Today In Labor History April 4, 1866: Russian revolutionary, Dmitry Karakozov attempted to assassinate Czar Alexander II. He failed and the government executed him. Some believe that Karakozov chose the year 1866, since that was the year in which a character in Chernyshevsky’s “What Is To Be Done?” planned to launch a revolution. In the book, the protagonist, Vera Pavlovna, escapes a controlling family, and an arranged marriage, to start a socialist cooperative and a truly egalitarian romantic partnership. She starts a seamstress commune, with shared living quarters, profit-sharing and an on-site school to further the women’s education. Chernyshevsky wrote the novel in response to Turgenev’s “Fathers and Sons.” He wrote the book while imprisoned in the Peter and Paul fortress. The book inspired generations of Russian radicals, including the nihilists, anarchists and even many Marxists.

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#Iran’s #Revolutionary #Guard Threatens Major #US #Companies as #Trump Says War with #Iran Could End in Weeks

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Iranian #Revolutionary #Guard #intelligence dismantles four #spy #networks #American #Israeli operating in #Iranian #areas

Ireland’s #socialist laureate: Derek Mahon’s “Lost Futures” (Ciarán O’Rourke)

“The #poet Derek Mahon (1941-2020) ended his days as a proponent of #revolutionary transformation, advocating for “the ownership of the country” to be devolved “to the people of the country, not the few”. His poems can be read as a roadmap and rallying-call for socialist citizenship: a living resource of #anticapitalist thought.”
https://www.rundale.org/2026/03/01/irelands-socialist-laureate-derek-mahons-lost-futures/

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"In times of uncertainty, extreme movements tend to simplify reality. Complex economic and social forces are reduced to a single explanation, and that explanation often takes the form of a #conspiracy. In the early twentieth century, #Jews were portrayed simultaneously as #capitalist #exploiters and #revolutionary #subversives. The contradiction did not matter. What mattered was that the narrative provided a target.

The same dynamic can be observed today, even if the language has changed. On the far right, traditional #antisemitic tropes have reemerged in the language of “#globalists,” financial #elites, and demographic #replacement. On parts of the #radical #left, #Israel and #Zionism are sometimes framed as the central expression of global #injustice, while Jews are portrayed as beneficiaries of systemic #oppression. The ideological frameworks differ, but the emotional structure is strikingly similar."

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/when-the-far-left-and-far-right-meet-over-the-jews/

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Iranian #Revolutionary #Guard: we destroyed part of the enemy’s #heavy #industries using #drones and #missiles, downed a #MQ9 drone over #Shiraz, and hit an #F16 fighter over southern #Fars