The 1st All Russian Congress of Soviets, composed of delegates representing workers', soldiers' and peasant soviets, and dominated by the Socialist-Revolutionaries and Mensheviks, met in Petrograd on June 3, 1917. #OTD#Russia
At our most recent Central Committee meeting, we passed a resolution in solidarity with the uprising in Bolivia and organised to reprint this important statement.
In the face of this imminent fascist threat, we call on all mobilized sectors and the Bolivian people as a whole to prepare to confront this onslaught.
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What is a sect? What historical processes have given rise to this organisational form? How can we overcome it? @EwanBen addresses the questions for State & Confusion.
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"It is the Australian capitalist ruling class and not the working class who are the overwhelming beneficiaries of imperialism."
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The following report was written by Edith Fischer and was presented to the Fourth General Conference of Communist Unity, January 2026.
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In this episode Mansa is joined by Comrade Perrault to report back on the 4th annual Meeting of Internationalist Forces, held in Paris on 15-17 May.
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The racist killing of #YvesSakila earlier this month at the hands of security guards in Dublin has rightly provoked outrage in Ireland and abroad. Yet unions, representing thousands of migrant workers have remained silent while the bosses play divide-and-rule. We join the many demanding: No cover up, no delays! justice for Yves!
Read the PDC statement from a comrade in Ireland 👇
#ireland #justiceforyves #justiceforyvessakila
#OtD 30 May 1937 the Memorial Day massacre occurred when Chicago police opened fire on a peaceful march of striking steel workers and their families. The police murdered 10, shot, beat and hospitalised many others. No police were prosecuted https://t.co/YCRr4sk8pb
Avant-garde Soviet painter, architect, and stage designer Vladimir Tatlin, best known for his design for a never-built Monument to the Third International (shown) and his role in Constructivism, died May 31, 1953. #OTD#USSR
#OTD 1888 Cyril V. Briggs born in Nevis. Founder of African Blood Brotherhood, Briggs was won to Communism because of Bolsheviks' anti-imperialism. ABB provided first black recruits to Communist Party in United States and fought for Party to champion black liberation.
Italian Socialist Party Deputy, Giacomo Matteotti denounced Fascist electoral fraud on May 30, 1924. His murder 11 days later precipitated a political crisis for the Fascists out of which Mussolini ultimately consolidated his personal dictatorial power. #OTD#Italy#Antifa
The following theses were drafted by Edith Fischer and adopted by a plenary session of the Central Committee of Communist Unity in May, 2026.
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Partisan and its siblings are gossip rags, says the sectarian left. But, Max J counters, what Partisan aims to do is far above gossip: it aims to do journalism.
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My position remains simple. The Road to American Revolution runs through Black liberation. The centering of this question in many ways is the decisive fight for workers power in America as it inherently becomes a fight against all the weight of reaction and oppression in America
#OTD 1871 Paris Commune crushed. “The cause of the Commune is the cause of the social revolution, the cause of the complete political and economic emancipation of the toilers. It is the cause of the proletariat of the whole world. And in this sense it is immortal.” --V.I. Lenin
‘Sacco and Vanzetti Must Not Burn on the Electric Chair’ by James P. Cannon from Labor Defender. Vol. 2 No. 6. June, 1927.
Speech by the International Labor Defense leader to a Chicago mass meeting as the appeals process nears its end.
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Schoolteacher, Irish revolutionary and feminist Margaret Skinnider (center) was born May 28, 1892. A sniper in the 1916 Easter Uprising, she was herself shot three times, making her the only woman combatant wounded in the uprising. #OTD#Ireland