Read this when you have time…

Read this when you have time…

Dan Mayer starts our new series on Lenin and the Bolsheviks with a look at the debates among early Russian socialists: When spontaneous struggle is not enough

The second part of Dan Mayer’s series explores how a new audience for the Bolsheviks arose out of struggle: A mass party born in the 1905 Revolution

1918 historical footage of Leon Trotsky as People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs (negotiating the Brest-Litovsk Treaty with the Germans), and as commander of the Red Army (Civil War), then later at the XII Communist Party Congress receiving a standing ovation for his speech calling for greater party democracy.

A nice video clip, I found via Richard, from the movie “Reds,” about the life of US Communist journalist John Reed…

بركات زيارة مبارك لبوتين ومناشدته عدم التخلي عن الحكم على رغم من مخالفته الدستور بدأت تظهر… قوبلت مظاهرات المعارضة الروسية اليوم المحتجة على تعديلات قوانين الانتخابات الأخيرة - قوبلت بتشكيلات من “الأمن المركزي” الروسي المحترم، المزودة بكلاب بوليسية وطائرات الهليوكوبتر.. وقامت الشرطة بسحل المتظاهرين واعتقال 40 بموسكو و200 آخرين في طريقهم للمظاهرة من خارج المدينة

I read about this before I went to sleep last night, and sure put me in a bad mood.
To be honest, I never heard of the woman before the terrible tragedy happened. But the more I read about her, the more grief I felt.

I spoke with a veteran American journalist friend of mine in Cairo, [...]