that’s a badass right there.
On this day, 21 July 1936, this iconic photograph of 17-year-old Marina Ginestà was taken in revolutionary Barcelona by Juan Guzmán atop the Hotel Colón. Marina survived the war and lived until 2014. WCH will be talking about the Spanish civil war on the Revolutionary Left Podcast, coming soon. You can check out the WCH podcast here: https://ift.tt/2FMoszr https://ift.tt/2uTb7A9
CNT/FAI and P.O.U.M. posters of the Spanish Civil War
July 10th, 1932: Antifaschistische Aktion, better known as Antifa, holds its first rally in Berlin.
July 10th, 2018: The GOP introduces the Unmasking Antifa Act of 2018 in the House, which aims to make antifascist activism punishable by fifteen years in prison.
If you’re not worried, you should be.
when anticommunists tell u that “you havent paid attention to history” or “you need to study history” what theyre really saying is “why wont you take at face value the biased and often reductionist history you were taught by capitalists about why socialism is evil”. when they talk about “studying history” theyre not interested in talking about every coup the cia backed, every terrorist group the us funded in order to “fight communists”, every war that imperialist powers started over profit, or every innocent person killed in those wars. they dont want to talk about the history of violent racism and police brutality, or about every person the us government has tortured, or the history of suppression of leftists and the working class, or how companies fund right wing death squads, they just want to say “the ussr is why communism is bad”
ok since this post made a lot of people who cant stand to see capitalism critiqued in any form mad im going to provide sources for all the shit im talking about.
- list of us involvement in regime changes and heres a notable one when the cia helped overthrow the democratically elected socialist president of chile and replaced him with a fascist dictator who was responsible for thousands of deaths
- oh here, 35 countries where the us supported fascists drug lords and terrorists
- that time when reagan supported and funded islamic extremists because they were “fighting communists”, now go forward a decade or so and the us thinks islamic extremism is a huge threat
- a timeline of atrocities committed by the cia- did you know the cia took in a bunch of nazis spies right after ww2 so they could help the us once again fight communists?
- when reagan illegally sold weapons to iran and used the money to fund a right wing militia in nicaragua called the contras, who were fighting the left wing socialist sandinistas. oh heres all the human rights violations the contras committed while illegally getting money from the us, home of the free and land of the brave am i right
- torture under the bush administration and by the cia
- us war crimes and the casualties of the iraq war
- btw the us has most likely been lying about the amount of civilian deaths caused by drone strikes and the actual number is way higher than theyre officially saying and this is just from the obama administration
- that time coca cola used right wing death squads to murder and terrorize workers and stop them from unionzing
- nestle using slave labour
- how cointelpro targeted civil rights movements, black power movements, and radical leftists and murdered leaders of the movements
- when the us outlawed the communist party and being involved in communist actions
- and if you didnt know the us uses prison labour where prisoners get payed sometimes only a few dollars a week all for the profit of the prisons
- list of people killed by police by year
if you want to tell leftists they need to study history but you dont want to look at any of the crimes of capital, or the crimes committed in upholding capitalism then you dont give a shit about studying history. if you can recognize that gulags were fucked up and horrible, as you should, you cant turn a blind eye on the american prison system where people are being forced to work for almost no pay. so the question is do you actually care about studying history or do you just want to deflect off every critique of capitalism
Always bash the fash.
Anarchist Propaganda. Spanish Civil War.
Against military bullying, the invincible force of the proletariat
People handing out pavements to build barricades and throw on police lines during may 68 riots in Paris.
Happy International Workers Day, comrades!
You guys, as a US labor historian, let me tell you: It is actually very significant that US union membership actually increased in 2017. Like it probably won’t get huge play on the major media outlets, but that is a big fucking deal. That hasn’t happened to any significant degree since the 1970s. Unions have pretty much only declined since 1976. But unions added over 200,000 members last year, most of whom were under 35. That is a massive deal. That is building people power. That is a huge reason to be optimistic.
Keep it going. Join a fucking union y’all. iww.org
“The first observance of #InternationalWomansDay2018 was held on February 28, 1909 in New York, and organized by the Socialist Party of America at the suggestion of Theresa Malkiel, a Russian American labor activist, suffragist, socialist and educator.”
the original antifas
⭐Comandante Che Guevara ⭐
Mexican World War II propaganda poster.