On this day, 31 May 1921, one of the worst single incidents of racial violence in US history took place: the Tulsa massacre, which left 300 dead after a false allegation of a Black man attacking a white woman.The Tulsa Tribune newspaper included a front-page article noscriptd “Nab Negro for Attacking Girl in Elevator” and a back-page editorial noscriptd “To Lynch Negro Tonight.”Local whites were inflamed, and they attacked the Black community of Greenwood, at the time the most prosperous African American community in the US, commonly known as the Black Wall Street. The Black Dispatch newspaper reported:“Hundreds of Black men, women and children are scattered through the bottoms of Verdi Gras river and the Arkansas, naked, barefooted, women with children in their arms and giving birth to children, are scattered everywhere as they hurry farther from their burning homes and the holocause of bullets of the white assassins who rushed upon their defenceless homes in the we hours of this morning, spreading fire and bullets everywhere."Back in the charred, smoking ruins of what was once the finest business district that progressive Negroes had in the United States, [4] million dollars worth [over $70 million in 2024] of homes and property, arson reigns supreme, punctured here and there by the still smoking carcasses of men, women and children."Mobs were backed up by private planes that reportedly dropped incendiary devices and fired on Black residents. Hundreds were killed and the entire thirty-five-block area was razed to the ground, leaving up to ten thousand people homeless.After the massacre, city authorities implemented a fire ordinance which barred reconstruction, and forced Black residents into a new district 35 blocks away.At the time of writing (April 2024) there are still a few survivors awaiting justice and reparations.

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"Hitlers come and go, but the German people and the German state remain." - a picture with a quote from Stalin in Berlin, 1949

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Britain’s century long Opium trafficking and China’s century of humiliation (1839-1949) – Telegraph
https://telegra.ph/Britains-century-long-Opium-trafficking-and-Chinas-century-of-humiliation-1839-1949-05-30

Robert Fico’s failed assassination raises specter of Western plotting - The Grayzone
https://thegrayzone.com/2024/05/31/robert-ficos-assassination-western-plotting/

In the first article of a new series we look at what workers control over production actually means. In this series of articles we'll be looking at Albania, Cuba, China, the DPRK, DDR, USSR and Socialist Yugoslavia

http://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2024/06/02/the-workers-must-rule/

Red Army Women's Unit, Leningrad Front, 18. May 1942.

"Long live the all-conquering banner of Leninism!"

Artist - M.A.Nesterova-Berzina - 1957

Sunak is proud that the UK became the first country to supply Ukraine with long-range weapons

The British Prime Minister stated this in an interview with the Times. According to him, Kiev itself must decide whether to use Western weapons to strike Russian territory.

Sunak described the modern world as more uncertain and dangerous than at any time since the Cold War.

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In England, at the beginning of May 1926, just before the General Strike, the workers on the Daily Mail refused to print certain articles with which they disagreed. In an official statement from Downing Street this was described as a "gross interference with the freedom of the Press." The men that produced the paper had claimed a say in what they printed! The Soviet Government, early in 1918, went far further than the workers on the Daily Mail. It confiscated all the privately owned printing presses and transferred them in their entirely to the organizations of the workers, peasants, and soldiers. From the point of view of the private owners of newspapers, the young Soviet Government was guilty of the most outrageous interference with the freedom of the Press.

- Pat Sloan, Soviet Democracy.

We are not fighting for ourselves - we are fighting for the children, for the happiness of generations... Let them grow up brave and strong in spirit and body, let them never trade their conscience; let them be happier than us and wait for the triumph of freedom, brotherhood and love..

– Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky

Some surprise may be felt that the priests and monks were deprived of the right to vote and to stand for election. It must be remembered, however, that the Church in Tsarist Russia was the largest single land-owner, and when the landed estates were confiscated the priests and monks, together with the other land-lords, almost without exception, joined forces with the armed counter- revolution. Religious freedom was guaranteed from the first days of the Revolution, and "freedom of religious and anti-religious propaganda" was assured to every citizen by the Constitution. At the same time, however, the Church was disestablished, and deprived of its income from land and industry, and the schools were completely taken over by the State. In this way religion became a private, as opposed to a State, concern; religious groups had now to pay their own priests without any form of State subsidy or unearned income from property.

- Pat Sloan, Soviet Democracy.

In our country, to educate means to revolutionize, that is, to free the child’s thinking from the technical skills of thought predetermined by the past of his grandfathers and fathers, from its delusions, which are based on the centuries-old experience of conservative life, built on the class struggle and on the desire of individuals for self-defense, for affirmation. individualism and nationalism as “eternal” forms and laws of social existence.

The earth belongs to children, always children! We, tired, die, they burn in our place like new bright lights - the flame of life’s creativity does not go out thanks to them, and I would say that only children are immortal!

Maksim Gorky

This post is a translation from the Kommunisti Mir channel

'The Thames Sparkles at Night'

Andrew Grant Kurtis.