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@MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Today in Labor History August 31, 1919: John Reed and others formed the Communist Labor Party of America in Chicago. The party evolved into the American Communist Party. Reed was a journalist and communist activist who extensively covered World War I. He was most famous for his coverage of the Russian Revolution and his book, “Ten Days That Shook the World.” He died in Moscow in 1920 from typhus. They gave him a hero’s welcome and buried him in Kremlin Wall Necropolis. Only two other Americans were given this honor: Big Bill Haywood, a founding member of the IWW, and C.E. Ruthenberg, founder of the Communist Party USA.

John Dos Passos included a short biography of him in his “U.S.A.” trilogy. Uptain Sinclair called him the Revolution’s Playboy, elements of which can be seen in Warren Beaty’s portrayal of Reed in the film, “Reds.” Sergei Eisenstein made a film version of “Ten Days That Shook the World” in 1927.

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Cover of the 1919 Boni & Liveright first edition of “Ten Days That Shook the World.” Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1451601
Cover of the 1919 Boni & Liveright first edition of “Ten Days That Shook the World.” Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1451601
Cover of the 1919 Boni & Liveright first edition of “Ten Days That Shook the World.” Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1451601
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@MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Today in Labor History August 31, 1919: John Reed and others formed the Communist Labor Party of America in Chicago. The party evolved into the American Communist Party. Reed was a journalist and communist activist who extensively covered World War I. He was most famous for his coverage of the Russian Revolution and his book, “Ten Days That Shook the World.” He died in Moscow in 1920 from typhus. They gave him a hero’s welcome and buried him in Kremlin Wall Necropolis. Only two other Americans were given this honor: Big Bill Haywood, a founding member of the IWW, and C.E. Ruthenberg, founder of the Communist Party USA.

John Dos Passos included a short biography of him in his “U.S.A.” trilogy. Uptain Sinclair called him the Revolution’s Playboy, elements of which can be seen in Warren Beaty’s portrayal of Reed in the film, “Reds.” Sergei Eisenstein made a film version of “Ten Days That Shook the World” in 1927.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #johnreed #communism #russia #ussr #soviet #kremlin #IWW #journalism #writer #author #books @bookstadon

Cover of the 1919 Boni & Liveright first edition of “Ten Days That Shook the World.” Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1451601
Cover of the 1919 Boni & Liveright first edition of “Ten Days That Shook the World.” Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1451601
Cover of the 1919 Boni & Liveright first edition of “Ten Days That Shook the World.” Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1451601
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@MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Today in Labor History August 28, 1921: The Soviet Red Army dissolved the stateless Anarchist Free Territory, after driving the Black Army out of Ukraine. The anarchist rebel leader, Nester Makhno, barely escaped, and with serious injuries. The Free Territory within Ukraine, also known as Makhnovia (after Nestor Makhno), lasted from 1918 to 1921. It was a stateless, anarchist society that was defended by Makhno’s Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army (AKA the Black Army). Roughly 7 million people lived in the area. The peasants who lived there refused to pay rent to the landowners and seized the estates and livestock of the church, state and private landowners, setting up local committees to manage them and share them among the various villages and communes of the Free State.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #ukraine #anarchism#AnCom#AnarchoCommunism #NestorMakhno #soviet

Mahkno and his lieutenants, 1919. By Unknown author - http://varjag-2007.livejournal.com/2110190.html, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11913524
Mahkno and his lieutenants, 1919. By Unknown author - http://varjag-2007.livejournal.com/2110190.html, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11913524
Mahkno and his lieutenants, 1919. By Unknown author - http://varjag-2007.livejournal.com/2110190.html, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11913524
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@MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Today in Labor History August 28, 1921: The Soviet Red Army dissolved the stateless Anarchist Free Territory, after driving the Black Army out of Ukraine. The anarchist rebel leader, Nester Makhno, barely escaped, and with serious injuries. The Free Territory within Ukraine, also known as Makhnovia (after Nestor Makhno), lasted from 1918 to 1921. It was a stateless, anarchist society that was defended by Makhno’s Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army (AKA the Black Army). Roughly 7 million people lived in the area. The peasants who lived there refused to pay rent to the landowners and seized the estates and livestock of the church, state and private landowners, setting up local committees to manage them and share them among the various villages and communes of the Free State.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #ukraine #anarchism#AnCom#AnarchoCommunism #NestorMakhno #soviet

Mahkno and his lieutenants, 1919. By Unknown author - http://varjag-2007.livejournal.com/2110190.html, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11913524
Mahkno and his lieutenants, 1919. By Unknown author - http://varjag-2007.livejournal.com/2110190.html, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11913524
Mahkno and his lieutenants, 1919. By Unknown author - http://varjag-2007.livejournal.com/2110190.html, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11913524
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@kardinal691@mastodon.online  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

From https://t.me/pravdaGerashchenko_en

The promotion of #communist ideology has been criminalized in #Czechia - President #Pavel signed the amendment to #Czech criminal code.

Now, anyone in #Czechia who "establishes, supports or promotes #Nazi, #communist, or other movements which demonstrably aim to suppress human rights and freedoms or incite racial, ethnic, national, religious or class-based hatred," can be sentenced to up to five years in prison.

📷: #Soviet tanks in #Prague, 1968

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From https://t.me/pravdaGerashchenko_en

The promotion of #communist ideology has been criminalized in #Czechia - President #Pavel signed the amendment to #Czech criminal code.

Now, anyone in #Czechia who "establishes, supports or promotes #Nazi, #communist, or other movements which demonstrably aim to suppress human rights and freedoms or incite racial, ethnic, national, religious or class-based hatred," can be sentenced to up to five years in prison.

📷: #Soviet tanks in #Prague, 1968

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