Amílcar Cabral, Bissau-Guinean and Cape Verdean revolutionary, theoretician and independence leader, was born September 12, 1924. He was assassinated in January, 1973, only eight months before Guinea-Bissau became independent.
Fidel Castro once said of Cabral that he was “one of the most lucid and brilliant leaders in Africa, who instilled in us tremendous confidence in the future and the success of his struggle for liberation.”
Remembering W.E.B. Du Bois, scholar, civil rights activist, historian and communist
Remembering W.E.B. Du Bois, scholar, civil rights activist, historian and communist
W.E.B. Du Bois, the scholar, civil rights activist, historian and communist was born in 1868 in Massachusetts. He died on August 27, 1963 at age 95 in Ghana after a remarkable life that took him around the world in his fight for justice, equality and freedom.
In the Letter of an American Communist -- the letter that Du Bois attached to his membership application to the CPUSA when he joined in October, 1961 at the of age 93 -- DuBois wrote that:
"Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction. No universal selfishness can bring social good to all.
Communism -- the effort to give all men what they need and to ask of each the best they can contribute -- this is the only way of human life."
Images in order of appearance:
1) Cover of a Soviet book published in 1971 dedicated to life and writings of W.E.B. Du Bois.
2) Paul Robeson and W.E.B DuBois great each other at the World Congress of the Partisans of Peace, 1949
3) Anna Louise Strong, Mao and W.E.B. Du Bois in Wuhan. 1959
4) Mao and W.E.B. Du Bois in the People's Republic of China, 1959
5) Premier Zhou Enlai with Du Bois and his wife the writer Shirley Graham (third from left). First and second from right are Vice-Premier Chen Yi and his wife Zhang Qian
6) At a birthday reception, 1959
Today marks the anniversary of the end of the Battle of Kursk (August 23, 1943) where the soldiers of the Red Army emerged victorious at tremendous cost and turned the tide once and for all on the Eastern Front.
Kursk was the largest tank battle in human history and after Kursk -- though many hard days were still ahead -- the people of the Soviet Union through their courage and sacrifice had laid the path that would lead to the total defeat of the Third Reich just under two years later.
To learn more about the Battle of Kursk from the memories of the Marshals of the Soviet Union involved see our posts "Battle of Kursk remembered" https://www.theleftchapter.com/post/battle-of-kursk-remembered-july-19832 and The Battle of Kursk Begins, July 5, 1943 https://www.theleftchapter.com/post/the-battle-of-kursk-begins-july-5-1943
Che Guevara, b. June 14, 1928
"Above all, try always to be able to feel deeply any injustice committed against any person in any part of the world. It is the most beautiful quality of a revolutionary."
Che Guevara, b. June 14, 1928
"Why is it that we ask the question about whether or not Indigenous people should have clean drinking water?"
"Why is it that we ask the question about whether or not Indigenous people should have clean drinking water?"
After pointing out the billions the government squandered on tax cuts and pipelines NDP leader Jagmeet Singh has what is likely his finest moment when he turns the tables on a stupid media question.
Whatever the flaws of the NDP, Singh here points out the obvious and outrageous racism and colonialism that lies at the heart of questions about the cost of clean drinking water for Indigenous communities by stating the FACT that if Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver or Edmonton had a clean drinking water crisis there would be no question at all about solving it.
https://theleftchapter.blogspot.com/2019/10/why-is-it-that-we-ask-question-about.html
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