#PeoplesHistory | Today, we commemorate the Little Rock Nine - a group of nine African American students who courageously enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957.

On September 4, 1957, the governor of Arkansas ordered the deployment of the Arkansas National Guard to "preserve the peace" and prevent Black students from entering the school. The governor claimed that there was an "imminent danger of tumult, riot, and breach of peace" due to the integration. A mob of white segregationists was also present and prevented the Black students' entry.

On September 23, 1957, President Eisenhower issued Executive Order 10730 to federalize the Arkansas National Guard and deploy them to support the integration as they protected African American students.

#PeoplesHistory | Today, we celebrate the Cuban Federation of Women (FMC), one of the largest mass organizations in Cuba, dedicated to bringing equality and achieving the emancipation of women. The federation has about 4 million affiliates.

The FMC was founded on August 23, 1960, by Vilma Espín and other revolutionary women who, with the support of Fidel Castro, sought to create an organization to strengthen the role of women in the Cuban revolutionary process after defeating the US-backed military dictatorship of Batista.

#PeoplesHistory | 🇵🇸 This week marks the birth anniversary of George Habash, a Palestinian revolutionary and freedom fighter. Habash was one of the founders of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a Marxist-Leninist and revolutionary organization which today continues to fight for a liberated Palestine.
#FreePalestine

#PeoplesHistory | Happy birthday to one of the great Latin American liberators, Simón Bolívar.

Bolivar was a Venezuelan politician and intellectual who, along with José de San Martín & others, helped lead independence movements across South America, working towards a united, liberated Patria Grande.

#PeoplesHistory | Today we remember Esther Bejarano, who survived Auschwitz and the Nazis, went to Palestine after WWII and was finally forced to go back to Germany because she could not tolerate the way Israel treated the Palestinian people.

Ricardo Levins Morales poster catalog, p560: Mad Hatters (2001)

This #PeoplesHistory poster relates the story of the "Mad Hatters" - hatmakers in the 1920s and 30s who fought their bosses in the name of workplace safety, forcing a government ban on mercury in the workplace.

Poster available on our website (with dozens of other labor history posters, too!): https://www.rlmartstudio.com/product/mad-hatters/

#Artwork #MastoArt #UnionYES #union #labor #EconomicJustice #Connecticut #USHistory

#PeoplesHistory | On this day in 1960, Ghana adopted a new constitution and became a Republic.

Kwame Nkrumah, the revolutionary pan-Africanist leader, became the first president of the country

#PeoplesHistory | Today, people in the US honor the heroic legacy of Black liberation struggles with Juneteenth, Freedom Day.

Juneteenth commemorates the emancipation of Black people from chattel slavery. It marks the day, June 19, 1865, when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, finally gained their freedom, 2.5 years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued.

Today, this legacy lives on in the multiple struggles against racism and oppression.

#PeoplesHistory | Today, we remember the Comandante Ernesto “Che” Guevara. Here are some quotes from revolutionaries around the world highlighting the legacy of this beloved internationalist revolutionary.

#PeoplesHistory |☭ Today is the birthday of the German philosopher and revolutionary Karl Marx.

Marx's writings and approach inspired millions to strive for a better society and an end to capitalist exploitation.

If Karl Marx were alive today, he would have been constantly gathering information about current events and updating "Das Kapital," while fully dedicating himself to the complete overthrow of capitalism and imperialism.

On his birthday, we pay homage to the struggles of Marx and his comrades of the past and present. A Luta Continua

#karlmarx #communism #marxism

#PeoplesHistory | Today, we celebrate # Italy's #LiberationDay, when 78 years ago, the #Partigiani defeated fascism and the Nazi German occupation in 1945.

After a general strike and working-class uprisings in many Italian cities, the anti-fascist #Partisans, who mostly were led by communists, defeated Adolf Hitler's occupation armies alongside the remaining loyalists of Benito Mussolini and took control of the Northern industrial centers, Milan and Turin.

Days after liberating Milan and Turin, the Partigiani captured and executed Benito Mussolini and the leadership of the 20-year fascist dictatorship.

Hollywood and the #US establishment have created the myth that the western allied armies – mainly the US army – liberated Europe from fascism and Nazism and won the Second World War on their own. But the reality is that several national liberation movements and armies were the key players in defeating the Nazi occupation forces in their countries. Greece, Yugoslavia and Italy are important examples of this.

