- Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 - 30 April 1945) was the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (The Nazi party). He was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933, and became FAhrer (leader) [2] in 1934, remaining in power until his suicide in 1945. - John Prescott
John Leslie Prescott (born 31 May 1938) is a British Labour Party politician, former Deputy Prime Minister, First Secretary of State and current Member of Parliament for the constituency of Hull East. He was elected Deputy Leader of the Labour Party after coming second in the Labour leadership election in 1994, and was appointed Deputy Prime Minister after Labour's victory in the 1997 General Election. A former ship's steward and trade union activist, … - John Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck (February 27 1902 - December 20 1968) was one of the best-known and most widely read American writers of the 20th century. A winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962, he wrote "Of Mice and Men" (1937) and the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Grapes of Wrath" (1940), both of which examine the lives of the working class and migrant workers during the Dust Bowl and subsequent Great Depression. - Chris Harman
Chris Harman is the editor of "International Socialism", a former editor of "Socialist Worker" and a member of the Central Committee of the Socialist Workers Party. From a working class background, Harman attended the London School of Economics where he joined the International Socialists. He was instrumental in publishing the magazine of the LSE Socialist Society, "The Agitator", and was a leading member of the IS by 1968. - John Horgan
John William Horgan was a Member of the Western Australian Legislative Council in 1888-89. He is remembered most for his aggressive election campaigns in which he characterised six of the most prominent families in colonial Western Australia as the "six hungry families". John Horgan was born in Maroon, Cork, Ireland on 15 July 1834. He was educated at Dr. Moynihan's Collegiate School in Cork. In the 1860s and 1870s he practiced as a barrister and solicitor in Cork, … - Alan Milburn
Alan Milburn (born 27 January 1958, Tow Law, County Durham) is a British politician. He is Labour MP for Darlington, and served in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Health until he resigned citing lack of balance with his family life, and rejoined it as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster for oversight of Labour's 2005 re-election campaign. - Arnold Toynbee
Arnold Toynbee (August 23, 1852 - March 9, 1883) was an English economic historian also noted for his social commitment and desire to improve the living conditions of the working class. - Alan Sillitoe
Alan Sillitoe (born 4 March, 1928) is an English writer, one of the "Angry Young Men" of the 1950s. - Peter Kay
Peter John Kay (born 2 July 1973 in Farnworth, near Bolton, England) is a writer, producer, actor and comedian. His work includes "That Peter Kay Thing" (2000), "Phoenix Nights" (2001 - 2002), "Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere" (2004), as well as other independent productions. - Walter Rodney
Walter Rodney (March 23, 1942 - June 13, 1980) was a prominent Guyanese historian and political figure. Born to a working class family, Rodney was a bright student, attending Queen's College in Guyana and then attending university on a scholarship at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica, graduating in 1963. - Bernard Manning
Bernard John Manning (13 August 1930 - 18 June 2007) was an English stand-up comedian. He was born and brought up in Manchester in north-west England. Manning courted controversy because his act often contained material involving ethnic stereotypes and minority groups. This type of material was commonplace among British stand-up comedians in the 1970s, but was largely excluded from television in the 1980s. Manning continued to perform in theatres and pubs until his death. - Edward P. Jones
Edward P. Jones is an African American author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Born in 1951, he was raised in Washington, D.C. and educated at both the College of the Holy Cross and the University of Virginia. He won both the Pen/Hemingway Award and the Lannan Foundation Grant for his first book, "Lost in the City", a collection of short stories on the African American working class of the 20th century Washington, … - Sean Matgamna
Sean Matgamna, also known as John O'Mahony is a Trotskyist theorist. He was born in 1942 in County Clare in the Republic of Ireland. He joined the Young Communist League in 1959 when he moved to Manchester to work as a docker, still in his teens. He soon grew disillusioned with what he saw as the Communist Party's reformist stance, and the following year joined the more openly revolutionary Trotskyist Socialist Labour League, led by Gerry Healy. - Si Kahn
Si Kahn is an American singer-songwriter and activist. Originally from State College, Pennsylvania, Kahn moved to the south as an activist in the Civil Rights Movement, and he now lives in Charlotte, North Carolina. His grandfather Gabriel Kahn, his mother Rosalind Kahn, and his father Benjamin Kahn, a rabbi, taught Si the rudiments of rhythm and harmony as a child. Kahn is the founder and director of Grassroots Leadership, … - Federica Montseny
