The Petrograd sailors who fired the first shots in the 1917 Russian Revolution [Photo from Socialist Worker Archives].
Monthly Archive for July, 2008
From the Memory of the Class: The Bolshevik Revolution 1917 من ذاكرة الطبقة العاملة: الثورة البلشفية
John Reed, “The Unpopular War,” Seven Arts, August 1917, interviewing a group of Council of National Defense officials about the US involvement in an ensuing unpopular World War… One of them…
The aviation enthusiast spoke up, lying on his back and blowing expensive cigar smoke at the ceiling.
“Do you know what is needed? Only one thing–the same that did the trick for England. Casualties. At first it was impossible to interest the English masses in the war; they could not be made to see that it was their affair. But when the lists of the dead, wounded, mutilated, began to come back–and, by the way, England ought to be grateful for the German atrocities–then hatred of the Germans began to soak into the whole people from the families of the wonded and the dead. This social anger is patriotism–for war purposes.
‘If I had the job of popularizing this war, I would begin by sending three or four thousand American soldiers to certain death. That would wake the country up.’
It is safe to say that this is the same caliber of people as those who running America’s govt a century later…
A leaflet written by a young American socialist named Harvey O’Connor following the outbreak of the 1917 Russian Revolution. Over 20,000 copies were distributed [Photo from Socialist Worker Archive].
Workers marching through the streets of St. Petersburg, during the 1905 Russian Revolution. The central banner reads ‘Proletarians of All Countries Unite’ [Photo from Socialist Worker Archives].
Join the delegation to the Egyptian Embassy in London
Thursday 7th August, 4.30pm
Embassy of the Arab Republic of Egypt, 26 South Street, London W1K 1DW
Solidarity with the people of Mahalla / Stop the show trial of Egyptian protestors
A date of 9 August has been set for the trial of 49 Egyptian citizens accused of various crimes and arrested during the uprising in Mahalla on 6 and 7 April. We will be gathering to hand in the letter of protest below, which has already been signed by over 500 people including leading activists from the PCS, CWU and UCU unions, and anti-war campaigners.
Return names to cairoconference@stopwar.org.uk by 6 August for inclusion in the petition.
For more information about the trial see this solidarity website organised by campaigners in Egypt: http://abtalelmahalla.blogspot.com/ (English translation at bottom of page)
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Solidarity with the people of Mahalla… Stop the show trial of Egyptian protestors
We the undersigned express our full solidarity with the 49 Egyptian citizens, whom the Mubarak regime has decided to prosecute in an Emergency High State Security Criminal Court, accused of involvement in the two day uprising in the Nile Delta town of Mahalla in April. On the 6th and 7th of April, Mubarak’s troops occupied, Ghazl el-Mahalla, the biggest textile mill in the Middle East, home to 27,000 workers, aborting a strike announced by the independent Textile Workers’ League in protest at spiraling food prices and to demand a raise in the minimum wage which has remained stagnant since 1984.
The troops used live ammunition, tear gas, water cannons and sticks against the peaceful protestors in the town who took to the streets after the crushing of the strike. At least three were killed, and hundreds were injured and detained. The 49 detainees face a list of trumped up charges, to which some have confessed under torture. They will be tried in an exceptional court, systematically denounced by human rights watchdogs for lacking the international standards for a “safe and just trial.”
We call on the Egyptian dictatorship to release them immediately.
Mark Serwotka, General Secretary, PCS
Jane Loftus, President, Postal Executive, CWU
Trevor Ngwane – Anti-Privatisation Forum, South Africa
Professor Alex Callinicos, King’s College, London
Eamonn McCann, journalist and anti-war campaigner, Ireland
Richard Boyd-Barrett, People not Profit Alliance, Ireland
Chris Nineham, Stop the War Coalition
James Eaden, National Executive, UCU
Liz Davies, Secretary, Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers
Richard Harvey, Bureau Member, International Association of Democratic Lawyers
And more than 500 other signatories
[May Day 1917] Rallies by the Red Guards of Petrograd, in the run up for the October Revolution [Photo from Socialist Worker Archives].
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