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National University students fire a homemade weapon during...

Sat, 26 May 2012 21:03:39 -0400

National University students fire a homemade weapon during protests against the FTA between Colombia and United States, May 21, 2012.

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People’s Korea: Artwork depicting the Korean...

Sat, 26 May 2012 18:13:28 -0400

People’s Korea: Artwork depicting the Korean people’s victory over U.S. imperialism during the Korean War (1950-1953). Every building in the socialist north over one story had been reduced to rubble by U.S./UN bombing.

Comrade Erich Honecker, communist militant, political prisoner...

Sat, 26 May 2012 16:48:59 -0400

Comrade Erich Honecker, communist militant, political prisoner under the Nazi regime and later leader of the German Democratic Republic (socialist East Germany) and the Socialist Unity Party of Germany.

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Sat, 26 May 2012 15:40:28 -0400

Red Army Faction (West Germany)

Sat, 26 May 2012 14:14:00 -0400

Red Army Faction (West Germany)

South Africa: 'Taking responsibility for our revolution & honoring heroes of our revolution'

Sat, 26 May 2012 12:53:52 -0400

South Africa: 'Taking responsibility for our revolution & honoring heroes of our revolution':

Speech by South African Communist Party General Secretary Cde Blade Nzimande, to the 14th National Congress of the National Union Mineworkers, 24 May 2012, Emperors Palace

The SACP wishes to thank you for the invitation to come and address your congress, an important gathering which is also celebrating 30 years of heroic struggle by the mineworkers of our country. Indeed in celebrating 30 years of the NUM we are celebrating a longer history of dedication, commitment and sacrifice by millions of mineworkers over decades in the face of one of the most brutal systems of exploitation - from the struggle of against the hut and the poll taxes, against the hostel and induna systems, to the struggles for decent wages and working conditions, for a living wage, for a democratic South Africa and for socialism in our country.

Indeed the NUM and its predecessor unions always understood that the struggle against the brutal exploitation in the mines couldn’t be separated from the struggle against apartheid and colonialism in general. This was because, racist and apartheid practices virtually all originated from the imperatives of capitalism to subject the African people to cheap labour in the mines. The many apartheid laws were actively lobbied for by mining capitalists, from the forcible removal of the African people from their land, to the pass system, to the migrant labour system and to the deprivation of black people from accessing decent education and skills. The mineworkers in our country have carried the sins of the discovery of gold and diamonds in our country, and they were the initial experiment for a racist and highly exploitative capitalist system in our country.

As we celebrate 30 years of the NUM we are celebrating many other things. We are celebrating and honouring the lives of mineworkers which were lost in many bloody confrontations with the apartheid police and mine security, and the thousands of lives lost in accidents underground. We honour these workers for it is their sweat and blood that built the economy of this country.

We are also celebrating the special relationship and bonds of solidarity between organized black mineworkers and the South African Communist Party. On this occasion we recall great communists like JB Marks who led both organized mineworkers and the South African Communist Party. As we celebration this relationship we have also come to pledge our commitment and unwavering solidarity with the struggles of the mineworkers and to say that as South African communists we shall remain a reliable force and ally in the struggle for a living wage, a decent social wage and the struggle to consolidate and deepen our democracy. We shall remain a reliable ally in the struggle against labour brokers, casualization and retrenchments.

‘We have been naught, we shall be all’

Sat, 26 May 2012 11:28:14 -0400

‘We have been naught, we shall be all’

Vietnam: In celebration of Reunification and Victory Day - April...

Sat, 26 May 2012 10:20:54 -0400

Vietnam: In celebration of Reunification and Victory Day - April 30, 1975

fuldagap: PFLP guerrilla disassembles and cleans his rifle.

Fri, 25 May 2012 19:35:17 -0400

fuldagap:

PFLP guerrilla disassembles and cleans his rifle.

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Read online here

zolotoivek: Aleksandr Apsit - Tsar, Pope, and the Rich on the...

Fri, 25 May 2012 17:00:50 -0400

zolotoivek:

Aleksandr Apsit - Tsar, Pope, and the Rich on the Worker’s Shoulders, 1918

turkishbolshevik: Pamphlet of the American Negro Labor...

Fri, 25 May 2012 15:51:16 -0400

turkishbolshevik:

Pamphlet of the American Negro Labor Congress, a CPUSA organization (1925)

‘We want beer, we want corn, and multinational...

Fri, 25 May 2012 15:46:40 -0400

‘We want beer, we want corn, and multinational corporations out of the country’

turkishbolshevik: Young Pioneers Reading Graphic atop suggested...

Fri, 25 May 2012 15:12:12 -0400

turkishbolshevik:

Young Pioneers Reading

Graphic atop suggested reading for children age 9-12, New Pioneer v. 3, no. 2, March 1934, p. 256. Suggestions include Leon Huberman, “We, the People”; Lewis Hine, “Men at Work”; James Otis, “Toby Tyler” (“A real good adventurous tale of circus life.”); Alexander Dumas, “Three Musketeers,” (“Story of D’Artagnan and the three musketeers who lived during the reign of Louis XIII. Good adventure.”); etc.

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Fri, 25 May 2012 14:01:35 -0400

Alison Roh Park: The Danger of One Story

Fri, 25 May 2012 13:44:00 -0400

Alison Roh Park: The Danger of One Story:

This past weekend in New York was a beautiful one. Mostly because I spent Saturday in a room full of women who I’ve known of for years (mostly on social media, but had never met in person) at the first ever conference of the New York City Reproductive Justice Coalition.

The daylong media workshop was like my own personal Disneyland—minus the behemoth media conglomerate/bajillion dollar lobbying force part. Experts came together as part of a daylong media workshop on polling research, framing and messaging, integrating messaging, and public relations, all within the reproductive justice framework.

Three of the major points I took from the event that I want to share here are

1) Community polling and research support the practice of using health as an entry point to talk about RJ with communities and frame for the media.

2) The “war on women” meme doesn’t resonate with communities of color as the term “women” typically connotes white women.

3) The danger of one story is alive and well when it comes to building movement power.

Some of you may be familiar with the concept of the “danger of the single story” from talks by the Nigerian writer Chimamanda Adichie, where exposure to people from communities and cultures—typically nonwhite—via one source is a dangerous way of painting a picture of and generalizing an entire people. This is also the case when it comes to the media.

Queens, New York

Fri, 25 May 2012 13:26:43 -0400

Queens, New York