Federica Montseny i Mañé was a Spanish anarchist, intellectual and Minister of Health during the social revolution that occurred in Spain parallel to the Civil War. She is also known as a poet, novelist, essayist, and children's writer. Federica Montseny was, in her own words, the "[d]aughter of a family of old anarchists"; her father was the anti-authoritarian writer and propagandist Joan Montseny (Federico Urales); her mother, Soledad Gustavo, … - Billy Hutchinson
Billy Hutchinson was a leading member of the Progressive Unionist Party in Northern Ireland. He was elected to Belfast City Council in 1997 and to the Northern Ireland Assembly in 1998 However he lost his assembly seat in 2003 and his council seat in 2005. A former member of the Ulster Volunteer Force, Hutchinson was sentenced to life in Long Kesh for the murder of two Catholic men on the Falls Road in 1974 and, whilst there, became a close associate of Gusty Spence, … - John Bird
John Bird is the founder of "The Big Issue", a British magazine that is edited by professional journalists and sold by street vendors affected by homelessness. Bird was born in Notting Hill, London in 1946. As a child he experienced homelessness and spent several years in an orphanage. By his twenties he had served several prison sentences for theft. In September 1991 he launched "The Big Issue". - Marie-George Buffet
Marie-George Buffet (born May 7 1949 in Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine) is a French politician, currently the head of the French Communist Party (PCF). She joined the Party in 1969, and was the Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports from June 4 1997 to May 5 2002. Ms. Buffet was re-elected on June 16, 2002 to another five-year term in the National Assembly, as a representative of Seine-Saint-Denis. Buffet was elected in 2001 as National Secretary of the Party, succeeding Robert Hue, … - B. S. Johnson
B. S. Johnson (Bryan Stanley Johnson) (5 February,1933 - 13 November,1973) was an English experimental novelist, poet, literary critic and film-maker. Johnson was born into a working class family, was evacuated from London during World War II and left school at sixteen to work as an accountant. However, he taught himself Latin in the evenings, and with this knowledge, managed to pass the university exam for King's College London. - Sax Rohmer
Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward (February 15, 1883 - June 1, 1959), better known as Sax Rohmer, was a prolific English novelist. He is most remembered for his series of novels featuring the master criminal Dr. Fu Manchu. Born in Birmingham he had an entirely working class education and early career before beginning to write. His first published work was in 1903, the short story "The Mysterious Mummy" for Pearson's Weekly. - Georg Büchner
Karl Georg Büchner ; "Lenz" is a novella based on the life of the Sturm und Drang poet Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz. In 1836 his second play, "Leonce and Lena" portrayed the nobility. His unfinished and most famous play, "Woyzeck", was the first literary work in German whose main characters were members of the working class. Published posthumously, it became the basis for Alban Berg's opera "Wozzeck" which premiered in 1925. - Joe R. Lansdale
Joe R. Lansdale (born October 28, 1951, Gladewater, Texas) is an American author and martial-arts expert. He has written novels and stories in many genres, including Western, horror, science fiction, mystery, and suspense. He has also written for comics as well as "Batman: The Animated Series". Frequent features of Lansdale's writing are usually deeply ironic, strange or absurd situations or characters, … - Walter Greenwood
Walter Greenwood (December 17, 1903 - September 13, 1974) was an English novelist, best known for the socially influential novel "Love on the Dole" (1933). Greenwood was born in Hankey Park, Salford in Lancashire, the son of radical working class parents. Like many children he left school at the age of 13. He took a succession of low paid jobs, and continued to educate himself in Salford Public Library. - Roy Bailey
Roy Bailey (born 20 October 1935, in London), is a British socialist folk singer. Roy began his singing career in a skiffle group in 1958. Colin Irwin from MOJO magazine said Roy represents "the very soul of folk's working class ideals... a triumphal homage to the grass roots folk scene as a radical alternative to the mainstream music industry." In the 2000 Honours List, Roy received the MBE for services to folk music. - Harriet Andersson
Harriet Andersson (born 14 January 1932 in Stockholm) is a Swedish actress, best known for being one of Ingmar Bergman's regular actresses. She is a petite, brown-eyed brunette. She often played impulsive working class characters and quickly established a reputation on screen for her youthful, unpretentious, full-lipped sensuality. She disdains the use of makeup. - Edwin Muir
Edwin Muir was a Scottish poet, novelist and translator born on a farm in Deerness on the Orkney Islands in the remote northeast of Scotland. Remembered for his deeply felt and vivid poetry in plain, unostentatious language with few stylistic preoccupations, Muir is a relatively little known but significant modern poet. - Fred Rose
