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Comedian Lucille Ball, whose career was jeopardized when her 1930s electoral registrations as a Communist were revealed, died Apr. 26, 1989. While Ball denied being a member to investigators, she in fact sat on the Central Committee of the party's California branch. #ILoveLucy

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The New People's Army, the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines, conducted the first same-sex marriage in the Philippines on Feb. 4, 2005, between guerrilla fighters Ka Andres and Ka Jose. #OTD #Philippines #LGBT

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Anti-Nazi communist resistance fighter Lepa Radic was born in Bosnia-Herzegovina on Dec. 19, 1925. Captured in 1943, the Nazis offered to spare her life if she gave up the names of her comrades. She refused and was executed. She was 17 years old. #OTD #Yugoslavia #AntiFa

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Anti-Nazi communist resistance fighter Lepa Radic was born in Bosnia-Herzegovina on Dec. 19, 1925. Captured in 1943, the Nazis offered to spare her life if she gave up the names of her comrades. She refused and was executed. She was 17 years old. #OTD #Yugoslavia #AntiFa

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The New People's Army, the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines, conducted the first same-sex marriage in the Philippines on Feb. 4, 2005, between guerrilla fighters Ka Andres and Ka Jose. #OTD #Philippines #LGBT

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Karl Marx died on Mar. 14, 1883 in London at the age of 64. His critique of capitalism and vision of proletarian revolution articulated in The Communist Manifesto and Capital became the theoretical foundations of the working class and socialist movements. #KarlMarx

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Guyanese Marxist, historian and revolutionary leader, Walter Rodney, was assassinated on June 13, 1980. Known for his book, "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa," Rodney taught in Tanzania and Jamaica before returning to Guyana to form the Working Peoples' Alliance. #OTD #Guyana

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Fred Hampton, Chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party was assassinated in his bed by the Chicago Police Department on Dec. 4, 1969. Fellow Panther Mark Clark was also killed in the attack and four others were injured. #OTD #FredHampton #BLM #BlackPanther

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Painter and communist Pablo Picasso was born in Spain on Oct. 25, 1881. A founder of Cubism, Picasso worked in a wide range of media. He joined the Communist Party of France in 1944 and remained a member until his death in 1973.

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Mexican painter, feminist and communist, Frida Kahlo was born on July 6, 1907. A member of the Mexican Communist Party from 1927, Kahlo turned towards Trotskyism in the mid-1930s, rejoining the Communist Party in 1948. #OTD #Mexico #WomensHistory

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Nepal's monarchy was abolished Dec. 23, 2007 by agreement between the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), which had waged a ten year long people's war and controlled much of the country, and six other political parties. #OTD #Nepal

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Four members and one supporter of the Communist Workers Party were murdered by members of the KKK and the American Nazi Party at an anti-Klan march on Nov. 3, 1979 in Greensboro, NC. The KKK had an FBI and police informant and the Nazis an undercover BATF agent. #OTD #AntiFa

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Revolutionary political thinker, innovative military strategist, leader of the Chinese Revolution, Chairman of the Communist Party of China, and Chinese head of state, Mao Zedong was born in Shaoshan village, Hunan on Dec. 26, 1893. #OTD #China #Mao #Communism #Revolution

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On Nov. 7, 1917, Bolshevik Red Guards under the command of the Revolutionary Military Committee seized power in Petrograd, then the capital of the Russian Empire, by capturing key government positions and laying siege to the Winter Palace. #OTD #USSR #Lenin #OctoberRevolution

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Dictator Fulgencio Batista fled Cuba by plane on Jan. 1, 1959, following the victory of the forces of the July 26 Movement in the Battle of Santa Clara, clearing the way for the revolutionary capture of power across the island. #OTD #Cuba #Revolution #Fidel #Che

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Karl Marx died on Mar. 14, 1883, in London at the age of 64. His critique of capitalism and vision of proletarian revolution articulated in The Communist Manifesto and Capital became the theoretical foundations of the working class and socialist movements. #KarlMarx

