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... general strike. The wars in the Middle East and Europe, escalating US ... Mosquera credits the Popular Front's 1936 election victory with detonating the ...
<em>Jacobin’s </em>theoretical case for subordinating the Argentine working class to Peronism rests on a falsification of Leon Trotsky's actual struggle against the Popular Front.#Jacobin #DSA #Peronism #Trotsky #PopularFront #Mosquera #Santucho
<em>Jacobin</em> falsifies Trotsky and historical record to promote popular front in Argentina -
In France, Premier Léon Blum's Popular Front government was stepping up the police repression of workers after the May–June 1936 French general strike ...#SpanishCivilWar #SpanishRevolution #Franco #Stalinism #Trotsky #Nin #POUM
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Eleições para governador na região Sul e o caso do Paraná.
- bsmrxmo
https://marxismo.org.br/eleicoes-para-governador-na-regiao-sul-e-o-caso-do-parana/
#Principal #Eleies2026 #FrenteAmpla #GelsonMerisio #JulianaBrizola #Marxismo #Paran #PartidodosTrabalhadores #PCdoB #PDT #PSOL #PT #RafaelGreca #RegioSul #RequioFilho #RioGrandedoSul #SantaCatarina #Trotsky -
Eleições para governador na região Sul e o caso do Paraná.
- bsmrxmo
https://marxismo.org.br/eleicoes-para-governador-na-regiao-sul-e-o-caso-do-parana/
#Principal #Eleies2026 #FrenteAmpla #GelsonMerisio #JulianaBrizola #Marxismo #Paran #PartidodosTrabalhadores #PCdoB #PDT #PSOL #PT #RafaelGreca #RegioSul #RequioFilho #RioGrandedoSul #SantaCatarina #Trotsky -
Trotski et Makhno, l’alliance impossible contre Lénine
Et si Trotski avait choisi Makhno contre Lénine ? Une alliance rouge-noire durable aurait pu faire basculer la révolution russe vers un fédéralisme insurrectionnel, anti-bureaucratique et paysan. #Trotsky #Makhno #Lenin #Utopia #AlternateHistory #Revolution #Anarchism #Bolshevism Dans cette uchronie, la rupture entre Trotski et Lénine devient irréversible au moment où l’Armée rouge cherche à centraliser la…
https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2026/07/11/trotski-et-makhno-lalliance-impossible-contre-lenine/
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Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) Russian politician, Marxist, intellectual, revolutionary [b. Lev Davidovich Bronstein]
Diary, Notebook 2 (1935-05-08) [tr. Zarudnaya (1958)]More about this quote: wist.info/trotsky-leon/16761/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #trotsky #leontrotsky #aging #expectations #growingold #oldage #surprise #gettingold
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Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) Russian politician, Marxist, intellectual, revolutionary [b. Lev Davidovich Bronstein]
Diary, Notebook 2 (1935-05-08) [tr. Zarudnaya (1958)]More about this quote: wist.info/trotsky-leon/16761/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #trotsky #leontrotsky #aging #expectations #growingold #oldage #surprise #gettingold
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"Wow, it's amazing how many counterrevolutionary traitors helped the revolution!"
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"Wow, it's amazing how many counterrevolutionary traitors helped the revolution!"
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"Wow, it's amazing how many counterrevolutionary traitors helped the revolution!"
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"Wow, it's amazing how many counterrevolutionary traitors helped the revolution!"
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Trotsky as a theorist is okay. Trotsky as a political/military leader? Well...
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Trotsky as a theorist is okay. Trotsky as a political/military leader? Well...
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Jum'ah mubarak to everyone except the Indonesian state government and those who regurgitate colonial logic.
I'm enraged, and my autistic ahh has been ruminating painfully, while my ADHD has the energy for it. So Imma drop Friday khutbah here lol.
Racists, bigots, colonial apologists DNI
Bismillah
When survival becomes organised humiliation, people stop consenting quietly. It’s only a matter of time before people decide that being k¡lled by rulers is far preferable to living another day under these conditions. Don't come lecturing people about "violence is never the answer" when you can still afford to see meritocracy as something genuine and unemployment, poverty, homelessness as personal moral failures; when you refuse to sit with the contradictions; when you opt to exceptionalise almost everything, whether it concerns a certain group or a certain religious identity, and call it "nuance." We're Indonesian, not USian.
