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(By Eric Blanc, who has written brilliantly about the national question.)
The Hummet-Muslim Social Democratic Party in Baku — the oil-town capital
of Azerbaijan — was one of the more historically significant of these
non-Russian parties. Founded in 1904 as the world’s first socialist
organization of and for a Muslim population, the Hummet’s history
undermines widespread assumptions about socialism’s supposed irrelevance
to non-European peoples.
Denouncing the claim that believers in Islam “are alien to the class
struggle,” Muslim workers joined picket lines demanding universal health
care, equal pay, paid prayer time, maternity leave, and breaks for
breast-feeding. The Hummet focused especially on women’s equality,
denouncing patriarchal practices, leading popular education classes for
women, and helping establish an autonomous Muslim women’s organization.
Hummetists of both genders participated in the Baku Soviet, built armed
self-defense squads, and organized mass rallies of Muslim workers,
calling for resistance to the Tsar and the bourgeoisie (including local
capitalists), equal rights for all, and global solidarity with workers
and revolutionaries.
full:
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/08/marxism-class-white-workers-socialists-race-anticolonial/
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