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The Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) launched its Peoples War against the Nepalese monarchy with seven simultaneous attacks on police outposts across the country on Feb. 13, 1996. #OTD #Nepal

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Leading Bolshevik and Lenin's wife, Nadezhda Krupskaya was born Feb. 26, 1869. Krupskaya played a critical role in the coordination of the Bolshevik underground and, after the October Revolution, in organizing the Soviet education and library systems. #OTD #USSR #WomensHistory

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On March 9, 1923, Vladimir Illyich Lenin suffered a major debilitating stroke. While he would live another ten months the stroke effectively ended his participation in Soviet political affairs and initiated a struggle over the future direction of the Soviet Union. #OTD #USSR

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Claudia Jones died in London on Dec. 24, 1964. Born in Trinidad, Jones rose as a leader in the Communist Party USA before she was convicted under the Smith Act, and ultimately deported in 1955 to the UK where she remained active in the West Indian community. #OTD #WomensHistory

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Friedrich Engels was born in Barmen, Prussia on Nov. 28, 1820. The son of a factory owner, he was a communist revolutionary and lifelong collaborator with Karl Marx, writing and coauthoring many works with him, including The Communist Manifesto. #OTD #Germany #Marxism

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Brazilian educator and author of "Pedagogy of the Oppressed," Paulo Freire, was born Sept. 19, 1921. Arrested and exiled after the military seized power in Brazil, Freire would act as an advisor to the revolutionary movements in Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique. #OTD #Brazil

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The New People's Army, the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines was founded on March 29, 1969, with 60 fighters and a commitment to pursuing a Maoist strategy of protracted people's war. #OTD #Philippines

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Claudia Jones died in London on Dec. 24, 1964. Born in Trinidad, Jones rose as a leader in the Communist Party USA before she was convicted under the Smith Act, and ultimately deported in 1955 to the UK where she remained active in the West Indian community. #OTD #WomensHistory

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The Paris Commune issued a decree on Apr. 8, 1871, banning all religious symbols, pictures, dogmas, prayers — "all that belongs to the sphere of the individual's conscience" — from the schools. #OTD #France #Paris

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Edith Lagos, a guerrilla with the Communist Party of Peru - Shining Path, was born Nov. 27, 1962. Captured in 1980, Lagos escaped prison with 302 other prisoners in 1982 and was killed in a shootout with police and paramilitaries several months later. #OTD #Peru #WomensHistory

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Captured IRA volunteer Joe McDonnell died July 8, 1981 after 61 days on hunger strike in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh. McDonnell was the fifth hunger striker to die demanding the restoration of POW status for IRA prisoners. He is buried next to Bobby Sands. #OTD #Ireland

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Founder and leader of the Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist-Leninist and its armed wing, the Workers' and Peasants' Liberation Army, İbrahim Kaypakkaya was executed May 18, 1973 in Diyarbakir Prison where he was tortured following his capture four months earlier. #OTD #Turkey

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Playwright Lorraine Hansberry died Jan. 12, 1965 at the age of 34. The author of "A Raisin in the Sun," she was active in the Communist Party USA's Labor Youth League, in support of African independence, and was a member of the lesbian Daughters of Bilitis. #OTD #WomensHistory

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The New People's Army, the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines was founded on March 29, 1969, with 60 fighters and a commitment to pursuing a Maoist strategy of protracted people's war. #OTD #Philippines

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On June 4, 1972, Angela Davis, a member of the Communist Party and Professor of Philosophy at UCLA, was found not guilty on charges of kidnapping and murder arising from an attempt by Jonathan Jackson to free his imprisoned brother, George Jackson. #OTD #BlackHistory

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Chairman of the Communist Party of China, Mao Zedong, proclaimed the People's Republic of China on October 1, 1949, in Tiananmen Square in Beijing. #OTD #China

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The revolt of the Paris Commune began Mar. 18, 1871, when National Guard troops repelled attempts to seize their cannons, fraternized with regular soldiers who killed two of their generals, took control of the city, and raised the red flag over the Hôtel de Ville. #ParisCommune

