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la reprise du travail aux usines wonder (1968)
this 10-minute documentary captures the end of france’s may 1968 wonder factory strike. though the union and management agreed, a young female worker refuses to return, crying out against their exploitation.
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“no, i won’t go back. no, i won’t go back. i don’t want to step foot in that disgusting dump again. you go inside there, you’ll see what a mess it is. we’re filthy up to here, we’re all black.”
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“but lilik what happened to me today is too terrible for me not to clutch at this last straw letter. i have never felt so wretched (…) there is no life without you. now i feel it feel it with my whole essence…”
the correspondence between mayakovsky and lili brik, 1915-1930
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Jun 12
fred hampton; emphasized that the ruling class exploited racism to divide poor black, white, and indigenous people, arguing that such divisions could only be overcome through class-based socialist solidarity.
“no matter what color you are, there are only two classes.”
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Jun 11
salt of the earth (1954) —
filmed at the height of anticommunism in the US and blacklisted in hollywood, the movie tells the story of mexican miners going on strike. when the taft-hartley act bans male workers from picketing, the working-class women take over the resistance.
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Jun 10
here and elsewhere (1976) — dir. jean-luc godard
invited by the PLO, the dziga vertov collective filmed guerrilla resistance and daily life in jordan’s camps. palestinian guerrillas filmed in 1970 died in black september. years later, those frames met cinema in ici et ailleurs.
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Jun 9
one of the most realistic films in italian cinema, “the working class goes to heaven,” is a political drama released in 1971. the film focuses on karl marx’s theory of alienation and the working conditions of factory workers.
“we are like machines!”
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Jun 8
then in her late fifties, leila khaled was still a very striking woman, recognizable from the 30-year-old photos of the beautiful young hijacker. at a public meeting at manchester’s friends meeting house, she held a crowd of 150 spellbound as she talked.
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Jun 7
“promiscuity in sexual matters is bourgeois. it is a sign of degeneration. the proletariat is a rising class. it does not need an intoxicant to stupefy or stimulate it, neither the intoxicant of sexual laxity or of alcohol.”
— clara zetkin, lenin on the woman question
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Jun 6
this work by charles bettelheim serves as an objective source that examines the institutional and economic structural changes in the USSR following the october revolution, through the lens of objective conditions and class struggles within the party and state apparatus.
Jun 5
What are you reading this weekend?
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a diary entry from november 1952: “i am a communist being. (…) i know about class struggles and economic conflicts. i understand very clearly the material dialectics of marx, engels, lenin, stalin and mao tse. i love them as the pillars of the new communist world.”
Jun 5
the painting completed by frida kahlo in 1954: “marxism will give health to the sick” (el marxismo dará la salud a los enfermos)
while frida depicts the left side of the painting as a peaceful and just world; she portrays its right side with destructive elements.
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Jun 5
the painting completed by frida kahlo in 1954: “marxism will give health to the sick” (el marxismo dará la salud a los enfermos)
while frida depicts the left side of the painting as a peaceful and just world; she portrays its right side with destructive elements.
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Jun 4
“the women and men of our society are all victims of imperialist oppression and domination. that is why they wage the same battle. the revolution and women’s liberation go together. women hold up the other half of the sky.”
— thomas sankara, 1983-87
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Jun 3
shot secretly and illegally during the most intense period of oppression in argentina, los traidores (1973) is one of the most striking productions.
featuring real workers and theater troupes, the film tells the story of roberto barrera, a worker betraying his own class.
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Jun 3
max raphael is a german-born marxist philosopher, art historian, and sociologist of art.
john berger stated that raphael’s art theory is not a mere critique, and that a philosophical transformation is required to fully understand it.
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according to max raphael, art is not a passive reflection of the external world upon the mind, but rather man’s effort to transform and reproduce social reality. in creating their work, the artist actually reconstructs the world philosophically.
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soviet stamp issued to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of vadim podbelsky, russian revolutionary and RSFSR people’s commissar for posts and telegraphs.
vadim; was a revolutionary specializing in information dissemination, logistics, and underground communications.
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the love of jeanne ney, a 1927 german production adapted from the novel by soviet writer ilya ehrenburg...
in the story, which takes place during the russian civil war, jeanne learns the reality that andreas, whom she is in love with, is a bolshevik agent who killed her father.
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the hour of the furnaces (1968)
dir. fernando solanas & octavio getino
this pioneering third cinema documentary was banned under argentina’s dictatorship. it was screened secretly in factories and unions, protected by armed guards against police raids.
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May 31
amar lenin (1970)
dir. ritwik ghatak
the movie about lenin and communism was, for some time, not allowed to be released in india.
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