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Drawings featuring Lenin by Nikolai Zhukov (1908-1973)

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Just wanted to post these images of Sophia Perovskaya that didn't make the cut for my icon, but that I think are cool anyway. :^)

Sophia was one of three women implicated in the assassination of Tsar Alexander II, and the only woman to be executed for it.

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“Imperialism is everywhere. Through the culture that it spreads, through its misinformation, it gets us to think like it does, it gets us to submit to it, and to go along with all its maneuvers. For goodness’ sake, we must stand in imperialism’s way.”

-Thomas Sankara

Taken from “Thomas Sankara Speaks: The Burkina Faso Revolution 1983-1987” (pages 54-55).

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“Revolutionaries didn't choose armed struggle as the best path, it's the path the oppressors imposed on the people. And so the people only have two choices: to suffer, or to fight."

— Fidel Castro, 1967

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Haydee Tamara Bunke Bider, better known as "Tania" or "Tania la Guerrillera," was an internationalist who joined the Cuban revolutionary movement and later took part in the unfortunate guerrilla expedition to Bolivia called Operation Ghost. She was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on November 19, 1937, the daughter of Erich Bunke and Nadia Bider. Her father had been a member of the Communist Party of Germany since 1928 and her mother was of Russian Jewish ancestry. They fled Nazi Germany in 1935 to avoid persecution and eventually settled in Argentina, where they immediately joined the Argentine Communist Party. In 1952, they returned, to help build socialism in the then newly-founded German Democratic Republic, in the Eastern part of Germany. They settled in Stalinstadt, later renamed Eisenhüttenstadt, where her father continued working as a teacher. From a very young age, Tania became involved in communist activities in Argentina and East Germany. Her work as a Spanish translator for Latin American leaders visiting East Germany on behalf of the international relations department of the Free German Youth (the Communist Party youth organisation) enabled her to gain firsthand knowledge of political events occurring in Latin America. After meeting Che Guevara in Leipzig in December 1960, Tania moved to Cuba where she participated in the Cuban Literacy Campaign, among other revolutionary efforts, working for the Ministry of Education, the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples, and the Federation of Cuban Women. In 1964, she was selected to participate in Che's Bolivia campaign. Her loyalty to the struggle was unwavering despite having to cut almost all ties with her friends and family in order to safely complete her mission. After working clandestinely for over two years in La Paz, Bolivia, and then fighting in the ranks of the Ejército de Liberación Nacional de Bolivia (ELN), Tania was machine-gunned to death in an ambush at Puerto Mauricio on the banks of the Rio Grande by members of the CIA-backed Bolivian army on August 31, 1967. Tania and the rest of her comrades were secretly buried in unmarked graves by the Bolivian military. After a long campaign by the Cuban government, their remains were eventually taken to Cuba for burial in 1998. In East Germany, many collectives, youth brigades, schools and kindergartens bore the name of Tania. But in reunified Germany, her name fell prey to public oblivion.

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"I am not tolerant. I do not tolerate fascism." -Pedro Lemebel

Today would be the 72nd birthday of Chilean artist and queer comrade Pedro Lemebel, who fought tirelessly for queer inclusion in the fight against the dictatorship of Pinochet.

You can read his formative novel, My Tender Matador, here for free on the Internet Archive.

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Not you defending North Korea 🤡

almost every single shocking story about North Korea you have ever read (if not all of them) was either made up wholesale or sourced from North Korean defectors. these defectors are paid ludicrous sums of money by the South Korean government for their testimony, but that cash flow gets cut off if the defector comes across as even slightly sympathetic to their home country, which obviously leads to stories that make NK look good getting buried and stories that make them look bad getting spread to American media, regardless of how obviously fake they are, since anyone who questions them is obviously a fascist apologist who wants the world to get nuked.

i’m sure you already know this since you know so much about North Korea, but the US bombed almost the entire fucking country off the map and still holds annual military drills with South Korea in preparation to do it again right on the border as an intimidation attempt. if you can be cognizant of both of these facts and still take stories about officials being fed to 120 starving dogs at face value, you might be a fucking idiot

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Today, July 11th marks the anniversary of the Srebrenica Genocide where Serbian forces rounded up over 8,000 Bosniak Muslims in the UN-declared "safe area" of Srebrenica, and murdered them—for no other reason than being Muslim.

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Communist Party of India-Maoist

Military wing: Peoples Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA)

Also known as Naxalites

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Workers, soldiers and sailors storm the Winter Palace during the Bolshevik Revolution, Nov. 7 (Oct. 25), 1917.

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30% of guerrilla combatants were women. In Nicaragua’s first democratic elections in 1984, 67% of the women who voted in that election voted for the FSLN.

The women in Nicaragua during the Sandinista Revolution saw their way of life drastically change, emerging as active participants and leaders. Empowered by the movement, they boldly challenged any attempts to confine them to traditional domestic roles.

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Why did the Nazis call themselves National Socialists when they were vehemently anti-communist and not left in any political sense? This isn't a gotcha, it's a genuine question I've had regarding history that I can't find an answer to for some reason.

Because capitalism was genuinely unpopular in Germany. The German economy was tumultuous after WW1, and while the Social Democrats tried to keep the whole thing running smoothly, their reformist approach tied their hands. The Great Depression was the second economic crisis to hit Germany within 10 years, and people were desperate for any alternatives.

The two biggest competitors to the status quo at the time were the Communists and the Nazis. While the Communists were riding on the success of the Russian Revolution, the Nazis branded themselves as "respectable" socialists that patriotic middle class Germans could be proud to support. They weren't your old boring conservative nationalists who were in favor of the same old economic policies that brought the country to ruin. They wanted change too just like everyone else. But they weren't in favor of that dastardly foreign Bolshevism either. That was crude working class socialism that only led to class conflict and civil war.

The Nazis proclaimed that the bourgeoisie weren't the enemy, you see. The enemy was foreigners, an international conspiracy to deprive Germany of capital and impoverish its people for the benefit of a small global elite; a secret Jewish cabal that were behind everything bad in the world. It didn't matter that the Jewish community in Germany was actually poorer than the average German and that most Jewish citizens were working class. The Nazis needed a way to convince people they were doing anything to tackle corruption and greed, so they tapped into the already-existing current of antisemitism in Germany and used the Jews as a scapegoat to cover for the fact that their economic policies did not actually break significantly from the Weimar era, apart from heavy investments in remilitarizing the country, which would eventually fuel the German expansionism that sparked WW2.

National "socialism" was ostensibly socialism for the benefit of a nation rather than a class. In practice, this meant that German capitalists got subsidies and the German workers were supposed to be happy about that because they were all German, right? Yes, German workers got more welfare and benefits, but they got those under the Kaiser and during the height of SDP leadership too. The Nazis weren't any special in that regard. The only real difference with the Nazis was the utter contempt they held for international solidarity and cooperation. That was how they distinguished their socialism from the barbarous Eastern Bolshevism: the latter promoted working class organization that transcended national boundaries, whereas the former asserted that national ties come first and that through national pride and cooperation, class divisions can be overcome.

In effect, Nazism was a means of protecting German nationalism and German capitalism from the threats posed by the rising support for revolutionary communism. The appellation of "socialism" was simply a means of co-opting radical sentiment at a time when traditional conservativism and liberalism had very little respect among the average person, and the utter contempt the Nazis held for the actual working class meant that their movement had little genuine working class support before they gained power.

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James Baldwin

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Ulises Castellanos, Guardia Zapatista

EZLN, Chiapas, 1994.