In Italy, the Partigiani was a guerrilla army of about 300,000 brave combatants who constantly fought against Nazis and Fascists. The Soviets were the other great army that defeated Hitler's troops. The Soviet Union lost about 26 million people in the war against Nazism and Fascism.

#FestaDellaLiberazione

#PeoplesHistory | Today, the world celebrates International Anti-Colonialism Day, which marks the conclusion of the Bandung Conference in 1955. 29 nations from Africa and Asia took part in the conference where they stood united against imperialism, racism, colonialism and militarism.

Many of these countries had gained independence after World War II but realized that the struggle for liberation was not over and true independence required a global stand against oppression of all sorts.

From April 18, to April 24, 1955, delegates gathered at the Indonesian city of Bandung. Iconic leaders such as Gamal Nasser of Egypt, Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Jawaharlal Nehru of India, and Sukarno of Indonesia tried to define a new path for the Third World.

These leaders and delegates represented the millions who were fed up with the crimes of Western capitalism and imperialism, and sought a new agenda. This was an agenda of peace, of democracy, and freedom from colonialism and exploitation. Together, they brought the voices of millions of hitherto oppressed to the global stage as equals for the first time.

The Bandung Conference laid the foundation for the formation of the Non-Aligned Movement in 1961 and changed the course of history.

#PeoplesHistory | Today, we remember when the heroic Cuban people defeated US imperialism.

On this day in 1961, about 1500 far-right Cuban exiles trained, financed, and supported by the CIA tried to invade Cuba, landing in Playa Girón, to “recover” Cuba for the US imperialist benefit. They also planned to kill Fidel Castro and destroy the popular Cuban Revolution.

The Cuban Revolutionary Army, directly led from the front lines by Fidel Castro, repelled the attack in less than three days.

Hundreds of the mercenaries trying to invade Cuba were captured and were identified as former plantation owners or members of the army of the former bloody US-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista.

#PeoplesHistory | Why is Julian Assange such a threat to the US government?

Four years ago, #JulianAssange was violently dragged out of the Ecuadorian embassy and arrested. He spent the last four years in Belmarsh prison, guilty of exposing the war crimes of imperialist powers.
#4YearsinBelmarsh #FreeAssangeNOW #DropTheCharges

#PeoplesHistory | Today, we remember the Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, a leader of the Mexican Revolution of 1910. Zapata was murdered in 1919.

Zapata led peasants and rural working-class people of the south of Mexico to fight against the concentration of land, wealth and power by the bourgeoisie.

#PeoplesHistory | On April 5, 2010 #JulianAssange’sWikileaks published the “Collateral Murder” video, which showed the gunning down of civilians, children and two Reuters journalists, uncovering war crimes in Iraq. For revealing these, and other imperialist war crimes, #Assange faces up to 175 years in prison if extradited to the #US.

“It’s very simple. People have a right to know and a right to question and challenge power. That’s a true democracy.” Julian Assange, founder and publisher of #WikiLeaks

#PeoplesHistory | Today, we remember Martin Luther King Jr. who was assassinated on April 4, 1968 ! Remember his fiercely anti-capitalist and anti-war legacy, which the mainstream media is trying to hide.

Martin Luther King Jr. was at the forefront of the civil rights movement. Leading numerous campaigns that demanded civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States.

He was a fervent opponent of the US war in Vietnam and just before he was murdered, he launched a national anti-poverty campaign.

#PeoplesHistory | 🇵🇸 March 30 is commemorated across Palestine as #LandDay to commemorate the historic resistance of the Palestinian people to land theft as part of the expansion of Israel's settler-colonial project.

On that day in 1976, Israeli forces killed six Palestinians and detained and injured hundreds during the uprising in defense of their land.

#PeoplesHistory | Today, we remember the Soviet cosmonaut and national hero, Yuri Gagarin, who died on a day like today in 1968 at the age of 34. Gagarin, the son of a carpenter and a dairy worker, became the first person to reach outer space, becoming a Communist hero.

#PeoplesHistory | Happy birthday Walter Rodney! The Guyanese revolutionary Marxist and anti-imperialist was born on a day like today in 1942. He is most recognized for his book ‘How Europe Underdeveloped Africa.’

On July 13, 1980, Rodney was killed in Georgetown, at the age of thirty-eight, by a bomb in his car.