Workers of the world, unite!

[Sean]

Happy May Day!

 

[pointless]

word.

 

[SalviaDivinorum]

Raising a glass to the hardworking proletariat as we speak.
Also to Billy. Cheers, mate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk69e1Vcmvg

 

[pointless]

ludlow massacre

 

[pointless]

also, just because i like it.

all you fascists are bound to lose

 

[islandman]

I raise my steaming cup of coffee to the working, downtrodden masses as I lounge still in my pjs and the chef prepares a freshly slaughtered unicorn for breakfast.

 

[pointless]

1913 massacre

 

[Sean]

also, just because i like it.

all you fascists are bound to lose

I actually prefer the Billy Bragg version, but the video for that made me laugh.

 

[pointless]

I actually prefer the Billy Bragg version, but the video for that made me laugh.

it's not too bad, but i just like woody. he's america's favorite socialist.


the red flag

 

[trysail]

The U.S.S.R. figured it out, the People's Republic of China figured it out, Poland figured it out, Bulgaria figured it out, Czechoslovakia (Slovakia & the Czech Republic) figured it out, Albania figured it out, Vietnam figured it out, the German Democratic Republic ( formerly known as "East Germany" ) figured it out, Kazhakstan figured it out, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania always had it figured out, Hungary figured it out, and Romania figured it out. Jesus H. Christ, even the fuckin' Cubans are finally figuring it out.

In fact, the only people who haven't figured it out seem to hang around here and in North Korea.





http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129757511
Reform On The Range: Cubans Heed The Call To Farm
by Nick Miroff

September 21, 2010
Cuba has miles and miles of fertile, lush countryside where nothing is growing or grazing. After five decades of state-controlled agriculture, the country struggles to feed itself, forcing the government to import some 70 percent of the island's food.

Cuban President Raul Castro wants to change that and is asking enterprising Cubans to go back to the land.

Aniley Pena was watching TV two years ago when she heard the offer. The government was giving out free 10-year leases on state-owned land to anyone willing to take a crack at farming.

Today, she has 12 acres on the outskirts of Bejucal, a small town 20 miles south of Havana.

Pena is 38, rugged enough to trudge around in rubber boots, but not too earthy to wear mascara in the fields. She shields herself from the withering sun with a parasol and a Nike cap, supervising a team of men as they mix organic fertilizer into beds of radishes, carrots, scallions and spinach.

Pena's tractor is a little red Ford from the Truman era she inherited from her late grandfather. She has called her farm "Las Estrellas" — The Stars. Stars are bright, and they bring clarity, she said, which is what this new vocation has given her.

"Being out here relaxes me," Pena says. "Plus I know I'm doing something good for society, and also for myself."

Pena is the new face of Cuban socialism, a private entrepreneur...

Anybody interested in the benefits of a centrally planned economy and communism?

Satellite image of the Korean peninsula at night
Source: Defense Meteorological Satellite Program

 

[pointless]

what a cunt.

 

[oggbashan]

Russian 1944

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgTSHNAQvhs

 

[oggbashan]

Battle Hymn

Red Army Choir sing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju0wcKcLURE

 

[oggbashan]

Kalinka etc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCZNfeWGTkQ

 

[oggbashan]

Back to May Day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEI_Cd8azBY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3AvGImIMwM

 

[pointless]

do re mi

just a little more woody.

 

[KingOrfeo]

The Internationale.

 

[tactful]

When everyone becomes equal, who shall lead the masses, who shall become the chosen one, who shall be so special?

 

[pointless]

oh my god. that's so stupid it almost hurts.

 

[Sean]

When everyone becomes equal, who shall lead the masses, who shall become the chosen one, who shall be so special?

Everyone. That's kind of the point.

 

[trysail]

Everyone. That's kind of the point.

ROTFLMFAO

 

[islandman]

Everyone. That's kind of the point.

The masses are stupid, even dangerous.

 

[Sean]

The masses are stupid, even dangerous.

Yeah, we have to be ordered around by our betters. And more money=betters.

 

[islandman]

Yeah, we have to be led by people with brains. And more brains, the better.

Correct.

 

[KingOrfeo]

The old Soviet National Anthem. Haunting!