he attended Liceu Salvador Correia in Luanda and then traveled to Portugal to study medicine at the University of Porto. He returned to Angola in 1955 and went into private practice specializing in OB/GYN until 1960, …

Sajjad Zaheer</sup&gt; (1904 - 1973) was a renowned Urdu writer, Marxist thinker and revolutionary. Educated at the University of Lucknow, University of Oxford (BA, MA, BCL) and the University of London, he was one of the founding members of the Communist Party of India and later the following 1948, the Communist Party of Pakistan. He was also a leading figure in the Progressive Writers' Association.

Kurt Landau (January 29, 1903-September ?, 1937) was an Austrian communist, member of the International Left Opposition, author, and Trotskyist. He was murdered by agents of Stalin's NKVD during the Spanish Civil War.

Varavara Rao (born November 3, 1940) is a communist, human rights activist,naxalite sympathizer ^bbc,renowned poet, journalist, literary critic, and public speaker from Andhra Pradesh, India. During the last 40 years he has been widely read and heard by millions of readers and audience. He has been writing poetry for the last four decades.

was a noted Japanese author. Noma was born in Kōbe to a devout Buddhist family, and took up literature in 1932 after meeting the poet Takeuchi Shizuo. In 1935 he enrolled at Kyoto University, where he studied French literature with a particular interest in French Symbolist poetry. He also became active in Marxist student movements. Noma's first long novel, "Shinku chitai" (真空地帯, Zone of Emptiness), was published in 1952.

Maynard Solomon (January 5, 1930) was co-founder of Vanguard Records, a producer, and a music writer. Maynard Solomon founded Vanguard Records, together with Seymour Solomon in 1950. The label was one of the prime movers in the folk and blues boom for the next 15 years. As well as producing many albums, he was a prolific writer of liner notes. Their first signing was The Weavers.

Makhdoom Mohiuddin (1908-1969) was a revolutionary Urdu poet and Marxist politician from Hyderabad, India. He was born on February 4, 1908 in the village of Andole in Medak district, of what was then the princely state of Hyderabad. He was active with the Communist Party of India, and at the forefront of the 1946-47 Telengana revolt against the Nizam. He was also involved with the Progressive Writers' Movement.

Safdar Hashmi (b. April 12, 1954 in Delhi - January 2, 1989, Delhi) was a Communist playwright, actor, director, lyricist, and theorist, chiefly associated with Street theatre in India. He was a founding member of "Jana Natya Manch" (People's Theatre Front; Janam for short) in 1973, which grew out of the Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA). He was brutally murdered in Delhi while performing a street play, "Halla Bol".

Granville Hicks (September 9, 1901 - June 18, 1982) was an American Marxist novelist, literary critic, educator, and editor.

Kazimierz Kelles-Krauz born in 1872 in Szczebrzeszyn, Russian Empire, died in 1905 was a Polish philosopher and sociologist, member of the Polish Socialist Party. He was one of the most significant Marxist thinkers at the end of the 19th century.

Anand Dev Bhatt is a Nepalese literaturist and politician, belonging to the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist). He is the President of the Progressive Writers Association. Bhatt contested the 1999 election in the Baitadi-2 constituency, coming second with 7611 votes.

Mohammad Ibrahim Joyo is the legend writer of Sindhi language. He remained in Sindhi Adabi Board for many years. He is the Morning Star of Sindhi Modernism. A Marxist, Secular and a Democratic to the core.

José Adriano Rodrigues Barata-Moura, <small>ComIH</small&gt; (Lisbon, June 26 1948) is a Portuguese academic and writer and was, from May 7 1998 to May 22 2006, the Rector of the University of Lisbon. He graduated in philosophy in 1970. He is also a long time member of the Portuguese Communist Party, having written several essays on marxist subjects. Barata-Moura is also the author of several songs, mainly children's songs (e.g. "Come a papa, Joana").

Maj Sjöwall is a Swedish author and translator. She is best known for the collaborative work with her husband Per Wahlöö on a series of detective novels published between 1965 and 1975. As a team they wrote ten novels about the exploits of Martin Beck, a police detective in Stockholm. In 1971, "The Laughing Policeman" (a translation of "Den skrattande polisen", …