May 5 is Soviet Press Day, marking the first issue of Pravda in 1912.
Congratulations to all red journalists around the world who endeavor to share revolutionary truth with the working class.
Military ration token
Slightly concave-convex. Inscription on concave face giving date, year 23 Amenemhat III and the number 70. “Ded” sign in black ink; on reverse “Nefer” sign.
Middle Kingdom, 12th Dynasty, reign of Amenemhat III ca. 1860-1814 BC.
Wood (Cilician fir, Abies cilicica). From Uronarti Island, Halfa Province, Sudan. Excavated by the Harvard University-Museum of Fine Arts Expedition, 1924. Now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 24.732
On this day, 5 May 1970, hundreds of thousands of university students in the US walked out of class and took to the streets in a nationwide student strike against the Vietnam war and in protest at the killing of four students at Kent State by National Guard troops the previous day.
Learn more about the movement against the war in our podcast episodes 43-46. Available wherever you get your podcasts or on our website: https://workingclasshistory.com/2020/09/23/e43-46-the-movement-against-the-vietnam-war-in-the-us/
Pictured: University of Washington students facing down riot police to block the I-5 interstate highway. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1709858632532613/?type=3
All forms of exploitation resemble one another. They all seek the source of their necessity in some edict of a Biblical nature. All forms of exploitation are identical because all of them are applied against the same “object”: man.
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| — | Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks (via philosophybits) |
