This is the general history subcom. Anything relating to history is welcome here. Doesn't have to be Marxist, though it certainly can be. So join in on the discussion and let's learn more.
On this day in 1943, three Belgian resistance fighters stopped a Nazi train with prisoners, managing to saving hundreds of people from extermination
Armed with only one revolver, Youra Livchitz, Robert Maistriau and Jean Franklemon managed to stop a train from Mechelen heading to Germany. On board were many prisoners, mostly Jewish, heading to the extermination camps.
Despite being a heavily secured transport, the three still managed to cause enough trouble for 233 people to escape. 118 of them eventually survived, the rest was killed during the escape or recaptured afterwards.
Youra was eventually captured and killed by the Germana, while Jean and Robert managed to survive the war.
On April 11, 1945, the U.S. took over the Buchenwald concentration camp. But it was communist prisoners who organised and liberated the Nazi camp. Today, such heroic victories of anti-fascist resistance are under attack. By Vijay Prashad Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research Eighty
TIL: In the 1960s Britain dismantled 30% of its own railway network because of "muh profits" and the car/road lobby.
One of the biggest own goals in history for an industrialized nation, but what else can you expect from this weird island.
"The Branch Lines Committee of the British Transport Commission (BTC) was formed in 1949 with a brief to close the least-used branch lines. This resulted in the loss (or conversion to freight-only operation) of some 3,318 miles (5,340 km) of railway between 1948 and 1962."
And the loss of tens of thousands of unionized jobs... Can't have those.
Transport worker unions have historically been one of the greatest generators of class consciousness and even played a revolutionary role at some points in history. Far too dangerous, gotta crush them. Just like the coal miners needed to be crushed in the 80s.
*"Out of 18,000 miles (29,000 km) of railway, Beeching recommended that 6,000 miles (9,700 km)—mostly rural and industrial lines—should be closed entirely, and that some of the remaining lines should be kept open only for freight. A total of 2,363 stations were
The CIA against Cuba: JFK File
Los documentos hechos públicos tras la orden ejecutiva de Donald Trump, que desclasificó más de 1,100 archivos relacionados con el asesinato de John F. Kennedy en 1963, no solo abordan el magnicidi…
Trump’s declassified files on the JFK assassination expose secret U.S. operations against Cuba during the Cold War. In 1961, the CIA spent $41,498,743 USD on operations against Cuba, nearly four times what the agency spent on the rest of Latin America and the Caribbean combined.
Affairs here include fake press campaigns about epidemics, biological warfare and agricultural sabotage, contamination of sugar exports, attacks on key industries such as nickel, merciless economic suffocation, and more information in the Spanish article linked.
While we were disconnected I started a little project!
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/4489567
Hey! While we were separated, I was busy trying to find coding projects to get me more familiar with github and git. That turned into me creating Hexbear Code-Op. Feel free to comment in that thread with your own projects.
Then I got inspired and played around with A People's Calendar and eventually created A People's iCalendar. This was a fun project, and it got me looking closer at the events in aPC and thought it could benefit from some proofreading. So I created this thread to talk about it.
I even reached out via github to try and get more official collaboration with aPC. I'm still interested in that if anyone is in contact with the projects owner.
So I'm still thinking about building a cleaner, more consistent, and collaborative history data.
Let me know your thoughts!
Marxist revolutionary and feminist pioneer Alexandra Kollontai was born on March 31, 1872, in Tsarist Russia.
A leading organizer in the 1917 Revolution, she became the USSR’s first People’s Commissar for Social Welfare and later a Soviet diplomat. Kollontai’s groundbreaking work on women’s liberation cemented her legacy as a foundational thinker in Marxist feminism.
On this day, we honor Yuri Gagarin—the Soviet cosmonaut who made history as the first human in space
Amid the Cold War’s fierce space race, his triumph wasn’t just a scientific leap; it was a victory for the Communist project, proving its potential to the world.
Gagarin himself tied his achievement to the collective strength of the socialist system:
"I am very happy and extremely grateful to our Party and our government for entrusting me with this flight. I carried out this flight in the name of our country, in the name of the whole heroic Soviet nation, in the name of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and its Leninist Central Committee."
El Golpe: US Labor, the CIA, and the Coup at Ford in Mexico is a bombshell book on how US unions & the CIA teamed up during the Cold War to crush socialist labor movements & topple leftist governments
JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources.
A free, general-purpose video sharing platform for the leftist community
Instance PeerTube généraliste, une bonne alternative à YouTube et autres plateformes de streaming contrôlées par des géants du WEB. General PeerTube instance, a good alternative to YouTube and other streaming platforms controlled by WEB giants.
