80th Anniversary of the Dutch Anti-Fascist General Strike

February Strike, 1941. 300,000 Communist-led workers in Amsterdam launched a general strike against the Nazis. “A strike is inconceivable without propaganda and without agitation. It is also inconceivable without pickets who, when they can, use persuasion, but when obliged, use force. The strike is the most elementary form of the class struggle which always combines,

Betrayal of the Belgian General Strike 1960

Workers in Brussels rioting during the general strike against attacks by the ruling class on working conditions and wages. “The state is nothing but an instrument of oppression of one class by another – no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.”–Friedrich Engels, 1891; preface in The Civil War in France by

Anti-Trumpster Tribute Archive

“I say one Communist in a defense plant is one Communist too many. One Communist on the faculty of one university is one Communist too many. One Communist among the American advisors at Yalta was one Communist too many. Even if there were only one Communist in the State Department that would still be one

Congo 1961: The Murderous Regime Change

CIA/Belgian-backed Congolese troops taking prisoner African nationalist Patrice Lumumba, the elected “communist” prime minister of the Congo. “In high quarters here it is the clear-cut conclusion that if Lumumba continues to hold high office, the inevitable result will at best be chaos and at worst pave the way to a Communist takeover of the Congo,