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Read on »‘Communist parties too must learn to utilize these methods’
The following quotes are from the Comintern’s Fourth Congress (1922), the proceedings of which Comrade John Riddell translated into English. The quotes were made available to me by Comrade Jesse McLaren in January of this year: 1) In the discussion of trade union work, the Bolshevik Lozovsky (general secretary of the Red International of Labour
Read on »‘We must develop a new Communist reporter’
Zinoviev wrote for the Communist International to the editors of Communist papers in 1921. He complained that: Our papers are too dry, too abstract, too similar to papers of the old type. They are made up too much of what is of interest to the professional politicians, and contain very little of such items as
Read on »#RevSoc Visualizing propaganda and agitation
Leon Trotsky, “Vodka, the Church, and the Cinema” 12 July, 1923: The most important weapon in this respect, a weapon excelling any other, is at present the cinema. This amazing spectacular innovation has cut into human life with a successful rapidity never experienced in the past. In the daily life of capitalist towns, the cinema
Read on »What is to be done: The Website as an Organizer #RevSoc
The Revolutionary Socialists Movement launched its new website on 7 August. The site represents a qualitative change in our propaganda work, but it also presents some major challenges to the membership of the movement as a whole and not only to the comrades in the media committee alone. This is the necessity to provide content
Read on »#CounterMaspero: Videojournalists collectives
We need Mosireen not just in every province, but in every street. Dissent must be visualized and abuses exposed graphically on the widest scale possible.
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Every video you upload, every picture you take and share, helps pushing public dissent forward.
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A camera, sometimes, is no less important than a Kalashnikov in a revolution
The people we photograph are not “objects,” but “subjects” and agents of change. A Key factor contributing to the revolution’s domino effect is visualizing dissent. We need to spread images and videos of the revolt to inspire others into action. A camera, sometimes, is no less important than a Kalashnikov in a revolution.
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