“Before engines, there were legs — welcome to the world of ‘legging’ through the tunnels.”

This striking 1961 photo captures a nearly forgotten craft: legging. In the days before engines, canal workers would lie on their backs atop narrowboats and push against tunnel walls with their feet, inching the boats forward through long, dark passages where horses couldn’t go.

It was exhausting, filthy work — damp air, mucky clothes, and pure muscle power. But this was the rhythm of Britain’s industrial waterways, where grit and determination moved commerce before machines took the reins.

Source

“Tractor Drivers Taking Up the Challenge of Socialist Competition,” a painting by Victor Karrus and Roman Treuman, Estonian SSR, 1951.

Lumumba Patrice. The truth about a monstrous crime of the colonialists.

Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1961. — 231 p.

The collection of the documents about Patrice Lumumba and his murder.

Lumumba Patrice. The truth about a monstrous crime of the colonialists.

Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1961. — 231 p.

The collection of the documents about Patrice Lumumba and his murder.

🚨 Kidnapped Alawite Mother shown under torture

• A picture is circulating showing a conversation with a Fake account sending pictures of the kidnapped Alawite girl Hala Ibrahim tortured and bruised.

• The person behind the account asks "do you want Hala? Or the kid? Or her dog husband?"

• Then the person continues making threats saying "your time soon, by Al Kaaba's God"

• Hala Ibrahim was kidnapped in May 2025 with her Kid, despite her wearing a Hijab to hide her Alawite identity.

Reported Death of Former Syrian Grand Mufti Badr al-Din Hassoun Following Torture in Detention

Badr al-Din Hassoun, former Grand Mufti of the Syrian Arab Republic under the Assad government, has been killed after reportedly being tortured in detention by the so-called General Security forces affiliated with the de facto government and its official military.

Sources indicate he was transferred to the hospital in critical condition following abuse in prison and later succumbed to his injuries.

This news is circulating via multiple telegram channels.

Burdensome and intolerable has been the lot of the working class. Painful and grievous have been the sufferings of the labouring people. Slaves and slaveholders, serfs and serf-owners, peasants and landlords, workers and capitalists, oppressed and oppressors — so the world has been built from time immemorial, and so it remains to this day in the vast majority of countries. Scores and indeed hundreds of times in the course of the centuries the labouring people have striven to throw off the oppressors from their backs and to become the masters of their own destiny. But each time, defeated and disgraced, they have been forced to retreat, harbouring in their breasts resentment and humiliation, anger and despair, and lifting up their eyes to an inscrutable heaven where they hoped to find deliverance. The chains of slavery remained intact, or the old chains were replaced by new ones, equally burdensome and degrading. Ours is the only country where the oppressed and downtrodden labouring masses have succeeded in throwing off the rule of the landlords and capitalists and replacing it by the rule of the workers and peasants. You know, comrades, and the whole world now admits it, that this gigantic struggle was led by Comrade Lenin and his Party. The greatness of Lenin lies above all in this, that by creating the Republic of Soviets he gave a practical demonstration to the oppressed masses of the whole world that hope of deliverance is not lost, that the rule of the landlords and capitalists is short-lived, that the kingdom of labour can be created by the efforts of the labouring people themselves, and that the kingdom of labour must be created not in heaven, but on earth. He thus fired the hearts of the workers and peasants of the whole world with the hope of liberation. That explains why Lenin’s name has become the name most beloved of the labouring and exploited masses.

- J. V. Stalin
On The Death Of Lenin

The Stalin Society.