#communist history

[bolshevikitherat]

from the Lavender and Red Union, a group of communists who wrote this in 1975.

"GAY LIBERATION IS IMPOSSIBLE WITHOUT SOCIALIST REVOLUTION. SOCIALISM IS INCOMPLETE WITHOUT GAY LIBERATION."

#marxism #communism #queer history #gay history #socialism #leftism #communist history

[workersolidarity]

HEROS OF THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR

Roza Georgiyevna Shanin

3 April 1924 – 28 January 1945

Roza Shanina was a graduate of the Central Women's Sniper Training School credited with 59 confirmed kills.

Shanina volunteered for the military after the death of her brother in 1941 and chose to be a sniper on the front line. Praised for her shooting accuracy, Shanina was capable of precisely hitting enemy personnel and making doublets (two target hits by two rounds fired in quick succession).

In 1944, a Canadian newspaper described Shanina as "the unseen terror of East Prussia". She became the first servicewoman of the 3rd Belorussian Front to receive the Order of Glory.

Shanina was killed in action during the East Prussian Offensive while shielding the severely wounded commander of an artillery unit. Shanina's actions received praise during her lifetime, but conflicted with the Soviet policy of sparing snipers from heavy battles. Her combat diary was first published in 1965.

#source

@WorkerSolidarityNews

#great patriotic war #russia #wwii #war history #wwii history #soviet history #soviet union #politics #geopolitics #history #socialism #socialist politics #communism #marxism leninism #marxism #socialist #communist #marxist leninist #socialist history #communist history #news #war #wars #working class #working class history #revolution #socialist revolution

[comradeowl]

Sharing Some Texts

Hi, everyone! Wanted to announce that I’ve a few texts scanned and uploaded onto Internet Archive.

It’s a mix. Soviet pamphlets from Progress Publishers, including some books. I’m going to continue uploading from whatever texts I find at my local bookstore. 

If something isn’t popping up: give it some time. Up to an hour and a half to appear at least from my end.

Please enjoy and spread these.

https://archive.org/details/lenin-imperialism-and-imperialists-compressed/mode/2up

https://archive.org/details/leninist-standardsof-party-life_202307

https://archive.org/details/lenin-on-public-education-compressed

https://archive.org/details/adhd-punished-vo-communism-https-t.co-2-unu-8-ozvn-x-2

https://archive.org/details/lenin-party-work-inthe-masses-compressed

#scanned books #books #theory and practice #soviet sources #soviet #ussr #cccp #soviet union #marxist theory #marxism #marxism leninism #marxist leninist #recommended #scans #internet archive #communism #socialism #communist history

[nickysfacts]

She empowered the women of China by bring about political and economic change, but at a mighty cost.

🚺🇨🇳🚺

#history #xiang jingyu #china #women empowering woman #communism #womens history #ccp #historical figures #womens liberation #education #communist #feminist #communist history #1920s #womens rights #women in history #baddie #just girly things #women supporting women #marxist feminism #communist china #historical women #girl power #chinese history #sisterhood #nickys facts

[kvetch19]

Soviet Marines on Mount Mithridates in Kerch

#soviet history #ussr #history #black and white #communism #communist history #red army #soviet marines #soviet army #soviet aesthetic #soviet union

[resistancemarxistblog]

The Nanchang Uprising was a Communist-led mutiny against the Guomindang (GMD/KMT) in response to their violent suppression of the Communists in Shanghai (the Shanghai Massacre) in 1927.

Prior to this mutiny, the CPC (Communist Party of China) lacked its own independent military, and instead was integrated into the National Revolutionary Army, the armed wing of the KMT.

Numerous Communist leaders, alongside KMT defectors, led their soldiers against the KMT and temporarily forced them out of Nanchang, but the Communists were eventually defeated and forced to retreat.

The Uprising is significant as many of the commanders who took part (for example, Zhou Enlai and Lin Biao) would go on to become prominent leaders within the Chinese Red Army and later the People's Liberation Army.

#communist party of china #communism #socialism #marxism #leftist #communist history

[deceptigoons-attack]

Komsomol member pin.

The Komsomol (abbreviation of the Russian Vsesoyuzny Leninsky Kommunistichesky Soyuz Molodyozhi -- All-Union Leninist Communist League of Youth in English) was a Communist youth organization created in 1918.

#Russian history #Soviet history #Komsomol #Communist history

[teamfortress2yaoi]

KUMANDER LIWAYWAY (1919 - 2014)

8.5 in x 11 in linocut print (2021)

Kumander Liwayway (Commander “Dawn”) originally was Pampanga’s town seamstress, beauty queen, horseback rider, and farmer. Once the Japanese invaded the Philippines in 1942, her father, the mayor of the town, was publicly executed, and from there she swore revenge.

