This is so amazing.
I’ve been trying to feed and befriend the corvids in my neighborhood for almost a year, and it isn’t working for some reason. I suspect and blame the squirrels.
October 3-4, 1993: Moscow uprising against U.S./Yeltsin counter-revolution
October 3-4 marks the anniversary of the heroic uprising against Boris Yeltsin’s imperialist-backed attack on the Supreme Soviet in Moscow. The uprising’s defeat represented the final overturn of socialist relations and the restoration of capitalism in the USSR.
Several years of counter-revolutionary developments within and without had seriously demoralized the Soviet working class. Generations of non-combative, revisionist leadership left the Soviet people unprepared to fight back to defend socialism.
Yet for several weeks in September 1993, as the crisis deepened, demonstrations had been growing in defense of the Supreme Soviet and for the restoration of the USSR in accord with the referendum of May 17, 1991, when 70 percent of Soviet voters supported the continuation of the union, which was later illegally dissolved by Yeltsin & co. in December 1991.
On the night of October 3-4, 1993, thousands of communist militants, workers and youths battled Yeltsin’s fascist OMON troops and other counter-revolutionary elements in the streets surrounding the “Russian White House” (seat of the Supreme Soviet). Hundreds of defenders were mowed down by automatic gunfire and the building was shelled by Yeltsin’s tanks in what has come to be known in Russia as “Black October.”
In scenes reminiscent of the 1973 fascist coup in Chile, an unknown number of defenders were later taken as prisoners to a Moscow stadium and shot. Afterward the stadium walls were riddled with bullet holes. Estimates of the dead and disappeared are in the thousands, though Yeltsin claimed only 151 people died.
In the aftermath, leaders of the resistance, including communist militant Victor Anpilov, elected Supreme Soviet deputies, and other Yeltsin opponents were imprisoned. Revolutionary organizations and newspapers were banned by “democrat” Yeltsin, with hardy approval from U.S. President Bill Clinton.
We will never forget the heroic martyrs of the October uprising. Presente!
Video: Voices from Russia in Defense of Socialism
https://youtu.be/OsjWSgoT8KI
“A first-hand account of Yeltsin’s 1993 October massacre”
http://fuckyeahmarxismleninism.tumblr.com/post/32811691898/a-first-hand-account-of-yeltsins-1993-october
“What really happened in Moscow, October 1993” by Bill Dores
http://fuckyeahmarxismleninism.tumblr.com/post/32804137303/what-really-happened-in-moscow-october-1993
“Victor Anpilov Speaks: The Red Flag Will Fly Again,” based on interviews conducted by Bill Dores, 1996
View or download the pamphlet in PDF format here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6_po_mv5TuaazgzODgzQm5UZjg/view?usp=sharing
On this day, 3 October 1993, Katerina Gogou (Κατερίνα Γώγου), Greek anarchist poet, author and actor died by suicide aged just 53. Under the military dictatorship, Gogou could only make a living as an actor portraying sexist stereotypes of women, like “housewife” or “love interest” in comedies which reinforced the ideology of the dictatorship. So Gogou expressed her feminist and revolutionary ideas in her poetry. For example, this was one poem discovered after her death: “Don’t you stop me. I am dreaming./We lived centuries of injustice bent over./Centuries of loneliness./Now don’t. Don’t you stop me./Now and here, for ever and everywhere./I am dreaming freedom.” After the fall of the dictatorship, she was a key figure in the early anarchist scene in Exarcheia, Athens, and was a vigourous proponent of trans and gay rights.
You can learn more about her life and works here: https://libcom.org/history/katerina-gogou-athens-anarchist-poetess-1940-1993 https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.1819457841572691/1822084954643313/?type=3
800 Hellbenders With Large Mouths and Strong Jaws Freed into Missouri Waters, Zoo Says
More than 800 giant salamanders with mouths so big and jaws so strong that they can swallow fish whole have been released into Missouri rivers.
The endangered Ozark and eastern hellbenders were raised from eggs at the Saint Louis Zoo before they were freed this summer as part of the zoo’s hellbender conservation program, according to the zoo’s Wednesday blog post.
The selected hellbenders were “thoughtfully chosen” by experts who evaluated their age, health, sex and native river, the zoo said, with a goal of maximizing how many of the hellbenders survive and reproduce…
Read more: https://www.kansascity.com/news/state/missouri/article254261968.html