What are we doing?
Are we still the same nation that went to war against the Portuguese and the Dutch with bambu runcing, and called that war jihad fisabilillah in the 1560s and 1820s, far before Marx even drew the connections between capitalism and colonialism?
We might not be the same people, the same Acehnese, the same Javanese who went to war against colonial powers. But we are the same Ummah that owes a great debt to the Ottoman military for the cannons and gunners under Kurtoğlu Hızır Reis, who aided our Muslim brothers and sisters in 1560s Aceh against the Portuguese, where the Ottoman flag flew as a sign of Muslim unity under the Ottoman Caliphate; the same Ummah that took up arms under Prince Diponegoro's call of jihad against the Dutch and colonial extraction in Java in 1825–1830. Yet we're also the same Ummah that abandoned the Acehnese in the 19th century because, by then, the Ottomans were too weakened to materially respond, and our local ulema were bought by the Dutch Orientalist scholar Snouck Hurgronje, who converted to Islam to learn about Muslims, whom he called "Mohammedans," as objects of study to divide us from within.
He succeeded. He understood something the gunboats never did: capturing the legitimation machinery is cheaper than fighting it. Conquest by purchase of the minbar outlasts conquest by rifle, and it never had to end when the Dutch left.
The Ummah had been divided long before the Arabs revolted against the Ottoman Empire under European imperial manipulation, and had understood transnational solidarity long before Marxist internationalism gave it another vocabulary.
The Ummah here was subjected to two captures before they had names anywhere else. The first wore secular clothes: anything political, anything touching governance, was crushed, while ritual performance and akhlaqul karīm became matters between you and God alone, because fuck empathy and humanity, right? "Obedience to ulil amr is obedience to God," and they called it taqwa. Hurgronje wrote that manual decades before any mandate power bought its first mufti. The second capture came later wearing literalist clothes: ibn Wahhab's interpretation with a state behind it, folded into a nationalist project, until its heirs pointed at everything and called it bid'ah, conflating da'wah with Saudi propaganda. The colony was the laboratory. The methods “tested” here travelled, then came back rebranded as authenticity.
What are we even doing?
Is it because the oppressors now speak the same language as us and claim to worship the same God?
These oppressors were raised in the same traditions as those who abandoned knowledge, succumbed to manufactured enmity and moral panic, and murdered farmers, teachers, labourers, midwives; the working class in 1965–1966, in the name of jihad; the declaration of “God is the greatest” at the top of their lungs while parading the severed heads of farmers around the village. The same society that had not yet had a proper tool or concept for collective intergenerational trauma from 3.5 centuries of colonialism, and only had Islam as a moral framework and the language of liberation and resistance against colonial powers, by the time the successor of the British Empire planted a seed of backwardness that labelled Muslim revolutionaries like Tan Malaka and other members and sympathisers of the Communist Party kafirun just twenty years after independence.
The same Tan Malaka whose speech at Comintern in 1922 about the shared goal of Pan-Islamism and Marxism changed everyone's view of Islam, which was very likely Orientalist anyway, and of Indonesian resistance against colonial powers.
The same Tan Malaka who wrote a book that gives modern Indonesians a language to speak to power. To see the rot in the system itself. To hold power accountable for the structural violence it enforces. A book that the government eventually banned.
The government that wants us to see them as ulil amr. The same government that spiritualises its incompetence, that crushes dissent, whose religious ministry said teachers' salaries are amal jariyah, that calls activists foreign actors—because how else should they appeal to the masses other than by triggering the trauma of the descendants of the colonised?
When ideas are crushed and dissenters are criminalised or even pathologised, the harm doesn’t stay abstract. It shows up as hunger, as homelessness, as lives cut short.
Violence isn’t always soaked in blood. Poverty, homelessness, famine; these are forms of violence. They’re structural. Someone has made sure the poor stay poor while they fatten themselves up.
Yet some of us turn around and say, “Corruption is cultural in Indonesia. It's a collective sin,” and call it a day. No dialectical materialism, no questions about who benefits from lateral violence among broke citizens in this day and age, no nothing.