She quickly rose within the ranks of the Huks after receiving training and communist/marxist education, and was promoted to commander to lead troops that were predominantly men. She held her femininity close as she would do her hair and makeup and wear formal clothes into battle. Any opposition she faced from her ranks was met with a challenge to duel.

Her story doesn’t end at the end of the Japanese occupation, although she eventually stopped being a revolutionary war commander after being captured twice by American forces. She continued to lobby for military pensions and recognizing the role of women in military history while also balancing the role of a single mother.

#my art #linocut #printmaking #kumander liwayway #communist history #filipino history #filipino artist #queer artist

[titsoutfornature]

oh wow so like, conversion therapy logic.

#tit talks #communist history #historical violence

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“It is clear from discussions in the Confédération Générale du Travail Unitaire (CGTU) political bureau and the Comintern that the communists were the catalyst for the development of the movement of the unemployed in the Parisian region. A concerted effort on their part explains the pattern of geographical expansion in January and February. Just as the political impetus shaped expansion of the movement, however, so it contributed to decline as the party and CGTU expended their meagre resources, especially the energies of their activists, on the electoral campaign of May 1932 instead. The unemployed responded to communist advances and the presence of communist councils meant a very different orientation and conditions for particular CdCs (Comité des Chômeurs). 

A municipality like Saint-Denis or Ivry could put resources at the disposal of the unemployed. The existence of communist officials and staff strengthened the work of the mass organization of the party, a factor of particular significance given the variations in the level of unemployment. Furthermore, communist councils made great efforts to be seen to be alleviating the lot of the unemployed, providing a range of services for them. The propaganda of the unemployed movement repeated the virtues of municipal communism on many occasions and used these councils to condemn the shortcomings of non-communist municipalities. 

Because, with the exception of the Nord, there were only a few communist-held councils outside the Parisian region, the councils of the capital’s ‘red belt’ were held up as examples throughout the land. In Ivry, that bastion of industrial working-class communism, alongside cheap housing and children’s holiday camps, the council funded measures targeting the unemployed and their families: free milk and school meals, health checks, warm winter clothes, a soup kitchen, subsidized rents, and a moratorium on evictions of the unemployed for rent arrears. In Saint-Denis, Jacques Doriot paid particular attention to mass meetings of unemployed residents, speaking regularly during 1931 and 1932 to crowds of up to 850. Indeed, the presence of communists in the mairies assisted the early development of the movement. 

Early demonstrations and mass meetings of the unemployed took place in the communist-held towns of Saint-Denis, Villejuif, Vitry and Bobigny. Under pressure from the Comintern, the communist leadership sought to launch the unemployed movement from Paris. This meant starting from the PCF’s Parisian strongholds. 

In non-communist parts of the region, the CdCs adopted a hostile posture towards their municipal councils. This antagonism was a fundamental aspect of the first phase of the unemployment movement and much more characteristic of its press. In communist areas, by contrast, denunciation was directed towards the departmental conseil général or the national government. The standard mode of operation of the CdCs – the elaboration of a list of demands, followed by delegations to the mairies, supported by protests – only really made sense in non-communist areas. Shrill condemnation of socialist, neo-socialist and, worse still, Parti d’Unité Prolétarienne (Party of Workers’ Unity – PUP, hence pupiste) councils contrasted sharply with comments on communist councils. Thus in Pantin, the CdC was one wing of a concerted communist campaign against the neo-socialist Auray, which eventually bore fruit when communists took office in 1938.

The local committees adopted a range of approaches from militant demonstrations – sometimes clashing with the police – to self-help efforts, like children’s parties or soup kitchens. Some unemployed committees combined both. The CdC of the 11th arrondissement organized a children’s Christmas party, and stormed and occupied the mairie in the same month. The CdC of the 15th arrondissement pooled the skills of the unemployed in co-operative fashion by offering lectures, hairdressing and shoe repairs, besides scuffling with police outside the mairie. The committee of the 18th organized their own soup kitchen and mobilized against evictions. In Choisy-le-Roi they demonstrated, and sold meat and vegetables to the unemployed along co-operative lines. Whilst the communists decried bourgeois charity and urged the formation of self-defence groups to confront the police, they did not openly condemn self-help or advice on benefits and representation for the unemployed.

...

