Josef Stalin interviewed by HG Wells [1934].

I loved reading this interview. I've never read Stalin before (partly because I find his politics to be atrocious), but it turns out he was very good at explaining Marxism; and Wells, with his "Anglo-Saxon Socialism" and mishmash of liberal sociology and worship of order for the sake of order, was very good at making Marxism sound appealing.

(Mirror: http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1934/07/23.htm)

100 years ago today in Ludlow, Colorado.

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre

"as long as our own freedom is secured through the segregation of others, into concrete abysses – even, or especially, if these others remain invisible to us – it is a false sense of freedom, and it diminishes our own capacities for critical awareness."

"This weekly round of deportations at the NWDC comes as Ramon Mendoza Pascual and J. Cipriano Rios Alegria continue their hunger strike in medical isolation, under solitary confinement sentences."