fuckyeahmarxismleninism:

Happy Birthday, Dr. King - January 15, 1929

“The [Vietnamese] people read our leaflets and received the regular promises of peace and democracy and land reform. Now they languish under our bombs and consider us, not their fellow Vietnamese, the real enemy. They move sadly and apathetically as we herd them off the land of their fathers into concentration camps where minimal social needs are rarely met. They know they must move on or be destroyed by our bombs….

At this point I should make it clear that while I have tried in these last few minutes to give a voice to the voiceless in Vietnam and to understand the arguments of those who are called “enemy,” I am as deeply concerned about our own troops there as anything else. For it occurs to me that what we are submitting them to in Vietnam is not simply the brutalizing process that goes on in any war where armies face each other and seek to destroy. We are adding cynicism to the process of death, for they must know after a short period there that none of the things we claim to be fighting for are really involved. Before long they must know that their government has sent them into a struggle among Vietnamese, and the more sophisticated surely realize that we are on the side of the wealthy, and the secure, while we create a hell for the poor. Somehow this madness must cease. We must stop now.”

—From the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s historic 1967 speech expressing his opposition to the Vietnam War. 

Via Anti-Imperialist League

workingamerica:

#ThrowbackThursday. “Right to work” isn’t new, but it’s still dangerous.

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fuckyeahmarxismleninism:

cultureofresistance:

On October 10, 1964, U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy signs his approval to this memo (bottom left). It sets in motion the bugging of King’s office and home telephone lines. October 7, 1963 In Reply, Please Refer to File No. 100-106670 100-3-116 MEMORANDUM FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL RE: MARTIN LUTHER King Jr. SECURITY MATTER - COMMUNIST COMMUNIST INFLUENCE IN RACIAL MATERS [paragraph redacted] It is further requested that authority be granted to place a technical surveillance on the SCLC office at the current New York address or to any other address to which it may be moved. Respectfully, John Edgar Hoover Director (via American RadioWorks - King’s Last March)

Reminder that RFK and his brother were not “progressive icons” but a couple of racist ruling class fucks.