Anupam Guha @Anupam_Guha@mastodon.social

Red Rosa now has vanished too.
She told the poor what life is about,
And so the rich have rubbed her out.
May she rest in peace.

- Bertolt Brecht

In Berlin, finally met my teacher, where they had murdered her. It would do well for us to not forget the history of our movements, of strategic errors and the price of failure.

Some stuff to ward off ennui and despair for the young leftist. You are not alone and your worries are connected to a red thread of struggles spanning eons.

Today is (probably) a anniversary of a millennia old (recorded) first worker's strike. And it had worked.

This day around 3000 years back, year 29 of the reign of Ramses III, workers of Deir el-Medina conducted the first recorded strike

me from nine years back with good advice