Forwarded from Communism
Aaron Bushnell self-immolated on this day one year ago to call attention to the genocide in Palestine. A member of the US Air Force, Bushnell dressed in his military fatigues to self-immolate in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC. After pouring a flammable liquid on himself, he repeated “Free Palestine” until he couldn’t speak anymore. He died shortly after.
On February 25, 2024, the morning of his self-immolation, Bushnell posted on Facebook: “Many of us like to ask ourselves, ‘What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?’ The answer is you’re doing it. Right now.”
US leaders were silent on Bushnell’s extreme act of protest, and some media outlets labeled him as “mentally ill.” Bushnell’s sacrifice and courage have been honored by people from Yemen to Palestine, where there is now a street named after him in Jericho.
theredstream
On February 25, 2024, the morning of his self-immolation, Bushnell posted on Facebook: “Many of us like to ask ourselves, ‘What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?’ The answer is you’re doing it. Right now.”
US leaders were silent on Bushnell’s extreme act of protest, and some media outlets labeled him as “mentally ill.” Bushnell’s sacrifice and courage have been honored by people from Yemen to Palestine, where there is now a street named after him in Jericho.
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Forwarded from USSR Pictures
"Long Live the 25th Anniversary of the Leninist-Stalinist Komsomol!", soviet poster, 1943
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Forwarded from The Communists
A full obituary for Comrade Harpal Brar will be published next week in the March edition of Lalkar, the anti-imperialist newspaper he edited from 1979 until his death last month.
In the meantime, this short tribute gives a brief overview of his life and achievements, his global impact and his lasting legacy.
https://thecommunists.org/2025/02/26/news/harpal-brar-life-dedicated-socialism-anti-imperialism-tributes-bibliography/
In the meantime, this short tribute gives a brief overview of his life and achievements, his global impact and his lasting legacy.
https://thecommunists.org/2025/02/26/news/harpal-brar-life-dedicated-socialism-anti-imperialism-tributes-bibliography/
The Communists
Comrade Harpal Brar: a life entirely dedicated to the cause of socialism
Our party’s founding chair has died, but his work lives on in a new generation of revolutionaries, both in Britain and around the world.
Forwarded from Marx Engels Lenin Institute
To build socialism means not only building gigantic factories and flour mills. This is essential but not enough for building socialism. People must grow in mind and heart. And on the basis of this individual growth of each in our conditions a new type of mighty socialist collective will in the long run be formed, where "I" and "we" will merge into one inseparable whole. Such a collective can only develop on the basis of profound ideological solidarity and an equally profound emotional rapprochement, mutual understanding.
And here, art, and literature in particular, can play a quite exceptional role. In Capital, Marx has a marvellous chapter [Ch. XI] which I want to translate into the simplest language that even the semi-literate can understand, the chapter on co-operation, where he writes that the collective gives birth to a new force. It is not just the sum-total of people, the sum-total of their forces, but a completely new, much more powerful, force. In his chapter on co-operation Marx writes about the new material force. But when, on its basis, unity of consciousness and will springs up, it becomes an indomitable force.
Nadezhda Krupskaya - Russian revolutionary leader & wife of Lenin - Born on this day in 1869.
My recent article for the Class Consciousness Project. Football, liberalism and imperialism all rolled into one.
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My recent article for Lalkar
Lalkar: Trump freezes USAID
https://www.lalkar.org/article/4648/trump-freezes-usaid
Lalkar: Trump freezes USAID
https://www.lalkar.org/article/4648/trump-freezes-usaid
Lalkar
Trump freezes USAID
The liberal media erupted in outrage when President Donald Trump’s new administration announced a funding freeze on the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), with some claiming it would result in thousands of government job losses and…
Forwarded from Marx Engels Lenin Institute
Lalkar
OBITUARY – Harpal Singh Brar 1939-2025
Harpal Singh Brar died at 10.10am Indian time (4.40am UK time) on 25 January 2025, at 85 years of age. He was at the home of his nephew Manpreet Singh Badal, in Chandigarh, India. His close comrade and leader of the CPGB-ML Ella Rule, as well as his daughter…
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Forwarded from The Communists
Red Salute for Harpal Brar
by John Cartwright
From Punjab came in ’Sixty-Two
At first with Mao’s Red Book;
He analysed and thought it through:
A different path he took.
He set up with the Gang of Five
To keep a bright red flame;
Unswervingly he kept alive
His faith in Stalin’s aim.
From R.M.L. and A. of C.
He split from Scargill’s crew;
For twenty years C.P.G.B.
M.L. was always true.
And now he’s gone with Red salute
“We only want the Earth”
To gather revolution’s fruit
He strived for since his birth.
by John Cartwright
From Punjab came in ’Sixty-Two
At first with Mao’s Red Book;
He analysed and thought it through:
A different path he took.
He set up with the Gang of Five
To keep a bright red flame;
Unswervingly he kept alive
His faith in Stalin’s aim.
From R.M.L. and A. of C.
He split from Scargill’s crew;
For twenty years C.P.G.B.
M.L. was always true.
And now he’s gone with Red salute
“We only want the Earth”
To gather revolution’s fruit
He strived for since his birth.
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Forwarded from Communism
The modern state, no matter what its form, is essentially a capitalist machine — the state of the capitalists, the ideal personification of the total national capital. The more it proceeds to the taking over of productive forces, the more does it actually become the national capitalist, the more citizens does it exploit.
Anti-Dühring by Frederick Engels 1877
@Communism
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