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Preface: In Praise of Dissent
Acknowledgments
The Verso Book of Dissent: From Spartacus to the Shoe-Thrower of Baghdad
ca. 1800 BCE: Anonymous
ca. 700 BCE: Hesiod
ca. 590 BCE: Sappho
ca. 522 BCE: Herodotus
ca. 415 BCE: Thucydides
399 BCE: Plato
ca. 300 BCE: Qu Yuan
ca. 200 BCE: Thiruvalluvar
ca. 100 BCE: Anonymous
ca. 95 BCE: Sima Qian
63 BCE: Sallust
ca. 83 CE: Tacitus
ca. 150: Spartacus
300s: Basil of Caesaria
869: Ali ibn Muhammad
900s: Civavakkiyar
ca. 1000: Abu Ala Al-Ma’ari
1198: Manjok
1300s: Anonymous
1381: John Ball
1400s: Pattirakiriyar
1400s: Le Loi
1400s: Skanderbeg
1450: Jack Cade
1511: Hatuey
1517: Martin Luther
1524: Thomas Müntzer
1532: François Rabelais
1548: Étienne de La Boétie
1579: Stephen Junius Brutus
1613: Fakhr al-Din II
1615: Guaman Poma de Ayala
1647: The Levellers
1647: Laurence Clarkson
1647: Thomas Rainsborough
1649: Gerrard Winstanley
1650: The Ranters
1660: James Naylor
1670: Benedict Spinoza
1674: John Milton
1677: Andrew Marvell
1681: Juana Inés de la Cruz
1773: Peter Bestes et al.
1775: Patrick Henry
1776: Abigail Adams
1776: John Hancock et al.
1781: Tupac Amaru II
1781: Tupac Katari
1786: Plough Jogger
1787: Thomas Jefferson
1789: National Constituent Assembly
1792: Olympe de Gouges
1792: Maximilien Robespierre
1793: Thomas Paine
1794: Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
1795: Marquis de Sade
1796: Wolfe Tone
1796: Sylvain Maréchal
1796: Thomas Spence
1797: Toussaint L’ouverture
1797: James Tytler
1798: Irish Saying
ca. 1800: Ho Xuan Huong
1808: Charles Fourier
1810: Miguel Hidalgo
1811: Tecumseh
ca. 1812: Luddites
1813: Simón Bolívar
1815: Lord Byron
1819: Percy Bysshe Shelley
1829: George Henry Evans
1829: David Walker
1830: Frances Wright
1831: Ludwig Boerne
1831: William Lloyd Garrison
1831: Nat Turner
1832: Louis-Auguste Blanqui
1832: Samuel Sharpe
1835: Abd al-Qadir al-Jaza’iri
1835: Maria Stewart
1836: William Apess
1836: Angelina Grimke
1838: Sarah Grimke
1838: The Chartists
1840: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
1840: Louis Blanc
1844: Heinrich Heine
1845: Friedrich Engels
1848: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
1849: Henry David Thoreau
1850: Alexander Herzen
1850: Walt Whitman
1851: Sojourner Truth
1852: Frederick Douglass
1852: Elizabeth Oakes Smith
1855: Santhal Rebellion
1855: Muktabai
1856: Du Wenxiu
1858: Tanyus Shahin
1858: Rani Lakshmibai
1860: Giuseppe Garibaldi
1865: Ira Steward
1866: Mikhail Bakunin
1867: Sitting Bull
1870: Julia Ward Howe
1871: Paris Communards
1871: Paris Communards
1871: Victoria Woodhull
1875: Sioux Warriors
1876: Susan B. Anthony
1876: Wenya Boatman
1877: Joseph A. Dacus
1879: Heinmot Tooyalaket
1880: Robert Ingersoll
1882: Tarabai Shinde
1884: Lucy Parsons
1880s: Nguyen Quang Bich
1885: Louis Riel
1886: Anna Julia Cooper
1887: José Rizal
1887: Louis Lingg
1887: Wong Chin Foo
1888: Anonymous
1890: Antonio Maceo
1890: Jacob Riis
1891: Oscar Wilde
1891: José Martí
1891: Mary Elizabeth Lease
1892: Ohashi Genzaburo
1892: Ida B. Wells-Barnett
1894: William Morris
1894: Donghak Rebellion
1894: Edward Carpenter
1894: Bahta Hagos
1894: Pullman Workers
1896: Clara Zetkin
1898: Émile Zola
1898: Queen Lili’uokalani
1898: Joseph Conrad
1898: Bal Gangadhar Tilak
1899: Boxers (“Righteous Fists of Harmony”)
1900s: Kanno Suga
e. 1900s: Anonymous
e. 1900s: Herero Man
1901: John Muir
1903: Zou Rong
1904: R. A. Kartini
1905: Industrial Workers of the World
