#TBT American labor activist Eugene Debs would have been 159 years old this week. (Graphic via LEE CAMP) http://ift.tt/1uDIwf2
Russia: Moscow a sea of Communist red as it remembers Bolshevik Revolution
This is from the “official” march headed by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF).
If you want to hear all the speeches, Ruptly has a 3-hour version here
November 7, 1917: The Bolshevik Revolution in Russia.
The October Revolution in paintings.
Via Borotba
November 7, 1879: Comrade Leon Trotsky born in Kirovohrad, Ukraine — founder of the Soviet Red Army and co-leader of the Great October Socialist Revolution (which just happened to fall on his 38th birthday).
‘The evil system of colonialism and imperialism and arose with the enslavement of Negroes and the trade in Negroes, and it will surely come to its end with the complete emancipation of the Black people.’
- Mao Zedong
It must be wonderful living in Denmark! You have everything we working class people in the US don't have. Time and time again the US is compared to Denmark, and the US is always behind! The only thing the US has more is an over bloated military machine! Our wages are worse, our education is worse and our health care is worse! To us, Denmark is a socialist state and the oligarchs that rule us attack countries like Denmark constantly to fool us into thinking we are the best.
Anonymousthisiswhyredismyfavoritecolor-d:
Everyone, listen to me for a few minutes. Denmark isn’t a Socialist state. Denmark isn’t even Social Democratic. It’s correct that Denmark got more welfare and social security than for example US, and that the general population in Denmark is better of than the general population in many other countries - but please don’t kid yourself into thinking that Denmark and/or other Scandinavian countries are Socialist. Only few people here would call themselves Socialists, neither government nor opposition have Socialist visions, and we’re also going through financials crisis’s with cut downs on welfare. lower taxes, growing inequality, etc. It’s true that Denmark got higher levels of social security and equality than many other countries do - and I am grateful to live in a country where I can go to hospitals for free and have access to free education, etc - but Denmark is fundamentally Capitalist and the vast majority have no intentions of changing that. I think this will get obvious during the next years where Denmark will go through even more cut downs and the slow demolition of our welfare system - it’s actually already happening.
