Tonight's film is Zina a 1985 award-winning film directed by Ken McMullen. It tells a story of a twentieth century Antigone, Zinaida Volkova (Domiziana Giordano), daughter of Leon Trotsky. - Wikipedia

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A CLEVER HISTORICAL FANTASIA inspired by the brief time Trotsky and his family spent in New York has a distinctively Nabokovian flair in its juggling of fact and fiction. You’re likely to find it either delightful or infuriating. B PLUS

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/bronshtein-in-the-bronx-robert-littell/1145515773?ean=9781641296861

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Today in Labor History May 3, 1937: The May Days began in Catalonia. This was a counterrevolution by the Spanish Republican government against radical workers and anarchists. Prior to this, the communists, socialists and anarchists had been allied against Franco’s nationalists. However, anarchist workers and their militias controlled most industries, which they had collectivized, while the communists controlled the central government and finances. As a result, this brought the various groups into conflict. To make matters worse, the Communist Party of Spain was taking orders from Moscow. And they wanted to separate the two struggles: revolution against the ruling class versus war against the nationalists. In contrast, the POUM and the anarchists saw the two struggles as one and the same. The anarchist faction included the Friends of Durruti Group and the CNT (a confederation of anarcho-syndicalist labor unions).

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On "Leftist Infighting"

The Historical Meaning of the Inner-Party Struggle in Russia (1910) by Lenin. #Marxist audiobook + discussion.

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https://youtu.be/xWV7L6xJ7ao

The socialism we propose is radically different from the models that dominated the last century or from any statist or dictatorial regime: it is a revolutionary project, radically democratic, to which feminist, ecological, anti-racist, anti-colonialist, antimilitarist and LGBTQI+ struggles contribute.
Everyone could have a good life on Earth, but capitalism is an exploitative, macho, racist, warlike, authoritarian and deadly mode of predation. In two centuries, it has led humanity into a deep ecosocial impasse. Productivism is destructivism. The overexploitation of natural resources, rampant extractivism, the pursuit of maximum short-term yields, deforestation and land-use change are leading to a collapse of biodiversity, that is, of life itself.

https://fourth.international/en/world-congresses/874/699

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