We have the moral architecture, we have historical records of wins and losses, of the most sophisticated synthesised concept of political theology and material obligations with spiritual accountability. We have material evidence of a pluralistic society in a nation-state that isn't secular and was never once a theocracy.
Yet most arguments from our best and brightest are bootleg copies of colonial logic to blame the oppressed and call it "holding ourselves accountable."
How do some people afford to spiritualise and moralise structural poverty and anti-intellectualism? How do you even participate in society, yet, when it comes to structural analysis, act like you're merely a rude guest looking in through the window?
What are you even doing with that fancy degree?
Thus, conclude today's Keputrian session. My sincere apologies for the absence of snacks, I can't afford them, I'm broke.
See you around.Wassalaam
@indonesia
@autistics
@actuallyadhd #history #panislamism #marxism #trotsky #genocide
#neurodivergence #decolonial #politics #colonialism #activism #Islam -
Jum'ah mubarak to everyone except the Indonesian state government and those who regurgitate colonial logic.
I'm enraged, and my autistic ahh has been ruminating painfully, while my ADHD has the energy for it. So Imma drop Friday khutbah here lol.
Racists, bigots, colonial apologists DNI
Bismillah
When survival becomes organised humiliation, people stop consenting quietly. It’s only a matter of time before people decide that being k¡lled by rulers is far preferable to living another day under these conditions. Don't come lecturing people about "violence is never the answer" when you can still afford to see meritocracy as something genuine and unemployment, poverty, homelessness as personal moral failures; when you refuse to sit with the contradictions; when you opt to exceptionalise almost everything, whether it concerns a certain group or a certain religious identity, and call it "nuance." We're Indonesian, not USian.
What are we doing?
Are we still the same nation that went to war against the Portuguese and the Dutch with bambu runcing, and called that war jihad fisabilillah in the 1560s and 1820s, far before Marx even drew the connections between capitalism and colonialism?
We might not be the same people, the same Acehnese, the same Javanese who went to war against colonial powers. But we are the same Ummah that owes a great debt to the Ottoman military for the cannons and gunners under Kurtoğlu Hızır Reis, who aided our Muslim brothers and sisters in 1560s Aceh against the Portuguese, where the Ottoman flag flew as a sign of Muslim unity under the Ottoman Caliphate; the same Ummah that took up arms under Prince Diponegoro's call of jihad against the Dutch and colonial extraction in Java in 1825–1830. Yet we're also the same Ummah that abandoned the Acehnese in the 19th century because, by then, the Ottomans were too weakened to materially respond, and our local ulema were bought by the Dutch Orientalist scholar Snouck Hurgronje, who converted to Islam to learn about Muslims, whom he called "Mohammedans," as objects of study to divide us from within.
He succeeded. He understood something the gunboats never did: capturing the legitimation machinery is cheaper than fighting it. Conquest by purchase of the minbar outlasts conquest by rifle, and it never had to end when the Dutch left.
The Ummah had been divided long before the Arabs revolted against the Ottoman Empire under European imperial manipulation, and had understood transnational solidarity long before Marxist internationalism gave it another vocabulary.
The Ummah here was subjected to two captures before they had names anywhere else. The first wore secular clothes: anything political, anything touching governance, was crushed, while ritual performance and akhlaqul karīm became matters between you and God alone, because fuck empathy and humanity, right? "Obedience to ulil amr is obedience to God," and they called it taqwa. Hurgronje wrote that manual decades before any mandate power bought its first mufti. The second capture came later wearing literalist clothes: ibn Wahhab's interpretation with a state behind it, folded into a nationalist project, until its heirs pointed at everything and called it bid'ah, conflating da'wah with Saudi propaganda. The colony was the laboratory. The methods “tested” here travelled, then came back rebranded as authenticity.
What are we even doing?
Is it because the oppressors now speak the same language as us and claim to worship the same God?
