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Revolution 9

Revolution 9, also "Revolution No. 9", is the Beatles' eight-minute musique concrète sound collage on the 1968 White Album, built by John Lennon with Yoko Ono and George Harrison from the coda of Revolution 1 and tape loops including the famous "number nine" voice.

Revolution Foods

Revolution Foods is a school meal company based in Oakland, California, founded in 2006 by Kristin Groos Richmond and Kirsten Saenz Tobey to serve fresh, healthy meals to schools.

Revolution in Liberty

Revolution in Liberty (Spanish: Revolución en Libertad) was the government program of Chilean Christian Democrat president Eduardo Frei Montalva, including copper chilenization and agrarian reform.

Revolution Medicines

Revolution Medicines is a clinical-stage precision oncology company founded in 2014 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, developing RAS(ON) inhibitor drugs; its lead candidate, daraxonrasib, showed positive Phase 3 results in pancreatic cancer in 2026.

Revolution of 1772

Revolution of 1772, Gustav III's Swedish coup d'état of 19 August 1772, a bloodless royalist seizure of power that ended the Age of Liberty, dissolved the Hats and Caps parties, and introduced the 1772 Instrument of Government.

Revolution of 1880

The Revolution of 1880 (Revolución de 1880) was an armed conflict fought in Buenos Aires in 1880 between provincial forces under Carlos Tejedor and President Nicolás Avellaneda's national government.

Revolution of 1904

The Revolution of 1904 was the last major civil war in Uruguay, fought between Aparicio Saravia's Blanco rebels and President José Batlle y Ordóñez's Colorado government.

Revolution of 1909 in Nicaragua

The Revolution of 1909 in Nicaragua (Revolución de 1909 en Nicaragua) was a civil war in which rebels under Juan José Estrada overthrew President José Santos Zelaya.

Revolution of Ayutla

The Revolution of Ayutla (Revolución de Ayutla) was a liberal armed uprising in Mexico, begun in 1854 with the Plan of Ayutla, that overthrew President Santa Anna in 1855.

Revolution of Dignity (Революція гідності)

The Revolution of Dignity (Революція гідності), or Euromaidan, was Ukraine's 2013–2014 protest movement triggered by Yanukovych's EU Agreement postponement, ending with his ouster, the Heavenly Hundred deaths, and Russian annexation of Crimea.

Revolution of the King and the People

The Revolution of the King and the People (ثورة الملك والشعب) names the Moroccan resistance after Sultan Mohammed V's 1953 exile, which ended the French protectorate in 1956.

Revolution of the Park

The Revolution of the Park (Revolución del Parque) was a failed 1890 insurrection in Buenos Aires whose political pressure forced President Juárez Celman to resign.

Revolution of Tuxtepec

The Revolution of Tuxtepec (Revolución de Tuxtepec) was the 1876 movement led by Porfirio Díaz against President Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada's reelection, ending with Lerdo's exile.

Révolution Permanente

Révolution Permanente (RP): French Trotskyist organization and daily news website founded December 2022 by the CCR current after its 2021 departure from the NPA; affiliated to the Trotskyist Fraction – Fourth International, spokesperson Anasse Kazib.

Revolution Radio

Revolution Radio (2016) is Green Day's twelfth studio album, self-produced at their Oakland studio OTIS and released on Reprise. It debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, earned a Metacritic score of 72, and spawned the singles Bang Bang, Still Breathing, and Revolution Radio.

Revolution Studios

Revolution Studios, also Revolution Studios Distribution Company: American film and TV company founded in 2000 by Joe Roth; produced xXx, Anger Management, Black Hawk Down; now a Content Partners-owned 126-film library and rights-licensing company.

Revolution Summer (music)

Revolution Summer (music): 1985 Washington, D.C. punk movement coined by Amy Pickering of Dischord Records, linking melodic post-hardcore bands like Rites of Spring and Embrace to activism, Positive Force D.C., and the roots of emo.

Revolution Ventures

Revolution Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm in Washington, D.C., co-founded by Steve Case, which invests nationally in Series A and B companies, emphasizing markets outside the coastal venture capitals.

Revolution Wind

Revolution Wind is a 704-megawatt offshore wind farm in the Atlantic about 15 nautical miles southeast of Point Judith, Rhode Island, developed by Ørsted and Skyborn Renewables.

Revolutionary

Revolutionary: a person, movement, or program seeking fundamental overthrow of a political and social order, distinct from reform. Covers the concept's history, success conditions, violent versus nonviolent tactics, and regime durability.

Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia

The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) was a Marxist guerrilla army founded in 1964. It fought the Colombian state for 52 years before disarming in 2016.

Revolutionary Armed Forces of the People (Guinea-Bissau)

Forças Armadas Revolucionárias do Povo (FARP), the armed forces of Guinea-Bissau; created by the PAIGC at the February 1964 Cassacá congress as its regular army in the liberation war, later the national army under constitutional Article 20.

Revolutionary Catalonia

Revolutionary Catalonia (Anarchist Catalonia, Catalunya revolucionària) was the period from July 1936 to May 1937 when anarcho-syndicalist workers collectivized much of Catalonia's industry and public life.

Revolutionary Committee for Unity and Action

The Revolutionary Committee for Unity and Action (CRUA) was a clandestine Algerian nationalist organization founded in Algiers in March 1954 that launched the insurrection of November 1954 and became the FLN.

Revolutionary Communist International

Revolutionary Communist International (RCI), formerly the International Marxist Tendency (IMT), is a Trotskyist international founded June 2024, led by Alan Woods, with about 7,100 members in 34 countries.

Revolutionary Communist Party of India

Revolutionary Communist Party of India (RCPI), also Communist League, a small Indian communist party founded 1 August 1934 by Saumyendranath Tagore after splitting from the CPI; anti-Stalinist, split in the late 1940s over armed uprising, unified with Radical Socialist in August 2026.

Revolutionary Communists of America

Revolutionary Communists of America (RCA), US section of the Revolutionary Communist International, is a Marxist party founded in 2024 after the "Are You a Communist" campaign, publishing The Communist newspaper and a program of nationalization and a 20-hour workweek.

Revolutionary Council (Burma)

The Revolutionary Council was the Burmese military junta chaired by General Ne Win that seized power in a 1962 coup, launched the Burmese Way to Socialism, and ruled until 1974.

Revolutionary Forces of the G9 Family and Allies

Revolutionary Forces of the G9 Family and Allies (FRG-9, G9, Viv Ansanm), a Haitian gang federation founded June 2020 in Port-au-Prince by ex-police officer Jimmy Chérizier, known for the 2022 fuel terminal blockade and the 2024 offensive that forced Ariel Henry's resignation.

Revolutionary Girl Utena (少女革命ウテナ)

Revolutionary Girl Utena (少女革命ウテナ), also called Shōjo Kakumei Utena, is a 1997 TV anime directed by Kunihiko Ikuhara and created by Be-Papas with Chiho Saito, about Utena Tenjou's duels at Ohtori Academy for the Rose Bride Anthy.