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.
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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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On World Hunger Day, watch Burkinabe revolutionary Thomas Sankara expose how food aid is used by the West to control the Global South.

In this clip, Sankara, who was killed for taking the most radical steps amongst decolonial leaders who emerged post WWII, prophetically says: “We must succeed in producing more, because it’s normal that the one who feeds you also dictates their will.”

We fully regard civil wars, i.e., wars waged by the oppressed class against the oppressing class, slaves against slave-owners, serfs against land-owners, and wage-workers against the bourgeoisie, as legitimate, progressive and necessary.

Lenin, Socialism and War (1915)

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Vladimir Mayakovsky at the exhibition "20 Years of Work"

Beat the squares with the tramp of rebels!
Higher, rangers of haughty heads!
We'll wash the world with a second deluge,
Now’s the hour whose coming it dreads.
Too slow, the wagon of years,
The oxen of days — too glum.
Our god is the god of speed,
Our heart — our battle drum.
Is there a gold diviner than ours/
What wasp of a bullet us can sting?
Songs are our weapons, our power of powers,
Our gold — our voices — just hear us sing!
Meadow, lie green on the earth!
With silk our days for us line!
Rainbow, give color and girth
To the fleet-foot steeds of time.
The heavens grudge us their starry glamour.
Bah! Without it our songs can thrive.
Hey there, Ursus Major, clamour
For us to be taken to heaven alive!
Sing, of delight drink deep,
Drain spring by cups, not by thimbles.
Heart step up your beat!
Our breasts be the brass of cymbals.

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