At one point, Mr. Kaminsky was asked to produce 900 birth and baptismal certificates and ration cards for 300 Jewish children in institutional homes who were about to be rounded up. The aim was to deceive the Germans until the children could be smuggled out to rural families or convents, or to Switzerland and Spain. He was given three days to finish the assignment.
He toiled for two straight days, forcing himself to stay awake by telling himself: “In one hour I can make 30 blank documents. If I sleep for an hour 30 people will die.”
Mr. Kaminsky died on Monday at his home in Paris, his daughter Sarah Kaminsky said. He was 97.
On Feb. 1, 1998, we lost comrade Sam Marcy, the founder and chairperson of Workers World Party. I’m very proud to be part of Struggle-La Lucha newspaper and Socialist Unity Party, a living expression of Sam Marcy’s revolutionary legacy today.
One of the great Marxist thinkers and fighters of the second half of the 20th century, he did what many thought (and still think) impossible – built a revolutionary cadre organization in the heart of the imperialist empire, directed it toward lifting up the struggles of the most oppressed workers, and helped it maintain a revolutionary communist perspective through some of the greatest setbacks for the working class in the U.S. and around the world.
A gentle, kind man who was implacable with his class enemies and fools who bent to them.
The great continuer of Lenin and Trotsky who kept the red thread of history unbroken from the Russian Revolution to today, when most of the world communist movement succumbed to opportunism of one brand or another, or had to start over practically from scratch. Who welcomed and embraced the rise of other great revolutions and revolutionaries whom dogmatists refused to acknowledge.
We continue his struggle, determined to fight for the victory of the workers and oppressed, for the triumph of socialism and communism.
“The history of human growth and development is at the same time the history of the terrible struggle of every new idea heralding the approach of a brighter dawn. In its tenacious hold on tradition, the Old has never hesitated to make use of the foulest and cruelest means to stay the advent of the New, in whatever form or period the latter may have asserted itself.”
— Emma Goldman, “Anarchism, What it Really Stands For”, Anarchism and Other Essays (via philosophybits)
Okay a new try Dumblr! This one’s been stuck in the Community Label Reviews for a ages now for reasons only Tumblr knows. Let’s see how long it takes before they censor it this time.
Anonymous asked:
did i read that right? homeschooling as a cover for fucking child torture?????? those people are batshit insane
where can i find more info about this? (i have never heard about it, i'm not from the us)