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Chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party and Deputy Chairman of the national party, Fred Hampton was born August 30, 1948. He forged a radical multi-racial "Rainbow Coalition" before he was murdered by the Chicago Police in 1969. #OTD #BlackHistory

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The Indochinese Communist Party was founded on Feb. 3, 1930 at a Unification Conference in Hong Kong organized by Ho Chi Minh (pictured). Initially taking the name Vietnamese Communist Party, it would change its name on advice from the Comintern. #OTD #Vietnam #Kampuchea #Laos

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The Maoist Naxalite guerrilla movement erupted in the Indian village of Naxalbari on May 25, 1967 after police opened fire on protesting sharecroppers, killing ten. The rebellion would spread to Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha and Madhya Pradesh states. #OTD #India #Naxal

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Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht were murdered Jan. 15, 1919 by a far-right Freikorps unit ordered by the Social Democratic government to crush the left-wing Spartacist Uprising which had ended three days earlier. #OTD #Germany

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Chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party and and Deputy Chairman of the national party, Fred Hampton was born August 30, 1948. He was targeted by the FBI and ultimately murdered in his bed by the Chicago Police on December 4, 1969.

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Several hundred Jews who had escaped the Nazi liquidation of the Kovno ghetto in the Lithuanian city of Kaunas joined Soviet partisans around the city to prepare the way for its liberation by the Red Army. Kaunas was liberated August 1, 1944. #OTD #USSR #Holocaust

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The Third Congress of the Second International met from August 6 to 13, 1893 in Zürich, where they permanently expelled anarchists from the organization. (Friedrich Engels, Clara Zetkin, Julie and August Bebel pictured.) #OTD #Switzerland

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Soviet steelworker and cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin circled the Earth on April 12, 1961, making him the first person in space. April 12 is celebrated in all the former Soviet Republics as Cosmonautics Day and worldwide since 2011 as the International Day of Human Space Flight.

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Stephen Biko, the first president of the anti-apartheid South African Student Organisation was arrested on Aug. 18, 1977 on his way home from a political meeting. He would die of torture and abuse in police custody almost a month later. #OTD #SouthAfrica

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Marxist Feminist theorist Anuradha Ghandy was born into a communist family on Mar. 28, 1954. A founder of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist), active in the Dalit Panthers, she became a Central Committee member of the Communist Party of India (Maoist). #OTD #India

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Author, playwright, and composer Shirley Graham Du Bois was born Nov. 11, 1896. A leader in the radical Black women's organization Sojourners for Truth and Justice, Graham was also a member of the Communist Party USA and married to W.E.B. Du Bois. #OTD #WomensHistory #Communism

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Russian revolutionary theorist and leader Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, died Jan. 21, 1924. Leader of the Bolsheviks and of the October Revolution, as Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin was also the first Premier of the Soviet Union. #OTD #USSR #Lenin

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Former Black Panther and captured combatant of the Black Liberation Army (BLA), Assata Shakur was born July 16, 1947, in Queens, New York. Shakur escaped from the Clinton Correctional Facility for Women in 1979 and was granted political asylum in Cuba in 1984. #OTD #BlackHistory

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Forces commanded by Che Guevara launched the Battle of Santa Clara on Dec. 28, 1958. The capture of the Cuban city would be the decisive blow against Batista dictatorship, causing Army garrisons to surrender across the country and Batista to flee. #OTD #Cuba #Che

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Born Nov. 3, 1889, Amelio Robles Ávila was a colonel under Emiliano Zapata in the Mexican Revolution. Assigned female at birth, Robles lived openly as a man until his death at age 95, threatening anyone who misgendered him with a pistol. #OTD #Zapatista #TransRights #Mexico

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Striking Russian workers in Petrograd joined International Women’s Day protests against food rationing and the World War on March 8, 1917, initiating the February Revolution that would topple the Tsar five days later. #OTD #Russia #WW1 #WomensHistory #InternationalWomensDay

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The New People's Army, the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines was founded on March 29, 1969, with 60 fighters and a commitment to pursuing a Maoist strategy of protracted people's war. #OTD #Philippines

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The previously unknown Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN), composed largely of indigenous Mayan peasant farmers, launched an uprising and captured seven large towns and cities in the Mexican state of Chiapas on New Years Day, 1994. #OTD #Mexico #Zapatista #HappyNewYear

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The Communist-led National Liberation Army of Albania completed the liberation of the country from the Nazi German occupation on Nov. 29, 1944. The day is commemorated as Liberation Day.

