In the market square, an artist paints the portrait of Ho Chi Minh that was displayed in front of Doc Lap Palace for the victory parade on May 15, 1975.

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Happy Birthday to Kathleen Neal Cleaver (born May 13, 1945)!

Cleaver is a Black American professor of law, known for her involvement with the Black Revolutionary movement & the Black Panther Party.

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Fidel Castro meets cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, June 1961

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"Worker", painting by Mai Dantsig, 1972

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"Cuba", soviet poster, 1968

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A young Iranian woman with two books - “The History of the Russian Revolution” and “Young Lenin”, Tehran, Iran, 1979

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Poster of Lenin in Ethiopia, 1977

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"Cuba - yes!", soviet poster, 1962

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"Be friends!", soviet poster, 1960

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“It won’t work!”, soviet poster, 1952

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Cartoon of American industrialist Andrew Carnegie, 1900. Illustration by Udo J. Keppler. Image courtesy Library of Congress

🔴 Harry Glasbeek on how the law keeps workers’ aspirations firmly in check

The very laws designed to safeguard rights and freedoms often act as invisible shackles

Read more:
https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/harry-glasbeek-on-how-the-law-keeps-workers-aspirations-in-check

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Frederick Engels
The Principles of Communism
Written: October-November 1847

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On this day, 15 May 1970, police opened fire just past midnight on a small group of Black students protesting at Jackson State College, Mississippi, killing two, including a bystander, and wounding 12.
This was just 10 days after the much more widely known killings of white students at Kent State.
Protests by Jackson State students had been held against the bombing of Vietnam and Cambodia, against the killings at Kent State, and again on this evening in response to rumours of a racist murder.
Those killed were Phillip Lafayette Gibbs, 21 (left), father of an 18-month-old baby, and James Earl Green, a 17 year old grocery store worker who just happened to be walking home after his shift.

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Today, 16 May, is European Romani Resistance Day, commemorating the Roma and Sinti people who fought the fascists during World War II.
The date was chosen due to a Holocaust survivor stating that on that date there was a rebellion of Roma detainees at the Auschwitz Birkenau concentration camp.
However, subsequent research by the Auschwitz Museum discovered that this date was most likely incorrect and that it was actually in early April that a number of Roma prisoners refused orders from the SS to leave to work in Germany. Instead a Polish prisoner was ordered to make a list of Roma able to work to be transported later.
By 2 August 1944, those Roma able to work had been transported elsewhere, and the SS came to take the others to the gas chambers. The prisoners armed themselves with crowbars and fought back fiercely in another act of resistance, but were eventually overcome and gassed.

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"Every Nazi who remains alive will kill women, children, and old folks. Dead nazis are harmless. Therefore, if I kill a Nazi, I am saving lives."

-Lyudmila Pavlichenko

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On this day, 17 May 1959, Kelso Cochrane was fatally stabbed in a racist attack in West London, UK. His murder would become a catalytic event in race relations at the time which eventually led to the formation of the now world famous Notting Hill Carnival. Cochrane was a recent immigrant from North America, having being born in Antigua. Working as a carpenter he aspired to be a lawyer and settled in the Notting Hill area of West London, with a large Caribbean population. At the time the area was a hotbed of activity for British fascists and there were frequent violent confrontations with groups of Black men. Police investigating the murder were accused of being involved in a cover-up and the murderer has never been identified. A huge funeral procession drew the eyes of the press and the government was eventually pressured into launching an investigation into race relations. Cochrane's murder along with general racial tensions in the area led local community activist Rhaune Laslett to organise a small community street fair to bring recent immigrants together in the area in the mid-1960s. This would eventually become the Notting Hill Carnival, which is attended by over a million people each year.

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The Cuban revolution seized the lands of the rich, as well as those of US absentee landlords. Thanks to this early step, huge numbers of Cuban workers were able to own land for the first time. Here are the key policies of Fidel's first agrarian reform, passed into law on this day in 1959.

On this day, 17 May 1949, brick factory worker and former resistance member Maria Margotti was killed by Carabinieri – Italian military police.
The previous day she stood on a picket line of agricultural workers, along with other women, attempting to stop scabs replacing the strikers. Police attacked them particularly violently. So, on 17 May a demonstration was organised protesting against the police violence.
The Carabinieri opened fire on the crowd with machine guns and killed Maria Margotti. She was 34 years old.
Her death caused mass outrage and spurred an escalation in opposition and resistance to the post-war state and its anti-working class policies.


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1) Things exist independently of our consciousness, independently of our perceptions, outside of us, for it is beyond doubt that alizarin existed in coal tar yesterday and it is equally beyond doubt that yesterday we knew nothing of the existence of this alizarin and received no sensations from it.
2) There is definitely no difference in principle between the phenomenon and the thing-in-itself, and there can be no such difference. The only difference is between what is known and what is not yet known. And philosophical inventions of specific boundaries between the one and the other, inventions to the effect that the thing-in-itself is “beyond” phenomena (Kant), or that we can and must fence ourselves off by some philosophical partition from the problem of a world which in one part or another is still unknown but which exists outside us (Hume)—all this is the sheerest nonsense, Schrulle, crotchet, invention.
3) In the theory of knowledge, as in every other branch of science, we must think dialectically, that is, we must not regard our knowledge as ready-made and unalterable, but must determine how knowledge emerges from ignorance, how incomplete, inexact knowledge becomes more complete and more exact.

Lenin, Materialism and Empirio-Criticism (1908)