The English civil war radicals were great heroes to Benn because they were early advocates of democratic principles.
He received an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actor for his stirring performance as a gifted son of two anti-Vietnam War radicals on the lam in Running on Empty (1988).
We might focus on resistance to the land thefts known as the inclosures, which forced self-sufficient rural communities into urban slums; or the peasants' revolt; or the uprising of Jack Cade; or the civil war radicals; or the anti-capitalist rebellion of the Luddites, which happened two centuries ago this year.
Russia recalls how, after the Afghan war, radical Wahhabi-style Islam spread out from Afghanistan and reached up into Central Asia.
Intriguingly, given the Middle East's dogged commitment to R&D in this particular field, Baer's final example came from the American heartland again – the 1970 bombing of a Wisconsin University maths research centre, targeted by anti-war radicals because it was sponsored by the Pentagon.
The least of these, though still irritating, is the view of many visible anti-war "radicals" that says the United States never really withdrew from Iraq, but instead secretly left behind tens of thousands of Special Forces in disguise.
In the upheaval brought on by the wars, radical groups appeared that both challenged and advanced the Puritan vision of the New Jerusalem.
It was at the turn of the millennium, as the post-cold-war radical left began to coalesce around a series of anti-globalisation protests in the US and Europe, that Colau became more actively involved in politics.
2004: John Kerry"You might have thought that, three years after a devastating terrorist attack on American soil, a period which has featured two wars, radical political and economic legislation, and an adjustment to one of the biggest stockmarket crashes in history, the campaign for the presidency would be an especially elevated and notable affair.
YOU might have thought that, three years after a devastating terrorist attack on American soil, a period which has featured two wars, radical political and economic legislation, and an adjustment to one of the biggest stockmarket crashes in history, the campaign for the presidency would be an especially elevated and notable affair.
Unlike Kovic, Corsetti was not visibly, physically maimed and hasn't yet become a full-fledged anti-war radical, but he's someone whose soul seems to be struggling hard to cope with the ugliness of America's Darkness at Noon-style treatment of combat detainees in Afghanistan and Iraq.
