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Mar 14 8 tweets 3 min read
Today, exactly 141 years since Karl Marx’s passing, we remember Engels’ 1883 graveyard speech… 🚩🕊️

“On the 14th of March, at a quarter to three in the afternoon, the greatest living thinker ceased to think. He had been left alone for scarcely two minutes, and when we...
(1/7) Image came back we found him in his armchair, peacefully gone to sleep-but forever.

An immeasurable loss has been sustained both by the militant proletariat of Europe and America, and by historical science, in the death of this man. The gap that has been left by the departure...
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Feb 27 7 tweets 3 min read
Today, we commemorate Nadezhda Krupskaya, Bolshevik revolutionary, Marxist theorist, and architect of the Soviet education system. 📚🚩

Born in 1868, St. Petersburg, Russia, Krupskaya's exposure to poverty ignited her devotion to class struggle at a young age.
(1/7) Image During her education, she became actively involved in Marxist discussion circles where she eventually crossed paths with Vladimir Lenin in 1894. In 1898, they married while exiled in Siberia for revolutionary activities.
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Feb 11 9 tweets 4 min read
Today we commemorate the life of Mark Ashton, who, unbeknownst to some, was once General Secretary of the Young Communist League of Britain 🏳️‍🌈🚩
(1/8) Image Born in Oldham, Manchester, Ashton moved to Portrush, Ireland in his youth, where he was politicised by the Troubles. At eighteen, he moved to London, and by twenty-two, he had joined the Young Communist League...
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Feb 8 9 tweets 3 min read
Today, we remember Yugoslavian Partisan and Communist, Lepa Radic, who was hanged by Nazi troops on this day in 1943, at the age of only seventeen. 🕊️
(1/8) Image Radic was fifteen when the Nazis invaded Yugoslavia in 1941. Nazi collaborators soon arrested her entire family due to their affiliation with the Yugoslav Partisans; an anti-fascist resistance force based in the mountainous regions of the country.
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Feb 2 12 tweets 3 min read
Today marks the 81st anniversary of the Soviets’ victory against the Nazis at the Battle of Stalingrad. ☭🚩

Here is a selection of colourised photos from the Battle of Stalingrad.

1.     A flag of victory is raised above Stalingrad, 1943. Image 2.     T-34 tank with the name “Motherland” on the Square of the Fallen Fighters in Stalingrad. To the left you can see the famous building of the central department store, badly damaged during fighting. Image
Jan 21 7 tweets 3 min read
Today, on the centenary of his death, we fondly remember Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the first socialist nation, leader of the Bolshevik Party, and architect of the October Revolution.
(1/7) Image Born in 1870, Lenin’s entry into politics was sparked by personal tragedy—the hanging of his brother, Alexander Ilyich, by the Tsarist regime. In 1889, Lenin began studying Karl Marx’s works and remained a dedicated communist for the remaining 35 years of his life.
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Jan 1 7 tweets 2 min read
Captain Ibrahim Traoré, President of Burkina Faso, delivered a new years message in Ouagadougou yesterday. 🇧🇫

Traoré stated, “2023 was a year during which we carried out an in-depth analysis of the situation in Burkina Faso. A year during which we made a profound...
(1/7) Image diagnosis of the ills that undermine Burkina Faso; which led to important decisions being made. These decisions were to break the first chains of slavery, imperialism, neocolonialism. Because, they say, you cannot hope to find your lost object by calling on the person...
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Mar 16, 2023 6 tweets 2 min read
Today marks 20 years since American peace activist Rachel Corrie was murdered by an Israeli bulldozer driver while attempting to defend a Palestinian doctor’s home from demolition. 🕊🇵🇸

Rachel risked her life to fight against the illegal occupation and destruction of 1/6 Palestinian land. May her death and the deaths of countless other martyrs be remembered in the fight against Israeli terror.

Rest in power comrade.

Her murder is described by British eyewitness Tom Dale:

"The bulldozer drove toward Rachel slowly, gathering earth in its 2/6
Mar 16, 2023 6 tweets 3 min read
As the world’s largest and most important socialist state, the People’s Republic of China plays a vital role in advancing the balance of progressive forces worldwide. 🇨🇳

However, the greater the role China plays, the greater the slander, myth, and outright lies it attracts.
Feb 13, 2023 4 tweets 3 min read
"This wind of change blowing through Africa, as I have said before, is no ordinary wind. It is a raging hurricane against which the old order cannot stand." - Kwame Nkrumah 'Africa Must Unite' 🌍✊️ Image ImageImageImage
Feb 11, 2023 6 tweets 2 min read
In Memory of Mark Ashton - former YCL General Secretary and Working-Class Hero🔻☭✊

Mark Ashton passed away on the 11th February, 1987, tragically succumbing to HIV/AIDS at the age of 26. His accomplishments for the advancement of LGBT+ rights in the labour movement and 1/6 Image wider society are huge.

