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Baltimore! We are excited to announce we are collabing with
@redemmas
on August 13th to discuss Half the World: A Century of Communist Women’s Writing. Join our co-directors to talk about 100 years of Communist women’s history and what it can teach us today. See you there!
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Y’all snitched on Fred Hampton to the feds.
👀 Anyone 👀 committing 👀 human rights 👀abuses, 👀 we’re 👀 watching 👀 you. 👀
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We DO NOT NEED the Republican Party.
We *also* DO NOT NEED the Democratic Party.
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Our presentation on dismantling zionist pinkwashing turned into a shareable introductory thread with references: 🧵
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May 19 is a revolutionary ass day of birth.
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May 19 is a revolutionary birth date.
Ho Chi Minh (b. May 19, 1890)
Lorraine Hansberry (b. May 19, 1930)
Malcolm X (b. May 19, 1925)
Yuri Kochiyama (b. May 19, 1921)
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We really need to stop idolizing individual personalities and emphasize building social forces and movements.
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Never forget that Tupac Shakur was a communist. His legacy lives on.
Happy birthday 🎉 comrade.
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Charlene Mitchell, the first Black presidential candidate that ran under the
@communistsusa
ticket in 1968 on the electoral struggle while running as an open Communist (1/2)
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The only way to permanently end inflation is to end capitalism.
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McCarthyism never ended.
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🚨BREAKING!!!🚨
Queer Palestinians led by No Pride in Genocide and allies block the Pride parade and are met with police for demanding
@CapitalPrideDC
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@HRC
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@glaad
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“Most of the countries that were colonial powers were capitalist countries and the last bulwark of capitalism today is America and it’s impossible for a white person today to believe in capitalism and not believe in racism. You can’t have capitalism without racism.
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For the millionth time: you cannot reform this.
BREAKING: The police officer who shot
#JacobBlake
will not be charged, the Kenosha County district attorney announced.
Rusten Sheskey shot Blake 7 times in front of his kids, claiming he reached for a knife, though a witness disagrees. Blake is now paralyzed from the waist down.
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Getting Harriet Tubman on a $20 bill before we get student debt cancellation, medicare 4 all, community control over police, and other measures to help the working class...is just tokenism.
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Paul Robeson testifying before the HUAC on June 12, 1956.
"In the first place, wherever I've been in the world, the first to die in the struggle against fascism were the communists. I laid many wreaths upon the graves of communists. That is not criminal."
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Stop building individual brands and build radical organizations.
Collective struggle > individualism
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Police serve white supremacy and capitalism.
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Whatever happens tonight + these next few days, y’all should really consider joining your local communist party, your local anti-imperialist group, your local anti-fascist group, or organize with your friends to make your neighborhood and your city a better place.
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Long live Chairman Fred Hampton.
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NASA’s first director was a former member of the German Nazi Party.
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Y’all. Please don’t go to sleep like you did under Obama. We must continue struggling against the forces that continue to exploit and oppress us.
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Books y’all should be reading, pt. 2
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Dr. Angela Y. Davis in 2014 on Audre Lorde's essay, "Age, Race, Class, and Sex," which you can find in her Sister Outsider collection of essays and speeches:
(1/3)
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This is the Paul Robeson mural on U St. not Duke Ellington. This is not only an expression of anti-Blackness but anti-Communism because of Robeson’s radical politics. This is fascism at play.
A community member just caught this man defacing paintings of historical Black figures on U Street, this one in particular being Duke Ellington. We understand there’s a culture of tagging, but is nothing sacred anymore?
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The US blockade on Cuba is illegal and genocidal.
Pass it on.
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Lol you are literally allowing white supremacists terrorize DC residents. Liberal representation politics are a dead end.
When Black women are successful, our country is successful and this is why representation matters.
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We are excited to share that our study guide for our Summer School course on Black women’s radicalism is now public! You can find the PDF here!
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Paul Robeson died on this day in 1976. His legacy is a major part of our work here at the Claudia Jones School.
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The U.S. and NATO are the biggest threats to world peace.
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Books y’all should be reading pt. 1:
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What is one book that you would recommend for those new to socialism and communism?
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You all should be more upset that you do not live in a democracy.
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Free Mumia and ALL political prisoners.
