swap_horiz Mehdi Ben Barka Alternatives

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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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Bhagat Singh

Bhagat Singh was a prominent Indian socialist revolutionary who became a key figure in the movement for India's independ...

India 20TH Century Independence Socialist

8.3 Great

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Julius Nyerere

Julius Nyerere (1922–1999) was a Tanzanian anti-colonial activist, politician, and former teacher who served as the firs...

20TH Century President Tanzania Socialist

8.3 Great

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Kwame Nkrumah

Kwame Nkrumah was a Ghanaian revolutionary and statesman who played a central role in the decolonization of Africa. He l...

20TH Century President Ghana Pan African

8.2 Great

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Fred Hampton

Fred Hampton was an African American activist and chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party during the...

USA Organizer 20TH Century Black Panther

8.1 Great

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James Connolly

James Connolly was an Irish republican and socialist leader who played a prominent role in the labor movement of the ear...

20TH Century Republican Ireland Irish

7.9 Good

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Stokely Carmichael

Stokely Carmichael, later known as Kwame Ture, was a Trinidad-born civil rights organizer, Black Power advocate, and Pan...

American 20TH Century Black Power Pan African

7.9 Good

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Ruth First

Ruth First was a prominent South African anti-apartheid activist, journalist, and academic who played a significant role...

20TH Century South African Feminist Martyr

7.9 Good

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Imre Nagy

Imre Nagy was a Hungarian communist politician who served as Prime Minister of Hungary on two separate occasions, most n...

Hungarian 20TH Century Martyr Communist

7.8 Good

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Huey P. Newton

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

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 for Self-Defense with Huey P. Newto...

American 20TH Century Black Panther Socialist

7.5 Good

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Qiu Jin

Qiu Jin was a Chinese writer, poet, feminist, and anti-Qing revolutionary active in the years before the 1911 Revolution...

China 20TH Century Feminist Martyr

7.3 Good

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Nikolai Bukharin

Nikolai Bukharin was a prominent Russian Bolshevik revolutionary, Marxist theorist, and high-ranking Soviet politician....

Russian 20TH Century Theorist Martyr

7.2 Good

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Pedro Albizu Campos

Pedro Albizu Campos (1891-1965) was a Puerto Rican attorney and prominent independence leader who served as president of...

20TH Century Independence Nationalist Martyr

7.1 Good

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Antonio Guiteras

Antonio Guiteras Holmes was a Cuban politician and revolutionary leader who played a central role in the Cuban Revolutio...

Cuban 20TH Century Socialist Martyr

7.1 Good

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Julio Antonio Mella

Julio Antonio Mella was a Cuban student activist, journalist, and revolutionary associated with the development of organ...

Student Cuban 20TH Century Martyr

7.0 Good

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Ashfaqulla Khan

Ashfaqulla Khan was an Indian revolutionary and a member of the Hindustan Republican Association. He was executed in 192...

India 20TH Century Independence Martyr

6.7 Fair

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Modibo Keïta

Modibo Keïta was a Malian politician who led the country at independence and became the first president of the Republic...

20TH Century Independence Pan African Malian

6.7 Fair

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Grigory Zinoviev

Grigory Zinoviev was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet politician who became one of Vladimir Lenin’s close as...

Russian 20TH Century Martyr Bolshevik

6.7 Fair

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Udham Singh

Udham Singh (1899-1940) was an Indian revolutionary who gained notoriety for the assassination of Michael O'Dwyer in Lon...

India 20TH Century Independence Martyr

6.6 Fair