On this day in 1959, U.S.-backed Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista fled the country following the victory of Fidel Castro’s 26th of July Movement (M-26-7) at the Battle of Santa Clara, marking the successful conclusion of the Cuban Revolution.
The 26th of July Movement takes its name from the date of with a failed attack on the Moncada Barracks in 1953, however, the movement bearing this name was not formally organized until the attackers were released from prison in 1955. Public resistance continued sporadically until November 1956, when 80 members of the M-26-7 returned from exile.
Soon after landing on the island, a separate revolutionary group, the “Directorio Revoluncionari Estudiantil” (DRE), unsuccessfully attempted an attack on the Presidential Palace in Havana.
Throughout 1957, armed resistance from groups such as the DRE and M-26-7 would escalate. After a failed offensive by the government against rebels in the summer of 1958, the rebels launched a major counter-offensive.
On December 28th, 1958, after a fraudulent election in favor of Batista, revolutionary forces reached the city of Santa Clara. Seizing equipment from an armored train intended to transport government reinforcements, the rebels quickly captured the city, prompting Batista to panic and flee to the Dominican Republic with a personal fortune of more than $300 million.
In the following days, revolutionary forces entered Havana with no resistance, and Castro established a provisional government. The 26th of July Movement later reformed along Marxist–Leninist lines, becoming the Communist Party of Cuba in October 1965.
Batista later settled in fascist Spain, dying there in 1973 at the age of 72.
The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto “Ché” Guevara
Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War by Ernesto “Ché” Guevara
History Will Absolve Me by Fidel Castro
To the U.N. General Assembly, The Problem of Cuba and its Revolutionary Policy by Fidel Castro
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r/Communism Another Cuba and Fidel Megathread
lecture from Michael Parenti about Cuba
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When I ask “should we rename honey to ‘bee’s milk’” at 2AM and I don’t get a single response. That makes you look stupid, not me.
I love when people draw fantasy characters in a modern setting but make their outfits absolutely awful. Like Aang with the worst fit you’ve ever seen in your life is so funny to me
Mfw cold front
: “There is no such thing as coercion. If you don’t like the way you’re treated at a job just leave….oh by the way working class, I need you to have more kids. Get to it.”
: “What if we don’t want to have kids for your sake?”: “Oh, that’s easy. I will make women second class citizens and take away what little infrastructure is available to allow poor people to ever set foot on a college campus! After all, I wasn’t asking you to have kids. I was ordering you to!” (yes, all of this can be found in the heritage foundation agenda.)FF7 Rebirth is so good it literally feels like it’s from a less cursed timeline and yet they gave GOTY to this Sony circlejerk tech-demo-forgetable-name-ass game?
I CANNOT believe game awards are bullshit!!
major jokerfication
Saw so many fucking Teslas today
THREE FUCKING CYBER TRUCKS
Was walking down the street wearing the most over the top outfit I have and literally stopped, pointed and laughed at all of them stopped in traffic and sang Entrance of the Gladiators as loudly and as badly as I could, looking like a fucking unhinged lunatic probably
but I actually started doing the “Walt in the crawlspace” laugh when I saw the third one 
WHO THE FUCK WITH ENOUGH MONEY TO BUY ONE IS ALSO DUMB ENOUGH
I DON’T FUCKING GET IT
IT’S AN EXTREMELY UGLY PIECE OF SHIT MADE BY THE WORLD’S BIGGEST,.RICHEST DUMBASS PIECE OF SHIT
IT LITERALLY CRASHES ITSELF,. SPONTANEOUSLY COMBUSTS, AND A SOFTWARE UPDATE OR GOING THROUGH A CARWASH WRONG CAN BRICK IT LMFAO
JUST GET A BMW OR MERCEDES OR LAND ROVER OR SOMETHING IF YOU HAVE TO BE A RICH ASSHOLE LMAO
FUCKING CLOWN CARS
FUCK
it’s okay
I’m okay
new colloquialism unlocked:
someone in the Ryan Hall Y’all livestream chat said their road was “slicker than a frog’s nutsack” 😂
this storm is no joke. we were supposed to get <1" today with the worst of the storm coming after midnight; we are pushing 3" and it isn’t even midnight yet.
allegedly we will get 8-10" more between midnight and 7pm tomorrow, which will give us the largest 24-hour accumulation for my area in a very long time.
thankfully our ice forecast has been downgraded from .3" to .1"; we will almost certainly lose power, but hopefully only a couple days.
seems like the Boring Company ended up as another elon-sized OSHA-violating scam
it is january 5 and stalin saved the world from fascism
Having an EV (or an inline hybrid like I’ve got) is great, but the one thing that sucks the most about them is that every single public charger has a different app and there’s never an option to charge without using it. I don’t even care that it’s not free I would gladly just swipe my credit card if I could but these MFs got me downloading six different apps to my phone and making an account for every single one.
Talking about how depressing Soviet housing is. And besides the fact that it’s housing people, has anyone who has made the criticism ever been inside of a tiny 1 bedroom condo of the “pretty” glass and steel condo buildings? Besides being small the shape is actually deranged. Canada hasn’t produced a single livable apartment in like 35 years. It’s actually fucking crazy, it does feel like as soon as the Soviet Union collapsed the west decided it could stop pretending it ever cared about people.
Sister taught her dog to ring a bell when she needs to go out. Turns out she rings it whenever she wants attention, or to beg for food, or if she’s just bored. That infernal ringing is driving me MAD
they say every time a bell rings a angel gets another pair of wings. I think this dog is songlehandedly responsible for thevexistence of those biblically accurate Angels 
they’re running out of room to stick the damn thingsthings are kind of bad for me rn comrades so i haven’t been around or keeping up with the world, but i’m glad you’re all still here and shitposting. its nice to know there are sane people keeping an eye on things and writing critical analysis of shit, no matter how much i have to detatch
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its not even a real fucking problem. i’m desperately trying to apply to phds to get the fuck out of this awful bullshit job, but i’m also… not. like, i keep looking at empty documents and NOT DOING THE SHIT I ENJOY BUT ALSO NOT DOING THE SHIT I NEED TO. WHICH??? WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT. I’M NOT HAVING FUN OR BEING PRODUCTIVE. this is fucking tortuous. this could have been finished a fucking month ago but i just WON’T becuase the deadline isn’t tomorrow so i’m not panicking yet, its just a steady constant dread that isn’t giving me the adrenaline i need to ever get any work done but is ruining my days with the looming presence of inevitable failure and the fact that i am apparently just going to watch the oppurtunity to do what i love float past me without taking any action to grab it? despite giving up video games etc to devote months of my evenings to grabbing it??
i’ve always been lazy but i can scrape everything together to a very high standard the day before it’s due. this needs time for communication etc so it can’t be done the day before the deadline. this is new and awful and also not even a real problem and i’m the only reason i’m being a failure rn so i can’t even bitch about it. god i hate having a fucking job taking up half my day everyday.
