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Challenge is the publication of the Young Communist League of Britain since 1935! Providing the latest articles & more by Marxist-Leninist youth 🚩 @yclbritain
Joined April 2020
Members from across @yclbritain.have been collaborating over the past months, building a new version of Back to Basics, the YCL's primer on all fundamental Marxist-Leninist concepts and theory. While we wait for physical copies to be printed, we are excited to share this online
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In a livestream last night, Ukrainian President Zelenskyy ordered the banning of the nation's 11 remaining left-wing opposition parties:. "Opposition Platform - For Life, Sharij’s Party, Nashi, Opposition Bloc, Left Opposition, Union of Left Forces, Derzhava, (1/6)
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On this day in 1943, 17-year-old Lepa Radić was sentenced to death by hanging. 1/4
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Today, we honour Ho Chi Minh: anti-colonialist, leader of the Vietnamese Communist movement, and the driving force behind Vietnam’s victory over French colonial rule. 🕊️🇻🇳 .(1/9)
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Today, we remember Yugoslavian Partisan and Communist, Lepa Radic, who was hanged by Nazi troops on this day in 1943, at the age of only seventeen. 🕊️ .(1/8)
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As it's Christmas we thought we'd give an honourable mention to #GeorgeMichael who died on Christmas Day in 2016 ❤️🎄. In his youth George was a member of the Young Communist League of Britain @yclbritain under his original name, Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou. While not. (1/12)
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Today, on the centenary of his death, we fondly remember Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the first socialist nation, leader of the Bolshevik Party, and architect of the October Revolution. (1/7)
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"Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine, Socialist Party of Ukraine, the Socialists, and Volodymyr Saldo’s Bloc". Accusing the now-banned parties as being "pro-Russian", it appears that Zelenskyy has distorted the truth, with some of those parties being anti-war. (2/6).
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Zelenskyy's exploitation of Martial Law has enabled him to bypass parliamentary procedures and subsequently ban any political opposition. Despite banning left-wing opposition, the nation's neo-Nazi groups continue to receive praise, honours, (5/6).
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The Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the 2nd largest party in Germany, has requested to parliament that Ernst Thalman's statue is melted down because of Putin's invasion of Ukraine. 1/3
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🔥🏠 “We know who said that, and where he fucking lives” - was Hellboy actor Ron Perlman's response to a Hollywood Executive discussing the studios’ negotiating strategy, where they reportedly said “The endgame is to allow things to drag on. (1/4)
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As the world’s largest and most important socialist state, the People’s Republic of China plays a vital role in advancing the balance of progressive forces worldwide. 🇨🇳. However, the greater the role China plays, the greater the slander, myth, and outright lies it attracts.
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Paris is currently in uproar 🔥🇫🇷. Amid masses of ongoing industrial action, French President Emmanuel Macron effectively pushed through a highly unpopular bill raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 years of age, in a subversion of democracy. (1/2)
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Since 2015, the Communist Party of Ukraine (KPU) has been banned, with it's members facing severe repression. 2015 also saw the banning of communist symbols. (3/6).
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The latest banning reflects a continuation of the Ukrianian government's anti-socialist and anti-communist stance. Portrayed by the West as a champion of 'free speech' and 'democracy', (4/6).
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This statue in Berlin was sculpted by a Ukrainian Jewish artist and put up to for his 100th birthday in 1986. We must continue to resist the right's attempts to 'cancel' communism in this current political climate. 3/3.
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French tram operators to decline transport for King Charles during his state visit 🇫🇷🚃. Protesters are enraged that the monarchs decided to visit Paris and Bordeaux during a time of national upheaval against President Macron's forced raising of pension age (1/2)
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On this date in the Julian calendar, October 25, 1914, the Bolshevik Party, led by Vladimir Lenin, rose up in revolt against the Russian Republic's Provisional Government. Sparking the Russian Civil War that would last six years before the Bolsheviks were victorious. 🇷🇺🚩⚒️ (1/9)
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Still to this day, Fred Hampton's gravestone in Haynesville, LA gets shot at by police. "You can kill a revolutionary but you can never kill the revolution.". Rest in power comrade ✊🚩. * Fred Hampton Jr beside his father's gravestone
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Today marks the 81st anniversary of the Soviets’ victory against the Nazis at the Battle of Stalingrad. ☭🚩. Here is a selection of colourised photos from the Battle of Stalingrad. 1. A flag of victory is raised above Stalingrad, 1943.
