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On this day, 21 June 1972, around 150 workers at the Briant Colour Printing works on Old Kent Road, London, took over their workplace after it was announced the firm was going into voluntary liquidation.The workers moved in food and bedding, and restarted production under workers' control. In addition to commercial printing jobs to make money, the workers printed their own newsletter, and printed numerous materials to support other groups of workers elsewhere, for example the Pentonville 5 group of imprisoned dockworkers.Negotiations also began with prospective buyers to try to retain a level of workers' control in the future, but these fell through in May 1973, and the plant was eventually bought by a Peter Bentley, who on July 3 rehired an undetermined number of the remaining occupying workers. He subsequently closed the plant in November 1973, making the last 50 workers redundant, and employed security guards to ensure they could not occupy the plant again.
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On this day, 21 June 1972, around 150 workers at the Briant Colour Printing works on Old Kent Road, London, took over their workplace after it was announced the firm was going into voluntary liquidation.The workers moved in food and bedding, and restarted production under workers' control. In addition to commercial printing jobs to make money, the workers printed their own newsletter, and printed numerous materials to support other groups of workers elsewhere, for example the Pentonville 5 group of imprisoned dockworkers.Negotiations also began with prospective buyers to try to retain a level of workers' control in the future, but these fell through in May 1973, and the plant was eventually bought by a Peter Bentley, who on July 3 rehired an undetermined number of the remaining occupying workers. He subsequently closed the plant in November 1973, making the last 50 workers redundant, and employed security guards to ensure they could not occupy the plant again.
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Excerpt from the film "The Fall of Berlin", #USSR, 1949
The actor is Mikheil Gelovani
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Statue of Lenin in Schwerin, Germany, 2007
When feudalism was overthrown and “free” capitalist #society appeared in the world, it at once became apparent that this #freedom meant a new system of oppression and exploitation of the working people.
#Lenin, The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of #Marxism (1913)
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When feudalism was overthrown and “free” capitalist #society appeared in the world, it at once became apparent that this #freedom meant a new system of oppression and exploitation of the working people.
#Lenin, The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of #Marxism (1913)
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Profile photo of the great Karl Marx bust in Karl-Marx-Stadt, German Democratic Republic 1971
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83 years ago today, Nazi Germany launched an invasion of the Soviet Union during WWII, known as Operation Barbarossa. This brutal conflict led to the loss of up to 27 million Soviet lives in the fight against fascism. More than three million German troops invaded the Soviet Union, committing horrific crimes including the gang rape of tens of thousands of women, torture, and extrajudicial killings.
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On this day, 22 June 1948, the Empire Windrush arrived in Tilbury docks bringing the first group of 492 Jamaicans to the UK. They had answered an appeal for workers from the UK which needed to rebuild following World War II, amidst an acute labour shortage. By 1970, around half a million people from the Caribbean had arrived, and became known as the Windrush generation.Many of the arrivals were highly skilled workers, but were forced to work in low-paid and unskilled jobs due to discrimination, sometimes with the collaboration of trade unions. Others were subjected to physical attacks by racists and fascists, including at times large mobs of hundreds of people.In 1971, all prior Commonwealth arrivals were given automatic, permanent right to remain. But in 2010 the government destroyed all the landing cards from ships, which recorded when migrants arrived. And in 2012 the Liberal Democrat-Conservative coalition government introduced a policy called the "hostile environment", which was aimed at trying to force some migrants to leave. The Home Office was aware in 2013 that legal Windrush generation residents were being targeted by its policy, which included having private contractor Capita write to residents telling them they were in the country illegally and had to leave. Others were illegally denied NHS treatment for conditions like cancer, detained, deported or refused re-entry to the country, and many were wrongly sacked from their jobs.Outrage eventually caused a government climbdown and pressured them into providing compensation to those affected. But despite an estimated 15,000 people being eligible for up to £570 million compensation, as of June 2022 only around 1000 people had received any compensation.
