Diego #Maradona and Alexander Zavarov during the Four Nations Tournament, Germany, 1988
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President of Burkina Faso Thomas #Sankara in the #Lenin Memorial Museum, #Leningrad, 1986
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#Soviet soldiers and a civilian at the Reich Chancellery, #Berlin, 1945 (photo by William Vandivert)
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Joseph #Stalin kisses the "Sword of #Stalingrad" during the Tehran Conference, #Iran, 1943
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No natural science can hold its own in the struggle against the onslaught of bourgeois ideas and the restoration of the bourgeois world outlook unless it stands on solid philosophical ground. In order to hold his own in this struggle and carry it to a victorious finish, the natural scientist must be a modern #materialist, a conscious adherent of the materialism represented by #Marx, i.e., he must be a dialectical materialist.
#Lenin, The Significance of Militant #Materialism (1922)
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On this day in 1948, the Malayan War of Independence ignited, with Marxist guerrillas spearheading the revolt against British colonial rule. Inspired by the Chinese Revolution and WWII resistance against Japanese occupation, the armed wing of the Malayan Communist Party became a formidable force. Dubbed “Britain’s Vietnam,” the British counter-insurgency set a precedent for the later US invasion of Vietnam against communist forces. Read on.
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On this day, 48 years ago, the Soweto uprising led by more than 20,000 Black South African schoolchildren was brutally suppressed by the racist apartheid government.
The protest aimed to stop the introduction of Afrikaans as a language, which was another step by the apartheid regime to impose their colonial policies and hegemony.
Police opened fire on the defenseless children in the Johannesburg township, killing hundreds and injuring more by attacking them with tear gas and live bullets.
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The protest aimed to stop the introduction of Afrikaans as a language, which was another step by the apartheid regime to impose their colonial policies and hegemony.
Police opened fire on the defenseless children in the Johannesburg township, killing hundreds and injuring more by attacking them with tear gas and live bullets.
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On this day, 16 June 1982, the Bradford 12, all members of the United Black Youth League on trial for preparing to defend their community from fascists, were acquitted of all charges in a landmark case. They had been arrested for preparing a cache of petrol bombs to protect themselves from fascists who had been active in the area, carrying out racist attacks. One of the defendants, Tariq Mehmood, defended himself in court, and along with the other defence lawyers they laid bare mass police negligence with regards to defending Asian and Afro-Caribbean communities from racist attacks. The not guilty verdicts effectively established the rights of Black and Asian communities to self-defence. The trial also saw a nationwide campaign for the activists' release with their comrades declaring "The politicians and police have failed us. Our youth are our only protection. [...] Now they have been taken away from us. We must not fail them. We must fight to bring them back. They have defended our community. We must now defend them." At that time in Britain, racists considered all people of colour as "Black", so Afro-Caribbean, Asian and other activists of colour formed the idea of "political Blackness" to try to build unity against racism.
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On this day, 16 June 1982, the Bradford 12, all members of the United Black Youth League on trial for preparing to defend their community from fascists, were acquitted of all charges in a landmark case. They had been arrested for preparing a cache of petrol bombs to protect themselves from fascists who had been active in the area, carrying out racist attacks. One of the defendants, Tariq Mehmood, defended himself in court, and along with the other defence lawyers they laid bare mass police negligence with regards to defending Asian and Afro-Caribbean communities from racist attacks. The not guilty verdicts effectively established the rights of Black and Asian communities to self-defence. The trial also saw a nationwide campaign for the activists' release with their comrades declaring "The politicians and police have failed us. Our youth are our only protection. [...] Now they have been taken away from us. We must not fail them. We must fight to bring them back. They have defended our community. We must now defend them." At that time in Britain, racists considered all people of colour as "Black", so Afro-Caribbean, Asian and other activists of colour formed the idea of "political Blackness" to try to build unity against racism.
