Cuba’s revolution began on this day in 1956 with the landing of the Granma boat. The boat was carrying the rebel fighters who had been exiled following the 1953 attack on the Moncada Barracks, including the likes of Che Guevara along with Fidel and Raúl Castro. They travelled from Mexico back to Cuban shores to launch the guerilla campaign that overthrew the US-backed dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista.

The landing has become legendary in Cuban history not only because it signalled the beginning of the guerilla campaign, but because of the extraordinary sacrifice of those aboard.

Of the 82 rebels that boarded the Granma, about a quarter of them survived. The poor conditions of the boat, followed by an ambush at the hands of the military as soon as they arrived, rapidly dwindled their numbers. Despite that initial setback, the band of fighters headed to the Sierra Maestra mountains and successfully overthrew the regime three years later.

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We criticise in the most severe manner the old, Second (1889-1914) International, we declare it dead & not worth to be restored on old basis. But we never say in our press that too great emphasis has been heretofore placed upon so-called “Immediate Demands”, and that thereby the socialism can be diluted we say & we prove that all bourgeois parties, all parties except the working-class revolutionary Party, are liars & hypocrites when they speak about reforms. We try to help the working class to get the smallest possible but real improvement (economic & political) in their situation & we add always that no reform can be durable, sincere, serious if not seconded by revolutionary methods of struggle of the masses. We preach always that a socialist party not uniting this struggle for reforms with the revolutionary methods of workingclass movement can become a sect, can be severed from the masses,& that that is the most pernicious menace to the success of the clear-cut revolutionary socialism.

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As a result, we find that, having undertaken to discuss the dictatorship, Kautsky rattled off a great deal of manifest lies, but has given no definition! Yet, instead of relying on his mental faculties he could have used his memory to extract from “pigeon-holes” all those instances in which Marx speaks of dictatorship. Had he done so, he would certainly have arrived either at the following definition or at one in substance coinciding with it:

Dictatorship is rule based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws.

The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is rule won and maintained by the use of violence by the proletariat against the bourgeoisie, rule that is unrestricted by any laws.

Vladimir Lenin
The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky

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'Come on, shtop pushin!' — American #postcard from the Second World War (1943) showing #Stalin pushing #Hitler down the toilet.

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Today, we remember the late Fred Hampton, a legendary figure in the Black Panther Party and a revolutionary Marxist-Leninist, who was assassinated by the FBI on this day in 1969.

Born in Chicago in 1948, Hampton served as the Black Panther Party’s deputy chairman and the Illinois chapter’s chair. His contributions as a prominent anti-racist figure and his commitment to multicultural organizing left a lasting impact.

Recognizing fascism as a significant threat to humanity, Hampton emphasized the critical importance of preventing its rise, believing that its impact would extend to everyone. Identified as a threat by the FBI, Hampton faced attempts to undermine his influence through the placement of spies within the Black Panthers.

Tragically, in December 1969, he was murdered in cold blood by police who were assisting the FBI during a pre-dawn raid, with 100 gunshots fired into his apartment.

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No natural science can hold its own in the struggle against the onslaught of bourgeois ideas and the restoration of the bourgeois world outlook unless it stands on solid philosophical ground. In order to hold his own in this struggle and carry it to a victorious finish, the natural scientist must be a modern #materialist, a conscious adherent of the materialism represented by #Marx, i.e., he must be a dialectical materialist.

#Lenin, The Significance of Militant #Materialism (1922)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1922/mar/12.htm

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In addition to the alliance with consistent materialists who do not belong to the Communist Party, of no less and perhaps oven of more importance for the work which militant materialism should perform is an alliance with those modern natural scientists who incline towards materialism and are not afraid to defend and preach it as against the modish philosophical wanderings into idealism and scepticism which are prevalent in so-called educated society.

The article by A. Timiryazev on Einstein’s theory of relativity published in Pod Znamenem Marksizma No. 1-2 permits us to hope that the journal will succeed in effecting this second alliance too. Greater attention should be paid to it. It should be remembered that the sharp upheaval which modern natural science is undergoing very often gives rise to reactionary philosophical schools and minor schools. trends and minor trends. Unless, therefore, the problems raised by the recent revolution in natural science are followed, and unless natural scientists are enlisted in the work of a philosophical journal, militant materialism can be neither militant nor materialism. Timiryazev was obliged to observe in the first issue of the journal that the theory of Einstein, who, according to Timiryazev, is himself not making any active attack on the foundations of materialism, has already been seized upon by a vast number of bourgeois intellectuals of all countries; it should be noted that this applies not only to Einstein, but to a number, if not to the majority, of the great reformers of natural science since the end of the nineteenth century.

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V. I. Lenin
On the Significance of Militant Materialism

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"We are proud that the Bolshevik organization of Baku and Azerbaijan was created, nurtured and hardened in battles by Comrade Stalin", soviet azerbaijani poster, 1949

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