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delicious homemade riot gifs and leftist propaganda. antifascist.

March 22, 2025 - Around 200 antifascists outnumbered the neonazis of the NVU four to one at a Nazi march in Baarn, the Netherlands. Embarrasingly for the NVU, around two-thirds of the Nazis had to be bussed in from Belgium and Germany. Large numbers of Dutch police brought in to protect their Nazi buddies used arbitrary arrests and beatings to keep the antifascists separated from the march. [video]/[reportback]

March 31, 1872 - On her birthday, we remember the great Marxist revolutionary feminist Alexandra Kollontai.

Born on March 31, 1872 in Czarist Russia, Kollontai was one of the leading women cadre in the Russian Revolution of 1917. She was People's Commissar for Social Welfare in the first Soviet government and a diplomat of the USSR. Kollontai was a champion of women's liberation and is regarded as a key figure in Marxist feminism. [video]/[link]

April 1, 1971 - From red. media:

On this day in 1971, German communist Monika Ertl assassinated Roberto Quintanilla, the Bolivian officer responsible for Che Guevara’s execution. Surprisingly, Ertl was the daughter of a Nazi propagandist who had fled to Bolivia. She was raised surrounded by her family's Nazi friends, such as Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie, aka the "Butcher of Lyon", who British director Kevin Macdonald alleges orchestrated Guevara's murder. Monika cut ties with her fascist family and grew closer to the Communist cause. She was deeply moved by Che Guevara's assassination in 1967 which led to her joining the National Liberation Army of Bolivia (ELN), which Che headed prior to his death. Under her new nom de guerre, “Imilla”, she worked with Che's former comrades to hunt down his killer. In 1971, Monika arrived in the German city of Hamburg, where she looked for Pereira, who was working at the Bolivian Consulate. Monika gunned down Che's killer with three shots to the chest. As she escaped, she left behind her purse, a wig, a revolver, and a piece of paper with the words "Victory or Death - ELN". The killing was soon linked to her and the US-backed Bolivian dictatorship put a $20,000 bounty on her head. However, Monika successfully returned to Bolivia with more targets on her mind, including her family's Nazi friends. In 1973, after several days of surveillance, CIA trained special units ambushed and murdered Monika in the capital city of La Paz. Her body was never found. Monika was dubbed “the avenger of Che”, a name that made headlines around the world.

April 2 2015 - Housing activists pull down fences surrounding Aylesbury estate, London, England. Southwark council spent £140,000 building a massive ‘Berlin Wall-style’ metal-spiked fence around a housing estate in south London. The Council splashed £200 per metre on the 8ft-high, 700 metre-long eyesore surrounding four blocks on the Aylesbury Estate.Council bosses, who have been facing protests over the estate’s planned demolition, claimed the hoarding was put up for the safety of residents.But residents told the Standard they were furious about being penned in behind the wall and left with only one access point to their homes, manned by private security.

Residents at the Aylesbury Estate are losing their homes in a deal between the local authority and Notting Hill Housing (NHH). Southwark call it regeneration, the residents call it social cleansing. They claim they are being pressured into accepting below market rate and risk being priced out of the area. 

The gradual removal of social housing (and its residents) in favour of building more flats for offshore investors increasingly points toward eradicating the mixed communities London has always had. The most important question councils should be asking is who benefits from this regeneration? If the residents come pretty low down that list, surely a rethink is needed.

April 2 2020 - Musician Helin Bölek of the left-wing Turkish band Grup Yorum has died after a prolonged hunger strike.

“On a death fast for 288 days, Grup Yorum member Helin Bölek has become a martyr,” the band said on its Twitter account on Thursday.

Masses paid tribute to Bölek in the late afternoon. Her coffin was covered with carnations and carried by women on their shoulders. During the memorial in the garden of the Cemevi (Alevi place of worship), people sang a song of the band, “Bize Ölüm Yok” (No death for us) and chanted “Helin Bölek is immortal”,  “Long live our death fast resistance” and "Group Yorum is the people, it cannot be silenced”.

Ibrahim Gökçek, who continues his death fast, joined the memorial on wheelchair, take his leave of his companion for the last time. Speaking here, Gökçek said that they would be victorious, whatever it may cost, and give their concerts again.

Bölek - alongside bandmates Mustafa Kocak and İbrahim Gökçek - had been on an intermittent hunger strike of more than 250 days to demand the lifting of concert bans on the group, an end to raids on the band’s cultural centre, and the release of imprisoned band members.

The folk collective has performed in various line-ups since it was formed in 1985 and has released 23 albums. But it has not been allowed to perform since 2016 as the Turkish authorities have accused members of being affiliated to the DHKP-C, a communist guerrilla group fighting the fascist Turkish state.

Grup Yorum runs the İdil Cultural Centre in Okmeydanı, Istanbul, which has been raided by the police more than 10 times in the last two years. A total of 30 people were arrested in these raids and seven members of the band remain in detention. [article]/[video]

Grup Yorum performing “Düşenlere”, or “For those who have fallen“

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