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Fred Hampton, Chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party was assassinated in his bed by the Chicago Police Department on Dec. 4, 1969. Fellow Panther Mark Clark was also killed in the attack and four others were injured. #OTD #FredHampton #BLM #BlackPanther

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Maria Lorena Barros, founder of the Free Movement of New Women (or MAKIBAKA), a militant women's organization in the Philippines, who subsequently escaped from prison to join the New People's Army was killed in a military ambush on Mar. 24, 1976. #OTD #Philippines

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Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Communist Party of China, and leader of the Chinese Revolution, died on Sept. 9, 1976. #OTD #China #MaoZeDong

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Harlem Renaissance poet, playwright and author Langston Hughes died May 22, 1967. Close to the Communist Party in the 1930s and 40s, Hughes's works condemned capitalism and colonialism and celebrated the struggles of the oppressed and exploited. #OTD #BlackHistory

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"The Manifesto of the Communist Party" (now known as "The Communist Manifesto"), authored by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, was first published in German by the Communist League in London on Feb. 21, 1848. #OTD #CommunistManifesto #KarlMarx #FriedrichEngels

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Nat Turner was executed Nov. 11, 1831 for his leadership of a slave revolt two months earlier in the state of Virginia in which over 50 whites were killed before the revolt was suppressed. #OTD

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Independence leader and first Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo, Patrice Lumumba was murdered on Jan. 17, 1961. The CIA and Belgian colonial forces were active in Lumumba's overthrow, capture, torture and execution by firing squad. #OTD #Decolonize #Congo #Africa

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Concert bass baritone and actor, Paul Robeson died Jan. 23, 1976. Radicalized by the Spanish Civil War and active in support of anti-imperialist struggles, Robeson was blacklisted during the McCarthy era for his close associations with the Communist Party USA. #OTD #BlackHistory

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Cuban revolutionary Haydée Santamaría was born Dec. 30, 1922. A participant in the assault on the Moncada Barracks and then in the Cuban revolutionary war, she founded the Casa de las Americas and was a leading member of the Communist Party of Cuba. #OTD #Cuba #WomensHistory

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Salvador Allende was born June 26, 1908. A medical doctor and early member of the Socialist Party of Chile, he served as a Deputy, Senator and cabinet member before his election as President in 1970 at the head of the Popular Unity alliance of left-wing parties. #OTD #Chile

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As many as 300 mainly Algerians were killed when police attacked a demonstration in support of the National Liberation Front (FLN) of Algeria in Paris on Oct. 17, 1961. Victims were variously shot, beaten to death and thrown into the river Seine. #OTD #France #Algeria

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The Communist Party of Germany (KPD), the left-wing majority of the Independent Social Democratic Party (USPD) and some members of the Communist Workers Party (KAPD) merged at a "fusion congress" on Dec. 7, 1920 to form the United Communist Party of Germany (VKPD). #OTD #Germany

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Dictator Fulgencio Batista fled Cuba by plane on Jan. 1, 1959, following the victory of the forces of the July 26 Movement in the Battle of Santa Clara, clearing the way for the revolutionary capture of power across the island. #OTD #Cuba #Revolution #Fidel #Che

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Forces of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) entered the Nicaraguan capital of Managua on July 17, 1979, forcing the country's dictator, Anastasio Somoza, to resign and flee the country. #OTD #Nicaragua

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Forces commanded by Camilo Cienfuegos overcame the Cuban Army garrison in The Battle of Yaguajay on Dec. 30, 1958. #OTD #Cuba #Camilo

