Politics Archives - Page 26 of 56

Andrée Blouin

A pivotal figure in the African independence movement of the 1960s.

Alina Pienkowska

Alina Pienkowska was a nurse who played a significant role in the Solidarność movement against the communist regime in Poland.

Fatima Jinnah

Fatima Jinnah was a prominent Pakistani politician and served as the Leader of the Opposition in Pakistan from 1960 until her passing in 1967.

Lucía Sánchez Saornil is known for co-founding the Mujeres Libres organization with Mercedes Comaposada and Amparo Poch y Gascón. She was passionate about self-education and wrote poetry (under the male pen name Luciano de San Saor) about industrialism, religion, marriage, anarchism, and economic revolution. She also expressed lesbian desire in times when queerness was not only not accepted but risked arrest.

María Cano

María de los Ángeles Cano Márquez was a pioneering Colombian poet, writer, and the country’s first female political leader. Known as the “Labor Flower,” she championed civil rights and workers’ rights, leading strikes and co-founding the Socialist Revolutionary Party.