Working Archive of United States and International Marxist History, Documentation, and Related Interests. email: [email protected]prl.org New York, NYJoined February 2025
Yesterday was the anniversary of the Founding Conference of the Fourth International in 1938, which adopted Trotsky's "The Death Agony of Capitalism and Tasks of the Fourth International" (Transitional Program) #Trotsky#Trotskyism
#OTD 1940 #Trotsky murdered by Stalinist agent. “Trotsky himself believed that ideas are the greatest power in the world. Their authors may be killed, but ideas, once promulgated, live their own life.”--James P. Cannon, Socialist Appeal, 7 Sept. 1940 shorturl.at/2Br0c
Isaac Deutscher, Polish communist, biographer of #Trotsky, died #OTD 1967. PRL encourages today's Marxists to read Deutscher (and of course Trotsky). Search our catalog here: shorturl.at/A3osJ
#OTD 1868 James Connolly born. “Ireland may yet set the torch to a European conflagration that will not burn out until the last throne and the last capitalist bond and debenture will be shrivelled on the funeral pyre of the last war lord.” iclfi.org/spartacist/en/…
OTD 1743 Toussaint Louverture born. “England, France, Spain, Portugal, the United States, and Holland were all slaveholding. They could only look with horror upon a great Negro leading his class in rebellion for its freedom.” --Frederick Douglass
A key task for Marxists in the United States is opposing US imperialism. At the PRL, we're growing our collection on #PuertoRico to learn how to fuse the struggles for socialism and independence.
Remember the MOVE Massacre! #OTD, May 13, 1985: Today is the 40th anniversary of the police/FBI bombing of black Philadelphia—the 1985 MOVE massacre. Philly police with cooperation of the PA State Police and FBI carried out conscious racist murder. Capping a 12-hour siege, cops…
#OTD 1934 Minneapolis #Teamsters strike began, led by Trotskyists. "In Minneapolis we saw the native militancy of the workers fused with a politically conscious leadership. Minneapolis showed how great can be the role of such leadership." James P. Cannon shorturl.at/f9s1c
#OTD 1916 James Connolly executed. “We cannot conceive of a free Ireland with a subject working class; we cannot conceive of a subject Ireland with a free working class.” Marxists today call for a United Irish Workers Republic. iclfi.org/spartacist/en/…
#OTD 1894, Pullman strike began. "In this strike the injunction was first used against workers combined in struggle and it was Debs who led the fight against it. This fight led him into Woodstock jail and it set his feet on the road of the revolutionary movement." J. P. Cannon.
#OTD 1800 abolitionist John Brown born. "If John Brown did not end the war that ended slavery, he did at least begin the war that ended slavery…. Until this blow was struck, the prospect for freedom was dim, shadowy and uncertain.” --Frederick Douglass
On birthday of #Marx, the PRL recalls that #Marxism is a guide to action. Our collections seek to help today's Marxists understand the world in order to fight to change it. Learn more in this podcast.
On birthday of #Marx, the PRL recalls that #Marxism is a guide to action. Our collections seek to help today's Marxists understand the world in order to fight to change it. Learn more in this podcast.
#OTD 1818 Karl #Marx born. "It is necessary to elucidate the method of Marx, to learn from Marx how to study the peculiarities of the workers' movement in definite countries. Lenin did this. For Lenin the teachings of Marx were a guide to action."-- N. Krupskaya
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306 Followers 355 FollowingOfficial account of Red Battler, newspaper of the Spartacist League of Australia, section of the International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist).
1K Followers 1K FollowingTranslating untranslated tales by Czech satirist Jaroslav Hašek (1883-1923), to take the edge off the end times.
proletarian literature & history & commentary
2K Followers 5K FollowingCommunist I ❗ @RevSocPartij ❗ I @ROODJong I 🇵🇸 From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free! 🇵🇸 I State what is I He/him I #FreeBogdan
945 Followers 1K FollowingHol up memba mi tell yuh seh no fi truss Babylon dem nuh know Justice dem a bogus one bag ah hocus pocus - Sir Earlan Bartley... ☭
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453 Followers 703 FollowingMarxist. Revolutionary Socialist and an activist with UNISON.
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