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Friendly Neighbourhood Comrade @spiritoflenin.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

This week in 1989, George H.W. Bush ordered 27,000 troops to invade Panama to overthrow former CIA asset Manuel Noriega, ki!!ing 5,000 people, dumping bodies in mass graves, and destroying thousands of homes.

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Friendly Neighbourhood Comrade @spiritoflenin.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

On this day in 1969, the Chicago Police Department, operating as a death squad, ki!!ed Chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party chapter Fred Hampton with two shøts to the head at point-blank range. The operation was a cold-blooded assassination carried out with assistance from the FBI.

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Leyla Hamed @leylahamed.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Dina Abdeen, player of the Palestinian U20 national team, gets emotional speaking about Gaza and what it means for her to represent her country. “When we step onto the field, we fight for our people those in Palestine and in Gaza”

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Friendly Neighbourhood Comrade @spiritoflenin.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Remembering James Baldwin, who passed away yesterday in 1987.

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Friendly Neighbourhood Comrade @spiritoflenin.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Yesterday marked the 51st anniversary of when the USSR boycotted a FIFA World Cup qualification play-off match against Chile in a Santiago stadium used as a concentration camp by the fascist dictator Augusto Pinochet. Here’s one of the darkest chapters in FIFA’s bloody history. A thread:

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Friendly Neighbourhood Comrade @spiritoflenin.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

The first international trial for war crimes at Nuremberg, which is often credited as a US invention, was, in fact, brought about by the Soviet Union. A thread:

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Friendly Neighbourhood Comrade @spiritoflenin.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Today marks 19 years since the Haditha Massacre in Iraq. On this day in 2005, US Marines went on a five-hour ki!!ing spree in the Iraqi city of Haditha, ki!!ing 24 unarmed civilians. All of the ki!!ers who were arrested served no jail time.

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Friendly Neighbourhood Comrade @spiritoflenin.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

On this day in 1920, 104 years ago, the Soviet Union became the first country worldwide to legalise abortion under Vladmir Lenin's leadership. Thread:

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Friendly Neighbourhood Comrade @spiritoflenin.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

On this day in 1983, 41 years ago, the EZLN, often referred to as the Zapatistas, one of the world's most prominent social movements, was founded today. Who is the EZLN a 🧵:

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Friendly Neighbourhood Comrade @spiritoflenin.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

The first person to ever call "Israeł" an Apartheid state was South African Prime Minister & architect of Apartheid Hendrik Verwoerd in 1961. And he meant it as a compliment. Verwoerd was surprised "Israeł" voted at the U.N. to condemn South African Apartheid

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Friendly Neighbourhood Comrade @spiritoflenin.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Kwame Ture passed away on this day in 1998. Here is a thread of just some of his quotes that I often reflect on:

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Friendly Neighbourhood Comrade @spiritoflenin.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

"There are two dreams I have in my life. My dreams are rooted in reality, not in imagery. I dream, number one, of having coffee with my wife in South Africa, and my second dream is, I dream of having mint tea in Palestine." Remembering Kwame Ture who passed away on this day in 1998.

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Friendly Neighbourhood Comrade @spiritoflenin.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

On this day in 1781 Tupac Katari was ki!!ed by the Spanish colonialists for leading a historic rebellion that united the Aymara provinces and led an Indigenous army of 40,000 people to lay siege to the city of La Paz to try and starve out the Spanish who were governing from there

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Friendly Neighbourhood Comrade @spiritoflenin.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

The French sentencing court has approved the release of Georges Abdallah, the Lebanese communist who is Europe’s longest-serving political prisoner. Who is Georges Abdallah? A thread:

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Friendly Neighbourhood Comrade @spiritoflenin.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

"Imperialism has laid its body over the world, the head in Eastern Asia, the heart in the Middle East, its arteries reaching Africa and Latin America. Wherever you strike it, you damage it, and you serve the World Revolution." — Ghassan Kanafani

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Friendly Neighbourhood Comrade @spiritoflenin.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Māori members of New Zealand’s parliament disrupted the passage of a bill that would reinterpret the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi, which uplifts Indigenous peoples. The MPs performed a haka—a traditional Māori dance and chant—causing the session to be suspended.

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Friendly Neighbourhood Comrade @spiritoflenin.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Members of Betar armed with rods are threatening to “patrol” the streets of Paris this evening. Tensions are set to escalate in France as the UEFA match between "israeł" and France takes place this evening. Who is Betar? A thread:

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Friendly Neighbourhood Comrade @spiritoflenin.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Today marks the anniversary of the 1917 Great October Revolution, when the working class, organized through soviets & led by the Bolsheviks, made history. Here are images in colour from those roaring early years after the soviets took power.

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Friendly Neighbourhood Comrade @spiritoflenin.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

On October 3, 2015, 8 years ago today the US Air Force committed a serious war crime by "repeatedly and precisely" attacking a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, ki!!ing 42 patients and medical staff and injuring over 30 more.

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Friendly Neighbourhood Comrade @spiritoflenin.bsky.social · 01/10/2023

On this day in 1965, the Indonesian military, working closely with the US government, orchestrated a coup that deposed President Sukarno and installed the 30-year dictatorship of General Suharto.

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Friendly Neighbourhood Comrade @spiritoflenin.bsky.social · 01/10/2023

@mustbethehero.bsky.social damn I just realised you've been suspended on twitter bro what did they do you for smh.

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