Category
page 1Jewish communists
Karl Marx
German-born philosopher (1818-1883)
Rosa Luxemburg
Polish-German Marxist revolutionary (1871–1919)
Leon Trotsky
Russian Marxist revolutionary (1879–1940)

Wilhelm Reich
Austrian-American psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, sex educator and sociologist (1897–1957)
Mátyás Rákosi
former First Secretary of the Hungarian Working People's Party (1892-1971)
Genrikh Yagoda
Soviet secret police official (1891–1938)
Yakov Sverdlov
Soviet politician

Moses Hess
German philosopher (1812–1875)
Ana Pauker
Romanian politician (1893-1960)

Kurt Eisner
German politician and journalist (1867-1919)

Morris Swadesh
American linguist (1909–1967)
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
American couple executed for spying for the Soviet Union

Ilan Pappé
Israeli-British historian (born 1954)

Laura Marx
daughter of Karl Marx (1845–1911)
Joe Slovo
South African politician (1926-1995)
Friedrich Wolf
German writer (1888-1953)
Leslie Feinberg
American transgender activist and writer (1949–2014)
Salomon Morel
Holocaust survivor accused of war crimes by Polish government
Jenny Longuet
Karl Marx's eldest daughter (1844-1883)
Yehuda Ashlag
Orthodox Jewish Rabbi and Kabbalist
Meir Vilner
Israeli communist politician
Clara Lemlich
Union organizer, suffragist, activist (1886-1982)
Albert Maltz
American writer (1908–1985)
Masha Bruskina
Soviet Belarusian partisan
Vladimir Herzog
Brazilian journalist (1937–1975)
Dov Khenin
Israeli politician
Adolf Berman
Israeli politician (1906–1978)
Edmond Amran El Maleh
Moroccan writer (1917–2010)
Abraham Serfaty
Moroccan activist (1926-2010)
Bettina Aptheker
American political activist, feminist, professor and author

Moshe Sneh
Israeli politician (1909-1972)
David Greenglass
Atomic spy for the Soviet Union (1922–2014)
Otto Katz
Czech publicist (1895-1952)

Bernardine Dohrn
American radical activist and law professor

Lars Hedegaard
Danish writer
Éric Hazan
French writer and publisher (1936–2024)

Varvara Yakovleva
Russian bolshevik politician (1885–1941)
Shimon Avidan
Israeli military officer
Volodia Teitelboim
Chilean lawyer, politician, and writer.
Alexander Penn
Israeli poet (1906–1972)
Tamar Gozansky
Israeli politician
Morton Sobell
American spy for the Soviet Union (1917-2018)
Margarete Wittkowski
German politician and economist (1910-1974)
Chana Gitla Kowalska
Polish painter (1899-1942)
Yitzhak Wittenberg
Jewish resistance fighter (1907–1943)
Julia Brystiger
Polish communist and member of security police
Sion Assidon
Moroccan Activist
Alexandru Toma
Romanian writer
David Guest
British mathematician and philosopher

Rose Pastor Stokes
American social activist, later Communist; writer and editor (1879-1933)
Dov Yermiya
Israeli writer (1914–2016)
Bertram Wolfe
American historian (1896-1977)
Barbu Lăzăreanu
Romanian literary historian, bibliographer, and left-wing activist
Hélène Rytmann
French political activist and sociologist
Eli Erlick
American activist and writer
Fred Rose
Canadian politician
Leonte Răutu
Romanian magazine editor and politician (1910–1993)
Simon Levy
politician
Esther Vilenska
Israeli politician
Yvonne Jospa
Belgian resistance member (1910–2000)