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Russian revolutionary theorist and leader Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, died Jan. 21, 1924. Leader of the Bolsheviks and of the October Revolution, as Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin was also the first Premier of the Soviet Union. #OTD #USSR #Lenin

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Forces of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) entered the Nicaraguan capital of Managua on July 17, 1979, forcing the country's dictator, Anastasio Somoza, to resign and flee the country. #OTD #Nicaragua

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Forces commanded by Che Guevara launched the Battle of Santa Clara on Dec. 28, 1958. The capture of the Cuban city would be the decisive blow against Batista dictatorship, causing Army garrisons to surrender across the country and Batista to flee. #OTD #Cuba #Che

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Russian revolutionary theorist and leader Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, died Jan. 21, 1924. Leader of the Bolsheviks and of the October Revolution, as Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin was also the first Premier of the Soviet Union. #OTD #USSR #Lenin

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Independence leader and first Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo, Patrice Lumumba was murdered on Jan. 17, 1961. The CIA and Belgian colonial forces were active in Lumumba's overthrow, capture, torture and execution by firing squad. #OTD #Decolonize #Congo #Africa

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The previously unknown Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN), composed largely of indigenous Mayan peasant farmers, launched an uprising and captured seven large towns and cities in the Mexican state of Chiapas on New Years Day, 1994. #OTD #Mexico #Zapatista #HappyNewYear

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Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, later known as Lenin, was born Apr. 22, 1870. Lenin was the leader of the Bolshevik fraction of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party and would lead the 1917 October Revolution which established the Soviet Union. #OTD #Russia #USSR

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Guyanese Marxist, historian and revolutionary leader, Walter Rodney, was assassinated on June 13, 1980. Known for his book, "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa," Rodney taught in Tanzania and Jamaica before returning to Guyana to form the Working Peoples' Alliance. #OTD #Guyana

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The Communist-led National Liberation Army of Albania completed the liberation of the country from the Nazi German occupation on Nov. 29, 1944. The day is commemorated as Liberation Day.

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5,000 workers with the Communist Party of Germany stormed 23 police stations on Oct. 23, 1923 to launch the Hamburg Uprising. The rising would be defeated two days later. #OTD #Germany #Communism #Revolution

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Founder and Secretary General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, George Habash died Jan. 26, 2008 in Jordan. A refugee after the ethnic cleansing of Lydda, he embraced Marxism-Leninism and fought for a democratic secular state of Palestine. #OTD #Palestine

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Mexican communist singer and writer of corridos, Concha Michel, died Dec. 27, 1990 at 92 years of age. Michel joined the Communist Party of Mexico in 1918, travelled to the USSR, and fought for the rights of campesino women to land. #OTD #Mexico #WomensHistory

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A founder of the German Spartacus League and the Communist Party of Germany, Karl Liebknecht was born August 13, 1871. A leader of the Social Democratic Party's youth wing he was the solitary member of the Reichstag to vote against credits for the First World War. #OTD #Germany

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President and revolutionary leader of Burkina Faso, Thomas Sankara was assassinated in a coup d'etat on Oct. 15, 1987. A Marxist-Leninist, Pan Africanist military officer and jazz guitarist, Sankara led an ambitious reorganization of Burkinabe society. #OTD #Africa #BurkinaFaso

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The 1910 International Conference of Socialist Women issued the first call to celebrate International Women's Day. By 1914, the date of March 8 was in wide use, and in 1921 it was confirmed by the Second International Conference of Communist Women. #OTD #IWD

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Canadian Communist and surgeon Norman Bethune died Nov. 12, 1939 while providing care to soldiers of the Chinese Eighth Route Army. Eulogized by Mao, Bethune had fought for socialized medicine and served in the Spanish Civil War before bringing his skills to China. #OTD #China

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Founder and leader of the Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist-Leninist and its armed wing, the Workers' and Peasants' Liberation Army, İbrahim Kaypakkaya was executed May 18, 1973 in Diyarbakir Prison where he was tortured following his capture four months earlier. #OTD #Turkey

