in memory
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Jorge Farinacci, Puerto Rican socialist leader, 1949-2006
Jorge Farinacci García, the spokesperson for Puerto Rico’s Socialist Front and lifelong independence and socialist leader, died on Aug. 26…
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Joey Ramirez: Revolutionary organizer and working-class activist
The Party for Socialism and Liberation mourns and remembers Joey Ramirez, a great friend and comrade in the revolutionary struggle,…
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Champion in the struggle against racism and police brutality
Michael Zinzun, former Black Panther and founder of the Coalition Against Police Abuse, died on Sunday, July 9, at his…
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John Black: Tireless fighter for workers’ & civil rights
John Black, a lifelong socialist and advocate for workers’ and civil rights, died on Mar. 7 after a prolonged illness.…
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Gordon Parks: civil rights photographer, 1912-2006
On March 7, Gordon Parks, one of the 20th century’s most influential social documentary photographers, died in his home in…
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Remembering Langston Hughes
Good morning, Revolution: You’re the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on. —…
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Remembering Patrice Lumumba
Forty-five years ago, Congolese liberation leader Patrice Lumumba was assassinated in a CIA-organized death trap. He was 43 years old.…
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Zhang Chunqiao: Communist leader of China’s Cultural Revolution
Veteran Chinese communist Zhang Chunqiao died of throat cancer on April 21, 2005, at the age of 88. The official…
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Ossie Davis: Artist and voice for equality, 1917-2005
Ossie Davis—actor, director, writer and militant civil rights activist—died in Miami on Feb. 4. He was 87. The son of…
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James Forman: A revolutionary life, 1928-2005
African American civil rights leader James Rufus Forman died of cancer on Jan. 10, 2005, at the age of 76.…
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