🟡 Massive escalation of violence and numerous arrests by Berlin police at pro-Palestine protests in Germany‘s capital shortly before the Oct 7 anniversary. Over 2000 police officers will be deployed in Berlin tomorrow.

🔴 The repression in Berlin is a reminder to all who believe in the myth of capitalist democracy. There is no room for real change in a system that immediately resorts to violence when its foundation is shaken. The capitalism cannot allow protests, movements, or ideas that threaten its existence to flourish, because its survival depends on the suppression of opposition. Those in power understand this all too well, and that is why they unleash their police forces with such ferocity on peaceful demonstrators.
The violent treatment of protesters in Berlin is not an isolated event. It is part of a broader pattern of repression inherent to capitalist democracies. When the people rise to challenge injustice,capitalism responds with force, revealing the brutal reality behind the facade of freedom.

At the present time, when the landowners and capitalists have come to realise the strength of the revolutionary masses, the most important thing for them is to safeguard the most essential institutions of the old regime, to safeguard the old instruments of oppression: the police, the bureaucracy, the standing army. They are trying to reduce the “civil militia” to an institution of the old type, i.e., to small detachments of armed men standing apart from the people and as close as possible to the bourgeoisie and under the command of men from among the bourgeoisie.

V. I. Lenin
A Proletarian Militia

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Calculations of GDP, which are notoriously unreliable for particular countries, are even more so for the world as a whole. In India many researchers have questioned the official estimates of the growth rate of GDP, and have suggested that this rate can scarcely be above 4-4.5 per cent per annum over the last several years in contrast to the 7 per cent or so shown by official statistics. The exultation over the acceleration of GDP growth in the neo-liberal period compared to the dirigiste period would appear to be entirely misplaced; and if the growth rate of the GDP has scarcely increased compared to earlier, while inequalities have widened significantly, then the assertion that the condition of the working people has deteriorated in the neo-liberal period, as is clearly shown by other indicators such as nutritional intake figures, would be even more firmly established. But notwithstanding the utter shakiness of GDP data, let us examine what has been happening to world GDP.
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According to Engels, the bourgeois state does not “wither away”, but is “abolished” by the proletariat in the course of the revolution. What withers away after this revolution is the proletarian state or semi-state.

Vladimir Lenin
The State and Revolution

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Ho Chi Minh inspects positions on the Red River during the war of liberation against France, 1949

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'White Guardists in the United States celebrate the Day of Russian Culture' (American cartoon by E. Cooper for New Masses magazine. United States of America, 9 July 1935).

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'Lenin's ideas live and win!' (Russian #poster by Oleg Maslyakov/ Izdatel'stvo Plakat, Moscow. Soviet Union, 1975).

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In Europe, reformism actually means abandoning Marxism and replacing it by bourgeois “social policy”. In Russia, the reformism of the liquidators means not only that, it means destroying the Marxist organisation and abandoning the democratic tasks of the working class, it means replacing them by a liberal-labour policy.

V. I. Lenin
Marxism and Reformism

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On October 7, 1879, Joel Emmanuel Hägglund—known to the world as Joe Hill—was born in Gävle, Sweden. A songwriter and labor activist, Hill became a martyr for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), a revolutionary union. His influence extended far beyond his short life, with his songs echoing on picket lines across the United States, which had become his new home. These songs not only motivated workers but also served as an essential tool for spreading the union’s message. At a time when many working-class people either could not or did not have access to left-wing publications, Hill’s lyrics became a vehicle for their education and empowerment.

One of his most famous songs, The Preacher and the Slave, critiques the religious establishment, which often sided with the capitalist class, promising spiritual rewards while ignoring the workers' immediate needs. In biting satire, Hill wrote:

"You will eat, bye and bye,
In that glorious land above the sky;
Work and pray, live on hay,
You'll get pie in the sky when you die."

This song gave birth to the now-common phrase “pie in the sky,” symbolizing empty promises made to pacify the oppressed. Hill’s songs captured the frustrations and aspirations of the working class, using humor and irony to highlight the hypocrisy of those in power.

Despite his efforts to fight for workers' rights, Hill was arrested and later executed by the state of Utah in 1915 for a murder he almost certainly did not commit. His trial and execution were highly politicized, with many believing that Hill’s real crime was his influence in organizing workers and challenging the status quo. His final words, written in a letter to fellow unionists, reflect his unbroken spirit: "Don't waste any time mourning. Organize!"

Joe Hill's legacy continues to inspire activists and workers around the world. His songs remain a powerful testament to the struggle for justice, with timeless messages that resonate even in today’s labor movements.

#JoeHill #LaborMovement #IndustrialWorkersOfTheWorld #PieInTheSky #WorkersRights #UnionSolidarity #ClassStruggle #RevolutionarySongs #OrganizeDontMourn #LaborHistory

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