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“I am not a traitor of my people. Those whom you are asking about will reveal themselves when they have succeeded in wiping out all you evildoers, to the last man.” 4/4
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105 years ago today the October Revolution was launched by the Bolsheviks in Petrograd (St. Petersburg). 🚩 ☭
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Today, we honour the legacy of Fidel Castro – leader of the Cuban Revolution and first communist President of Cuba. 🇨🇺🕊️ . At the age of 26, Fidel led the notorious assault on Moncada barracks, a failed attempt to overthrow the US-backed dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista. (1/6)
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Today marks the anniversary of Red Army hero Lyudmila Pavlichenko's death. 🚩☭. 1/9
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On this day in 1947, the AK47 designed by Mikhail Kalashnikov was approved for production in the USSR. ︻╦╤─. Here's a thread of socialists with AK rifles: 🚩. 1. Mikhail Kalashnikov, Russia
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Today, the Margaret Thatcher statue in Grantham, England was vandalised with red paint. A hammer and sickle was also spray painted underneath 🚩☭
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Today, exactly 141 years since Karl Marx’s passing, we remember Engels’ 1883 graveyard speech… 🚩🕊️ . “On the 14th of March, at a quarter to three in the afternoon, the greatest living thinker ceased to think. He had been left alone for scarcely two minutes, and when we. (1/7)
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As the leader of the Communist Party of Germany during the 30s, he was put in a concentration camp and murdered in 1944. 2/3.
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The Soviet Union is often portrayed as having had no democracy, where citizens lived under the ‘iron fist’ of the Communist Party. But is this portrayal fact or fiction? 🗳️🚩.(1/6)
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Today marks the 80th anniversary of the Soviets’ victory against the Nazis at the Battle of Stalingrad. ☭🚩. Here is a selection of colourised photos from the Battle of Stalingrad. 1. A flag of victory is raised above Stalingrad, 1943.
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On this day in 1947, the AK47 designed by Mikhail Kalashnikov was approved for production in the USSR. ︻╦╤─. Here's a thread of socialists with AK rifles: 🚩. 1. Mikhail Kalashnikov, Russia
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Today marks the 104th anniversary of the October Revolution. 🚩☭. On 7 November 1917, Bolshevik red guards took control of the Winter Palace and crushed the anti-communist white guard opposition. Whereas the February Revolution saw the end of tsarist rule, (1/8)
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Pedro Castillo, the Marxist-Leninist presidential candidate for Peru, has beaten the far-right candidate Fujimori in the Peruvian elections. 🇵🇪✏️
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For Pride Month, we have created an infographic depicting a handful of LGBT+ communists throughout history to show that there is a radical alternative to liberal identity politics 🔻
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Joseph Stalin, the secretary of the Sri Lanka Teachers’ Union, was arrested on Wednesday during a crackdown against protesters who forced former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa to flee his presidency last month 🇱🇰🔗
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As it's Christmas, we thought we'd give an honourable mention to George Michael who died on Christmas Day in 2016 ❤️🎄. In his youth, George was a member of the Young Communist League of Britain under his original name, Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou. While not much is. (1/12)
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After shooting at the Nazi troops who had invaded Yugoslavia, Radić was captured and endured torture for several days in an unsuccessful attempt to make her reveal the names of the Communist Party leaders. 2/4
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The Soviet Union is often portrayed by bourgeois media as having no democracy at all, it’s often said that citizens lived under the iron grip of the CPSU, subjecting them to a life without freedom. Is their portrayal of the USSR fact, or is it fiction? 🗳🚩 1/4
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Today marks what would have been the 72nd birthday of the revolutionary Marxist-Leninist leader and martyr Thomas Sankara 🇧🇫🌱✊
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She's still dead! . Today marks the 9th anniversary of the death of Margaret Thatcher. Known as the 'milk snatcher' of Britain, Maggie has gone down in history as one of the most anti-working class Prime Ministers in Britain's history. (1/9)
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The myth of the DPRK as an evil dictatorship has existed since it’s establishment in 1945. 🇰🇵 . Regardless of a relentless bombing campaign against them and crippling sanctions preventing essentials from being imported, the DPRK has stood strong and made monumental achievements.
