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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Happy Birthday to the socialist Grenadian revolutionary, Maurice Bishop! Watch him breaking down why the United States saw the Grenadian revolution as especially dangerous to the status quo.

Under Bishop's premiership, the Grenadian government rolled out free public health care, reduced illiteracy, and fought for workers and women's rights while combating imperialism and the apartheid regime in South Africa.

“When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre, Le diable et le bon dieu

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✍🏻 Lenin: Loot the Looters
🔴 Vladimir Lenin, Advice to Workers and Peasants. 1917


Original Source: Pravda, No. 18, 6 February 1918, p. 3.

You … have before you the very difficult and noble task … of organizing the new economic order in the provinces and of establishing on a firm foundation the power of the Soviets. In doing this you will be helped … by all workers and peasants … who are coming more and more to see that apart from the Soviet Government there is no escape from famine and death …

The bourgeoisie … and the saboteurs are … conspiring against us. They know that they will be completely ruined … if the people succeed in dividing the national wealth which is now in the exclusive possession of the rich …

That is where your function begins. You must organize and consolidate the Soviet power in the villages. You will encounter there the village-bourgeoisie–the kulaks-who will hinder your work in every way. But to fight them will be an easy matter. The masses will be with you …

Make it clear to the peasant that the kulaks and the bloodsuckers must be expropriated in order to bring about a just and equitable distribution of goods … The bourgeoisie are concealing in their coffers the riches which they have plundered, and are saying, “We shall sit tight for a while.” We must catch the plunderers and compel them to return the spoils.

Your chief business will be this: do not let the brigands get away with their riches, otherwise we shall perish …

That Bolshevik was right who in reply to a question whether or not it was true that the Bolsheviks are looters, said, “Yes, we loot the looters.”


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Workers of the World Unite!, cover graphic, The Communist International, May 1935

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Passages from The Children of Rafah


I


The sun on a conqueror's bayonet was

A naked corpse despised:

Bleeding silence

Over rancorous prayer beads amidst

Bold-congested faces

An occupier with legendary features

yelled:

“Aren’t you going to speak?

Fine: Upon you then a curfew will be imposed as of . . .”

Aladdin’s voice splintered:

the birth of the birds of prey,

'I threw the stones at the military

vehicle,

distributed the leaflets and gave the signal;

I painted the slogan

carrying a brush and a chair

from a neighborhood . . . to a house

. . . to a wall;

I also gathered the children

And we swore

By the exile of the refugees,

to resist

As long as a conqueror’s bayonet

shines in our street.”

Aladdin was no more than ten


II


The acacia trees are crushed

And the gates of Rafah

Are sealed with sorrow

Or with wax

Or a curfew

(The girl had to take bread and

bandages to a wounded man that

returned after midnight She had

to cross a street overwatched

by the eyes of the strangers

the wind and the mouths of guns. )

The acacia trees are crushed

and like a wound,

a door of a house in Rafah was opened.

She leaped.

Landing in the lap of a jasmine tree;

Once on the sidewalk of terror

A palm-tree was her shelter

cautiously...with every footstep

now jump...

A patrol,

Flashing lights,

A cough

“–Who are you,

Stop!"

Five guns were fixed at her

Five guns.


In the morning,

The invader’s court was called

They brought her in:

Aminah

"The criminal"

A child of eight.


-- Samih al-Qasim


Poem first published translated into English in 1973.


Samih al-Qasim was a Palestinian poet and a member of the Israeli Communist Party. He died in 2014.

Workers Unite for a Workers World, illustration, Rebel Arts Collective, New York, USA, May 1935

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Wage-Cuts, cartoon by "Redfield", Daily Worker USA, May 1936

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Lenin and others in Red Square for the military parade and speeches, May 25, 1919

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Fidel Castro speaks in Prague during a visit to the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, 1972

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