Antonio Gramsci by Tullio Pericoli
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The history of education shows that every class which has sought to take power has prepared itself for power by an autonomous education. The first step in emancipating oneself from political and social slavery is that of freeing the mind. I put forward this new idea: popular schooling should be placed under the control of the great workers’ unions. The problem of education is the most important class problem.
Antonio Gramsci
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On December 7, 1953, three students—Ahmad Ghandchi, Shariat Razavi, and Mehdi Bozorg-Nia—were killed at the University of Tehran during protests against the Shah's regime and foreign domination. This tragedy occurred just months after the U.S.- and British-backed coup on August 19, 1953, which overthrew the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh, known for nationalizing Iran’s oil. The students were protesting the visit of U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon, who represented Washington’s support for the Shah’s autocratic rule. Their deaths marked a pivotal moment in the struggle against internal oppression and external imperialism, making December 7 a symbol of resistance and student activism in Iran.
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Argentinians are calling on unions to escalate and organize a general strike. The pauperization of the people in Argentina is widespread given the skyrocketing rates of hunger and poverty under the ultra neoliberal President Javier Milei.
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On December 13, 1964, Ernesto "Che" Guevara appeared on the CBS television program Face the Nation in New York, marking a rare and historic event where he discussed Cuba's revolutionary goals and its role in global politics.
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“Why did they believe that by killing him he would cease to exist as a combatant? Today he is not in La Higuera. Instead, he is everywhere; he is to be found wherever there is a just cause to defend. Those with a stake in eliminating him and making him disappear were incapable of understanding that he had already left an indelible mark on history; that his shining, prophetic vision would become a symbol for all the poor of this world, in their millions. Young people, children, the elderly, men and women who knew him, honest persons throughout the world, regardless of their social origin, admire him.
Che is waging and winning more battles than ever.”
― Fidel Castro
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Omar Khawar, a Kurdish father, holds his baby in his arms in Halabja, northeastern Iraq on March 20, 1988. Up to 5,000 people died in the Saddam regime’s chemical attack on the Kurdish city of Halabja in northern Iraq during the 1988 Anfal campaign. March 16, 1988.
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Fidel Castro, talks to journalists about the successful Cuban Revolution to overthrow the dictator Batista in a press conference at the New Yorker Hotel on April 22, 1959 in New York City, New York, United States.
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We do not study Marxism out of mere philosophical or historical curiosity. No. For us, it’s vital, it’s fundamental, it’s crucial, to study Marxism and to teach Marxism: For the revolution, it’s vital and it’s crucial to study Marxism and to teach Marxism."
- Fidel Castro
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Communist Party of Turkey: "In Syria, Israel and the USA have won a temporary victory using the jihadists"
On the occasion of the fall of Damascus in the hands of the armed jihadists and the alleged overthrow of the Assad government, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) issued the following statement:
"The plan put into effect by the US imperialism and the reactionary forces in the region about 15 years ago in order for the disintegration of Syria has succeeded as of yesterday. The jihadist forces mobilised by the USA, Israel, Britain and the AKP government overthrew the Syrian government in a short period of one week.
Peace and stability will not come to Syria as they claim. On the contrary, in Syria, where massacres, occupations, looting and plundering, endless conflicts have been taking place for years, the era of barbarism will be opened as the last remaining point that restrained all these, even if only a little, has been eliminated.
The winner of this picture is Israel for the time being. It has been proved once again that the Israeli issue is not a matter of religion. Jihadist groups and Israel have seized Syria by working in great harmony. The AKP government is the element that ensures this harmony.
Israel’s victory is the victory of US imperialism.
All the ‘winners’ in Syria today are allies of the US and Israel. Maybe there will be bloody clashes between the ‘winners’, maybe the ‘harmony’ witnessed in the field for a week will be established by the US.
However, US ‘peace’ is always bloody, always prone to new conflicts. Peace, stability and tranquility in Syria can only be established when imperialism and the jihadists are defeated.
A resistance against imperialism and Zionism will certainly emerge in Syria. That this resistance acts without relying on other international powers, with a revolutionary perspective, defending secularism and being unifying, depends to some extent on the developments in Turkey.
In Syria, Israel and the USA have won a temporary victory using the jihadists.
Israel, the USA and jihadism must be defeated in Turkey.
We appeal to all our citizens. This is not a game. If we care about our country and our future, we need to talk about how to stand up and get rid of this barbarism and do the necessary. What is happening in Syria is proof of what sectarianism, religionism, nationalism and relying on foreign powers can lead to.