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Today marks 100 years since the birth of the USSR. To celebrate the anniversary of the foundation of the worker's state, here are photos of ordinary Soviet citizens by photojournalist Semyon Osipovich Friedland. 1. Moscow
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Today marks the 75th anniversary of the DPRK, perhaps the most lied about & vilified nation in the world 🇰🇵 . Among the many lies is the claim that the DPRK violently invaded the Republic of Korea, starting the Korean War. However, the facts reveal a different sequence of events:
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As the noose was tied around her neck, she was offered a final chance to reveal the information, she responded: 3/4
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Five years ago today the world lost one of the most important revolutionaries of our time 🚩🇨🇺 1/7
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“Viva Fidel” - Thousands of Cubans have taken to the streets to defend their revolution against US-backed, counterrevolutionary protestors 🇨🇺 . Imperialist media claims protests against the socialist system are a direct result of food shortages and a spike in Covid. 1/3
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Yesterday, a Chinese student was arrested in Manchester for playing the national anthem of the People's Republic of China at a pro-Hong Kong independence protest 🇨🇳. Solidarity! 🚩
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78 years ago, on October 14, 1943, an uprising of Jewish prisoners took place in the Sobibór death camp, led by a Soviet lieutenant, the Ukrainian Jew Alexander Pechersky. During the entire Second World War, this was the only successful uprising at a death camp. 1/13
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Lenin died on this day in 1924 - but his work lives on through those committed to fighting against wage slavery & capitalism. To honour Lenin on the date of his death, we’ve collected 10 of his most important quotes. ☭🚩
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Born on this day in 1870 - to celebrate his legacy, we have selected 10 quotes ☭🚩
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Today the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF) celebrated Red Army Day 🚩☭ 1/2
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Born on this day in 1870 - to celebrate his legacy, we have selected 10 quotes ☭🚩
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102 years ago, the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) was founded. 1. Communists in London celebrating May Day. 1928. 🚩☭
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A former member of the disbanded far-left Red Army Faction (RAF) group has been arrested after more than 30 years on the run, authorities announced today. Daniela Klette, now 65 years old, was confirmed to have been arrested in Berlin on Monday evening. (1/3)
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The military coup in Bolivia today has failed. 🇧🇴. President Luis Arce and his comrades successfully stood against the rebelling military leader, Juan José Zúñiga, demanding that he and his forces stand down, after dismissing his command, and installing a new commander general.