Even when this process was executed perfectly, it was not a recipe for sustained activity for, unlike the workplace, a constant turnover of personnel and lack of routine characterized unemployment. Frustration, or success, for a list of locally generated demands would return the group to its starting-point and this accounts for the short life span of many of the local groups after their initial appearance. The majority of committees submitted only one or two reports to Le Cri des Chômeurs, and two fifths of them entered no more than one. Only ten out of ninety-seven committees sustained enough activity over the year to have four or five reports in the ten issues of the paper that exist. There was a clear connection between the rise and fall of unemployment and the vitality of the committees. The greatest number of committee reports coincided with the unemployment peak of March 1932. The reports declined thereafter with the falling numbers of jobless...

...

Apart from exerting pressure on the municipal authorities, the local unemployed committees reported two major campaigns: over evictions and working hours. Le Cri recounted dozens of episodes successfully preventing evictions in the Paris region. In March 1932 three evictions were thwarted in the 11th arrondissement; in the 18th, after a landlord had been beaten and evicted a tenant, 200 unemployed forced the landlord to take the evictee back; in Cachan, 500 tried to prevent the eviction of an unemployed woman who lived with her children and a sick mother; and the evictions of unemployed foreigners were halted in Juvisy and Houilles. Le Cri showed a photograph of a group from Chaville who had prevented the sale of furniture seized by his landlord to pay for an unemployed man’s rent arrears. Despite the attempts of twenty police officers and several arrests, the Comité des Chômeurs and the tenants’ association succeeded in stopping the sale. On their demonstration they had chanted ‘Bread and work! Down with the vultures and ceilings on rent rises of 15 per cent!’ 

Committees protested against the poverty associated with widespread short-time working. They called for special relief measures and demonstrated at plants where the practice produced meagre wages. The CdC at Choisy-le-Roi, for instance, campaigned for recruits in a factory paying 3 francs 50 centimes to 4 francs per hour for a twenty-four-hour week. By the same token, the committees protested against excessive overtime as this kept others out of a job. Amongst other (often less successful) examples, in January 1932, two hundred attended a protest at the Lally factory at Asnières and succeeded in ending overtime working. The varied composition and short life span of the unemployed group could be transcended. This relied on finding other focal points of struggle and sufficient anger over local housing or workplace issues to elicit a response from the unemployed.”

- Matt Perry, “‘Unemployment Revolutionizes The Working Class: Le Cri des Chômeurs, French Communists and The Birth of the Movement of the Unemployed in France, 1931-1932,” French History, Vol. 16, No. 4, 2002. pp. 451-454.

#paris #confédération générale du travail unitaire #parti communiste français #resisting evictions #eviction #attempted evictions #unemployed association #unemployed organizing #grande dépression #chomeurs #chomage #communism #communist history #grassroots action #direction action #banlieus rouges #academic quote #the great depression #unemployed protest #saint-denis #ivry

[whereserpentswalk]

The nazis that you see in movies are as much a historical fantasy as vikings with horned helmets and samurai cutting people in half.

The nazis were not some vague evil that wanted to hurt people for the sake of hurting them. They had specific goals which furthered a far right agenda, and they wanted to do harm to very specific groups, (largely slavs, jews, Romani, queer people, communists/leftists, and disabled people.)

The nazis didn't use soldiers in creepy gas masks as their main imagery that they sold to the german people, they used blond haired blue eyed families. Nor did they stand up on podiums saying that would wage an endless and brutal war, they gave speeches about protecting white Christian society from degenerates just like how conservatives do today.

Nazis weren't atheists or pagans. They were deeply Christian and Christianity was part of their ideology just like it is for modern conservatives. They spoke at lengths about defending their Christian nation from godless leftism. The ones who hated the catholic church hated it for protestant reasons. Nazi occultism was fringe within the party and never expected to become mainstream, and those occultists were still Christian, none of them ever claimed to be Satanists or Asatru.

Nazis were also not queer or disabled. They killed those groups, before they had a chance to kill almost anyone else actually. Despite the amount of disabled nazis or queer/queer coded nazis you'll see in movies and on TV, in reality they were very cishet and very able bodied. There was one high ranking nazi early on who was gay and the other nazis killed him for that. Saying the nazis were gay or disabled makes about as much sense as saying they were Jewish.

The nazis weren't mentally ill. As previously mentioned they hated disabled people, and this unquestionably included anyone neurodivergent. When the surviving nazi war criminals were given psychological tests after the war, they were shown to be some of the most neurotypical people out there.

The nazis weren't socialists. Full stop. They hated socialists. They got elected on hating socialists. They killed socialists. Hating all forms of lefitsm was a big part of their ideology, and especially a big part of how they sold themselves.