Turkey must change if it is to continue to exist. There can be no unity in a country where exploitation, inequality and injustice are rife.
After the developments in Syria, it is essential to restrain the excitement of the Neo-Ottomanist circles who dream of ‘expansion’. This Neo-Ottomanist approach not only means attempting to cover up exploitation, inequality and injustice with conquestism, but also leads to the enactment of a plan that will lead to the disintegration of Turkey.
Our country and our citizens are facing a great test. Either we will defeat the exploitative, religious, Americanist mentality that has brought our country to the brink of the cliff, or we will tumble into that cliff.
We trust ourselves, our people and humanity.
The pleasure of the Israelis will be incomplete."
On the occasion of the fall of Damascus in the hands of the armed jihadists and the alleged overthrow of the Assad government, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) issued the following statement:
"The plan put into effect by the US imperialism and the reactionary forces in the region about 15 years ago in order for the disintegration of Syria has succeeded as of yesterday. The jihadist forces mobilised by the USA, Israel, Britain and the AKP government overthrew the Syrian government in a short period of one week.
Peace and stability will not come to Syria as they claim. On the contrary, in Syria, where massacres, occupations, looting and plundering, endless conflicts have been taking place for years, the era of barbarism will be opened as the last remaining point that restrained all these, even if only a little, has been eliminated.
The winner of this picture is Israel for the time being. It has been proved once again that the Israeli issue is not a matter of religion. Jihadist groups and Israel have seized Syria by working in great harmony. The AKP government is the element that ensures this harmony.
Israel’s victory is the victory of US imperialism.
All the ‘winners’ in Syria today are allies of the US and Israel. Maybe there will be bloody clashes between the ‘winners’, maybe the ‘harmony’ witnessed in the field for a week will be established by the US.
However, US ‘peace’ is always bloody, always prone to new conflicts. Peace, stability and tranquility in Syria can only be established when imperialism and the jihadists are defeated.
A resistance against imperialism and Zionism will certainly emerge in Syria. That this resistance acts without relying on other international powers, with a revolutionary perspective, defending secularism and being unifying, depends to some extent on the developments in Turkey.
In Syria, Israel and the USA have won a temporary victory using the jihadists.
Israel, the USA and jihadism must be defeated in Turkey.
We appeal to all our citizens. This is not a game. If we care about our country and our future, we need to talk about how to stand up and get rid of this barbarism and do the necessary. What is happening in Syria is proof of what sectarianism, religionism, nationalism and relying on foreign powers can lead to.
Turkey must change if it is to continue to exist. There can be no unity in a country where exploitation, inequality and injustice are rife.
After the developments in Syria, it is essential to restrain the excitement of the Neo-Ottomanist circles who dream of ‘expansion’. This Neo-Ottomanist approach not only means attempting to cover up exploitation, inequality and injustice with conquestism, but also leads to the enactment of a plan that will lead to the disintegration of Turkey.
Our country and our citizens are facing a great test. Either we will defeat the exploitative, religious, Americanist mentality that has brought our country to the brink of the cliff, or we will tumble into that cliff.
We trust ourselves, our people and humanity.
The pleasure of the Israelis will be incomplete."
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A rare fresco of Lenin inside an abandoned building (Armenia)
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Monopolies, oligarchy, the striving for domination and not for freedom, the exploitation of an increasing number of small or weak nations by a handful of the richest or most powerful nations — all these have given birth to those distinctive characteristics of imperialism which compel us to define it as parasitic or decaying capitalism.
Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (1914)
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This is a very colorful mosaic of Lenin outside Riviera Park in Sochi.
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.. monopoly has grown out of colonial policy. To the numerous “old” motives of colonial policy, finance capital has added the struggle for the sources of raw materials, for the export of capital, for spheres of influence, i.e., for spheres for profitable deals, concessions, monopoly profits and so on, economic territory in general. When the colonies of the European powers,for instance, comprised only one-tenth of the territory of Africa(as was the case in 1876), colonial policy was able to develop—by methods other than those of monopoly—by the “free grabbing” of territories, so to speak.
But when nine-tenths of Africa had been seized (by 1900), when the whole world had been divided up,there was inevitably ushered in the era of monopoly possession of colonies and, consequently, of particularly intense struggle for the division and the redivision of the world.
Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (1914)
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The first contradiction is the contradiction between labour and capital. Imperialism is the omnipotence of the monopolist trusts and syndicates, of the banks and the financial oligarchy, in the industrial countries. In the fight against this omnipotence, the customary methods of the working class-trade unions and cooperatives, parliamentary parties and the parliamentary struggle-have proved to be totally inadequate. Either place yourself at the mercy of capital, eke out a wretched existence as of old and sink lower and lower, or adopt a new weapon-this is the alternative imperialism puts before the vast masses of the proletariat. Imperialism brings the working class to revolution.
Joseph Stalin
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Joseph Stalin
The Foundations of Leninism
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On this day, 14 December 1936, sexual acts between men were criminalised in Palestine by British colonial authorities.
In the British Mandate Criminal Code Ordinance 1936, Section 152(2), published on this take, so-called “carnal knowledge against the order of nature” was to be punished by a sentence of up to 10 years’ imprisonment.
In 1951 homosexuality was decriminalised in the West Bank, but as of 2024, the colonial-era law remains in force in Gaza.
Britain banned homosexuality across its empire, in a legacy which lasts to this day. Of the 69 countries in which homosexuality was illegal in 2021, two-thirds of them were former British colonies.
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In the British Mandate Criminal Code Ordinance 1936, Section 152(2), published on this take, so-called “carnal knowledge against the order of nature” was to be punished by a sentence of up to 10 years’ imprisonment.
In 1951 homosexuality was decriminalised in the West Bank, but as of 2024, the colonial-era law remains in force in Gaza.
Britain banned homosexuality across its empire, in a legacy which lasts to this day. Of the 69 countries in which homosexuality was illegal in 2021, two-thirds of them were former British colonies.
Working Class History
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In 2024, Germany saw alarming police violence as authorities ruthlessly suppressed solidarity with Palestine. From protest camp crackdowns to assaults on activists and shutting down the Palestine Congress, these actions placed Germany on the wrong side of history once again.
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🔴 The Hegemony of the Dollar
✍🏻 Prabhat Patnaik
LIBERAL opinion holds that the international monetary and financial system is a device for promoting the interests of all participating countries by providing a convenient payments arrangement within which trade can be carried on. The reality however is altogether different: the international system is founded upon the hegemony of western imperialism, and in turn sustains this hegemony. Since the US dollar is the lynchpin of this international system, one can say that the hegemony of the dollar in the international economy is both sustained by and in turn sustains, the hegemony of western imperialism; and this hegemony even comes in the way of mutually convenient trade between participating countries.
An example will make this point clear. Suppose country 1 requires commodity x which country 2 has, and country 2 in turn requires commodity y that country 1 has. They do not, under the current system, simply exchange these two commodities among themselves. Each of them must get hold of dollars first before buying the other’s commodity. And unless each of them has sufficient dollar reserves to start with, this trade would simply not occur. In other words, the dollar being the medium of circulation in international transactions, a shortage of dollars in the hands of some countries would hold up even their mutual transactions. This is especially true of trade between third world countries, which remains constricted because each of them is afflicted by a paucity of dollars. They could expand their mutual trade if they could trade in their own currencies, that is, “de-dollarise”. The term “de-dollarisation” refers to reduced reliance on the US dollar as a medium of circulation, unit of account, or form of holding reserves for international transactions.
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✍🏻 Prabhat Patnaik
LIBERAL opinion holds that the international monetary and financial system is a device for promoting the interests of all participating countries by providing a convenient payments arrangement within which trade can be carried on. The reality however is altogether different: the international system is founded upon the hegemony of western imperialism, and in turn sustains this hegemony. Since the US dollar is the lynchpin of this international system, one can say that the hegemony of the dollar in the international economy is both sustained by and in turn sustains, the hegemony of western imperialism; and this hegemony even comes in the way of mutually convenient trade between participating countries.
An example will make this point clear. Suppose country 1 requires commodity x which country 2 has, and country 2 in turn requires commodity y that country 1 has. They do not, under the current system, simply exchange these two commodities among themselves. Each of them must get hold of dollars first before buying the other’s commodity. And unless each of them has sufficient dollar reserves to start with, this trade would simply not occur. In other words, the dollar being the medium of circulation in international transactions, a shortage of dollars in the hands of some countries would hold up even their mutual transactions. This is especially true of trade between third world countries, which remains constricted because each of them is afflicted by a paucity of dollars. They could expand their mutual trade if they could trade in their own currencies, that is, “de-dollarise”. The term “de-dollarisation” refers to reduced reliance on the US dollar as a medium of circulation, unit of account, or form of holding reserves for international transactions.
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