#revolutionaries

Mural in Belfast, Northern Ireland

Fidel Castro, Cuban revolutionary and head of state, photographed next to Ernesto 'Che' Guevara in the Sierra Maestra mountains, Cuba, 1950s.

📷 Brooklyn, NY

“Lenin entrusted Stalin with the task of bringing him poison for when his illness became too much, which Stalin failed to do. Stalin was reprimanded by Lenin for being rude to Lenin's wife and said to Lenin's sister: "I did not sleep the whole night. Who does Ilyich think I am, how he regards me, as towards a traitor, I love him with all my heart. Please, somehow tell him this."”

Bob Fitch

A sense of danger pervades this painting of Emiliano Zapata, the leader of an army of Mexican laborers that fought for liberty and land redistribution for the poor during the early 20th century: bullets are strung across a man’s shoulder, a sword is pointed at another’s eye, and figures kneel in enervated poses. José Clemente Orozco portrayed Zapata silhouetted against a doorway, standing before two other revolutionaries and two grieving figures. For Orozco and other leftist Mexicans, Zapata - assassinated in 1919 - became a symbol of the revolution that took place from 1910 to 1920. With its emphasis on violence and suffering, this depiction is ambiguous rather than laudatory. A leader of the Mexican mural movement, Orozco worked in his home country as well as in the United States, painting Zapata in California.

Happy birthday to the French Revolution's chaos goblin, the man you can never trust around your garden furniture, Camille Desmoulins! Who is *not* the man in the photograph above.