Noam Chomsky

Linguist and political commentator

U.S.A.

Gabriel García Marquez

Winner of Nobel prize for literature

Colombia

Alice Walker

Novelist

U.S.A.

Mario Benedetti

Poet

Uruguay

Tony Benn

Politician and former government minister

Britain

Howard Zinn

Historian

U.S.A.

Harry Belafonte

Singer

Ernesto Cardenal

Poet and former government minister

Nicaragua

Nelson Mandela

Former president and Nobel prize winner

South Africa

Arthur Scargill

Trade unionist

Britain

Ken Livingstone

Mayor of London

Britain

Rigoberta Menchú

Indigenous rights activist and Nobel prize winner

Guatemala

Tariq Ali

Writer

Britain / Pakistan

Eduardo Galeano

Writer

Uruguay

José Saramago

Nobel prize for literature

Portugal

Philip Agee

Writer and former CIA agent

USA

Ramsey Clark

Former Atorney General

USA

Hugo Chávez

President

Venezuela

Mumia Abu-Jamal

Political prisoner

USA

'Subcomandante Marcos'

Spokesperson for Zapatista indigenous movement, and writer

Mexico

Nadine Gordimer

Nobel Prize for Literature

South Africa

Víctor Heredia

Singer and song writer

Argentina