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It’s often claimed that socialism leads to poverty, starvation & lack of rights. But socialism in the USSR introduced new liberties previously unheard of anywhere in the world. Here’s 10 things that the USSR offered to their citizens before any other country. 🧑🎓🧑🏭🧑🔬
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On Sunday, a bust of the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was unveiled in Portugal. 🚩☭🇵🇹. Located in the Lisbon municipality of Oeiras, the statue signifies a strengthening of relations between the Portuguese and Russian governments. 1/3
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Today marks what would have been the 73rd birthday of the revolutionary Marxist-Leninist leader and martyr Thomas Sankara. 🇧🇫🌱✊ 1/3
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Today, Vietnamese property developer Truong My Lan was sentenced to death in one of the biggest corruption cases in history, with an estimated $27 billion in damages — a figure equivalent to six percent of the country's 2023 GDP. (1/3)
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Today, we pay tribute to Deng Xiaoping, renowned not only as a great diplomat and statesman but also as an exemplary theorist and proletarian revolutionary. 🇨🇳.(1/6)
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A statue honouring Comandante Fidel Castro has been unveiled in #Moscow today by Cuban President @DiazCanelB 🇨🇺🚩
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The Peoples Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) had managed to keep on fighting against the then US-backed Taliban for the best part of 5 years after the Soviet Army left Afghanistan. This current government collapsed to the Taliban within weeks. 1/4
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Karl Marx was born on this day in 1818. To honour his life, we’ve collected 10 quotes from his works 🚩☭
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Today marks the 74th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China – the worlds oldest and most influential socialist nation 🇨🇳 .(1/6)
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The myth of the DPRK as an evil dictatorship has existed since it’s establishment in 1945. 🇰🇵 .Regardless of a relentless bombing campaign against them and crippling sanctions preventing essentials from being imported, the DPRK has stood strong and made monumental achievements.👇
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Congratulations to the Cuban people for voting in favour of the new Family Code! 🇨🇺🏳️🌈. The Code now makes same-sex marriage and adoption legal in Cuba. Surrogacy has also been legalised - as long as no money is exchanged.
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This afternoon the Young Communist League of Britain attended the COP26 protests in Glasgow. 🚩🚓. The only group to have been personally escorted by police officers on the demonstration, it is apparent that the YCL are perceived as a credible threat.
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Today we celebrate the birthday of Deng Xiaoping! 🇨🇳.(1/6)
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Today we commemorate the life of Mark Ashton, who, unbeknownst to some, was once General Secretary of the Young Communist League of Britain 🏳️🌈🚩.(1/8)
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Today marks the 201st anniversary of the birth of Friedrich Engels. 🔬📖🚩. His contributions to Marxism can be bested only by its namesakes, but they remain equally important. Indeed it is Engels' own modesty that has led him to suffer from relative obscurity as opposed to (1/5)
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So today let's all think of George, and let's work together through our various struggles around the world, to progress and better the future for us all. ❤️🌍🤝 #GeorgeMichael.(12/12)
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On this day in 1926, Fidel Castro was born. Viva Cuba! 🇨🇺. "A revolution is not a trail of roses.… A revolution is a fight to the death between the future and the past."
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The Workers Party of Britain have been forced to suspend their campaign in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, after their parliamentary candidate, Wajid Burkey, and other campaigners were attacked by men with baseball bats & machetes shortly after an elections hustings. #GE2024.(1/3)
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On this day in 1962, British fascist Oswald Mosley was punched to the ground in Manchester by an anti-fascist protester. Drown fascism in a sea of resistance! ✊🚩
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Ten years ago today, the Ukrainian fascist group ‘Right Sector’ surrounded, stormed, and burned the House of Trade Unions in Odessa, killing forty-two anti-Maidan demonstrators who were seeking refuge in the building 🥀.(1/7)
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It’s often claimed that socialism leads to poverty, starvation & lack of rights. But socialism in the USSR introduced new liberties previously unheard of anywhere in the world. Here’s 10 things that the USSR offered to their citizens before any other country. 🧑🎓🧑🏭👩🔬
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Captain Ibrahim Traoré, President of Burkina Faso, delivered a new years message in Ouagadougou yesterday. 🇧🇫 . Traoré stated, “2023 was a year during which we carried out an in-depth analysis of the situation in Burkina Faso. A year during which we made a profound. (1/7)
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Today marks the 64th anniversary of the victory of Cuban revolutionary forces over the government of Fulgencio Batista 🇨🇺. Long live the Cuban Revolution!. Hasta la victoria Siempre!
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Today marks the 202nd anniversary of the birth of Friedrich Engels. 🔬📖🚩. Long live Engels!
