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"I wish children didn't die. I wish they would be temporarily elevated to the skies until the war ends. Then they would return home safe, and when their parents would ask them “Where were you?” They would say “We were “playing in the clouds” Ghassan Kanafani, Palestinian author and leader of PFLP.

Six years after his assassination, a collection of his stories entitled “Ghassan Kanafani’s Children” was published in Beirut. Most of its heroes are children, and it is directed to young people. It was accompanied by paintings by the Syrian artist Burhan al-Din Karkutli. Karkutli, who was born in Damascus and lived in Germany, moved in his paintings between Syria, Morocco, Mexico, and Palestine, and many of his works depicted popular Damascene life and the Palestinian cause, inspiring many artists even today.

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“People all over the world, take action to stop the US and British aggression” People's Republic of China c. 1950s

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"Oh my intractable wound My homeland is not a suitcase and I am not a traveler I am the lover and the land is the beloved Hail the people of Lebanon who remain steadfast in the south" Mahmoud Darwish Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) Lebanon 1970

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"4,000 U.S. aircraft remains" Vietnam c. 1970s

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The Kissinger Mind Peter Kennard United States 1979

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fidel castro in the sierra maestra, during the early days of the cuban revolution

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Emil Orlik - A thunderstorm is coming (1908)

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Blue Figure (1967) by Alekos Fassianos (1935-2022)

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“We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.”

Mao Tse-Tung

#anti imperialism #free palestine #palestine #national liberation #mao zedong #maoism #little red book #marxism leninism #intifada

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#palestine #free palestine #ghassan kanafani #anti imperialism

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AL PACINO

in Serpico (1973) dir Sidney Lumet

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- Combat Liberalism -

#laborwave #maoism #marxism leninism #mao zedong

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Ρεμπέτικο, το κακό βοτάνι

David Prudhomme (2010)

#rebetiko

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—salvador allende’s final speech, 9/11/73

this week marks the 47th anniversary of the US-backed overthrow of salvador allende. allende was the first latin american marxist to be elected president in a liberal democracy. under allende, universal healthcare, tuition-free education, minimum wage, worker safety protections, free school lunches for children, and other socialist programs were implemented. according to the national bureau of economic research, blue collar wages rose 56% in 1971.

after allende moved to nationalize chile’s US owned industries and align with socialist cuba, nixon (who’d already been carefully monitoring allende’s rise) gave direct orders to the CIA and the US state department to “put pressure” on allende’s government. while the US publicly worked to sabotage chile’s economy with trade restrictions and aid denial, the CIA secretly collaborated with reactionary forces in the country to undermine allende’s credibility and ultimately overthrow him in a bloody coup.

in allende’s place, the US helped install military leader augusto pinochet who returned “freedom” to chile through re-privatization and the extra-judicial murder of an estimated 3,197 chileans. despite pinochet’s reputation as one of latin america’s most brutal fascists, the US supported his regime without issue. “i would say they are dictatorial,” nixon later conceded, “i would also have to, on the other side, indicate that they are non-communist and that they are not enemies of the united states.”

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"Scab", 1934 - Maynard Dixon, American (1875 - 1946)

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SEVEN SAMURAI (1954) dir. Akira Kurosawa