Leftist politics and history - II

1. Rosa Luxemburg was a Communist revolutionary. Though born in Poland in 1871, she resided in Germany in the late 1910s. She partially led the The Spartacus League which advocated for a socialist revolution in Germany. In January 1919, age 47, she was captured and murdered by anti-communist ________ paramilitary, who were deployed by the government to crush the ill-prepared uprising.

2. Luxemburg was murdered alongside what other Marxist revolutionary?

3. What military officer, Marxist revolutionary and Pan-Africanist became President of Burkina Faso from 1983, when he took over in a coup, until his assassination in 1987?

4. Nwame Nkrumah was a socialist and revolutionary who helped lead what country to independence from Britain in 1957?

5. Amílcar Cabral was a Pan-African leader deeply influenced by Marxism. Also known by the nom de guerre Abel Djassi, he led the nationalist movement of Guinea-Bissau and the Cape Verde Islands and the ensuing war of independence in Guinea-Bissau. What happened to him?

6. A Civil War between 1936-39, fought from 1936 to 1939 in ______between the Republicans and the Nationalists. Republicans were loyal to the left-leaning Popular Front government of the Second Spanish Republic. Te opposing Nationalists were an alliance of Falangists, monarchists, conservatives, and traditionalists led by a military junta among whom General Francisco Franco quickly achieved a preponderant role

7. A Spanish anarcho-syndicalist trade union confederation (three initials).

8. A French anarchist, socialist, philosopher, and economist who founded mutualist philosophy and is considered by many to be the "father of anarchism".

9. A Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary and the commander of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine during the Ukrainian War of Independence from 1917-1921.

10. An Italian anarchist propagandist, theorist and revolutionary socialist. He edited several radical newspapers and spent much of his life exiled and imprisoned, having been jailed and expelled from Italy, Britain, France, and Switzerland

11. A Russian revolutionary anarchist. He is among the most influential figures of anarchism and a major figure in the revolutionary socialist, social anarchist, and collectivist anarchist traditions.

12. A Lithuanian-born revolutionary anarchist, political activist, and writer. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the 20th century.

13. uMkhonto_weSizwe ('Spear of the Nation') was the paramilitary wing of the ANC in ______?

14. Deolinda Rodrigues Francisco de Almeida (1939 – 1968) was a revolutionary, writer, and poet. She was a member of the MPLA, a Marxist party in _______. She was captured and executed by members of the FNLA at the age of 28.

15. Anti-colonialist psychiatrist Franz Fanon, though from Martinique, would travel to what country in northern Africa in the 1960s, to fight within the liberation movement?

16. Franz Fanon wrote two very popular books - Wretched of the Earth in 1961, about the dehumanizing effects of colonization upon the individual and the nation,& ________ in 1952, an autoethnography, with Fanon sharing his own experiences while presenting a historical critique of the effects of racism and dehumanization, inherent in situations of colonial domination, on the human psyche?

17. The main leftist (mainstream) party in Turkey - mainly Kurdish, the party places a strong emphasis on participatory and radical democracy, feminism, minority rights, youth rights, and egalitarianism.

18. A revolutionary form of feminism and of gender equality advocated by many leftist Kurdish political organisations.

19. A movement for transferring the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution to workers' unions ._____ developed in the late 19th century and was at its most vigorous between 1900 and 1914, particularly in France, Italy, Spain, and the US.

20. The ________ School is a school of thought in sociology and critical philosophy. It is associated with the Institute for Social Research founded at Goethe University in 1923. Formed during the Weimar Republic during the European interwar period, the first generation of the _________ School was composed of intellectuals, academics, and political dissidents dissatisfied with the socio-economic systems of the 1930s: namely, capitalism, fascism, and communism. Significant figures associated with the school include Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Wilhelm Reich, Herbert Marcuse, and Jürgen Habermas.

21. Elaine Brown is an American prison activist, writer, singer, and former Black Panther Party chairwoman who is based in Oakland, California. She briefly ran for the Green Party presidential nomination in 2008. She wrote an autobiography in 1992 called "A taste of ____"

22. What black revolutionary and founder of the anti-racist, anti-classist Rainbow Coalition who, on 4 December 1969 was shot and killed in his bed during a predawn raid at his Chicago apartment by a tactical unit of the Cook County?

23. What Marxist–Leninist and black power political organization was founded by college students Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton in October 1966?

24. During the Russian Civil War (1917-1922), the Bolsheviks, also known as the Reds, fought against the _____ Army, a diverse coalition of anti-Bolshevik forces composed of monarchists, liberals, and other groups opposing the Bolshevik government

25. The last Tsar of Russia, overthrown by the Bolsheviks in 1917