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As the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea marks its 76th year of existence, what if we told you that everything you’ve learned about the country is a lie? 🇰🇵.(1/10)
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"They have force and will be able to dominate us, but social processes can be arrested by neither crime nor force. History is ours, and people make history." - Salvador Allende (1908-1973) 🇨🇱🚩
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Communist Party of China targets big bankers as part of a common-prosperity campaign 🇨🇳⚒️. Anti-corruption officials demand of bankers to eradicate "financial elitism, worship of wealth and reverence for the West", in a recent commentary.
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This has caused many thousands to take to the streets in protest, constructing barricades and clashing with police, in spectacular french fashion. Fabien Roussel (@PCF) has said that “The mobilization will continue. this reform must be suspended.” (2/2)
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Both Stalin with 'Socialism in One Country' and Trotsky with 'Permanent Revolution' claimed to carry forward Lenin’s legacy, but for whom was this claim true?.(1/6)
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The Soviet Union is often portrayed by bourgeois media as having no democracy at all, it’s often said that citizens lived under the iron grip of the CPSU, subjecting them to a life without freedom. Is their portrayal of the USSR fact, or is it fiction? 🗳🚩
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Born on this day in 1870 - to celebrate his legacy, we have selected 10 quotes ☭🚩.(1/10)
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Today marks the anniversary of Red Army hero Lyudmila Pavlichenko's death. 🚩☭ . Born in Ukraine, 12 July 1916, Pavlichenko went on to study at Kyiv University where she spent her free time training in a military sniper school. (1/7)
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Karl Marx died on this day in 1883, but he still lives on. To honour his legacy, we’ve collected 10 quotes from his works 🚩☭
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🚨 A huge crowd is celebrating in Paris in support of the New Popular Front (NEF) as it is projected to win the French parliamentary elections. The NEF includes a coalition of the Socialist Party, the left-wing La France Insoumise, the Greens, and the Communists. (1/2)
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The Korean War ended by armistice on this day in 1953. Today, the narrative persists that the war began with an “unprovoked” invasion of the south by the north. But is this entirely accurate? 🇰🇵🇰🇷.(1/6)
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Born in 1870, Lenin’s entry into politics was sparked by personal tragedy—the hanging of his brother, Alexander Ilyich, by the Tsarist regime. In 1889, Lenin began studying Karl Marx’s works and remained a dedicated communist for the remaining 35 years of his life. (2/7)
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Some have adopted the slogan "Neither Washington nor Beijing", arguing that the new cold war is an "inter-imperialist" conflict and accusing China of aspiring to replace the US as the dominant imperialist power. This could not be further from the truth. 🇨🇳🇺🇸.(1/6)
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Today marks the 103rd anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China. Starting in Shanghai in 1921 with just 57 members, the CPC’s membership has since grown to 98 million, making it the second-largest political party in the world 🇨🇳 .(1/6)
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Today is Party Foundation Day in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea! Marking the 77th year anniversary of the foundation of the North Korean bureau of the Communist Party of Korea. (The predecessor of the Workers' Party of Korea) 🇰🇵⚒ (1/5)
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since May over pay negotiations. This marks the biggest Hollywood strike in six decades. Many screenwriters have come forward to reveal the low pay they receive in spite of writing on some of the most popular and lucrative TV series in modern times. (3/4)
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Six years ago today the world lost one of the most important revolutionaries of our time 🚩🇨🇺. We commemorate the life and accomplishments of Fidel Castro and his struggle against imperialism and capitalism in Latin America and the world.
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Little do many know that Fidel Castro has always been one of the most vocal climate change activists of his time and ours 🌎. The following clip is taken from his 1991 interview in Guadalajara
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On this day 143 years ago in 1878, Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, better known as Joseph Stalin, was born in Gori, Georgia. 🚩☭. Successor to Vladimir Lenin as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, he continues to be a divisive figure around (1/8)
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Before the Bolsheviks overthrew Tsarist rule, women in Russia were treated as second class citizens - completely subordinated in the household to their husbands. Following the October Revolution all that was to change. 👩🚩
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