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On this day, 22 June 1948, the Empire Windrush arrived in Tilbury docks bringing the first group of 492 Jamaicans to the UK. They had answered an appeal for workers from the UK which needed to rebuild following World War II, amidst an acute labour shortage. By 1970, around half a million people from the Caribbean had arrived, and became known as the Windrush generation.Many of the arrivals were highly skilled workers, but were forced to work in low-paid and unskilled jobs due to discrimination, sometimes with the collaboration of trade unions. Others were subjected to physical attacks by racists and fascists, including at times large mobs of hundreds of people.In 1971, all prior Commonwealth arrivals were given automatic, permanent right to remain. But in 2010 the government destroyed all the landing cards from ships, which recorded when migrants arrived. And in 2012 the Liberal Democrat-Conservative coalition government introduced a policy called the "hostile environment", which was aimed at trying to force some migrants to leave. The Home Office was aware in 2013 that legal Windrush generation residents were being targeted by its policy, which included having private contractor Capita write to residents telling them they were in the country illegally and had to leave. Others were illegally denied NHS treatment for conditions like cancer, detained, deported or refused re-entry to the country, and many were wrongly sacked from their jobs.Outrage eventually caused a government climbdown and pressured them into providing compensation to those affected. But despite an estimated 15,000 people being eligible for up to £570 million compensation, as of June 2022 only around 1000 people had received any compensation.
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The #Marxist #philosophy of dialectical #materialism has two outstanding characteristics. One is its class nature: it openly avows that dialectical materialism is in the service of the proletariat. The other is its practicality: it emphasizes the dependence of theory on practice, emphasizes that theory is based on practice and in turn serves practice.
“Mao Zedong On Practice,” (July 1937), Selected Works, Vol. I, p. 297.
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_16.htm
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“Mao Zedong On Practice,” (July 1937), Selected Works, Vol. I, p. 297.
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_16.htm
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Lenin in 1922 on the property of Maxim #Gorky, #Lenin was told by a doctor to spend more time with animals to calm him. From 1922 shortly before the death of our beloved Lenin.
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The whole Darwinian theory of the struggle for existence is simply the transference from society to animate nature of Hobbes’ theory of the war of every man against every man and the bourgeois economic theory of competition, along with the Malthusian theory of population. This feat having been accomplished – (as indicated under (1) I dispute its unqualified justification, especially where the Malthusian theory is concerned) – the same theories are next transferred back again from organic nature to history and their validity as eternal laws of human society declared to have been proved..
Marx, Enegls to Lavrov (1875)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/letters/75_11_12.htm
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On this day, 24 June 1973, an arsonist ignited a fire that engulfed the LGBT+ bar called the Up Stairs Lounge in New Orleans, killing 32 people and injuring 15. The fire was the deadliest attack on a gay bar in US history prior to the 2016 Pulse Nightclub Massacre.In a city where LGBT+ culture was largely hidden, the Up Stairs Lounge was one of the few establishments catering to the gay community and one of the only gay bars that welcomed Black men and lesbians. On the fourth anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising, patrons assembled at the bar for the weekly beer bust. Sixty-five people remained when Bartender Buddy Rasmussen heard the doorbell ring and asked friend Luther Boggs to answer it. As Luther opened the door, flames rushed into the lounge. Buddy led 20 survivors onto the roof of a nearby building while others unsuccessfully attempted to escape through barred windows. The fire department arrived at 7:58 and extinguished the fire quickly, but the powerful flames had already overpowered many patrons. Among the victims were 12 members of Metropolitan Community Church, the first church serving LGBT+ individuals. They included Rev. William "Bill" Larson, associate pastor Duane "Mitch" Mitchell, and Mitch's boyfriend Horace Broussard.Unlike other tragedies, the Up Stairs fire did not amass community support. Although newspapers reported the fire, journalists enflamed anti-gay sentiment by perpetuating vulgar rhetoric and harmful stereotypes. Articles painted the victims as "thieves, burglars, and queers," while other reports named the tragedy a "fruit fry." Eyewitnesses told author Johnny Townsend that they overheard either police or firefighters saying: "Let the f*****s burn".No formal memorials were planned, and churches refused to provide services. This reaction galvanised the New Orleans' LGBT+ community to organise for gay rights as they mourned those who died in the tragic
