Happy birthday to comrade Hồ Chí Minh; who liberated Vietnam from French colonialism, Japanese invasion, and American imperialism. (Also happy birthday to Malcolm X and Yuri Kochiyama, another two freedom fighters)
A communist at the May Day protest today in Bogotá climbed the statue of Simon Bolívar in Plaza Bolívar, the historical and political heart of the capital, and put a hammer-and-sickle bandana on the Great Liberator.
@CommiePartyhats Yeah it's from some horrible comic about how communism is godless. It's where we get that one great image of trotsky being assassinated
On march 8, 1917 a strike of women textile workers in Petrograd led to the start of the February revolution. The bolsheviks would soon embrace women's suffrage and declare March 8 #InternationalWomensDay
The communist party of Indonesia was the largest non ruling communist party in the world until 1965 when a US backed fascist coup slaughtered millions of communist and ethnic Chinese Indonesians