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There needs to be a major strike in this country.
A strike that shuts this whole settler state down.
A. General. Strike.
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.
@NPR
is straight up platforming Ukrainian fascist “blood & soil” flags in their propaganda posts on Instagram. How many people will re-share these not knowing its relationship to reaction?
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We don’t know who needs to hear this but, capitalism has killed more people than Communism has.
The Victims of Communism memorial foundation is Nazi propaganda.
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We applaud
@CoriBush
for the work she did. But she alone did not get the eviction moratorium extended. Housing organizers and tenants all over this country have been fighting since the pandemic started and we need to give them credit as well.
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🚨🚨BREAKING🚨🚨
Palestinian solidarity activists disrupt
@MayorBowser
’s New Years 5K to demand she and
@councilofdc
pass an immediate ceasefire resolution now! No peace for those complicit in Israel’s crimes!
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Defining Pinkwashing:
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“You couldn’t scare me with the word Communism. I was scared of fascism, because that’s what I experienced in Mississippi.”
- Beah Richards on developing a relationship with Louise Thompson and William L Patterson
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Happy African Liberation Day!
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Bruh, did you just say *every presidential ticket* in US history?? Your Stamped from the Beginning book alone challenges this.
The Democrats now have a presidential ticket that reflects the American people better than the GOP ticket and every presidential ticket in US history. It’s not everything. It’s not the crushing of racism + sexism. It’s not the freeing of Black womanhood. But it can be the start.
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A lot of you really do not understand how violent and genocidal sanctions are.
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Fascism is a deformity of capitalism. It heightens the imperialist tendency towards domination which is inherent in capitalism, and it safeguards the principle of private property. At the same time, fascism immeasurably strengthens the institutional racism already bred by
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NATO was founded on the false premise of anti-Communism and helped rehabilitate fascists. It must be abolished to end help end the threat of war.
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Angela Davis on Nina Simone:
“In 1971 I was deeply moved when I was informed that Nina Simone wanted to visit me in jail. When she did not appear at the appointed time, I worried that the visit had been called off.
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🚨🚨BREAKING🚨🚨
Palestine solidarity activists SHUT DOWN war profiteers Lockheed Martin to say NO MORE TAX DOLLARS FOR GENOCIDE! Lockheed Martin receives $4.7 billion in tax dollars PER YEAR to make the F-16s and F-35s that bomb Palestinians. The people say NO MORE!
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So much blood on both Democrat and Republican hands. Over 4,000 Palestinian children murdered, and they decide to censure the only Palestinian-American in Congress. A disgrace.
BREAKING: The House votes 234-188 to censure Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib for “promoting false narratives” about the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel and for her use of the phrase "from the river to the sea," which is considered by some as a call for ending Israel's existence.
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There are no good cops.
Policing cannot be reformed.
Police institute violence, not public safety.
The police exist to protect white supremacists and private property.
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Reminder:
Socialism is the *primary* stage of communism.
If you do not support communism, then you are not a socialist. You are a social democrat.
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The Realities of Pinkwashing:
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The Chinese and Russian governments are not our enemies.
Our enemies are the ruling class of the United States!
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American folk singer and Communist Pete Seeger on the House of Un-American Activities Committee:
"This group of people are actually...in my opinion, a group of American fascists. Their idea of America is an America that agrees with them." (1/2)
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Books y’all should be reading, pt. 3
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The "Roaring 20s" was only "roaring" for the ruling class but violent against workers and oppressed people, which led to the collapse of the economy and rise of fascism in the 30s.
Despite a pandemic, a job apocalypse, and civil unrest, some are predicting that the U.S. and perhaps the rest of the world are on the cusp of one of the biggest outbreaks of economic sizzle in memory.
And in the short term, they may be right.
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Only four free COVID tests after almost two full years of the pandemic.
No more stimulus checks.
No universal healthcare.
No workplace protections.
No relief for working people.
It cannot be more obvious that the US government is in a formal alliance with Big Business.
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Long live the people of Bolivia and their struggle for democracy!
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The biggest threat to fascism is a strong labor movement and strong Communist Party. Join your local union and local Communist Party today. The time is now.
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The ruling class does not give a damn about you.
They will exploit you.
