- Born poor, turns orphan
- Becomes leader of Dutch rail union during time in which it was absolutely verboten, leads major strike
- got kicked out because he opposed class collaboration by the SDAP
- moves to Iindonesia because he cant find a job because of being a communist radical
- founds first labor union in Indonesia where both Dutch, Javanese and Indonesians are all equal members, which would go on to be an integral part of the anti colonial struggle
- gets kicked out of Indonesia by colonial authorities
- meets with Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin
- chosen by Soviets to be the guy to lead building communism in basically all of Asia
- helps found the Communist Party of China
- was the guy who thought up and made happen the temporary collaboration of the KMT and Communists against the Japanese imperialists
- gets replaced by some Russian dude because he chose the side of Trotsky in continuing international fomenting of revolution
- fights in the Spanish civil war against Franco
- helps organize strikes during ww2 against the nazis
- he founded a resistance group against the German occupation, the Marx-Lenin-Luxemburg-Front (MLL-Front). This was largely engaged in producing propaganda for socialism and opposing the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands and as such was heavily involved with the February strike of 1941.
- excecuted
- For two years he managed to keep out of the hands of the Nazis, but in April 1942 they finally arrested him and the rest of the MLL-Front leadership. Their execution took place in the Amersfoort KZ on 12 April 1942. It was reported that they went to their deaths singing "The Internationale".
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:kelly: the sneevliet union
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