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Class Consciousness Project Comrade and CPGB-ML member.

This channel is to share and support anti-imperialist struggle, pursue class politics, and also offer my own taste in music and film.
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Kids playing, New York, 1940s.
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💋Храм Анахиты, построенный в период Сасанидов с ахеменидской архитектурой в историческом городе Казерун!
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"I have lived as a fighter and as a fighter I will die!"

- Edgar André (1894 - 1936)

The two photomontages by
John Heartfield, 1936

Dedicated to the leader of the Hamburg Red Front Soldiers' Union, Edgar André, sentenced to death and executed by the Nazis on November 4th 1936.

Published in the anti-fascist AIZ on June 8th 1936 during his trial and two weeks after the execution.

The second montage has a quotation from the last court speech of the anti-fascist:

If you still make the impossible possible and bring a fighter to execution, I am ready to take this difficult step; because I want no mercy.
I have lived as a fighter and as a fighter I will die!


Edgar André dedicated his life to his class. Communist and close comrade of Ernst Thälmann and a leader of the Hamburg dock-workers. Gifted speaker able to express the sentiments of common people. Elected to the Hamburg Parliament from 1928 - 1933.

Among countless other deeds, he took part in organising the congress of Antifaschistische Aktion in Hamburg on June 26th 1932, which appealed to the SPD to join the Workers' United Front and counter the Nazi threat.

On March 5th 1933, Edgar was arrested, and for more than three and a half years subjected to unbearable torture to break his spirit. Weekly, his life partner Martha picked up his bloody clothes, washed and returned them.
Eventually Edgar’s body was so mutilated that the nazis placed him in a waterbed to recover before the next round of torture.

They never broke him!

On November 4th 1936 at 6am, Edgar André went to his execution.

This brave and selfless fighter was beheaded with an axe - the preferred method of killing communists.

André's lawyer later described his last minutes:
Edgar André walked the 12 meters to the execution site upright and alone.

With only a few seconds left, his mighty voice suddenly echoed through the prison compound:

Long Live Communism!
Down with the mass murderer Adolf Hitler!

Then Edgar André died.


Presénte!

Full biography here

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🇱🇧🏴‍☠ Nasrallah: If an investigation is opened into October 7, the moral and legal basis that Netanyahu and Biden claim with their insistence on eliminating Hamas will collapse.

The Palestinian resistance has been subjected since October 7 to today, to the most horrific fraud and insult to which the resistance has been exposed in our history based on false accusations, lies and fabrications

The biggest phenomenon of hypocrisy the world is witnessing today is the position of the American administration towards what is happening in Gaza.

@stayfreeworld
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🇹🇷🏴‍☠🇵🇸 The image circulating indicate fragments of Turkish-made missiles used by the Israeli occupation army in the Shujaiya refugee camp in Gaza.

@stayfreeworld
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🇦🇪🇨🇳 Abu Dhabi and Shenzhen become twin cities

The UAE capital Abu Dhabi and China's Shenzhen have signed a twin city agreement under which both sides will exchange knowledge and collaborate on smart city projects in various fields.

These include infrastructure, urban planning, green mobility, transport, advanced technologies, autonomous solutions, sustainability and urban development.

The agreement was signed during the inaugural Abu Dhabi Shenzhen Innovation Forum (ADSZIF) held in Shenzhen in late January. The agreement was signed by Mohamed Ali Al Shorafa, Chairman of the Department of Municipalities and Transport (DMT), and Qin Weizhong, Mayor of Shenzhen.

His Excellency Mohamed Ali Al Shorafa said:
"Abu Dhabi has its sights firmly set on being a global pioneer in sustainable and smart urban development. We are committed to leveraging innovation and technology to transform urban living and improve the lives, wellbeing and experience of all those connected to the UAE capital and across the emirate. Leveraging strategic partnerships is key to delivering any ambitious vision and as we approach the Chinese New Year, this is the perfect time to sign a Twin City agreement with one of the most advanced cities in the world, Shenzhen. The inaugural Abu Dhabi x Shenzhen Innovation Forum has been an overwhelming success and marks a new era for UAE-China relations. We are confident that the agreements signed during the forum will ensure our two world-class cities become even more attractive to citizens, visitors, businesses, and investors in the Year of the Dragon and beyond.”

#UAE #diplomacy #innovation #business
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The re-establishing of Gazprom as a state monopoly in 2000, immediately after Putin took office, is crucial to understand the rabid imperialist hostility to the man and the government he heads. In the 1990s Gazprom had been the property of the corrupt compradors headed by their main agent Victor Chenomyrdin, Putin removed him from the board then had the Russian state take over shareholdings to obtain a 50.23% stake in the company. Under Yeltsin this had shrunk down to a 38% stake and was moving in the direction whereby the US imperialists and their European allies could obtain control over it. Putin prevented this and this is why the US immediately started scheming with Khodokovsky to have him run for President in order to enable further US control over the energy sector. This links to Putins speech in 2007 where he said that the Russian government was more than prepared to do deals like good capitalists but expected these deals to be fairly done. As has been said numerous times though, being able to trade with Russia was never what the imperialists had in mind. They need to be able to have total control over the extraction of oil and gas and not have to bargain with the Russian state. They needed Russia to be a colonised site for resource extraction that could be used to obtain gigantic profits from. This was derailed by Putin as early as 2000 and it is at this time that the scare stories about him being Ivan the Terrible crossed with Stalin start to emerge. The simple act of denying the imperialists their "right" to unrestricted pillaging of Russian resources was enough to start a decades long propaganda war against Putins government as part of a wide ranging, constant regime change plan of which the late Mr Navalny was but one part.
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My article about a young footballer who is canonised and condemned within the space of a few seasons.
Our upcoming live!!
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