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The Countess Markiewicz (1887-1927). Photo: Wikimedia

Ready to die for Ireland one way or another: the rebel Countess

Engels: giant of the socialist movement – video

Engels in his twenties. Photo: Public Domain

Engels: a working class hero

Mary Wollstonecraft by John Opie. Photo: National Portrait Gallery / Public Domain

Who was Mary Wollstonecraft?

Jacqueline Mulhallen

Walter Rodney tribute. Photo: Walter Rodney Foundation

Walter Rodney: Marxist, Pan-African, organic intellectual

Royal Court Theatre where Sizwe Bansi is Dead and The Island were performed. Photo: Tom Bayly / Wikimedia Commons / Grayscale / CC BY-SA 2.0, license linked at bottom of article

Theatre and the struggle against apartheid

Jacqueline Mulhallen

Jack Johnson fights James J Jeffries, 1910. Photo: Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain

Confronting boxing’s segregation history

Sharde Thomas’s Rising Star Fife and Drum Band. Photo: Christophe Losberger/cropped from original/licensed under CC 4.0, linked at the bottom of article

What about the beat?

Photo: Pixabay / Public Domain

The revolutionary Beethoven

Rashaan Roland Kirk at Ronnie Scott’s. Photo: Del de la Haye / Wikimedia Commons / cropped and banner added to original / CC BY-SA 2.0, license linked at bottom of article

‘True Black music will be heard tonight’: the life, music and politics of Rahsaan Roland Kirk

Union Meeting. An unidentified woman and Sylvia Lawrence read the “Sharecroppers’ Voice”. Photo: Louise Boyle/Kheel Center/Cropped and banner added to original/licensed under CC 2.0, linked at the bottom of article

The Sharecroppers’ Union: against landlord, sheriff and Klan

Reuben Bard-Rosenberg

Flag of the state of Greater Lebanon during the French mandate. Photo: public domain

Macron in Beirut: stagecraft in the service of imperialism

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