Despite his devotion to Islam, Khomeini also emphasised international revolutionary solidarity, expressing support for the PLO, the IRA, Cuba, and the South African anti-apartheid struggle (Moin, Khomeini, (2000), p.228 ). See

(1907-1931) Bhagat Singh was an Indian freedom fighter, considered to be one of the most famous martyrs of the Indian freedom struggle.

(1911-1969) Carlos Marighella was a Brazilian guerrilla revolutionary and Marxist writer. Marighella's most famous contribution to guerilla literature was the Minimanual Of The Urban Guerrilla, consisting of advice on how to disrupt and overthrow authority with an aim to revolution. He also wrote For the Liberation of Brazil. The theories laid out in both books have greatly influenced modern ideological activism. Unlike Che Guevara who proposed guerilla activity taking shape in the villages, Marighela's theories on guerilla warfare envisaged cities as the spring of rebellion.

(1911-1995) Milovan Đilas was a Montenegrin Serb Communist politician and theorist in Yugoslavia. He was a key figure in the Partisan movement during the World War II as in the post war government, and became the best known and most determined critics of the system, in his country and in general.

(1915-1947) General Aung San was Burma's national hero, revolutionary, nationalist, general, and politician. He also became a founding member and first secretary-general of the Communist Party of Burma (CPB) in August 1939. Shortly afterwards he co-founded the People's Revolutionary Party, renamed the Socialist Party after the Second World War.

(1918) Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was the first President of South Africa to be elected in fully-representative democratic elections. Before his presidency, Mandela was a prominent anti-apartheid activist and leader of the African National Congress (ANC), and was sentenced to life imprisonment for sabotage after he went underground and began the ANC's armed struggle.

(1928-1965) Malcolm X was a Black Muslim Minister and National Spokesman for the Nation of Islam. He was also founder of the Muslim Mosque, Inc. and the Organization of Afro-American Unity. During his life, Malcolm went from being a drug dealer and burglar to one of the most prominent black nationalist leaders in the United States; he was considered by some as a martyr of Islam and a champion of equality.

(1928–1967) Ernesto Guevara de la Serna known as Che Guevara or el Che, was an Argentine-born medical doctor best known as a Marxist, politician, and leader of Cuban and internationalist guerrillas.

(1929-1983) Ana Maria was the "nom de guerre" of Mélida Anaya Montes, the second in command of the FMLN, in El Salvador. An intellectual, she was considered as an icon among revolutionary women in the region. Eventually she was killed by her own comrades on April 6, 1983 in Managua, Nicaragua, after having made many sacrifices during her life as a guerrilla.

(1932-1959) Camilo Cienfuegos Gorriarán was active in underground activities against the Cuban President Fulgencio Batista and played an important role in the Cuban Revolution. Along with Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and Raúl Castro, he was one of the main leaders of the revolution.

(1934-1957) Frank Pais was a Cuban revolutionary who campaigned for the overthrow of General Fulgencio Batista's government in Cuba. Pais was a key organizer within the urban underground movement during the Cuban revolution, collaborating with Fidel Castro's guerilla forces which were conducting activities in the Sierra Maestra mountains. Pais was killed in the streets of Santiago de Cuba by the Santiago police on July 30, 1957

(1936-1976) Carlos Fonseca Amador was a Nicaraguan teacher and founder of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN). Fonseca was later killed in the mountains of Nicaragua, one year before the FSLN took power.

(1939- )José María Sison is a writer and intellectual who reorganized the Communist Party of the Philippines by combining elements of Maoism. On December 26, 1968, he formed and chaired the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), an organization founded on Marxist-Leninist-Mao Zedong Thought, stemming from his experience as a youth leader and labor and land reform activist. This is known as the First Great Rectification movement where Sison and other radical youth criticized the existing Party leadership and failure. The reformed CPP included Maoism with the political line as well as the struggle for a National Democratic two-stage revolution, constituting a National Democratic Revolution through a Protracted Peoples War as its first part, and to be followed by a Socialist Revolution.

(1942-1989) Dr. Huey Percy Newton was co-founder and inspirational leader of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense, a black nationalist/racial equality organization that began in October 1966.

(1944-1983) Maurice Rupert Bishop was a Grenadian politician and revolutionary. He was educated at the London School of Economics and had an extensive background in studies of the black power movement. Returning to Grenada, he became active in politics. In 1973 he became head of the Marxist New Jewel Movement political party.

(1947-1977) Assata Shakur is an African-American activist who was a member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army. In 1977 she was convicted of several felonies in relation to the 1973 slayings of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster and fellow activist Zayd Malik Shakur.

She escaped from prison in 1979 and has been living in Cuba with political asylum since 1984. Since May 2, 2005, she has been classified as a "domestic terrorist" by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which has offered a $1 million reward for assistance in her capture.

(1957) Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos spokesperson for the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) but, due to his prominence in the EZLN, he is considered by many to be one of its main leaders.