These oppressors were raised in the same traditions as those who abandoned knowledge, succumbed to manufactured enmity and moral panic, and murdered farmers, teachers, labourers, midwives; the working class in 1965–1966, in the name of jihad; the declaration of “God is the greatest” at the top of their lungs while parading the severed heads of farmers around the village. The same society that had not yet had a proper tool or concept for collective intergenerational trauma from 3.5 centuries of colonialism, and only had Islam as a moral framework and the language of liberation and resistance against colonial powers, by the time the successor of the British Empire planted a seed of backwardness that labelled Muslim revolutionaries like Tan Malaka and other members and sympathisers of the Communist Party kafirun just twenty years after independence.
The same Tan Malaka whose speech at Comintern in 1922 about the shared goal of Pan-Islamism and Marxism changed everyone's view of Islam, which was very likely Orientalist anyway, and of Indonesian resistance against colonial powers.
The same Tan Malaka who wrote a book that gives modern Indonesians a language to speak to power. To see the rot in the system itself. To hold power accountable for the structural violence it enforces. A book that the government eventually banned.
The government that wants us to see them as ulil amr. The same government that spiritualises its incompetence, that crushes dissent, whose religious ministry said teachers' salaries are amal jariyah, that calls activists foreign actors—because how else should they appeal to the masses other than by triggering the trauma of the descendants of the colonised?
When ideas are crushed and dissenters are criminalised or even pathologised, the harm doesn’t stay abstract. It shows up as hunger, as homelessness, as lives cut short.
Violence isn’t always soaked in blood. Poverty, homelessness, famine; these are forms of violence. They’re structural. Someone has made sure the poor stay poor while they fatten themselves up.
Yet some of us turn around and say, “Corruption is cultural in Indonesia. It's a collective sin,” and call it a day. No dialectical materialism, no questions about who benefits from lateral violence among broke citizens in this day and age, no nothing.
We have the moral architecture, we have historical records of wins and losses, of the most sophisticated synthesised concept of political theology and material obligations with spiritual accountability. We have material evidence of a pluralistic society in a nation-state that isn't secular and was never once a theocracy.
Yet most arguments from our best and brightest are bootleg copies of colonial logic to blame the oppressed and call it "holding ourselves accountable."
How do some people afford to spiritualise and moralise structural poverty and anti-intellectualism? How do you even participate in society, yet, when it comes to structural analysis, act like you're merely a rude guest looking in through the window?
What are you even doing with that fancy degree?
Thus, conclude today's Keputrian session. My sincere apologies for the absence of snacks, I can't afford them, I'm broke.
See you around.Wassalaam
@indonesia
@autistics
@actuallyadhd #history #panislamism #marxism #trotsky #genocide
#neurodivergence #decolonial #politics #colonialism #activism #Islam -
Jonathon Schneer's Nine Days in May is miserable history. It is a book written to explain to workers that the 1926 British General Strike was ...#JonathonSchneer #<em>NineDaysinMay #1926BritishGeneralStrike #ClementAttlee #TUC #Trotsky #Chartism
An opponent of the class struggle attacks Trotsky, writes a cautionary tale of the 1926 British General Strike -
This lecture marking the centenary of the 1926 general strike was delivered by Socialist Equality Party (UK) National Secretary Chris Marsden to ...
This lecture marking the centenary of the 1926 general strike was delivered by Socialist Equality Party (UK) National Secretary Chris Marsden to public meetings in Sheffield, Manchester, Inverness, London and Glasgow,#Generalstrike #1926 #Trotsky #Stalin #Schneer #Mustill #Lee #Cant #SWP #history #SocialistEqualityParty
Public Lecture: Trotsky, Stalin and the 1926 British General Strike -
Nous verrons qu’une organisation de ce type manque en France car, si les révolutions sont dues à « l’irruption violente des masses dans la conduite de leur propre destin » comme les définissait #Trotsky, un #parti révolutionnaire est nécessaire afin de proposer des orientations politiques et stratégiques.
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Nous verrons qu’une organisation de ce type manque en France car, si les révolutions sont dues à « l’irruption violente des masses dans la conduite de leur propre destin » comme les définissait #Trotsky, un #parti révolutionnaire est nécessaire afin de proposer des orientations politiques et stratégiques.