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On this day, 16 June 1531, English king Henry VIII modified the vagrancy laws he brought in the previous year, which were key in creating the working class. People kicked off communal land who were not in wage labour were designated as vagabonds, and on their first offence were to be whipped, then on the second whipped with half an ear sliced off and upon a third offence they were to be executed. This and similar laws enacted across Europe, backed up by intense state violence, created a class of people forced to sell their labour to survive: the working class. Karl Marx described these legal mechanisms in volume 1 of his work, Capital: "Thus were the agricultural people, first forcibly expropriated from the soil, driven from their homes, turned into vagabonds, and then whipped, branded, tortured by laws grotesquely terrible, into the discipline necessary for the wage system." This expropriation was extended across the globe by violent colonialism. Rather than being a natural state of affairs as it is often portrayed, the creation of the working class was fiercely resisted for hundreds of years, and indeed still is to this day in some areas.
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On this day, 16 June 1531, English king Henry VIII modified the vagrancy laws he brought in the previous year, which were key in creating the working class. People kicked off communal land who were not in wage labour were designated as vagabonds, and on their first offence were to be whipped, then on the second whipped with half an ear sliced off and upon a third offence they were to be executed. This and similar laws enacted across Europe, backed up by intense state violence, created a class of people forced to sell their labour to survive: the working class. Karl Marx described these legal mechanisms in volume 1 of his work, Capital: "Thus were the agricultural people, first forcibly expropriated from the soil, driven from their homes, turned into vagabonds, and then whipped, branded, tortured by laws grotesquely terrible, into the discipline necessary for the wage system." This expropriation was extended across the globe by violent colonialism. Rather than being a natural state of affairs as it is often portrayed, the creation of the working class was fiercely resisted for hundreds of years, and indeed still is to this day in some areas.
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#Capital is an international force. To vanquish it, an international workers' alliance, an international workers' brotherhood, is needed.
We are opposed to national enmity and discord, to national exclusiveness. We are #internationalists.
#Lenin, Letter to the Workers and Peasants of the #Ukraine (1919)
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Watch James Baldwin, the revolutionary writer and fierce advocate for anti-imperialism, LGBTQIA+ rights, and feminism in his iconic interview on love and sexuality: “Love is where you find it.”
Born in Harlem, New York, in 1924, Baldwin powerfully depicted the harsh socio-economic realities African Americans faced due to capitalist exploitation and racial inequality. His groundbreaking gay novel “Giovanni’s Room,” published in Paris in 1956, broke barriers.
Baldwin’s activism spanned continents; he supported the Algerian struggle and advocated for Palestinian freedom from Israeli occupation saying Israel “was created for the salvation of the Western interests.”
A staunch critic of the US government’s civil rights stance, Baldwin faced relentless FBI surveillance. But Baldwin didn’t stop there and joined forces with the Black Panther Party, fighting for socialism for America.
Born in Harlem, New York, in 1924, Baldwin powerfully depicted the harsh socio-economic realities African Americans faced due to capitalist exploitation and racial inequality. His groundbreaking gay novel “Giovanni’s Room,” published in Paris in 1956, broke barriers.
Baldwin’s activism spanned continents; he supported the Algerian struggle and advocated for Palestinian freedom from Israeli occupation saying Israel “was created for the salvation of the Western interests.”
A staunch critic of the US government’s civil rights stance, Baldwin faced relentless FBI surveillance. But Baldwin didn’t stop there and joined forces with the Black Panther Party, fighting for socialism for America.
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On this day, 18 June 1943, 18-year-old Ukrainian anti-Nazi fighter Maria Kislyak was executed alongside her two friends Fedor Rudenko and Vasiliy Bugrimenko. She had lured two Nazi officers into the woods for her friends to kill. The first time she was arrested by the Gestapo but she did not confess and had to be released. But after the second time the Gestapo rounded up 100 civilians and stated they would kill them all unless the killers came forward. Maria and her friends confessed and she claimed to be the leader of the group.
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On this day, 18 June 1943, 18-year-old Ukrainian anti-Nazi fighter Maria Kislyak was executed alongside her two friends Fedor Rudenko and Vasiliy Bugrimenko. She had lured two Nazi officers into the woods for her friends to kill. The first time she was arrested by the Gestapo but she did not confess and had to be released. But after the second time the Gestapo rounded up 100 civilians and stated they would kill them all unless the killers came forward. Maria and her friends confessed and she claimed to be the leader of the group.
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