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Feb 9 1937 - Leon Trotsky makes his “I stake my life” speech to Dewey Commission. The Commission was an investigation into Soviet Show Trials being in Moscow, it exposed the framing of defendants & concluded "no effort was made to ascertain the truth". https://t.co/i8fF3QFlhC https://t.co/WnaXYbdHJk

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Nov 22 1916 - Death of Jack London, American author, socialist and journalist. Wrote novels like "Call of the Wild" and more radical works including "People of the Abyss" about poverty & life in East London. https://t.co/1ShAx9aJqB https://t.co/mUHe68EYwa

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Feb 8 1921 – Death of Peter Kropotkin, Russian anarchist. Born a "Prince" he renounced his title at the age of 12 and was imprisoned at 32 for his activism. Escaping, he went into exile for 41 years and wrote on economics, politics, science & anarchism before returning to Russia. https://t.co/F2LfbbI67R

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Dec 16 1906 - American anarchist Emma Goldman lectures on "False & True Conceptions of Anarchism" at the Brooklyn Philosophical Association. https://t.co/iAFjH38e8a

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Aug 31 1928 - The Threepenny Opera, a musical by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, a critique of capitalism, is first performed in Berlin https://t.co/Np0AdwYnPF https://t.co/GSNL0B523O

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June 27 1880 - Birth of Helen Keller, radical US socialist; member of the IWW and Socialist Party of America. She was the first blind & deaf person to earn a degree and the author of 12 books including "Out of the Dark" a book on socialism. https://t.co/2J0nb8cGyc

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Mar 20 1852 - Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin published. Sold 300,000 copies in first year & helped lead to massive increase in support for abolition. https://t.co/cv4HTSdqxZ

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Mar 14 1883 - Karl Marx dies aged 64. A lifelong revolutionary born in Trier, Germany who was exiled to London; together with Engels he founded the Communist tradition. His great works include Capital an unfinished multi-volume study of Capitalism & the Communist Manifesto. https://t.co/qxxT1ghTch

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Aug 21 1940 - Death of Leon Trotsky. Russian Marxist revolutionary, President of Petrograd Soviet in 1905 & 1917 revolutions, founder of the Red Army. Foremost critic of Stalin's "Socialism in One Country", who had him assassinated. https://t.co/iXOWjecYX0 https://t.co/QyY7a83LiX

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Mar 24 1834 - Birth of William Morris. British artist, designer & socialist activist who founded the Socialist League in 1884. His writings included "News from Nowhere" about a future Commonwealth and much journalism in socialist newspapers. https://t.co/k3nMGoxQTQ https://t.co/Hsg7ugQ59L