Show Me the Money
Conservative UK PM from 1979-1990, SHE championed neoliberal reforms and reduced state intervention.
Margaret Thatcher
Labour UK PM from 1997-2007, championed "The Third Way," a more moderate approach to party politics. Resigned after controversy among his support for the Iraq War.
Tony Blair
Current President of China
Xi Jinping
"GET BREXIT DONE"
Boris Johnson
Leader of the Bolshevik Revolution; founded the Soviet Union; established democratic centralism and the one-party communist state.
Lenin
Conservative UK PM from 1940–1945 and 1951–1955. Post-WWII he helped implement an apolitical effort at social program reform, including the Beveridge Report.
Winston Churchill
President of Mexico beginning in 2018 and founder of MORENA. Represents a leftist, populist turn in Mexican politics focused on anti-corruption, expanded social programs, and skepticism of neoliberal economic policies.
AMLO
Current Prime Minister of the UK
Keir Starmer
"Economics is for Donkeys"
Ayatollah Khomeini
Founder of modern Chinese nationalism and first president of the Republic of China.
Sun Yat-sen
Last leader of the USSR; introduced glasnost, perestroika, and democratization; reforms contributed indirectly to the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Mikhail Gorbachev
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Served as both a military dictator and a president in Nigeria.
Oluṣẹgun Ọbasanjọ or Muhammadu Buhari
Current President of Mexico
Claudia Sheinbaum
"Every Communist must grasp the truth, 'Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.' Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party."
Mao Zedong
Revolutionary leader who championed land reform and peasant rights; associated with the slogan “Tierra y Libertad.”
Emiliano Zapata
Labour UK PM from 2007-2010 after the premiership of Tony Blair, led the UK response to the global financial crisis.
Gordon Brown
Iranian nationalist prime minister overthrown in a coup orchestrated by the US and UK in 1953; symbol of anti-imperialism and democratic aspirations.
Mohammad Mosaddeq
Current President of Russia
Vladimir Putin
"It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, if it catches mice it's a good cat"
Deng Xiaoping
Liberal Democrat leader; Deputy PM in the 2010–2015 coalition with Conservatives.
Nick Clegg
First president of the Russian Federation; oversaw chaotic transition to capitalism, oligarch rise, and “shock therapy”
Boris Yeltsin
Nigerian President from 2010-2015, mostly symbolic of peaceful transfer of power. Presided over the country during the Boko Haram kidnapping in Chibok
Goodluck Jonathan
Current Supreme Leader of Iran
Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei
"But the British people have made a very clear decision to take a different path and as such I think the country requires fresh leadership to take it in this direction. I will do everything I can as prime minister to steady the ship over the coming weeks and months but I do not think it would be right for me to try to be the captain that steers our country to its next destination."
David Cameron
Catholic priest who initiated the Mexican War of Independence in 1810 with the Grito de Dolores.
Father Hidalgo