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On this day, 24 June 1973, an arsonist ignited a fire that engulfed the LGBT+ bar called the Up Stairs Lounge in New Orleans, killing 32 people and injuring 15. The fire was the deadliest attack on a gay bar in US history prior to the 2016 Pulse Nightclub Massacre.In a city where LGBT+ culture was largely hidden, the Up Stairs Lounge was one of the few establishments catering to the gay community and one of the only gay bars that welcomed Black men and lesbians. On the fourth anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising, patrons assembled at the bar for the weekly beer bust. Sixty-five people remained when Bartender Buddy Rasmussen heard the doorbell ring and asked friend Luther Boggs to answer it. As Luther opened the door, flames rushed into the lounge. Buddy led 20 survivors onto the roof of a nearby building while others unsuccessfully attempted to escape through barred windows. The fire department arrived at 7:58 and extinguished the fire quickly, but the powerful flames had already overpowered many patrons. Among the victims were 12 members of Metropolitan Community Church, the first church serving LGBT+ individuals. They included Rev. William "Bill" Larson, associate pastor Duane "Mitch" Mitchell, and Mitch's boyfriend Horace Broussard.Unlike other tragedies, the Up Stairs fire did not amass community support. Although newspapers reported the fire, journalists enflamed anti-gay sentiment by perpetuating vulgar rhetoric and harmful stereotypes. Articles painted the victims as "thieves, burglars, and queers," while other reports named the tragedy a "fruit fry." Eyewitnesses told author Johnny Townsend that they overheard either police or firefighters saying: "Let the f*****s burn".No formal memorials were planned, and churches refused to provide services. This reaction galvanised the New Orleans' LGBT+ community to organise for gay rights as they mourned those who died in the tragic
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the existence of the things qua commodities, and the value-relation between the products of labour which stamps them as commodities, have absolutely no connection with their physical properties and with the material relations arising therefrom. There it is a definite social relation between men, that assumes, in their eyes, the fantastic form of a relation between things. ... This I call the #Fetishism ... of commodities.
#Marx, Capital, Volume I, Chapter One (1867)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch01.htm#204
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Karl Marx's letter to Abraham Lincoln w/reply
If resistance to the Slave Power was the reserved watchword of your first election, the triumphant war cry of your re-election is Death to Slavery.
In 1864, Karl Marx and his International Working Men’s Association (the “First International”) sent an address to Abraham Lincoln, congratulating “the American people upon your re-election by a large majority.” As historian Robin Blackburn writes, “The US ambassador in London conveyed a friendly but brief response from the president. However, the antecedents and implications of this little exchange are rarely considered.” It was not the first time Marx and Lincoln had encountered each other. They never met personally, but their affinities led to what Blackburn calls an “unfinished revolution” — not a communist revolution in the U.S.; but a potential revolution for democracy.
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https://www.openculture.com/2022/01/how-karl-marx-influenced-abraham-lincoln-and-his-position-on-slavery-labor.html
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If resistance to the Slave Power was the reserved watchword of your first election, the triumphant war cry of your re-election is Death to Slavery.
In 1864, Karl Marx and his International Working Men’s Association (the “First International”) sent an address to Abraham Lincoln, congratulating “the American people upon your re-election by a large majority.” As historian Robin Blackburn writes, “The US ambassador in London conveyed a friendly but brief response from the president. However, the antecedents and implications of this little exchange are rarely considered.” It was not the first time Marx and Lincoln had encountered each other. They never met personally, but their affinities led to what Blackburn calls an “unfinished revolution” — not a communist revolution in the U.S.; but a potential revolution for democracy.
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https://www.openculture.com/2022/01/how-karl-marx-influenced-abraham-lincoln-and-his-position-on-slavery-labor.html
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“Julian Assange is free,” Wikileaks said in a statement posted on X. - He left Belmarsh maximum security prison on the morning of 24 June, after having spent 1901 days there. He was granted bail by the High Court in London and was released at Stanstead airport during the afternoon, where he boarded a plane and departed the UK.
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