They will oppress you.
They will divide up your movement to weaken it.
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"Why did you not stay in Russia?"
"Because my father was a slave, and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have a part of it just like you. And no fascist-minded people will drive me from it. Is that clear?"
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Someone needs to write an article about the “financial literacy industrial complex”.
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Everyday Pinkwashing Rhetoric:
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Lift all economic sanctions, end your information warfares and blockades and then we will see how many people are “fleeing Communism” as opposed to US imperialism in these regions.
Communism is at the root of migration, according to the White House.
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The Sexual Politics of Israel:
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Books y’all should be reading, pt. 4
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“Wherever you find an anti-Communism, you will find a racist. And wherever you find a racist, you will find an anti-Communist.
That is why, together with South Africa, you will find US imperialism supporting Israeli aggression. What is their weapon?
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Pinkwashing Examples:
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The US Left needs to study Paul Robeson’s anti-imperialist politics more.
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A picture of Claudia Jones to brighten up your day. 💕
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If you’re just now learning about abolitionist ideas, you should be learning about communist ideas as well.
The fight to abolish prisons and the police is also a fight against racial capitalism.
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A lot of y’all who hate Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua also hate Black people.
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📸 Angela Davis at campaign petitioning event to put the Communist Party, USA on the ballot in California.
Credit: Schlesinger Library
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We don’t want unity with fascists.
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Malcolm X holding up a newspaper copy of the West Indian Gazette in 1964 after Claudia Jones’s death on December 24.
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Combatting Pinkwashing:
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It is quite interesting that every Tupac Shakur documentary has never mentioned his participation as a Communist youth in Baltimore, MD.
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Abolish the whole carceral system (prisons, police and courts).
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Capitalism is unsustainable and inhumane.
A better world is possible.
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Lets celebrate May Day with the Jamaican Reggae version of The Internationale! 🇯🇲
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What Does Pinkwashing Accomplish?:
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Anti-Communism is ruling class ideology. Don’t fall for it.
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Abolish the death penalty.
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Stop saying let’s end “endless” war.
Imperialists will just find another country to bomb and to steal resources from.
We need to end imperialism.
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What is AFRICOM?
Monday, Feb. 22 at 8pm EST
Feat.
@ajamubaraka
of
@Blacks4Peace
and Maurice Carney of
@congofriends
Moderated by:
@theAfroLegalise
and
@hlowend
of
@communistsusa
Peace & Solidarity Commission.
RSVP:
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Socialism is the lowest stage of communism.
As many of those successful revolutionaries have described: socialism is a stage of historical development. It is a process that will eventually lead to communism (a stateless, moneyless, classless society).
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I don’t think Du Bois ever self-described himself as a “democratic socialist.” He definitely considered himself a socialist and eventually a Communist, joining the CPUSA a few years before his death.
Rep. Jim Clyburn railing against "socialism" while often having a bust of one of America's most prominent democratic socialists -- W.E.B. Du Bois -- behind him on TV is a mood.
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Anti-Communism 🤝 Anti-Blackness
📸: KKK leaflet warning Black folks of violence if they join Communist Party meetings in Alabama in the 1930s
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Stop heroizing cops.
Stop calling for unity with the extreme right.
Organize your neighbors.
Engage in struggle.
Fight for a better world.
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“The colonization of the Southern economy by capitalists from the North gave lynching its most vigorous impulse. If Black people, by means of terror and violence, could remain the most brutally exploited group within the swelling ranks of the working class, the capitalists could
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And if you find a person without racism and you happen to get that person into conversation and they have a philosophy that makes you sure they don’t have racism in their outlook, usually they’re socialists or their political philosophy is socialism.”
- Malcolm X
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TENS OF THOUSANDS marching in Washington DC calling for a free Palestine!
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NFL’s version of “diversity and inclusion” = copaganda and military jets with Black faces.
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“The white cop in the ghetto is as ignorant as he is frightened, and his entire concept of police work is to cow the natives. He is not compelled to answer to these natives for anything he does; whatever he does, he knows that he will be protected by his brothers, who will
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In honor of us hosting Professor Gerald Horne next week, here are a few clips of him speaking at Harvard University in 1988 on the history and consequences of anti-Communism:
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