Activities and affiliations

What people did, and whom they served in that activity.

Activity

All 1 Ideology and propaganda 1

State, movement or organization

All 103 Soviet Union 60 Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 10 Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) 5 People’s Republic of China 5 Hungary 3 Soviet Ukraine 2 Comintern 2 Benin 1 National Liberation Front (FLN, Algeria) 1
All 18 affiliations by country

Algeria

National Liberation Front (FLN, Algeria) 1

Benin

Benin 1

China

People’s Republic of China 5

East Germany

Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) 5

Germany

Germany state institutions 1 Nazi party and regime 1 Communist Party of Germany (KPD) 1

Hungary

Hungary 3 Party of Communists in Hungary (KMP) 1 Hungarian Working People's Party (MDP) 1

International organizations

Comintern 2 International Workingmen's Association (First International) 1

Russia

Russian Empire 1 Socialist Revolutionary Party (PSR/SR) 1

Soviet Union

Soviet Communist Party and Bolsheviks 10 Soviet Union 60

Ukraine

↳ Soviet Ukraine 2 Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine (Makhnovists) 1

Ideology and propaganda · National Liberation Front (FLN, Algeria) people 1

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Frantz Fanon

Frantz Fanon
National Liberation Front (FLN, Algeria) National liberation and anti-colonial movements France Martinique 1925–1961 ○ Illness

The psychiatrist who diagnosed colonialism itself as the disease

“For Europe, for ourselves and for humanity, comrades, we must set afoot a new man.” — The Wretched of the Earth, 1961

Psychiatrist and anti-colonial revolutionary from Martinique. His Black Skin, White Masks (1952) dissected the psychological violence of colonialism; The Wretched of the Earth (1961) theorized the liberation struggle. Joined the Algerian FLN and died of leukemia at thirty-six.

Career timeline
  • 1944–1945Fights with the Free French forces
  • 1952Black Skin, White Masks
  • 1953–1956Runs the Blida hospital, treating torture's victims and its practitioners alike
  • 1956–1961Joins the FLN; editor and roving ambassador
  • 1961The Wretched of the Earth; dies of leukemia