At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality... We must strive every day so that this love of living humanity will be transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force.

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While revolutionaries as individuals can be murdered, you cannot kill ideas.

Thomas Sankara

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On this African Liberation Day, which marks the founding of the Organization of African Unity 61 years ago, watch Burkinabè revolutionary Thomas Sankara drawing a comparison between imperialism and a “poor student that never learns from its mistakes.”

Thomas Sankara was a communist revolutionary leader who became president of Burkina Faso in 1983. His revolutionary ideology drew inspiration from Marxism-Leninism, pan-Africanism, women's liberation, and anti-imperialism. Sankara was assassinated in 1987 during a coup that was allegedly supported by France.

On this day, 25 May 1895, libertarian socialist author Oscar Wilde was imprisoned for two years' hard labour for "indecency" for having sex with men. Though many potential witnesses refused to testify against him, he was convicted, and upon sentencing judge stated: “It is the worst case I have ever tried. I shall pass the severest sentence that the law allows. In my judgment it is totally inadequate for such a case as this. The sentence of the Court is that you be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for two years.” Wilde's detention would cause him serious health problems which eventually contributed to his untimely death. In his essay, The Soul of Man under Socialism, in which he expounds his political ideas, he declares: "Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion."

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Ten Days That Shook the World
John Reed
First published by Boni & Liveright, New York, 1919

With the greatest interest and with never slackening attention I read John Reed’s book, Ten Days that Shook the World.
Unreservedly do I recommend it to the workers of the world.
Here is a book which I should like to see published in millions of copies and translated into all languages.
It gives a truthful and most vivid exposition of the events so significant to the comprehension of what really is the Proletarian Revolution and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
These problems are widely discussed, but before one can accept or reject these ideas, he must understand the full significance of his decision.
John Reed’s book will undoubtedly help to clear this question, which is the fundamental problem of the international labor movement.
Nikolai Lenin
(Vladimir Ilyitch Ulianov)
End of 1919

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October: Ten Days That Shook the World (Russian: Октябрь (Десять дней, которые потрясли мир); translit. Oktyabr': Desyat' dney kotorye potryasli mir) is a 1928 Soviet silent historical film by Sergei Eisenstein and Grigori Aleksandrov. It is a celebratory dramatization of the 1917 October Revolution commissioned for the tenth anniversary of the event. Originally released as October in the Soviet Union, the film was re-edited and released internationally as Ten Days That Shook The World, after John Reed's popular book on the Revolution.
The film opens with the elation after the February Revolution and the establishment of the Provisional Government, depicting the throwing down of the Tsar's monument.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQ9GCi4Gjso

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Soviet school band, Angarsk, 1970s

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“Comrade Stalin”, sketch by Tao Lengyue, 1955

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🔴 Neo-Liberalism Has Increased Mass Poverty
✍🏻 Utsa Patnaik

THE media has been full of claims by the World Bank and by governments that millions of people in the global South have been lifted out of poverty during the last three decades that saw neo-liberal economic policies. The Niti Aayog in a press release earlier this year claimed near zero poverty for India by 2022-23, affecting only 5 per cent of the population. The hard data on nutritional intake show however that hunger has risen greatly over the last three decades, with more than two-thirds of its rural and urban population unable to spend enough to satisfy minimum needs of calorific and protein intake; India’s very low ranking (111 out of 125 countries in 2023) on the global hunger index continues, and while some health indicators have improved, others have worsened.
Read more:
https://telegra.ph/Neo-Liberalism-Has-Increased-Mass-Poverty-05-26

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"Lenin's Speech at the 3rd Congress of the Komsomol", painting by Boris Ioganson, 1950

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May Day demonstration in Leningrad, 1925

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"The USSR makes the desert bloom - The USA turns towns and villages into deserts", czechoslovak poster from 1951

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Closeup of Lenin among the delegates to the Tenth All-Russia Conference of the R.C.P.(B) in the Sverdlovsk Hall of the Kremlin, Moscow -

This photo is believed to have been taken on May 26, 1921

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On this day, 28 May 1802, the Battle of Matouba took place in Guadeloupe between rebel enslaved people and French colonial troops (content note: suicide). Slavery in the colony had been abolished a few years prior, but it was reintroduced by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1802.In response to this, enslaved people in Guadeloupe rose up in revolt, led by a biracial free man and former French military officer, Louis Delgrès. Though the rebels initially made gains, eventually they were overwhelmed by the superior force of the French army.The enslaved people made their last stand in the Battle of Matouba, and holed themselves up in Fort Saint-Charles. Realising they would be defeated, the rebels decided to kill themselves and try to take as many French troops with them as possible. Delgrès distributed barrels of dynamite amongst his troops, then set them on fire while men, women and children shouted "Live free or die!" Around 500 rebels were killed in the blast, along with up to 400 French troops.

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