Society and history

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 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.

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 Government Junta of El Salvador

The Revolutionary Government Junta (Spanish: Junta Revolucionaria de Gobierno, JRG) was the name of three consecutive civic-military governments ruling El Salvador from 1979 to 1982.

Revolutionary Government of the Armed Forces of Peru

The Revolutionary Government of the Armed Forces of Peru was the military government that ruled Peru from 1968 to 1980, established by General Juan Velasco Alvarado's coup.

Revolutionary Government of the Republic of Indonesia

The Revolutionary Government of Indonesia (PRRI) was a rival government proclaimed in Padang, West Sumatra, on 15 February 1958, suppressed in 1958 and ended by amnesty in 1961.

Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar

The Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar (RGoZ) is the semi-autonomous government of the Zanzibar archipelago within Tanzania, formed after the January 1964 Zanzibar Revolution and governing all non-union matters.

Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine

The Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine (Революційна Повстанська Армія України, RPAU) was a largely volunteer anarchist peasant army that fought across southern Ukraine against Whites and Bolsheviks from 1918 to 1921.

Revolutionary Left Movement (Chile)

The Revolutionary Left Movement (Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria, MIR) is a Chilean Marxist-Leninist organization founded in 1965, the country's principal armed left organization through the 1980s.

Revolutionary Left Party (Bolivia)

Founded in 1940 in Oruro, the Revolutionary Left Party (Bolivia), or PIR, was a Marxist party led by law professors José Antonio Arze and Ricardo Anaya.

Revolutionary Military Council

The Revolutionary Military Council (Революционный военный совет), the supreme military authority of Soviet Russia, directed the Red Army through the Civil War under Leon Trotsky from 1918 until its abolition in 1934.

Revolutionary movement for Indian independence

Revolutionary movement for Indian independence: the armed strand of India's anticolonial struggle, from Bengal and Maharashtra secret societies to the Ghadar Party abroad and Bhagat Singh, catalyzing rather than directly causing 1947 independence.

Revolutionary Nationalist Movement

The Revolutionary Nationalist Movement (Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario, MNR) is a Bolivian political party founded in 1941 that led the 1952 revolution, nationalizing the tin mines and enacting universal suffrage.

Revolutionary Offensive

The Revolutionary Offensive (Ofensiva Revolucionaria) was a 1968 campaign launched by Fidel Castro's government that nationalized about 56,000 small private businesses, virtually ending private enterprise in Cuba until 1993.