The bourgeoisie see you as a commodity to be bought and sold, a tool to increase their profits, not as a human being worth dignity and respect.
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We strongly condemn the repressive move by the rulers of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, acting at the behest of the Pakistani state, to falsely accuse the Jammu Kashmir Joint Awami Action Committee of terrorism and declare it a banned organization.
Comrades gathered in front of the Municipal Committee, Loralai (Balochistan), to protest against state repression in Gilgit-Baltistan.
Free Ehsan Ali!
Hands Off the AAC!
#FreeEhsanAli#DownWithStateRepression
@CPBritain calls for a united front led by opportunist. capitalist, Zionist Burnham. A repeat of the disastrous popular front of the 1930's that lost Spain to Franco.
They call for public investment without expropriation, ie subsidies for capitalists.
Real communism is
The 5th June marks the birth of the great Irish Marxist, James Connolly! 🇮🇪🚩
Despite living his whole life in conditions of terrible poverty, Connolly dedicated himself completely to the study of Marxism.
📚Read more about Connolly's life and ideas at https://t.co/sy39YTaoBC
Fogerty is nothing but a liar, she knows full well that the charge of antisemitism is weaponised to silence criticism of Israel, she does it herself.
She talks of antisemitism as being huge, yet it is Islamophobia that is inciting mobs on the street.
Pretty incredible that the Pakistan High Commission shuts its door in the face of a sitting MP - to avoid taking a letter! What are they so afraid of? 🤔 #FreeEhsanAli
“I say to the people of Britain, if you stand aside while miners are beaten to the ground by a paramilitary police force in riot gear, what they do to us today they’ll do to you tomorrow”
#OnThisDay 1984. Arthur Scargill speaks about Orgreave
Joined by @johnmcdonnellMP and @pamelafitz4HW at the Pakistan High Commission today demanding they #freeehsanali.
WE CALL ON ALL MPS TO SIGN THE EARLY DAY MOTION IN PARLIAMENT!
https://t.co/Id1r9Kmqmk
PLEASE WRITE TO YOUR MP TO SUPPORT US!
Se cumplen 155 años de la caída de la Comuna de París, donde los trabajadores armados resistieron heroicamente durante 72 días, tomando el poder por primera vez y haciendo temblar de miedo a toda la oligarquía europea.
Más de 30.000 obreros revolucionarios fueron brutalmente fusilados por el ejército imperialista francés, 100.000 más fueron detenidos y exiliados del pais, que entraron a sangre y fuego por las calles de París para proteger a sus amos capitalistas.
París en aquel momento se convirtió, por primera vez en la historia, en una ciudad tomada por el poder obrero donde los trabajadores comenzaron a organizarse de forma colectiva autogestionaria, en comunas, y eliminaron la burocracia del antiguo régimen burgués, controlaron las fábricas, los periódicos, el parlamento, los cuarteles...
Bajo el nuevo gobierno revolucionario de la Comuna de París se llevó a cabo una serie de conquistas inéditas:
-Se anularon las deudas por usura.
-Se abolieron los intereses en los alquileres
-Se decretó la separación de la iglesia y el estado.
-Se abolió el trabajo nocturno y se redujo la jornada laboral.
-Se crearon cooperativas y asambleas de trabajadores.
-Se implantó la educación secular y gratuita,se proporcionó material escolar gratuitamente y se proporcionó a los escolares ropa y comida gratuita a los niños.
-Se expropiaron los inmuebles vacíos y se repartieron entre los que no tenían casa.
-Se sindicalizó masivamente a los obreros en sus puestos de trabajo.
-Se decretó la igualdad legal entre hombres y mujeres.
-Se abolió la pena de muerte y la guillotina.
-Se crearon milicias populares como nuevo ejército del proletariado
-Se limitaron los sueldos de los funcionarios del gobierno.
-Se crearon colegios nocturnos para intensificar la lucha contra el analfabetismo.
-Se entregó el poder a los trabajadores de las fábricas y se adoptó la bandera roja, símbolo del poder obrero, como bandera oficial del nuevo gobierno, el de la Comuna de París.
Aún habiendo sido ahogada en sangre, la Comuna de París fue la semilla de libertad y el germen de las futuras revoluciones obreras, mostrándonos que la revolución no es una línea recta, sino un largo camino donde como todo proceso revolucionario seguro que habrá errores y derrotas... pero la rueda de la historia solo puede avanzar hacia una sociedad libre de ataduras capitalistas y donde la explotación del hombre por el hombre sea abolida para siempre, una sociedad de la eterna armonía donde el poder lo tengan los trabajadores que crean la riqueza y no unos pocos parásitos capitalistas.
"La Comuna de París sólo duró unas pocas semanas; luego la Unión Soviética duró 74 años y la siguiente experiencia socialista durará 40 siglos. El socialismo no solamente no fracasó, sino que puso a toda la humanidad en las más altas cumbres jamás alcanzadas".
Camarada Arenas, secretario general del partido comunista español reconstituido.
It genuinely fries my brain that some people think we should entertain or prioritise the "new" ideas of petty-bourgeois academics and influencers over theorists like Marx, Lenin, or Trotsky.
Just now I've embarked on reading Trotsky's collection of writings from the 1930s, and it's really struck me how rich and multifaceted his understanding of society, consciousness, and the class struggle is.
He had lived through the struggle against Tsarism, the first industrial struggles of the Russian proletariat, and the earliest examples of workers' councils in the form of the soviets.
In his twenties, he led the Petersburg proletariat in the 1905 revolution, and established himself as a leading journalist and author.
He then led the first successful seizure of power by the working class in 1917, organised the first-ever workers' army from scratch during the Russian Civil War, led the struggle against the rising Soviet bureaucracy – and somehow found time to write reams of articles on Soviet life, literature, and culture.
And, eventually, he came to lead the isolated forces of genuine Marxism when he was exiled from the Soviet Union, and was forced to start from square one.
He remains the only person to have correctly analysed the new socio-economic forms that were birthed by the October revolution, deformed by Stalinist counter-revolution, and came to dominate much of the twentieth century.
Evidently a man with such a wealth of experience and a proven record as a class fighter is infinitely more deserving of our time and attention than some random academic or influencer whose intellectual and practical life rarely exceeds the four walls of their faculty.
If we, as Marxists, consider ideas to be the distilled essence of practice – the crystallisation of real events and relations – then surely our study should be devoted to those who have lived and breathed the class struggle, continuously analysed its shifts contours, and have savoured the breadth of human culture and experience.