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Spartacist co-founder Rosa Luxemburg also gives her name to a road through an industrial estate. Karl Liebknecht for some reason, didn't make the cut. French Syndicalist Georges Sorel is reassuringly, just around the corner! |
Local boy and anti-fascist icon, Antonio Gramsci (he was actually born in Sardinia), gets a Piazza named after him. |
Ace rocket jock and hero of the Soviet Union, Yuri Gagarin, clocks a residential road in a new housing estate. |
Hasn't this ceased to exist some time ago? |
One is reminded of an apposite old ditty: The revolution! By whom betrayed, by whom mislead? What Stalin did and Trotsky said, beguiles my Sabbath ease in bed and whilst the bell from yonder steeple, tolls out opium to the people, 'tis only just that Marx should be, the opium of the bourgeoisie. |
The Spanish civil war looms large in the mythology of the left. |
This plaque, which commemorates a local volunteer killed fighting Franco's fascists in Spain, is inside the entrance to Umbertide town hall. |
Plotting world revolution and selling hammer and sickle baseball caps. The office of the Communist Party in Umbertide. |
The apostle of direct action and advocate of the general strike, Sorel believed that only the application of force could bring about political change in society. |