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7 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Today is the anniversary of the Russian Revolution of 1917, when the working class of Russia, organized through soviets & led by the Bolsheviks, made history by taking power.

Here full-color images of the days that made the ruling classes tremble and inspired millions worldwide.

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16 Oct
On this day in 1968, Olympic athletes, John Carlos and Tommie Smith made the Black Power salute at the medal ceremony in Mexico.
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The athletes were protesting the ongoing racial injustice against Black people in the U.S. Image
They wore a black glove to represent Black power, they wore socks instead of shoes to represent poverty and they wore a black scarf around the neck to symbolize the lynching of Black people.⁠ ImageImage
The images were seen worldwide and became symbolic for the Black struggle for emancipation in the US that was heating up in the 60's. In their own country they were criticized, attacked and they received death threats.⁠
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15 Oct
On this day in 1987, Burkinabe socialist president Thomas Sankara was assassinated at the age of 37. He was killed in a military coup, suspected to have had support from the US and France. Sankara became the President of Burkina Faso at the age of 33, he only lasted 4 years.
Sankara gained the love of his people because of his humble lifestyle, socialist programmes & economic prosperity, but also his confrontation with the national elite, as he stripped power away from them and for challenging Western imperialism and neo-colonialism in the continent.
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• Sold off the government fleet of Mercedes cars & made the cheapest car in Burkina Faso the official service car.
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12 Oct
Depictions of historical victories over colonizers. ImageImageImageImage
1: Native Hawaiians killed British colonizer Captain James Cook.⁠
2: Hanging of French colonial soldier during the Haitian Revolution.⁠
3: Ambon revolt of 1817 led by Kapitan Pattimura against the Dutch colonizers.⁠
4: Philippine warriors kill Portuguese colonizer Magellan.
5: The Zulus killing the British Lieutenants Melvill and Coghill at the Battle of Isandlwana in 1879.⁠ Image
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11 Oct
With 30+ cases, the White House had more new confirmed COVID-19 cases last week than Vietnam as a whole with only 5.

With 1,100+ cases total, Vietnam with over 96 million people, managed to contain the pandemic much better than most larger & wealthier countries like the U.S.
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• Early on the government made firm decisions to prioritise & preserve the health of its people even if it would come at the cost of the economy.⁠
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10 Oct
As Indonesian students and workers are rising up, here's a short history of the last mass uprising that took place in the fourth most populous country in the world: the one that toppled the US-backed right-wing dictator Suharto in 1998. ImageImage
In 1965, General Suharto, backed by the CIA, came to power & oversaw the political genocide of up to 2 million Indonesian communists, trade unionists & other leftists, the jailing of a milllion more & destroying the largest communist movement outside of the Soviet Union & China. Image
Fearing a communist revolution, the US, UK and Australia supported Suharto in pushing aside the leftist nationalist Sukarno and establishing a 33-year repressive military dictatorship on the dead bodies of executed communists. Image
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