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Bolshevik leader and early Marxist Feminist theorist, Alexandra Kollontai died Mar. 9, 1952 in Moscow. A member of the Left Communists and Workers Opposition, Kollontai occupied many positions in the Communist Party and the Soviet government. #OTD #Russia #WomensHistory

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French troops entered Paris on May 21, 1871 to crush the Paris Commune. As many as 30,000 Communards and workers were shot on sight or summarily executed, and another 38,000 were imprisoned, of which 7,000 would be forcibly deported. #OTD #France #ParisCommune

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Comintern leader Nikolai Bukharin (pictured), Soviet Premier Alexander Rykov, and 15 others convicted in the trial of the "Bloc of Rightists and Trotskyites" were executed on March 15, 1938, marking the culmination of the Great Purge of the CPSU. #OTD #USSR

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Independence leader and first Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo, Patrice Lumumba was murdered on Jan. 17, 1961. The CIA and Belgian colonial forces were active in Lumumba's overthrow, capture, torture and execution by firing squad. #OTD #Decolonize #Congo #Africa

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Joseph Stalin's official birthdate during his life was Dec. 21, 1879. A participant in the 1905 and 1917 Russian Revolutions he served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 almost until his death in 1953. #OTD #USSR #Stalin

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Charu Majumdar, leader of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) and theoretician of the Naxalite movement that erupted in 1967, died of the effects of torture on July 28, 1972, twelve days after his capture by Indian authorities. #OTD #India

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The National Liberation Front (NLF) of South Vietnam was founded at a meeting in Tân Lập village in Tây Ninh Province on Dec. 20, 1960 of representatives of over a dozen groups opposed to the Diem government which the NLF proposed to overthrow. #OTD #Vietnam

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Founder and first Chairman of the Communist Party of Turkey, Mustafa Subhi was assassinated on the Black Sea along with 14 other members of the newly established party on Jan. 28, 1921. #OTD #Turkey

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On Nov. 7, 1917, Bolshevik Red Guards under the command of the Revolutionary Military Committee seized power in Petrograd, then the capital of the Russian Empire, by capturing key government positions and laying siege to the Winter Palace. #OTD #USSR #Lenin #OctoberRevolution

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Marxist historian, novelist, and critic, C.L.R. James was born Jan. 4, 1901 in Trinidad. Active in Trotskyist groups in Britain and the U.S. in the 1930s and 40s, he would author "The Black Jacobins," "World Revolution," and other influential works. #OTD #Trinidad

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Võ Nguyên Giáp, military leader of the Vietnamese struggle for national liberation died October 4, 2013. The defeat of the French at Điện Biên Phủ by Viet Minh forces under his command inspired anti-colonial movements around the world. #OTD #Vietnam #DienBienPhu

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Harry Haywood died Jan. 4, 1985. The author of "Negro Liberation" and "Black Bolshevik" and proponent of the Black Belt Nation Thesis, Haywood was expelled from the Communist Party USA in 1959 and went on to become a leader of the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist). #OTD #BLM

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Karl Marx was born May 5, 1818 in the city of Trier in the Prussian Province of the Lower Rhine into a middle class Jewish family recently converted to Protestantism. The eventual father of scientific socialism would study philosophy at the University of Berlin. #OTD #Germany

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Leader of the Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) and President of the country, Samora Machel died Oct. 18, 1986 when his plane crashed just inside South Africa. The apartheid regime is widely suspected of responsibility for the crash. #Mozambique #OTD #Africa

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Maria Lorena Barros, founder of the Free Movement of New Women (or MAKIBAKA), a militant women's organization in the Philippines, who subsequently escaped from prison to join the New People's Army, was killed in a military ambush on Mar. 24, 1976. #OTD #Philippines

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Journalist, founding member of the Communist Labor Party of America, and author of "Ten Days That Shook the World," which recounted the events of the October Revolution, John Reed, died Oct. 17, 1920 of typhus in Moscow. He was honored with burial in the Kremlin. #OTD #Russia

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