The nazis were not the supervillians you see on screen, not because they didn't do horrible things in real life, they most certainly did, but because they weren't that vague apolitical evil that exists for white American action heros to fight. They did horrible things because they had a right wing authoritarian political ideology, an ideology that is fundamentally the same as what most of the modern right wing believes.

#196 #my thougts #leftist #leftism #jewish #jumblr #actually mentally ill #mental illness #neurodivergent #actually neurodivergent #world war 2 #world war ii #history #queer #gay #queer history #pagan #athiest #athiesm #disability rights #communist #communism #socialist #socialism #anti conservative #anti christianity #christanity #christianity #mad pride #madpunk

[workersolidarity]

How can I explain to people who ask me how can I be a Leninist and still anti imperialist?

Lol, well Lenin literally wrote the book on Imperialism in his pamphlet; Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism. I would strongly suggest reading and rereading it, and rereading it again.

But in Chapter 10 of Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, Lenin characterizes imperialism as a stage of monopoly capitalism marked by monopolies, cartels, the role of banks as monopolists of finance capital, and a new colonial policy centered around the struggle for raw materials and capital exports. He argues that imperialism has led to increases in the cost of living for working people and increased unevenness in the economic development of states. Lenin sees the monopolies' oligarchical powers as a symptom of a transitional era and a "moribund" capitalism.

Lenin thus argues that advanced capitalist nation-states and cartels exploit both their own citizens and the resources and people of other countries, creating a parasitic relationship that allows cartels to profit and expand. This ultimately relies on the use of force or threat of use of force to protect private interests. Exploited nations are unable to achieve meaningful development due to this exploitation. This affects their ability to engage with each other and defend themselves. Imperialism's all-encompassing power distorts social and economic processes in both imperialist and colonized nations. Therefore, the struggle between imperialism and decolonization is the most important conflict for the future of humanity.

Lucky for me, another Marxist Leninist has gone over this exact question and goes into detail why the Soviet Union was NOT Imperialist. In fact, by definition, the Soviet Union was an Anti-Imperialist State:

#ussr #soviet history #soviet union #imperialism #lenin #vladimir lenin #socialism #communism #marxism leninism #socialist politics #socialist worker #socialist news #communist party #socialist #communist #marxism #marxist leninist #progressive politics #politics #communist history #history #political history #history of marxism #anti imperialism #anti imperialist #western imperialism #us imperialism #us hegemony #revolution

[comradeowl]

New upload! A monograph of the history leading up through the '33-'41 years. Hope ya'll enjoy this one.

#socialism #marxism #politics #books #imperialism #anti imperialism #ussr #ww2 #world war two #communism #communist #communist history #history #capitalism #fuck capitalism #scanned books #internet archive #colonialism

[valkyries-things]

CLAUDIA JONES // JOURNALIST

“She was a Trinidad and Tobago-born journalist and activist. As a child, she migrated with her family to the United States, where she became a Communist political activist, feminist and Black nationalist, adopting the name Jones as “self-protective disinformation”. Due to the political persecution of Communists in the US, she was deported in 1955 and subsequently lived in the United States. Upon arriving in the UK, she immediately joined the Communist Party of Great Britain and would remain a member for the rest of her life. She then founded Britain’s first major Black newspaper, the West Indian Gazette, in 1958, and played a central role in founding the Notting Hill Carnival, the second-largest annual carnival in the world.”

#female history #black history #notting hill carnival #communist history

[resistancemarxistblog]

when talking to "socialists" on the internet i'm really astounded at how proud they are of being pretty much fully uneducated on the history of their own alleged movement.

#socialism #communism #communist history #marxism #leftist #leftism

[deceptigoons-attack]

Pavel Nikolayevich Milyukov in 1917.

According to Milyukov, a contemporary historian and politician, Bolshevism had two aspects:

"One is international; the other is genuinely Russian. The international aspect of Bolshevism is due to its origin in a very advanced European theory. Its purely Russian aspect is chiefly concerned with its practice, which is deeply rooted in Russian reality and, far from breaking with the "ancien regime," reasserts Russia's past in the present. As geological upheavals bring the lower strata of the earth to the surface as evidence of the early ages of our planet, so Russian Bolshevism, by discarding the thin upper social layer, has laid bare the uncultured and unorganized substratum of Russian historical life."

Bolshevism: an International Danger: Its Doctrine and Its Practice Through War and Revolution, by Pavel Nikolayevich Milyukov.

Members of the Russian Provisional Government, Milyukov top left (serving as Foreign Minister).

#Pavel Nikolayevich Milyukov #Bolshevik Party #Bolshevism #Russian provisional Government #Russian History #Soviet History #Communism #Communist History #because LOOK AT MY POSTS BOY jk #The Russian Revolution