Swedish illustration (1974) showing a deathly CIA agent lurking behind Augusto Pinochet.

St. Martin's Church
Zurich, Switzerland

Architect: Otto Glaus

Year of construction: 1969

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"Judgment is coming!", soviet poster, 1944

My thanks to comrade Ash for suggesting the five part podcast series on Trotksyism. There is much in this that I was previously unaware of particularly just how much Trotksyism in the USA has been under the control of either the FBI, CIA/OSS or both since the 1930s. Nor was I aware of the fact that Lee Harvey Oswald was connected to the American SWP or that the absolute rogues gallery of White Russian emigres connected to the assassination also had links to American Trotksyism. What emerges here is a movement that is even more of a state run operation than I previously though. Now I need to put together a similar programme that covers British Trotksyism and it's links to Mi5 and Mi6, that will be quite the story as well.

What this all confirms is that Stalin was absolutely right when he observed that Trotksyism quickly went from being a mistaken trend in the CPSU to being a tool of imperialism.

The finance aristocracy, in its mode of acquisition as well as in its pleasures, is nothing but the rebirth of the lumpenproletariat on the heights of bourgeois society.

Karl Marx - Class Struggles In France 1848 - 1850

“#Yuri_Gagarin in the young pioneer camp.”, early 1960s (photo by V. Gusev)

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"I.V. #Stalin in his youth", #painting by Vladimir Isaakovich Prager, 1947

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96 years ago the great Argentine revolutionary Errnesto Guevara was born. Known to the whole world simply as 'Che'. His image has come to stand for revolts of many kinds but he was, above everything else, a Marxist-Leninist, pan American revolutionary whose legacy includes vital lessons for us on revolutionary organisation, economics under socialism and the revolt of the neo-colonial world.

We salute his revolutionary legacy!

My comrade Alex here discusses the relationship between patriotism and the Proletariat. This is definitely important watching for all workers.

https://www.youtube.com/live/gUn8QxXnz_s?si=bd9r7ZEm34Z02xmJ

For the oranges not yet picked from the trees nourished by the blood of our martyrs, and for the keys hung around necks far from home, we persevere. For the echoes of our children still ricocheting through the valleys of Palestine, and for the whistling of rockets lighting the skies above our homeland, we push forward. For the bravery of our fighters, who carry on their shoulders not only the weight of Palestine but also the weight of striking a blow on behalf of all the oppressed from the far corners of the world, we honor you.

🔻 and ⭕️ converge on the enemy, our martyrs' pure blood intermingled in the field, from Gaza to Lebanon, from Iraq to Syria and Yemen. No borders stand between us; the fields are united.

Happy Father's Day comrades!

On a day off - go for a tourist walk!

Artist - M. Soloviev - 1948

Although western monopolies have generated huge profits in arms sales over the last two years, their weapons have not lived up to the marketing hype.

It has been clear since 2022 that Nato has no realistic way to win, but despite this the imperialists continue to fuel the conflict with unlimited subsidies and continue to demand the ritual sacrifice of untold thousands more Ukrainians.

All in a desperate quest to destroy a sovereign and independent Russia by any means necessary.

This is the text of a paper I delivered in Madrid just over a week ago, when the World Anti-imperialist Platform (@PlatformNews2) held a conference about the ongoing development of a third world war.

https://thecommunists.org/2024/06/17/news/theory/essence-of-ukraine-war-lessons-russia-smo/