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People's Movements Archive

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A young Pierre Mulele poses with a photo of assassinated leader Patrice Lumumba.

He would go on to wage war against joint US-Belgian-UN-Mobutist forces in Congo to free Congo from imperialism.

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A recently translated poem of Nizar Qabbani from his time in China:

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"The Shining Path, the Justified Rebellion"

Published by the PCP.

Montevideo, Uruguay, 1987.

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Lenin after being asked to take a small trip for Christmas in 1917:

"What? Does that mean you are going to spend all those years sitting at your desk without a break?" - Nadezhda Konstantinovna

"Well, we'll see how things are later on" - Lenin

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"Out of the wreckage, life will emerge"

Fatah Poster - Palestinian Liberation Organization.

Lebanon, 1970s.

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“I say without reservation I hate Deng Xiaoping” - Chinese man reminisces on the era of Chairman Mao.

Likely early 2000s, city unknown, China.

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We have translated another poem of Mahmoud Darwish, titled "Al Badr Al Shaab" or "The Full Moon of the Masses".

It was written in conversation with Muzaffar Al-Nawab, an Iraqi communist poet.

Baghdad, 1971.

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"It matters little that the Soviets write on their propaganda posters that 'religion is the opium of the people'; communism is essentially religious."

-Jose Carlos Mariátegui

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Chairman Gonzalo on the foundation of the Communist Party of Peru.

"From that point on I became Gonzalo"

Lima, 1992.

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Propaganda in Colombia in response to the international call to free Chairman Gonzalo.

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Death of Soviet leader Yakov Sverdlov. A tireless and brilliant organizer according to Lenin.

Moscow, March, 1919.

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Soviet Poet Vladimir Mayakovsky among Red Armymen.

June, 1929.

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"To the Moon" - a rare poem by a teenage Josef Stalin.

Written between 1893-1898, likely Georgia.

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The original circular declaring the 19th of June as the "Day of Heroism"

Peru, June 1986.

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"To be a Marxist today is to adhere to Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought"

Revolutionary Student Federation, Peru, 1978.

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A captured Chairman Gonzalo gives us a lesson and call to action:

"We look to the newtons cradle to demonstrate this phenomena. Hit them back comrades!"

From the Megaproceso interviews, likely authentic, Lima, 1993.

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Appearing for the first time in English.

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"Our fight and yours" - Mahmoud Darwish
A translated poem from the Palestinian poet largely interpreted to be an ode to revolutionary China.

1973, Beirut.

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Joseph Stalin wields bow in Tajik national costume.

Soviet Union, 1935.

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Posters in support of the Popular Women's Movement, and Movement of Class-Conscious Workers and Laborers.

Peru, Date Unknown.