1905: Rokeya Sakawat Hossein
1905: Maji-Maji Rebellion
1905: Tonkin Free School
1905: Upton Sinclair
1906: Phan Boi Chau
1908: Olive Schreiner
1908: William Sheppard
1911: Charles Domingo
1911: Emiliano Zapata
1911: Emma Goldman
1911: Helen Keller
1911: William “Big Bill” Haywood
1912: Lawrence Strikers
1912: Mother Jones
1913: Black Women’s Protest
1914: Emmeline Pankhurst
1914: Ito Noe
1914: Mekatilili wa Menza
1914: James Connolly
1914: Anonymous
1915: Rosa Luxemburg
1915: Alfred Bryan
1915: Clyde Workers’ Committee
1915: Joe Hill
1915: William Blake
1916: Easter Rising
1917: Randolph Bourne
1917: V. I. Lenin
1917: Mohammed Abdulla Hassan
1918: Sidney Webb
1918: Lu Xun
1918: Tristan Tzara
1918: Eugene Debs
1918: Garegin Pasdermajian
1918: John Maclean
1919: Rabindranath Tagore
1919: John Reed
1919: Eugen Leviné
1919: Chen Duxiu
1919: Claude Mckay
1919: Hubert R. Harrison
1920: Alexandra Kollontai
1920: Ho Chi Minh
1920: W. A. Domingo
1920: Li Dazhao
1920: Wadi al-Bustani
1920: Al-Kinana
1920s: Vera Figner
1920s: Abdukhaliq “Uyghur”
1920: Revolutionary War Council of the Persian Red Army
1921: Kronstadt Rebels
1922: Kazi Nazrul Islam
1922: Sen Katayama
1924: Huda Shaarawi
1924: Vladimir Mayakovsky
1925: Nguyen An Ninh
1925: José Carlos Mariátegui
1927: Lamine Senghor
1927: Mao Zedong
1927: Nicola Sacco
1927: Kitahara Taisaku
1928: Victor Serge
1930: Mohandas K. Gandhi
1930: John Dos Passos
1930: Pedro Albizu Campos
1930s: Ibrahim Tuqan
1930s: Anonymous
1931: Aunt Molly Jackson
1931: Bhagat Singh
1931: Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre
1932: Lala Har Dayal
1933: Osip Mandelstam
1933–4: Antonio Gramsci
1935: Abd al-Rahim Mahmud
1935: Carlos Bulosan
1935: Clifford Odets
1935: W. E. B. Du Bois
1935: Mike Gold
1936: Buenaventura Durruti
1936: Nyo Mya
1936: La Pasionaria
1936: Mahmoud Abou Deeb
1936: George Padmore
1937: B. R. Ambedkar
1937: Angelo Herndon
1937: International African Service Bureau
1938: C. L. R. James
1938: Lead Belly
1939: Richard Wright
1939: Abel Meeropol
1939: Dalton Trumbo
1939: Josephine Herbst
1940: Bertolt Brecht
1940: Leon Trotsky
1940: J. B. Priestly
1940: Nâzim Hikmet
1940: George Orwell
1940: Walter Benjamin
1941: Yuri Kochiyama
1942: A. Philip Randolph
1943: Marek Edelman
1943: The White Rose
1944: Eric Williams
1944: Theodor Adorno
1945: Fifth Pan-African Congress
1945: Leopold Senghor
1946: Matsushima Shotaro
1946: Juan José Arévalo
1947: Faiz Ahmed Faiz
1947: Min Sheng Pao
1947: Abu Salma
1947: Jawaharlal Nehru
ca. 1947: Kurihara Sadako
1948: Jorge Eliécer Gaitán
1948: Muhammad Mahdi al-Jawahiri
1948: To Huu
1948: American Jewish Intellectuals
1948: Tan Malaka
1948: Woody Guthrie
ca. 1948: Saeki Jinzaburo
1949: Albert Einstein
1949: Aldo Leopold
1949: Simone de Beauvoir
ca. 1950: Yamashiro Tomoe
1950s: Dedan Kimathi
1950: Pablo Neruda
1951: Eduardo Chibas
1951: Langston Hughes
1952: Lillian Hellman
1953: Luis Taruc
1953: Mohammad Mossadegh
1954: Adelaide Casely Hayford
1954: Edward Murrow
1954: Lolita Lebrón
1954: Lyn Pederson
1955: Alex Comfort
1955: Sukarno
1955: Bertrand Russell et al.
1955: Women’s Political Council
1955: Forugh Farrokhzad
1956: Federation of South African Women
1956: Umm Kulthum
1956: Gamal Abdel Nasser
1956: Allen Ginsberg
1956: Rigoberto López Pérez
1957: Jit Poumisak
1957: Djamila Bouhired
1958: Guy Debord
1958: Fidel Castro
1959: Robert F. Williams
1959: C. Wright Mills
1960: Isaac Deutscher
1960: Anonymous
1960: Maurice Blanchot, Claude Lanzmann, Jean-Paul Sartre, et al.
