Modern monopolist capitalism on a world-wide scale — imperialist wars are absolutely inevitable under such an economic system, as long as private property in the means of production exists.

Lenin
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (1920)

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Over 1,000 Samsung workers in Chennai, India, have been on strike for four weeks, making it India’s biggest strike in recent years. The protests, held in a makeshift tent near the factory, have disrupted production at the plant, which contributed to a fifth of Samsung’s $12 billion revenue in India for 2022-23.

The Samsung plant employs roughly 1,800 workers. More than 1,000 workers on strike are demanding higher wages and union recognition.

The protests have since been met with repression by Indian authorities. Around 850 Samsung employees and 60 workers linked to the labor group Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), which is leading the protest, were detained before being released the same day.

Samsung has warned the striking workers they risk losing their jobs and has taken CITU members to court, saying the strike is illegal. However, the workers on strike disagree, vowing to continue their protest until their demands are met.

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Media
On this day, 2 October 1968, the Tlatelolco massacre took place in Mexico City when police murdered hundreds of students demonstrating peacefully, just prior to the start of the Olympic Games in the city. At the time, many workers and poor farmers were fighting for better conditions, and the government responded with violent repression during what is known as the "dirty war". People were angry at the huge cost of staging the Olympics, as well as police repression. And so, on 2 October around 10,000 school and university students gathered in protest at the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in Mexico City, chanting: "We don't want Olympics, we want revolution!" A little after 6 PM, 5,000 troops surrounded the square and began firing into the crowd and nearby buildings. Throughout the night, soldiers and police officers went on a rampage, rounding people up, and beating and killing protesters, bystanders and local residents. Authorities and the media claimed that troops were defending themselves from sniper fire, but it was much later revealed that the snipers who began shooting were members of the Presidential Guard. The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had been in close contact with Mexican authorities as it was concerned about protests against the Olympic Games, and the US military provided them with equipment, weapons and ammunition. Six days before the massacre, Mexican federal security told the CIA that "the situation will be under complete control very shortly".

Working Class History

#TlatelolcoMassacre #Mexico1968 #RevolutionNotOlympics #StudentProtest #DirtyWar #StateRepression #JusticeForTlatelolco #CIAInvolvement #WorkersAndFarmers #RememberTlatelolco #History

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Two basic functions characterize the activity of the state: at home (the main function), to keep in restraint the exploited majority; abroad (not the main function), to extend the territory of its class, the ruling class, at the expense of the territory of other states, or to defend the territory of its own state from attack by other states. Such was the case in slave society and under feudalism. Such is the case under capitalism.

In order to overthrow capitalism it was not only necessary to remove the bourgeoisie from power, it was not only necessary to expropriate the capitalists, but also to smash entirely the bourgeois state machine and its old army, its bureaucratic officialdom and its police force, and to substitute for it a new, proletarian form of state, a new, Socialist state.

Stalin
Report on the Work of the Central Committee to the Eighteenth Congress of the C.P.S.U.(B.)(Delivered March 10, 1939.)

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Trade Unions fail generally from limiting themselves to a guerilla war against the effects of the existing system, instead of simultaneously trying to change it, instead of using their organized forces as a lever for the final emancipation of the working class that is to say the ultimate abolition of the wages system.

Karl Marx
Value, Price and Profit

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Che participating in a voluntary work day, 1961

Che was one of the people who proposed the idea of working a half Sunday to help Revolutionary construction by building much-needed infrastructure. True to form he helped out himself every Sunday he could.

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One is an “offense against humanity” while the other is a “necessary security barrier.”

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On this day, 3 October 1896, designer, artist and socialist William Morris died of tuberculosis at age 62.
In describing his political goals in 1894, he wrote: "a brief sketch of what I am looking forward to as a Communist: to sum up, it is Freedom from artificial disabilities; the development of each man's capacities for the benefit of each and all. Abolition of waste by taking care that one man does not get more than he can use, and another less than he needs; consequent condition of general well-being and fulness of life, neither idle and vacant, nor over burdened with toil."

Working Class History

#WilliamMorris #Socialism #Communism #October3 #History #ClassStruggle #WorkersRights #AntiCapitalism #Equality #ArtAndPolitics #HistoricalFigures #Revolutionary

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The state arises where, when and insofar as class antagonism objectively cannot be reconciled. And, conversely, the existence of the state proves that the class antagonisms are irreconcilable.

Vladimir Lenin
The State and Revolution

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The working-man is made to feel at every moment that the bourgeoisie treats him as a chattel, as its property, and for this reason, if for no other, he must come forward as its enemy.

Friedrich Engels
The Condition of the Working Class in England

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Social chauvinists are our class opponents, the bourgeois among the working-class movement. They represent a stratum, groups, and layers of workers who have been objectively bribed by the bourgeoisie and who help their bourgeoisie to plunder and strangle small and weak peoples, to fight over the division of capitalist spoils

Vladimir Lenin
The Tasks of the Proletariat in Our Revolution

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Fidel reads Che's letter

The historic first Central Committee meeting of the newly formed Communist Party of Cuba was held in Havana on October 3, 1965.

At that meeting at the Charlie Chaplin (now Karl Marx) Theatre Fidel Castro gave a famous speech in praise of the unification of all the Revolutionary forces under the banner of socialism and under a vanguard, explicitly Communist party.

He also ended months of speculation about the location of Che. Che had gone to fight for revolution in the Congo months prior and had written a farewell letter on April 1 to Fidel and the Cuban people. Fidel read this moving and powerful letter for the first time at this meeting.

Here we republish two stirring excerpts from the speech as well as the letter itself:
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