Fred Rose (born Fred Rosenberg) (December 7 1907 - March 16 1983) was a Communist politician and trade union organizer in Canada. He was born in Lublin in what is now Poland, and emigrated to Canada as a child in 1916. He became involved with the Young Communist League of Canada, and then joined the Communist Party of Canada while working in a factory. However, he is best known as the only Member of the Canadian Parliament ever convicted of spying for a foreign country. - Stewart Smith
Stewart Smith was a long-time leading member of the Communist Party of Canada. He also served on Toronto City Council for a period in the 1940s. Smith was the son of Reverend A. E. Smith, a social gospel minister who became a leading figure in the Communist Party. Stewart Smith was one of the leaders of the Stalinist faction, led by Tim Buck, that took over the party in 1929. - Steve Gibson
Steve Gibson (born 1958) is an entrepreneur and the chairman of Middlesbrough Football Club. He is acclaimed in Middlesbrough for being a local working class man who made good. - Tom Wood
Tom Wood (b. 1951 Ireland), is a notable contemporary street photographer working in the north of England, particularly Liverpool. Born in the rural west of Ireland, he moved to Liverpool in 1978. He has had numerous solo shows, and his work has been collected in three books. He is often named as an influence in published interviews with young British photographers. The pictures in his first book, "Looking for Love" (1989), were made between 1982 and 1985, … - Ernest Belfort Bax
Ernest Belfort Bax (July 23, 1854 - November 26 1926) was a British socialist journalist and philosopher, associated with the Social Democratic Federation (SDF). Born into a nonconformist religious family in Leamington, he was first introduced to Marxism while studying philosophy in Germany. He combined Karl Marx's ideas with those of Immanuel Kant, Arthur Schopenhauer and Eduard von Hartmann. Keen to explore possible metaphysical and ethical implications of socialism, … - Martin Andersen Nexø
Martin Andersen Nexø was a Danish writer. He is the first author writing about the working class and the first great Danish communist writer. He was born to a large family in a very poor area of Copenhagen, Denmark. His family moved to Nexø (which he later adopted as a last name), Denmark in 1877. As a young man he overcame tuberculosis. After a short career as a worker, he attended a folk high school; later, he worked as a journalist. - Pat Wall
Charles Patrick Wall (6 May 1933 - 6 August 1990) was an English Trotskyist political figure and Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Bradford North from 1987 to 1990. Wall was a longstanding Marxist and a supporter of the Militant tendency. - Alan Beith
Alan James Beith (born April 20, 1943) British politician, and the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Berwick-upon-Tweed. - Mark Leier
Professor Mark Leier , Department of History, Simon Fraser University : “ Canadian Bolsheviks is an important contribution to social, political, and intellectual history and has long deserved to be re-issued. Ian Angus confronts the accepted wisdom of the left and the right with thorough research, thoughtful arguments, and an obvious love for his subject. - Hugh Shearer
Hugh Lawson Shearer, ON, (May 18, 1923 - July 5, 2004) was the fourth Prime Minister of Jamaica, from 1967 to 1972. Born in Martha Brae, Trelawny Parish, Jamaica, near the sugar and banana growing areas, Shearer attended St Simon's College after winning a parish scholarship to the school. In 1941 he took a job on the staff of a weekly trade union newspaper, the "Jamaican Worker". - Poul Nyrup Rasmussen
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, informal: (born June 15, 1943 in Esbjerg) was the Prime Minister of Denmark from January 25, 1993 to November 27, 2001, and is currently a Member of the European Parliament and President of the Party of European Socialists (PES). He was the leader of the governing Social Democrats from 1992 to 2002 where he was succeeded by Mogens Lykketoft. - Georges Lefebvre
Georges Lefebvre was a French historian, who was considered in his day to be the leading authority on the French Revolution, with a formidable scholarly reputation, editing the most respected journal on the subject, "Annales historiques de la Révolution française" and holding the position of Professor of the History of the French Revolution at the Sorbonne. A lifelong socialist, he became more and more influenced by Marxism about the time of the Second World War. - Louise Day Hicks
Anna Louise Day Hicks (October 16, 1916-October 21, 2003) was a United States Irish-American politician and lawyer of Catholic background from Boston, Massachusetts. She was elected to the Boston School Committee in 1961. In January 1963, she became chairperson and seemed likely to be endorsed by the leading reform group, when, in June, … - Ruth Park
Ruth Park is an author born in New Zealand who spent most of her life in Australia. She was born in 1922 in Auckland, and later moved to Te Kuiti in the north of the country with her parents.
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