“Unlike #Ranković and #Čubrilović, who were thinking in terms of #Serbian control, #Tito was interested in consolidating the stand of the League of #Communists and maintaining some sort of balance of power among the different nationalities of #Yugoslavia which would satisfy them by offering a symbolic share in power within their own ‘Republics’ and ‘Autonomous Regions’—a political arrangement that worked for the greater part of Tito’s lifetime.”
—Mulaj 2018, S. 45.
Orders for creation of the long-running #Dachau #ConcentrationCamp were given #ThisDayInHistory in 1933 by #HeinrichHimmler. It was initially for leftists (#socialists, #communists) but it and satellite labour camps were used for #Roma, Jews, & others. Torture there was the norm.
Greece Purchases Photos Taken by Nazi Soldier Who Documented Athens Atrocity

The photo archive surfaced online last month.

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The first #InternationalUnemploymentDay was observed on #ThisDayInHistory in 1930 in the US. Rallies & marches called by #communists took place in cities across the country. #Police were sent to attack the #unemployed workers but they fought back and gained relief in some cities.

The moment they had prepared to celebrate: meeting Death at the stony threshing floors, on a sunny Monday morning.

Greek communists, heads up, fists up, the moment they are executed by Nazi Germans. Kaisariani, Athens, Greece, May 1, 1944.

(No content warning for comfort. We free-riders of democracy owe our freedom to such man.)

#Nazi #Germany #freedom #fascism #resistance #communists

Lebanon’s Communists and the Disarming of Hezbollah

In 1980s Lebanon, the Communists were often targets for rising Islamist forces. Yet today the weakening of Hezbollah offers little opening for left-wing politics.

It's kinda funny sometimes to listen to #people talk about how #mean and bizzare and dangerous #anarchists, #communists, and #AntiImperialists are.

Most of the ones I know are super #wholesome and #fun people, with cool #hobbies and interests, who have been nothing but #kind and supportive to me. The kinds of people I want to go to parties with, be #friends with, date, marry, and have kids with.

The people in #power are just about the only people who would actually see most of us that way.

I hope that you will set aside a few minutes this week to read about the historic general strike that took place in Amsterdam, in the Netherlands ...

I hope that you will set aside a few minutes this week to read about the historic general strike that took place in Amsterdam, in the Netherlands on February 25, 1941. This year marks its 85th anniversary.#opinion #politics #world #communism #communists #history #labormovement #uaw
UAW’s remembrance: Amsterdam general strike of 1941 and lessons for today

UAW’s remembrance: Amsterdam general strike of 1941 and lessons for today

I hope that you will set aside a few minutes this week to read about the historic general strike that took place in Amsterdam, in the Netherlands on February 25, 1941. This year marks its 85th anniversary. I first learned about it in an article on the United Auto Workers’ website.

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