Blas Roca Calederio, born on July 22 in 1908, was a Cuban communist revolutionary and radical journalist. Roca helped lead the 1933 general strike that ousted Gerardo Machado, and served in Fidel Castro’s revolutionary government.

Born into a poor family, Roca began working at age eleven, shining shoes. According to Castro, Roca was already a prominent communist organizer in the province of Oriente at 21 years old.

At age 25, Roca helped lead a two week general strike that ousted dictator Gerardo Machado. By 1936, he was head of the Cuban Communist Party and began serving as a politican, helping author the 1940 Cuban Constitution.

Under Roca’s leadership, Cuban communists were instrumental in providing an organizational and ideological structure for Castro’s revolution, as well as playing a pivotal role using the party’s long-standing ties with the Soviet Union to promote increasingly closer ties during the early days of the revolution.

In 1961, Blas Roca, leading a party delegation, presented a Cuban flag to Nikita Khrushchev during a meeting of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Roca served on the first central committee and politburo of the new Communist Party of Cuba, founded in 1965.

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  • @[email protected]English
    3•9 months ago

    Just started reading Tales of the Jedi - holy damn the old Jedi would really just straight up join an Empress and conquer planets with her based on fascist manifest destiny shit. Like that first issue isn’t even subtle about it, she talks about the people she’s conquering exactly how Zionists talk about Palestinians.

    edit: and she calls her empire a “Trade Alliance” just before sending in the shock troops, love it

  • @[email protected]English
    3•9 months ago

    watching Beavis and Butthead

    Realizing that I got all of my opinions on music from Butthead

    uhuhuhuhu

  • Blockocheese [any]English
    6•9 months ago

    My trainer at work forever fucking up then “working” from home and not being here to help me then bitching when she comes back

  • Blockocheese [any]English
    17•9 months ago

    I’m going to get at least 10 mangoes this week, maybe even 15 depending on how many are ripe meow-melt

  • Blockocheese [any]English
    8•9 months ago

    Anyone have a list of all the people Kamala has called racist?

    Trying to see who she’ll run with this time

    • Blockocheese [any]English
      5•9 months ago

      If he’s really dirty, I’d try soaking in warm water with oxyclean before washing

  • Hohsia [he/him]English
    6•9 months ago

    Wild how Trump was almost assassinated last week and we’ve already moved on lol

    That’s actually really funny

  • Hohsia [he/him]English
    7•9 months ago

    I will not stop being annoying about this until I get an answer. But how the actual FUCK did Kamala Harris go from dropping out of the presidential election because she was universally disliked in her home state to potentially being the next president?

    I like I just have to concede that US politics makes no fucking sense because this reminds me of the the sudden switch to Biden after South Carolina. Of course leftists will always be branded as conspiracy theorists with this stuff or whatever but the easiest answer is that the donors are fully on board. Libs are claiming her massive donation haul was based on sheer popularity

    Who knows maybe Trump is much more disliked than the posters on this site think

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]English
      10•9 months ago

      I’ve been on and off bear-despair mode since January. Partly because my job isn’t particularly stimulating, and now I’m in a feedback loop where I can’t do independent readings and projects due to anxiety/insomnia and then feeling anxiety at my lack of independent readings.

      • PaX [comrade/them, they/them]English
        6•9 months ago

        That’s so real :(

        I’m also struggling with anxiety all the time and it gets worse for me too when I’m not doing projects or reading cuz I start worrying something bad happened to me like I have brain damage or lead poisoning or I’m dying and this is why I’m not doing projects or stuff I like in general and then that also loops for me, so very similar thing lol

        I don’t even work with computers in my job, I’m just stuck in a loop of getting hired at and then leaving various treat-servant jobs (retail, warehouses, etc) :(

        I can’t even afford the money/mental bandwidth to go to school for computer-touching lmao

        What do you like to read or work on?

        • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]English
          4•9 months ago

          Anxiety has me constantly flipping around. Current rotation: graduate stats book, Bishop’s new deep learning book, nonlinear PDE book from my graduate studies.

          I really want to pivot out of data science into something more math or engineering heavy, but having it hard to decide on what. I’m thinking potentially something DSP related, maybe fiberoptics reseadch. My academic work was in nonlinear waves so I was like surely some lab is doing research on fiberoptics with some small imperfection? There’s gotta be nonlinear schrodinger or nonlinear wave equations in that, right??

          • PaX [comrade/them, they/them]English
            4•9 months ago

            Current rotation: graduate stats book, Bishop’s new deep learning book, nonlinear PDE book from my graduate studies.

            Niceeee

            My academic work was in nonlinear waves so I was like surely some lab is doing research on fiberoptics with some small imperfection? There’s gotta be nonlinear schrodinger or nonlinear wave equations in that, right??

            You would think there would be given how much data they push through those things now, tiny imperfections and weird impedance mismatching, scattering, etc matters so much now that theres like nanosecond intervals between each symbol or whatever lol. Would guess the modeling involved there is on another level

            Idk anything about the math involved though, they didn’t even teach me calculus in high school :(

            I hope you can find some work to do more interesting to you, in your field even

    • Blockocheese [any]English
      5•9 months ago

      Sometimes its like your brain needs a little rest and you’ll be back to normal when its recharged meow-petted