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Clara Fraser ou la vie sur tous les fronts
https://www.contretemps.eu/clara-fraser-ou-la-vie-sur-tous-les-fronts/
#Politique #Histoire #Récits #UnePrincipale #Antistalinisme #EtatsUnis #RévolutionRusse #Socialisme #Trotskisme #Trotsky -
Clara Fraser ou la vie sur tous les fronts
https://www.contretemps.eu/clara-fraser-ou-la-vie-sur-tous-les-fronts/
#Politique #Histoire #Récits #UnePrincipale #Antistalinisme #EtatsUnis #RévolutionRusse #Socialisme #Trotskisme #Trotsky -
Le « Programme de transition », Trotsky et l’Internationale communiste
https://www.contretemps.eu/le-programme-de-transition-trotsky-et-linternationale-communiste/
#Politique #Autre #Histoire #Stratégie #Communisme #FrontUnique #InternationaleCommuniste #Socialisme #Transition #Trotsky -
Le « Programme de transition », Trotsky et l’Internationale communiste
https://www.contretemps.eu/le-programme-de-transition-trotsky-et-linternationale-communiste/
#Politique #Autre #Histoire #Stratégie #Communisme #FrontUnique #InternationaleCommuniste #Socialisme #Transition #Trotsky -
... General Strike. The event was held in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, a town formerly at the heart of the coal mining industry. An SEP stall next to ...#1926GeneralStrike #Barnsley #SouthYorkshire #Trotsky #Stalin #MinersStrike
Socialist Equality Party intervenes at Unite event in Barnsley marking centenary of 1926 General Strike -
The Socialist Equality Party (UK) is campaigning to promote a series of public meetings to mark the centenary of the British General Strike.#BritishGeneralStrike #Trotsky #Stalin #1926 #London #Sheffield #Inverness
Campaign begins for meetings on 100 years since British General Strike -
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Compared to the #Czars #Lenin was a competent and a nice guy, sadly for all Russians, he was an arrogant bastard, and #Trotsky even more so. Lenin looked down on the peasants, Trotsky looked down on the peasants AND the #proletariat . #Lenin gave all party members perks that began to corrupt the ideology, and #Stalin used those perks to gain loyalty from people with loose belief in #communism . Trotsky would have been the right man for the job, but wasn't the best at gaining and holding power. Communism would have been somewhat repressive but no where near the terror and brutality and death that it was under Stalin, with deaths that dwarfed most czars, and 3% of the population was incarcerated.. After that all new socialist nations were forced due to trade embargoes by the west to become Stalinist instead of a more democratic system. This only ended once Stalin Died and places like Chile, Vietnam, Cuba and Laos aimed to be democratic, but with all the American backed coups and embargoes, this was not to be sadly.
Why Trotsky Lost to Stalin (Even Though He Was Smarter) -
youtu.be/PtRz6qRUq2E
Compared to the #Czars #Lenin was a competent and a nice guy, sadly for all Russians, he was an arrogant bastard, and #Trotsky even more so. Lenin looked down on the peasants, Trotsky looked down on the peasants AND the #proletariat . #Lenin gave all party members perks that began to corrupt the ideology, and #Stalin used those perks to gain loyalty from people with loose belief in #communism . Trotsky would have been the right man for the job, but wasn't the best at gaining and holding power. Communism would have been somewhat repressive but no where near the terror and brutality and death that it was under Stalin, with deaths that dwarfed most czars, and 3% of the population was incarcerated.. After that all new socialist nations were forced due to trade embargoes by the west to become Stalinist instead of a more democratic system. This only ended once Stalin Died and places like Chile, Vietnam, Cuba and Laos aimed to be democratic, but with all the American backed coups and embargoes, this was not to be sadly.
Why Trotsky Lost to Stalin (Even Though He Was Smarter) -
"Ha ha, good thing Lenin and me were best buds, unlike that REACTIONARY SHITLIB Trotsky, who didn't even attend Lenin's funeral!"
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"Ha ha, good thing Lenin and me were best buds, unlike that REACTIONARY SHITLIB Trotsky, who didn't even attend Lenin's funeral!"
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Leon Trotski - Fascisme, wat het is en hoe het te bestrijden
Klassieke bundel* van Trotski over het fascisme, hoofdzakelijk geschreven ten tijde van de vorige keer dat het in Europa de overhand kreeg.