1960s: Dom Hélder Câmara
1960s: Smash the Security Treaty
1960s: Tewolde Redda
1960: Ousmane Sembène
1960: Patrice Lumumba
1960: Phyllis Ntantala
1961: Frantz Fanon
1961: Wu Han
1961: Javier Heraud
1962: Jalal Al-e-Ahmad
1962: Obafemi Awolowo
1963: Sam Cooke
1963: Nguyen Tuong Tam
1963: Betty Friedan
1963: Kurt Vonnegut
1964: Nelson Mandela
1964: Mario Savio
1964: Herbert Marcuse
1964: Malcolm X
1964: Amilcar Cabral
1964: Jean-Paul Sartre
1964: Nina Simone
1965: Fannie Lou Hamer
1965: Casey Hayden and Mary King
1965: Paul Potter
1965: Jorge Rebelo
1965: Ernesto “Che” Guevara
1966: Gillo Pontecorvo
1966: Hugo Blanco
1966: Stokely Carmichael
1967: Wole Soyinka
1967: Oginga Odinga
1967: Régis Debray
1967: Kwame Nkrumah
1967: Nizar Qabbani
1967: Miguel Ángel Asturias
1967: Huey P. Newton
1967: H. Rap Brown
1967: Martin Luther King, Jr.
1968: Tariq Ali
1968: Paulo Freire
1968: Anonymous
1968: Dennis Brutus
1968: Daniel Cohn-Bendit and Gabriel Cohn-Bendit
1968: Columbia Student Demonstrations
1968: Valerie Solanas
1968: Andrei Sakharov
1968: Ed Sanders
1969: Walter Rodney
1969: Erich Fried
1969: Fred Hampton
1969: Frank Bardacke
1969: Gay Cheerleaders
1969: César Chávez
1969: Indians of All Tribes
1970s: Mutimati Barnabé João
1970: The Weather Underground
1970: Muhammed Ali
1970: Radicalesbians
1970: Pat Mainardi
1971: Three Marias
1971: Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales
1971: John Lennon
1971: Antonio Agostinho Neto
1971: Daniel Ellsberg
1971: Marvin Gaye
1972: Ali Shariati
1973: Victor Jara
1973: Salvador Allende
1973: Carlos Fonseca
1973: Samora Machel
1973: Bessie Head
1974: Gil Scott-Heron
1974: Ursula Le Guin
1975: Carlos Mejía Godoy
1975: Peter Singer
1976: Bei Dao
1976: Ngugi wa Thiong’o and Ngugi wa Mirii
1977: Czech Activists
1977: Fela Kuti
1977: Saida Menebhi
1977: Julius Kambarage Nyerere
1977: James Baldwin
1977: Rodolfo Walsh
1978: Subhas Mukhopadhyay
1978: Domitila Barrios de Chungara
1978: Oscar Romero
1978: Wei Jingsheng
1978: Yolanda Lopez
1978: Michele Wallace
1978: Audre Lorde
1978: Steve Biko
1978: Edward Said
1979: Ling Bing (“Icicle”)
1980s: Anonymous
1980: Congregation for the Democratization of Chonnam Province
1981: Andrea Dworkin
1980s: Alfredo Navarro Salanga
1981: Maurice Bishop
1982: Sanrizuka-Shibayama Farmers’ League Against the New Tokyo International Airport
1983: Ernesto Cardenal
1984–85: Great Miners’ Strike
1984: Rigoberta Menchú
1984: Park No-Hae
1985: Dave Foreman
1985: Thomas Sankara
1986: Anonymous
1986: Wiji Thukul
1986: Eduardo Galeano
1987: Act Up
1988: Daisy Zamora
1988: Mahmoud Darwish
1989: E. M. S. Namboodiripad
1989: Hou Dejian
1989: Adam Michnik
1989: Public Enemy
1989: Beijing Workers’ Autonomous Federation
1990: Michel Foucault
1990: Aung San Suu Kyi
1990: Paul Foot
1991: Wangari Maathai
1991: Maria Elena Moyano
1992: Crips and Bloods
1993: Grace Lee Boggs
1993: General Union of Palestinian Women
1994: Zapatista Army of National Liberation
1994: Subcomandante Marcos
1995: Ken Saro-Wiwa
1996: John Perry Barlow
1997: Anti-Suharto Movement
1997: Musa Abu Marzuq
1997: Hassan Nasrallah
1998: Abdullah Öcalan
1998: 2Pac
1998: Angela Davis
1999: Aharon Shabtai
1999: ACME Collective
1999: Sergio Ramírez
2000s: Miguel Alves dos Santos
2000: Leonard Peltier
2001: Naomi Klein
2001: Assata Shakur
2003: Noam Chomsky
2003: Omar Little
2003: Trevor Ngwane
2003: Saadi Youssef
2004: Arundhati Roy
2004: Tinariwen
2005: Harold Pinter
2005: Evo Morales
2005: Palestinian Civil Society Organizations
2005: S’bu Zikode
2006: Alejandro Quiroga
2006: Hugo Chávez
2007: Digg & Internet Geeks
2007: Jumah al-Dossari
2008: Sampat Pal Devi
2008: Chinese Writers
2008: Athens School of Economics and Business Students
2008: Woeser
2009: Muntazer al-Zaidi
2009: Green Movement
2009: Liu Xiaobo
2010: Henning Mankell
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