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The war of 1914-18 was imperialist (that is, an annexationist, predatory, war of plunder) on the part of both sides; it was a war for the division of the world, for the partition and repartition of colonies and spheres of influence of finance capital.
Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (1914)
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The war of 1914-18 was imperialist (that is, an annexationist, predatory, war of plunder) on the part of both sides; it was a war for the division of the world, for the partition and repartition of colonies and spheres of influence of finance capital.
Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (1914)
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"Smoking Is Poison-Think of the Children!" GIZRS, no. 11-12, 1931.
Fumar es veneno - ¡Piensa en los niños!
Fumer est un poison - Pensez aux enfants!
Sigara içmek zehirdir - Çocukları düşünün!
Rauchen ist Gift – Denkt an die Kinder!
吸烟是毒药——想想孩子们!
Курение – это яд. Подумайте о детях!
التدخين سم - فكروا في الأطفال!
سیگار کشیدن سم است - به فکر کودکان باشید!
धूम्रपान ज़हर है - बच्चों के बारे में सोचें!
Fumare è veleno - Pensa ai bambini!
喫煙は毒です - 子供たちのことを考えて!
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'Cut the bastards!' (Russian #poster by Mikhail Avilov/ Iskusstvo, Moscow. Soviet Union, 1941).
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'LENIN in Poland' (Polish #poster by Josef Morocak/ Izdatel'stvo, Warsaw. Polish People's Republic, 1960).
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'Remember, this is sold exclusively for peace purposes!' (American #cartoon by Sue Williams for New Masses magazine, 31 July 1934. United States of America, 1934).
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The essential task of our party consists is having penetrate among the workers and peasants this fundamental idea: only the class struggle of the mass of workers and peasants will defeat fascism. Only a government of workers and peasants can disarm the fascist militia. When these essential truths will have penetrated the spirit of the working and peasant masses by means of our tireless propaganda the workers of the factories and the fields, of whatever party, will understand the need to construct Worker and Peasant Committees for the defense of their class interests and for the struggle against fascism.
They will understand that these are the necessary instruments of the revolutionary struggle and of their will to replace the government of assassins with a government of workers and peasants. At the moment of the closing of the of the Liberal Congress, which seeks yet again to win over the working people, from one end to the other of Italy the workers and peasants answer their sonorous and empty chatter with: Neither Fascism nor Liberalism: Sovietism!
Antonio Gramsci 1924
Neither Fascism nor Liberalism: Sovietism!
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They will understand that these are the necessary instruments of the revolutionary struggle and of their will to replace the government of assassins with a government of workers and peasants. At the moment of the closing of the of the Liberal Congress, which seeks yet again to win over the working people, from one end to the other of Italy the workers and peasants answer their sonorous and empty chatter with: Neither Fascism nor Liberalism: Sovietism!
Antonio Gramsci 1924
Neither Fascism nor Liberalism: Sovietism!
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On this day, 3 November 1889 Mexican revolutionary Amelio Robles Ávila was born. Assigned female at birth, he later lived as a man, and insisted on being treated as such – on occasion sticking his gun in the face of individuals who mis-gendered him until they acknowledged him as a man. From an early age Amelio learned not only to ride, but to tame horses and then to handle weapons. He became involved in the revolutionary events and armed struggle in 1911. Between August and November 1911, Amelio was sent to the Gulf of Mexico on a commission to extort money from oil companies for the revolutionary cause. From 1913 until Nov 1918, when he delivered weapons, Amelio Robles participated in the ranks of the forces of peasant revolutionary Emiliano Zapata under the command of the main revolutionary leaders of the state: Jesús H. Salgado, Heliodoro Castillo and Encarnación Díaz. In 1923, he retired from the ranks of the army but rejoined in 1924 and took part in the Batalla de la Hacienda de Pozuelos, where he was injured. That same year he took the name Coronel Amelio Robles Ávila or simply Señor Robles, and openly had relationships with women. He formed a 10 year relationship with Ángela Torres and raising an adopted daughter, Regula Robles Torres. In 1970 he became the first person assigned female at birth to be recognised as a male veteran by the government. He lived until the age of 95.
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On this day, 3 November 1889 Mexican revolutionary Amelio Robles Ávila was born. Assigned female at birth, he later lived as a man, and insisted on being treated as such – on occasion sticking his gun in the face of individuals who mis-gendered him until they acknowledged him as a man. From an early age Amelio learned not only to ride, but to tame horses and then to handle weapons. He became involved in the revolutionary events and armed struggle in 1911. Between August and November 1911, Amelio was sent to the Gulf of Mexico on a commission to extort money from oil companies for the revolutionary cause. From 1913 until Nov 1918, when he delivered weapons, Amelio Robles participated in the ranks of the forces of peasant revolutionary Emiliano Zapata under the command of the main revolutionary leaders of the state: Jesús H. Salgado, Heliodoro Castillo and Encarnación Díaz. In 1923, he retired from the ranks of the army but rejoined in 1924 and took part in the Batalla de la Hacienda de Pozuelos, where he was injured. That same year he took the name Coronel Amelio Robles Ávila or simply Señor Robles, and openly had relationships with women. He formed a 10 year relationship with Ángela Torres and raising an adopted daughter, Regula Robles Torres. In 1970 he became the first person assigned female at birth to be recognised as a male veteran by the government. He lived until the age of 95.
