“Everything I know, everything I can do, is yours, comrade!”, soviet poster, 1964

Yesterday, the the occupation authorities released Professor Nadira Shalhoub under restrictive conditions, following her arrest a day prior by occupation forces from her home in Al-Quds, according to the Palestinian Prisoners Club.

Her arrest came after she was subjected to a widespread incitement campaign due to her humanitarian, ethical, and national stance against the genocide war facing our people in Gaza, which led to the "Hebrew" University initially suspending her work, though it later reversed this decision. This arrest is part of the incitement campaign process.

A court session for Professor Shalhoub was held in occupied Al-Qufd. After deliberations, the so-called "Peace" Court of the occupation decided to release her with conditions. However, the occupation police requested a freeze on the decision to file an appeal, which was rejected by the occupation’s Central Court, and she was subsequently released.

The prisoners institutions affirmed that the arrest of Shalhoub, who is one of the most important Palestinian researchers and academics internationally, is a desperate attempt to obscure the Palestinian narrative, and our voice as Palestinians and our right to express our stance on the causes of our people amidst ongoing historical injustices in full view of the world and with support from international powers.

“To build, you need to know
To know, you have to study"
Soviet poster about the importance of education.
Artists - B. Reshetnikov & A. Dobrov 1956

"The abolition of classes requires a long, difficult and stubborn class struggle, which, after the overthrow of capitalist rule, after the destruction of the, bourgeois state, after the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat, does not disappear (as the vulgar representatives of the old socialism and the old Social Democracy imagire), but merely changes its forms and in many respects becomes fiercer."

Lenin

Comrade Harpal hits the nail on the head with his explanation of Lenin's discussion on party building.

Too much individualism exists within those who call themselves socialists. To say that the decision made by central party, or an organisational body, is not to your liking and you don't want to do it is completely counter productive.

Being a good communist means your wants and desires should be put aside for the good of the party and the movement.

Lenin" Karabakh carpet, USSR, circa 1950.

"It is quite natural that the petty-bourgeois world outlook should crop up again and again in the ranks of the broad workers' parties. What we now often experience only in the domain of ideology, namely, disputes over theoretical amendments to Marx; what now crops up in practice only over side-issues in the labour rnovement, as tactical differences with the revisionists and splits on this"

Lenin

In this 1960 poster, Lenin portrait is outlined on a red background next to a rocket that takes off towards the stars and the flags of the USSR and other states of the socialist bloc: China, Albania; Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Mongolia, North Korea, Vietnam and GDR.

"1870-1960" "Under the banner of Marxism-Leninism, the world system of socialism was born and is developing powerfully, which is now exerting a decisive influence on the fate of mankind." (on the newspaper "Pravda")

Artist: Shaya Noevich Melamud (1911-1993). Publishing house "Artist of the RSFSR. Leningrad. 1960.

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What Is Soviet Power? Articles and Speeches

Lenin, Vladimir Ilich.

Moscow: Progress.

Now in capitalist countries cities are mostly adorned with abstract sculptures. Such a genre of art illustrates the anti-popular character and corrupt nature of contemporary imperialism, in which spiritual and cultural life is impoverished, and reflects its decadent social climate. In socialist society, urban spaces are adorned with graceful and meaningful sculptures, thus promoting the full flourishing of the healthy and noble spiritual and cultural life of workers.

—Kim Jong Il, Selected Works , vol. XII, Editions in foreign languages, Pyongyang 2008, p. 130.

Source

Poster from the Mongolian People's Republic expressing solidarity with the DPRK during the Fatherland Liberation War, 1952.

Why I’m a Marxist and a patriot – Challenge Magazine
https://challenge-magazine.org/2024/04/23/why-im-a-marxist-and-a-patriot/

We are marching in a compact group along a precipitous and difficult path, firmly holding each other by the hand. We are surrounded on all sides by enemies, and we have to advance almost constantly under their fire. We have combined, by a freely adopted decision, for the purpose of fighting the enemy, and not of retreating into the neighbouring marsh, the inhabitants of which, from the very outset, have reproached us with having separated ourselves into an exclusive group and with having chosen the path of struggle instead of the path of conciliation. And now some among us begin to cry out: Let us go into the marsh! And when we begin to shame them, they retort: What backward people you are! Are you not ashamed to deny us the liberty to invite you to take a better road! Oh, yes, gentlemen! You are free not only to invite us, but to go yourselves wherever you will, even into the marsh. In fact, we think that the marsh is your proper place, and we are prepared to render you every assistance to get there. Only let go of our hands, don’t clutch at us and don’t besmirch the grand word freedom, for we too are “free” to go where we please, free to fight not only against the marsh, but also against those who are turning towards the marsh!

Lenin, What Is To Be Done?

"Shine Our Friendship!", soviet poster, 1960

A little night-time reading.