People of the Revolution and the USSR

Activity
Any Ideology and propaganda 1
Affiliation(set)

Most people

Any Communist Party of Vietnam / Workers' Party of Vietnam 4 Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) 4 Angolastate 3 Vietnamstate 3 Communist Party of China 3 Workers' Party of North Korea 3 Chinese Communist revolutionary forces (before 1949) 2 Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) 2 National Liberation Front (FLN, Algeria) 1

All 34 affiliations

Algeria

National Liberation Front (FLN, Algeria) 1

Angola

Angolastate 3 Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) 4

Cambodia

Cambodia state institutionsstate 1

China

Communist Party of China 3 Kuomintang 1 ↳ Chinese Communist revolutionary forces (before 1949) 2

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) 2 New People's Party of Korea 1 Democratic Party of Korea 1 Workers' Party of North Korea 3 Democratic People’s Republic of Koreastate 2

DR Congo

DR Congo state institutionsstate 1 Congolese National Movement (MNC) 1

France

French Communist Party (PCF) 1 French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) 1

Ghana

Ghana state institutionsstate 1

Guinea-Bissau

African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) 1

India

India state institutionsstate 1 Indian National Congress 2

Indonesia

Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI) 1

International organizations

Comintern 1

Korea

Korean independence movement 1

Mozambique

Mozambiquestate 1 Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) 2

South Africa

South African Communist Party (SACP) 2 African National Congress (ANC) 2 Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) 1

South Korea

Communist Party of Korea 1 Workers' Party of South Korea 1

Tanzania

Tanzania state institutionsstate 1

United States

Communist Party USA (CPUSA) 1

Vietnam

Vietnamstate 3 Communist Party of Vietnam / Workers' Party of Vietnam 4
Position(set)
Any National liberation and anti-colonial movements 1
Citizenship
Any France 1
Background
Any Martinique 1
Era
Any

People of the wider world

The Cold War and decolonization1945–현재 1
National Liberation Front (FLN, Algeria) National liberation and anti-colonial movements Clear all
GlossaryNational Liberation Front (FLN, Algeria)

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