"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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Arseny Avraamov - The March of the Worker’s Funeral
Year: Early 1920s
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This solemn and minimalist funeral march honors the resilience and sacrifices of the working class. Avraamov uses deep, powerful tones to evoke reverence, transforming the traditional funeral march into a tribute to the Soviet ideal of collective solidarity. The piece emphasizes the emotional weight of labor and class struggle in a period of revolution.

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Arseny Avraamov - Symphony of Factory Sirens
Year: 1922
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This piece is a pioneering work of sound art and industrial music, where Avraamov orchestrated the sounds of Baku’s factories, sirens, and cannons to create a symphony of the Soviet industrial landscape. The composition celebrates collective labor and Soviet technological advancement, using urban noise as a radical form of musical expression.

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Arseny Avraamov - Symphony of Industrial Horns

Симфония Гудков / Symphony of Industrial Horns (Symphony of Sirens)
Baku 1922 and Moscow 1923
Reconstruction by Sergey Khismatov, 2009
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Let's destroy fascist evil' (Russian/ Ukrainian #poster by Georgi Kyianchenko/ Mystetstvo, Kiev. Soviet Union, 1941).

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'Workers, no voter fatigue! - Vote Communists! - Ballot list 4' (German KPD #poster by John Heartfield (Helmut Herzfeld)/ Hugo Eberlein, Berlin. For the December 1924 Federal elections. German Reich, 1924).

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'Partisans, to arms!' (Russian/ Ukrainian #poster by I. Cherkashin/ Mystetstvo, Kiev. Soviet Union, 1941).

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On this day, November 5, 1921, Marianne Prager-Joachim, a Jewish German communist, was born. During the Nazi regime, she courageously stood against fascism, ultimately sacrificing her life in the struggle. As a young woman, Prager-Joachim was forced into labor at the Siemens factory in Berlin. Here, she joined the Baum Group, a network of Jewish communists who resisted Nazism from within the factory. The group, named after its leader Herbert Baum, aimed to disrupt the Nazi propaganda machine and inspire others to oppose the oppressive regime.

In May 1942, the Baum Group launched a daring arson attack on an anti-communist propaganda exhibition titled "Soviet Paradise" in Berlin. The exhibit, intended to portray the Soviet Union as barbaric and justify Germany’s invasion, was a tool for Nazi anti-communist propaganda. Although the attack did not cause significant physical damage, it was a powerful act of defiance. The Nazis responded ruthlessly, capturing and torturing many members of the group. Prager-Joachim, along with other comrades, was executed in 1943 for her role in this act of resistance.

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The socialist system will eventually replace the capitalist system; this is an objective law independent of man's will. However much the reactionaries try to hold back the wheel of history, eventually revolution will take place and will inevitably triumph.

Mao Tse Tung
"Speech at the Meeting of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR in Celebration of the 40th Anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution"
(November 6, 1957).

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🔴 Carbon markets and the new scramble for African land
✍🏻 By Thelma Arko

In 2023, the global carbon offset market reached $2 billion, with projections suggesting a hundredfold increase by 2050. This explosive projected growth, touted as a solution to the climate crisis, masks a disturbing reality: carbon markets are fueling a new scramble for African land and perpetuating colonial-era exploitation.

Carbon offset markets operate through the buying and selling of carbon credits. A carbon credit allows the holder to emit one metric ton of carbon dioxide or its equivalent in greenhouse gases. Carbon markets and offsetting practices have been widely embraced as market-based mechanisms to incentivise a transition to a low-carbon economy. These markets provide economic incentives for entities to reduce emissions or invest in offset projects, enabling companies that can reduce emissions cost-effectively to sell their unused credits to those facing higher reduction costs.

However, beneath the veneer of sustainability and development, these mechanisms, particularly in Africa, are unveiling a complex web of injustices, power imbalances, and conflicts over land rights. The very solutions intended to safeguard our planet are, in reality, perpetuating colonial-era land grabs, dispossessing local communities, and entrenching neoliberal agendas that favour foreign interests over the needs of the Global South.

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🔴 The dangerous acceleration of remote-controlled warfare
✍🏻 Judi Rever

The tech industry’s emerging role as a defense contractor is transforming the global battlefield in ways that frighten and mesmerize. We’re now seeing how data-driven technology is shaping modern warfare, though it’s hard to fully fathom the level of death and destruction that is in store.

One of the most chilling examples of Silicon Valley’s military advance is Israel’s use of Amazon and Google cloud services and AI technology to store surveillance information on Gaza’s population, as part of a contract called Project Nimbus. The technology is helping Israel process and analyze vast amounts of data on Palestinians, including facial recognition and demographic information. The AI tools have been reportedly used to monitor and force Palestinians off their land, and in some cases, have enabled Israel’s military to carry out aerial assassinations that have killed and injured scores of civilians.

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https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/the-dangerous-acceleration-of-remote-controlled-warfare

The October Revolution cannot be regarded merely as a revolution "within national bounds." It is, primarily, a revolution of an international, world order, for it signifies a radical turn in the world history of mankind, a turn from the old, capitalist world to the new, socialist world.

Revolutions in the past usually ended by one group of exploiters at the helm of government being replaced by another group of exploiters. The exploiters changed, exploitation remained. Such was the case during the liberation movements of the slaves. Such was the case during the period of the uprisings of the serfs. Such was the case during the period of the well-known "great" revolutions in England, France and Germany. I am not speaking of the Paris Commune, which was the first glorious, heroic, yet unsuccessful attempt on the part of the proletariat to turn history against capitalism.

The October Revolution differs from these revolutions in principle. Its aim is not to replace one form of exploitation by another form of exploitation, one group of exploiters by another group of exploiters, but to abolish all exploitation of man by man, to abolish all groups of exploiters, to establish the dictatorship of the proletariat, to establish the power of the most revolutionary class of all the oppressed classes that have ever existed, to organise a new, classless, socialist society.

It is precisely for this reason that the victory of the October Revolution signifies a radical change in the history of mankind, a radical change in the historical destiny of world capitalism, a radical change in the liberation movement of the world proletariat, a radical change in the methods of struggle and the forms of organisation, in the manner of life and traditions, in the culture and ideology of the exploited masses throughout the world.

That is the basic reason why the October Revolution is a revolution of an international, world order.

J. V. Stalin

The International Character of the October Revolution On the Occasion of the Tenth Anniversary of the October Revolution November 6-7, 1927

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This so-called bipartisan system prevailing in America and Britain has been one of the most powerful means of preventing the rise of an independent working-class, i.e., genuinely socialist, party.

V. I. Lenin
The Results and Significance of the U.S. Presidential Elections

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