| Hint | Marxist | Birth-Death |
| Hungarian philosopher, writer, and literary critic. Commissar for Culture and Education in Hungary's short-lived Socialist government of 1919 | |
| Commonly thought to have held together his ethnically divided nation, which descended into ethnic warfare after his death | |
| Born in Palestine to Zionist parents in 1917, became a prominent British Trotskyist and leader of International Socialism, which later became the SWP | |
| Wrote an acclaimed 3 volume biography of Trotsky | |
| Murdered with Rosa Luxemburg in 1919 | |
| Belgian theorist linked with the Fourth International | |
| British campaigning journalist and nephew of a former Labour leader | |
| One time husband of the artist Frida Kahlo | |
| American Sociologist, author of 'The Power Elite' | |
| Chilean singer, recently exhumed and reburied. Murdered by the Pinochet government | |