swap_horiz Fred Hampton Alternatives

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Mahatma Gandhi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, known as Mahatma Gandhi, led India’s struggle for independence from British rule. His philos...

India Organizer 20TH Century Nonviolent

9.8 Brilliant

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Thomas Sankara

Thomas Sankara served as President of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987. Rising through the army, he spearheaded a radical...

20TH Century President Africa Burkina Faso

8.9 Great

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Walter Sisulu

Walter Sisulu was a pivotal figure in South Africa’s anti-apartheid movement. As an organizer within the African Nationa...

Organizer ANC 20TH Century South African

8.4 Great

4

Bhagat Singh

Bhagat Singh was an Indian socialist revolutionary executed by the British in 1931 after the Lahore Conspiracy Case made...

India 20TH Century Independence Socialist

8.3 Great

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Julius Nyerere

Julius Nyerere was a Tanzanian nationalist and teacher who led Tanganyika to independence in 1961 and became Tanzania's...

20TH Century President Tanzania Socialist

8.3 Great

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Oliver Tambo

Oliver Tambo was a South African anti-apartheid leader who headed the ANC in exile from 1967 and helped build internatio...

South Africa Organizer ANC 20TH Century

8.2 Great

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Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman was a Russian-born anarchist writer and activist in the United States, deported in 1919 for anti-war and ra...

USA Organizer 20TH Century Writer

8.2 Great

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James Connolly

James Connolly was an Irish socialist and labor organizer who commanded the Irish Citizen Army in the 1916 Easter Rising...

20TH Century Republican Ireland Irish

7.9 Good

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Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Bal Gangadhar Tilak was an Indian nationalist leader in Maharashtra who helped found the Home Rule League in 1916 and pr...

India Organizer 20TH Century Independence

7.8 Good

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Huey P. Newton

Huey P. Newton was a co-founder of the Black Panther Party in Oakland in 1966, helping create armed patrols and communit...

USA Organizer 20TH Century Black Panther

7.5 Good

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Bobby Seale

Bobby Seale is an American political activist who co-founded the Black Panther Party with Huey P. Newton in Oakland, Cal...

American 20TH Century Black Panther Socialist

7.5 Good

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Farabundo Martí

Farabundo Martí was a Salvadoran communist organizer tied to the 1932 peasant uprising against the Martínez regime in El...

Organizer 20TH Century Uprising El Salvador

7.4 Good

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Frank País

Frank País was a Cuban revolutionary organizer who led urban resistance for the July 26 Movement in Santiago de Cuba bef...

Organizer Cuban 20TH Century Urban

7.4 Good

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Errico Malatesta

Errico Malatesta was an Italian anarchist organizer active across Europe and the Americas, publishing Umanità Nova in It...

Organizer Italy 20TH Century Anarchist

7.4 Good

15

Celia Sánchez

Celia Sánchez was a Cuban revolutionary who organized support for the Granma expedition and became a key member of Fidel...

Organizer Cuban 20TH Century Cuba

7.3 Good

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Karl Liebknecht

Karl Liebknecht was a German socialist who opposed World War I, co-founded the Spartacus League, and was killed after th...

Germany Organizer 20TH Century Marxist

7.3 Good

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Kim Gu

Kim Gu was a Korean independence activist who led the Korean Provisional Government in exile and opposed the peninsula's...

Organizer 20TH Century Korea Independence

7.3 Good

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Mehdi Ben Barka

Moroccan politician Mehdi Ben Barka led the radical wing of the National Union of Popular Forces before his infamous, st...

20TH Century Moroccan Pan African Socialist

7.2 Good

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Haydée Santamaría

Haydée Santamaría was a Cuban revolutionary who survived the 1953 Moncada attack and later founded the Casa de las Améri...

Organizer Cuban 20TH Century Cuba

7.1 Good

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Antonio Guiteras

Antonio Guiteras was a prominent Cuban revolutionary who served as Minister of the Interior during the 1933 revolution,...

Cuban 20TH Century Socialist Martyr

7.1 Good