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"Dare to fight, dare to win!"

The great Detroit working class revolutionary General Baker is remembered and his ashes scattered this week, September 6, on what would have been his 74th birthday. General Baker, Presente!

"Perhaps I could draw a useful parallel with the Zimmerwald Conference following the outbreak of First World War. In some ways, what we see right now is the emergence of a Greek Zimmerwald left which might be a first step in forming a Europe-wide Zimmerwald left."

An interview with Greek MP Costas Lapavitsas on Popular Unity and the case for a progressive Grexit by Sebastian Budgen & Costas Lapavitsas

"The realm of freedom...can only consist in socialized man, the associated producers rationally regulating their interchange with Nature, bringing it under their common control, instead of being ruled by it as by the blind force of Nature, and achieving this with the least expenditure of energy and under conditions most favorable to, and worthy of, their human nature..." Karl Marx, Capital, Volume III, p. 820.

Happy Labor Day!
"And this life activity [the worker] sells to another person in order to secure the necessary means of life. ... He works that he may keep alive. He does not count the labor itself as a part of his life; it is rather a sacrifice of his life. It is a commodity that he has auctioned off to another."

Marcus Garvey Speaks! "Explanation of the Objects of the Universal Negro Improvement Association" is a studio recording made by African-American leader Marcus Garvey in New York in July 1921, and adapted from his longer speech "A Membership Appeal from Marcus Garvey to the Negro Citizens of New York".

Labor flexing its muscle on Labor Day weekend.

James Connolly speaking in Union Square, 1908. Connolly deep into his conflict with Daniel Deleon, and was then lead organizer of the I.W.W.'s propaganda leagues and the Irish Socialist Federation.

"Nothing is ever lost [...] This city will be taken, if not by our hands, at least by others like ours, but stronger. Stronger perhaps by having been better hardened, thanks to our very weakness. If we are beaten, other men, infinitely different from us, infinitely like us, will walk, on a similar evening, in ten years, in twenty years (how long is really without importance) down this rambla, meditating on the same victory. Perhaps they will think about our blood. Even now I think I see them and I am thinking about their blood, which will flow too. But they will take the city."
Victor Serge "Birth Of Our Power"

Ten years on.

Sound advice.

Detroit, 1937.

Assassinated on this day seventy-five years ago. Leon Trotsky, presente!

Tommy McKearney debates Ruth Dudley Edwards on whether the 1916 Rising was a good or bad thing. Needless to say, I am with Tommy on this.

Tommy McKearney speaking this week on the politics of James Connolly. Must watch!

Amazing photos of the POUM during the Spanish Civil War.

Ex-republican prisoner and trade union activist Tommy McKearney will be giving a talk on the politics of signatory of the 1916 Proclamation, James Connolly. The talk will take place in the National History Museum (formerly Collins Barracks) on Saturday July 25 @ 1pm. All welcome.