[AUT] Re: An Assault on (Stalinist) Culture

[Joe McGuire <proletaire2003@xxxxxxxxx>]

Speaking of an assault on culture; Here's some news of a recent assault on culture: the culture of the Stalinist counter-revolution and the public display of one of the Big Lies of the 20th century:

Stalinist Spanish Civil War Artwork Vandalized on San Francisco's Embarcadero

Direct Action to commemorate the beginning of the Spanish Civil War the right way...

July 19th is the anniversary of the beginning of the Spanish Civil War in 1936 -- the beginning of the last attempt at an anti-capitalist revolution in the period of revolutions beginning in Mexico in 1915 and accelerating after the Russian Revolution of 1917. The revolutionary movement in Spain was defeated by a counter-revolution spearheaded by the Stalinist Soviet Union and it's global puppets, and the events of the war have been successfully lied about ever since by Stalinist and liberal public relations hacks. (See George Orwell's stirring and brilliant 'Homage to Catalonia' for the best brief introduction in English to the events surrounding the revolution and counter-revolution during the civil war in Spain.)

A public art work celebrating the role played by the Abraham Lincoln Battalion, the US dupes of and cannon fodder for the Stalinist counter-revolution in Spain from 1936 to 1939, was dedicated this past May on San Francisco's Embarcadero, behind the fountain on Justin Herman Plaza at the foot of Market Street.

Sometime this past week, some person or persons unknown gave this monument to one of the big lies of 20th century history an appropriate makeover. The Stalinist art work was grafittied with the message, "Viva Durruti Y Orwell," in what appears to be red and black spray paint.

Workers Memory Project

Photos (and foam-flecked Staliniod and milk-sop liberal commentary) can be seen here:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/07/21/18518486.php

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