On March 21st, 1910 in Odessa, Mikhail Efimov – in the presence of 100,000 people on the field of the Odessa Racetrack – took to the skies yet again. On this day he climbed five times, (performing three laps) at an altitude of 50 meters, including two flights with passengers – bankers Ivan Xidias and the Chairman of the Odessa Flying Club -A rthur Anatot.
Tag: WWI
The Real Reasons Behind WWI and the First (Modern) Western Invasion of Iraq
These misled commentators must use an unacknowledged Marxian approach in their analysis of capitalism, because no other system of ideology has ever criticised capitalism so thoroughly or completely.
The Demise of Fascist Trotsky (1940)
As Trotsky began to read, Ramon Mercader produced an ice-pick hidden within the lining of his jacket, and hit Trotsky in the back of the head – and then tried to finish the job by strangulation – but Trotsky’s bodyguards entered the room and began to beat Ramon Mercader to death.
Chinese Shot At Dawn (British Army WWI)
Many remain unaware that even after WWI, men who fought in the British Army were still being executed for alleged crimes committed between 1914-1918. This included the Chinese labourers (disparagingly referred to in British military records as ‘Coolies’) F Y Wan, C M Hei, C H K’hung and C. C. Wang.
Chinese: In and Out of Britain
In recent times, the New Labour Government of Tony Blair declared ‘racism’ to be a legitimate expression of freedom of speech in the UK. This has led to the ‘mainstreaming’ of racist ideology and racist rhetoric throughout the UK media, with its victims being Black, Brown and Yellow.
British Communists at the Cenotaph (1921)
Later, extraordinary young men would come forward to lead the British working class such as Wal Hannington – who was charged under the 1797 Incitement of Mutiny Act in 1925 and imprisoned for a year – for daring to tell the British establishment that working class people were starving and needed help from a fairer society.