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Salvador Allende was sworn in as President of Chile on this day in 1970. His presidency represented the attempt to establish a socialist society via parliamentary means in defiance of US influence.
The main focus of Allende’s policy during his presidency from 1970 to 1973 was the expropriation of essential pillars of the economy, such as mineral resources and large foreign companies and banks. By the end of 1971, the socialist government had taken control of more than 150 companies.
But Allende’s experiment in building socialism in Chile was crushed by a fascist coup led by Augusto Pinochet and backed by the US in 1973. Pinochet’s brutal rule lasted for nearly two decades, and over 40,000 people were tortured, killed, or disappeared.
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The main focus of Allende’s policy during his presidency from 1970 to 1973 was the expropriation of essential pillars of the economy, such as mineral resources and large foreign companies and banks. By the end of 1971, the socialist government had taken control of more than 150 companies.
But Allende’s experiment in building socialism in Chile was crushed by a fascist coup led by Augusto Pinochet and backed by the US in 1973. Pinochet’s brutal rule lasted for nearly two decades, and over 40,000 people were tortured, killed, or disappeared.
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"Every minute brings news of fresh conquests of the Revolution–the arrest of ministers, the seizure of the State Bank, telegraph station, telephone station, the staff headquarters. One by one the centers of power are passing into the hands of the people. The spectral authority of the old government is crumbling before the hammer strokes of the insurgents.
A commissar, breathless and mud-spattered from riding, climbs the platform to announce: “The garrison of Tsarskoye Selo for the Soviets. It stands guard at the gates of Petrograd.” From another: “The Cyclists’ Battalion for the Soviets. Not a single man found willing to shed the blood of his brothers.” Then Krylenko, staggering up, telegram in hand: “Greetings to the Soviet from the Twelfth Army! The Soldiers’ Committee is taking over the command of the Northern Front.”
And finally at the end of this tumultuous night, out of this strife of tongues and clash of wills, the simple declaration: “The Provisional Government is deposed. Based upon the will of the great majority of workers, soldiers and peasants, the Congress of Soviets assumes the power. The Soviet authority will at once propose an immediate democratic peace to all nations, an immediate truce on all fronts. It will assure the free transfer of Lands . . . etc.”
Pandemonium! Men weeping in one another’s arms. Couriers jumping up and racing away. Telegraph and telephone buzzing and humming. Autos starting off to the battlefront; aero planes speeding away across rivers and plains. Wireless flashing across the seas. All messengers of the great news !
The will of the revolutionary masses has triumphed. The Soviets are the government. This historic session ends at six o’clock in the morning. The delegates, reeling from the toxin of fatigue, 'hollow-eyed- from sleeplessness, but exultant, stumble down the stone stairs and through the gates of Smolny. Outside it is still dark and chill, but a red dawn is a-breaking in the east.""
-- American journalist Albert Williams who witnessed the Great October Socialist Revolution and wrote of it in Through the Russian Revolution
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A commissar, breathless and mud-spattered from riding, climbs the platform to announce: “The garrison of Tsarskoye Selo for the Soviets. It stands guard at the gates of Petrograd.” From another: “The Cyclists’ Battalion for the Soviets. Not a single man found willing to shed the blood of his brothers.” Then Krylenko, staggering up, telegram in hand: “Greetings to the Soviet from the Twelfth Army! The Soldiers’ Committee is taking over the command of the Northern Front.”
And finally at the end of this tumultuous night, out of this strife of tongues and clash of wills, the simple declaration: “The Provisional Government is deposed. Based upon the will of the great majority of workers, soldiers and peasants, the Congress of Soviets assumes the power. The Soviet authority will at once propose an immediate democratic peace to all nations, an immediate truce on all fronts. It will assure the free transfer of Lands . . . etc.”
Pandemonium! Men weeping in one another’s arms. Couriers jumping up and racing away. Telegraph and telephone buzzing and humming. Autos starting off to the battlefront; aero planes speeding away across rivers and plains. Wireless flashing across the seas. All messengers of the great news !
The will of the revolutionary masses has triumphed. The Soviets are the government. This historic session ends at six o’clock in the morning. The delegates, reeling from the toxin of fatigue, 'hollow-eyed- from sleeplessness, but exultant, stumble down the stone stairs and through the gates of Smolny. Outside it is still dark and chill, but a red dawn is a-breaking in the east.""
-- American journalist Albert Williams who witnessed the Great October Socialist Revolution and wrote of it in Through the Russian Revolution
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