tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6502187932910780823.post2678090359334235558..comments2024-03-06T12:16:49.012-05:00Comments on Fire on the Mountain: Workers, Celebrate Comrade Valentine's Day With Farseeing Proletarian Optimism!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6502187932910780823.post-15437029792652968252007-02-14T14:45:00.000-05:002007-02-14T14:45:00.000-05:00Esteemed anonymous--I was also able to track down ...Esteemed anonymous--<BR/><BR/>I was also able to track down 2005's Official Slogans via the invaluable Leftist Trainspotters list, but though there are posts there dating to 2002 with Comrade Valentine's Day in the subject line, most only had links to the FRSO/OSCL website. The absence of the first three years makes it hard to evaluate the political currents inside Freedom Road on this critical question (for instance, what does the 2007 universalization of initial capital letters in the slogans after a contrary trend indicate?).<BR/><BR/><BR/>Official Slogans for Comrade Valentine's Day, 2005 <BR/><BR/>Workers and Oppressed People, Hold Aloft the Bright Red, Heart-Shaped Banner of Comrade Valentine's Day!<BR/><BR/>Hail the Trailblazing Revolutionary Gay Marriage of Ka Andres and Ka Jose of the Compostela Valley Province Front of the New People's Army of the Philippines!<BR/><BR/>Resolutely Repudiate All Attacks by the Reactionaries of the Monopolist Ruling Class and Their Joyless, Puritanical Running Dogs on Women's Reproductive Freedom, on the Democratic Rights of LGBTQ People, and on Progress toward Genuine Equality between Women and Men!Jimmy Higginshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16032194600141427172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6502187932910780823.post-642557249358084592007-02-14T14:22:00.000-05:002007-02-14T14:22:00.000-05:00Here is last year's:Proletarians and Oppressed Peo...Here is last year's:<BR/><BR/>Proletarians and Oppressed Peoples,<BR/>Greet Comrade Valentine's Day in a spirit of resolute revolutionary optimism!<BR/><BR/>Expose, defy and combat sinister bourgeois schemes to transform Comrade Valentine's Day into a festival of commodities, a reinforcer of mandatory heterosexuality and a celebration of oppressive patriarchal gender norms!<BR/><BR/>Unite with all who draw strength from personal relationships in carrying on the struggle to crush oppression and exploitation and to build a better world!<BR/><BR/><BR/>A los/las Proletariada/os y Pueblos Oprimidos,<BR/><BR/>¡Demos la bienvenida al Dia del Camarada Valentin en el espiritu del optimismo firme y revolucionario!<BR/><BR/>¡Revelar, desafiar y combatir los planes siniestros burgueses de transformar el Dia del Camarada Valentin a un festival de comodidades respaldando la heterosexualidad obligatoria en una celebracion de la normas opresivas de genero patriarquista!<BR/><BR/>¡Unir con todos/as que se refuerzan a traves de las relaciones personales en la lucha de derrotar la opresion y crear un mundo mejor!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6502187932910780823.post-61274857421742722542007-02-14T07:48:00.000-05:002007-02-14T07:48:00.000-05:00Amusing, but my curiosity has been piqued. The ref...Amusing, but my curiosity has been piqued. The reference to a "fine tradition" suggests that this is not the first set of slogans.<BR/><BR/>I did click to the Freedom Road website but couldn't find any from earlier years. Where might I find previous slogan lists, if they exist and are not identical with this years?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com