Mark is most famous for co-founding the group Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM). LGSM was an alliance of lesbians and gay men who supported the Miners' Strike from 1984-1985, standing in solidarity with their class against the Thatcher 2/6 Image
Dec 30, 2022 11 tweets 3 min read
Today marks 100 years since the birth of the USSR.

To celebrate the anniversary of the foundation of the worker's state, here are photos of ordinary Soviet citizens by photojournalist Semyon Osipovich Friedland.

1. Moscow 2. Uzbek SSR
Dec 25, 2022 13 tweets 6 min read
As it's Christmas we thought we'd give an honourable mention to #GeorgeMichael who died on Christmas Day in 2016 ❤️🎄

In his youth George was a member of the Young Communist League of Britain @yclbritain under his original name, Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou.

While not...
(1/12) much is known of his activities & involvement in the League, his father Jack Panos is believed to have been a Greek Cypriot Communist whose influence may have guided his sons early politics.

To label George a Communist throughout his life is likely incorrect, however...
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Oct 25, 2022 10 tweets 4 min read
On this date in the Julian calendar, October 25, 1914, the Bolshevik Party, led by Vladimir Lenin, rose up in revolt against the Russian Republic's Provisional Government. Sparking the Russian Civil War that would last six years before the Bolsheviks were victorious. 🇷🇺🚩⚒️ (1/9) Image The Russian Empire's latter years were marked by severe decline and stagnation. The effects of the First World War were being felt by the general public, and living conditions were drastically declining. People had no food, no land and no hope (2/9) Image
Oct 24, 2022 17 tweets 5 min read
The South Wales Miners’ Federation was founded on this day in 1898. ⛏️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

From 1936 to 1959 its presidents were card-carrying Communist Party of Great Britain members, Arthur Horner, Alf Davies, and Will Paynter. 🚩 (1/14) Image - Arthur Horner

Horner was elected president of the South Wales Miners’ Federation in 1936, becoming the first Communist in that role, and later becoming general secretary of the NUM from 1946-1959. (2/14) Image
Oct 10, 2022 5 tweets 2 min read
Today is Party Foundation Day in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea! Marking the 77th year anniversary of the foundation of the North Korean bureau of the Communist Party of Korea. (The predecessor of the Workers' Party of Korea) 🇰🇵⚒ (1/5) Following the Japanese surrender in World War 2, the communists who were the face of Korean liberation and had lead the guerrila war against Japanese occupation established a Soviet-backed government in the North, lead by Kim Il-Sung. (2/5)
Oct 9, 2022 4 tweets 3 min read
Today, 9 October, marks the anniversary of the assassination of Argentinian revolutionary Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, which took place in Bolivia, 1967! 🇨🇺🚩 (1/4) Image Che had secretly and mysteriously left Cuba a few years earlier, renouncing his official titles and his
honorary Cuban citizenship, in order to help fight and progress other revolutions around the world.
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Mar 20, 2022 6 tweets 1 min read
In a livestream last night, Ukrainian President Zelenskyy ordered the banning of the nation's 11 remaining left-wing opposition parties:

"Opposition Platform - For Life, Sharij’s Party, Nashi, Opposition Bloc, Left Opposition, Union of Left Forces, Derzhava, (1/6) "Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine, Socialist Party of Ukraine, the Socialists, and Volodymyr Saldo’s Bloc"

Accusing the now-banned parties as being "pro-Russian", it appears that Zelenskyy has distorted the truth, with some of those parties being anti-war. (2/6)
Mar 18, 2022 6 tweets 3 min read
Today marks the 151st anniversary of the founding of the Paris Commune 🇫🇷🚩

On the morning of the 18th of March, the citizens of Paris awoke to find French Government troops attempting to seize the cannons they had purchased to defend the city during the Franco-Prussia- (1/6) Image n War. In response, the Parisians rebelled, forcing government troops and officials to flee to Versailles. In the following days Paris elected a new municipal council, formed of working class radicals and revolutionaries, founding what became known as the Paris Commune.

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Feb 8, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
On this day in 1943, 17-year-old Lepa Radić was sentenced to death by hanging. 1/4 After shooting at the Nazi troops who had invaded Yugoslavia, Radić was captured and endured torture for several days in an unsuccessful attempt to make her reveal the names of the Communist Party leaders. 2/4
Feb 6, 2022 6 tweets 3 min read
Today marks the 85th anniversary of the Battle of Jarama, one of the key engagements of the Spanish Civil War ❤️💛💜 1/6 Image Having failed to take Madrid during December of 1936, the Spanish fascists reorganised their forces for an assault on Jarama Valley, with the objective of cutting off the capital from the rest of Spain. 2/6 ImageImage