Doordat de teksten voor WO II geschreven zijn, wordt de analyse overtuigender.
Trotski legt inderdaad uit wat fascisme is en doet dat op een heldere manier. Dat is wel eens verfrissend in deze tijd waar het is doodgeanalyseerd door historici, liberalen, psycho-analytici, literaire figuren enz enz.
Hij is ook helder in hoe het bestreden moet worden. Deels ben ik het met hem eens (fasco's slaan - kan gewoon) Deels niet. Hij blijft de revolutionair marxist van voor de bullshitbanen die nu een groot deel van de werkende klasse ketenen. Bovendien heb ik het niet zo op revolutionaire voorhoedes. Ik leid mezelf wel, dank u.
De uitgever voegt er een woord vooraf aan toe van 18 pagina's wat aan de ene kant zinvol is (de historische schets) aan de andere kant -meer dan een kwart van de bladzijden zijn nu niet door Trotski geschreven.
*Lees een niet door uitgeverij Proletaris aangepaste versie hier: https://www.marxists.org/nederlands/trotski/1944/1944fascisme.htm
#WatWouterLas26 #LezenIsLeuk #Fascisme #Socialisme #Trotsky #Reading #Bookstodon #Boekstadon
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Leon Trotski - Fascisme, wat het is en hoe het te bestrijden
Klassieke bundel* van Trotski over het fascisme, hoofdzakelijk geschreven ten tijde van de vorige keer dat het in Europa de overhand kreeg.
Doordat de teksten voor WO II geschreven zijn, wordt de analyse overtuigender.
Trotski legt inderdaad uit wat fascisme is en doet dat op een heldere manier. Dat is wel eens verfrissend in deze tijd waar het is doodgeanalyseerd door historici, liberalen, psycho-analytici, literaire figuren enz enz.
Hij is ook helder in hoe het bestreden moet worden. Deels ben ik het met hem eens (fasco's slaan - kan gewoon) Deels niet. Hij blijft de revolutionair marxist van voor de bullshitbanen die nu een groot deel van de werkende klasse ketenen. Bovendien heb ik het niet zo op revolutionaire voorhoedes. Ik leid mezelf wel, dank u.
De uitgever voegt er een woord vooraf aan toe van 18 pagina's wat aan de ene kant zinvol is (de historische schets) aan de andere kant -meer dan een kwart van de bladzijden zijn nu niet door Trotski geschreven.
*Lees een niet door uitgeverij Proletaris aangepaste versie hier: https://www.marxists.org/nederlands/trotski/1944/1944fascisme.htm
#WatWouterLas26 #LezenIsLeuk #Fascisme #Socialisme #Trotsky #Reading #Bookstodon #Boekstadon
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There are few more bitterly contested and less clearly understood historical experiences than the general strike of 1926, despite it being a ...
The events are aimed at arming workers with the lessons of this experience for the political battles they face today: against a right-wing Labour government of austerity and war, and trade union bureaucracies suppressing a struggle against it.#1926generalstrike #TradesUnionCongress #Trotsky #Stalin #LabourParty #Corbyn #Sultana #Polanski #CommunistPartyofGreatBritain
Socialist Equality Party (UK) announces public meeting series on 1926 general strike -
You see comrade, only some things are TRULY threatening to Leninist theory...
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You see comrade, only some things are TRULY threatening to Leninist theory...
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You see comrade, only some things are TRULY threatening to Leninist theory...
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"Wow, I can't believe Trotsky would disrespect Lenin like this, how unexpected, maybe he isn't a good Bolshevik after all 😭"
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"Wow, I can't believe Trotsky would disrespect Lenin like this, how unexpected, maybe he isn't a good Bolshevik after all 😭"
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♪ So no one told you life was gonna be this way... ♪
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1909501/so-no-one-told-you-life-was-gonna-be-this-way
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"Okay but what if we replaced feudalism with despotism and try to recreate capitalist oligarchy but with none of the advantages?"
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"Okay but what if we replaced feudalism with despotism and try to recreate capitalist oligarchy but with none of the advantages?"
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"Okay but what if we replaced feudalism with despotism and try to recreate capitalist oligarchy but with none of the advantages?"