The life of a single human being is worth a million times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.
Che Guevara
On Revolutionary Medicine
Che Guevara
On Revolutionary Medicine
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Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.
Marx, German Ideology (1845)
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Marx, German Ideology (1845)
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Today is popular Black singer Bob Marley’s 80th birthday. Despite Marley’s popularity, the CIA’s alleged attempt on his life remains largely unknown. The shooting at his home in Kingston in 1976 happened against a backdrop of CIA sponsored destabilization of Jamaica following the election of the social democratic Michael Manley, who talked tough against the IMF and was close to Fidel Castro's Cuba. Read on to find out more about the shooting of the legendary singer who once sang “Rasta don't work for no CIA”.
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We shall reply to this by quoting two lines from a Russian fable, ‘Eagles may at times fly lower than hens but hens can never rise to the height of eagles'. [Rosa ] in spite of her mistakes [...] was and remains for us an eagle. And not only will Communists all over the world cherish her memory, but her biography and her complete works will serve as useful manuals for training many generations of communists all over the world. ‘Since August 4, 1914, German social-democracy has become a stinking corpse' ‑ this statement will make Rosa Luxemburg's name famous in the history of the international working class movement. And, of course, in the backyard of the working class movement, among the dung heaps, hens like Paul Levi, Scheidemann, Kautsky and all their fraternity will cackle over the mistakes committed by the great Communist".
V. I. Lenin
(Lenin Collected Works, Vol. 33, p. 210, Notes of a Publicist, Vol. 33).
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V. I. Lenin
(Lenin Collected Works, Vol. 33, p. 210, Notes of a Publicist, Vol. 33).
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On this day in 1962, the US imposed a total blockade on Cuba, designed to sabotage the country’s socialist revolution. The blockade has caused an estimated $1 trillion in damage and has been condemned by the majority of the world for 30 consecutive years. Despite the blockade’s devastating humanitarian effects, the Cuban revolution continues and the country boasts a higher average life expectancy, literacy rate, and lower infant mortality rate than the US.
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Today marks 60 years since the US began its air war on the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV), commonly known as North Vietnam.
This move effectively escalated US involvement in the Vietnam War—a bloody war that the US would continue to wage for another decade.
Undeterred by the US bombing campaigns, the NLF would go on to continue its liberation struggle until the last US aircraft left the Southeast Asian country in 1975.
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This move effectively escalated US involvement in the Vietnam War—a bloody war that the US would continue to wage for another decade.
Undeterred by the US bombing campaigns, the NLF would go on to continue its liberation struggle until the last US aircraft left the Southeast Asian country in 1975.
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