Leftist politics and history - I

1. A famous leftist 60's black and white film which was banned for a time in France, for its accurate portrayal of urban guerilla forces fighting for Algerian independence against France.

2. Which of these women did NOT fight in the Algerian war of Independence with the FLN?

3. A famous film by socialist filmmaker Ken Loach about the Irish fight for independence.

4. Easter Rising was a leftist uprising in Dublin in 1919. It was quickly suppressed by the British. Which of these people was NOT at easter rising?

5. What was the name of the British soldiers brought into Ireland to help suppress revolutionary independence efforts?

6. Which of these people is an anarchist, NOT a socialist?

7. Which of these people is an socialist, NOT an anarchist?

8. A famous Yugoslavian partisan who fought fascists and led Yugoslavia until his death in 1980, at the age of 87.

9. What year did the Paris Commune take place?

10. In Marxist theory, the excess of value produced by the labour of workers over the wages they are paid.

11. The leftist, indigenous Zapatista uprising took place in Southern Mexico in what year?

12. In what state did the Zapatista uprising take place?

13. What's the name of the most well known male Zapatista leader? Subcomandante _______.

14. What's the name of the most well know female Zapatista leader? Comandanta _______.

15. Which of these is NOT an theory within Marxist doctrine?

16. What country was Marxist theorist Antonio Francesco Gramsci from?

17. Antonio Francesco Gramsci was an Italian Marxist philosopher, linguist, journalist, writer, and politician. He wrote on philosophy, political theory, sociology, history, and linguistics. He was a founding member and one-time leader of the Italian Communist Party. Imprisoned for 11 years, he wrote several prison journals. What Marxist theory is widely attributed to Gramsci?

18. Fusako Shigenobu is a Japanese communist activist, writer, and the founder and leader of the now-disbanded terrorist group. She is currently in prison.

19. Who wrote the book "Orientalism", published in 1978. A book about how the representation of Asia is represented in the West in a stereotyped way that is regarded as embodying a colonialist attitude.

20. A German Marxist, philosopher, musicologist, and social theorist. He was a leading member of the Frankfurt School of critical theory, Theodor _____