Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Yes, the website you got them from also provide links for further reading, which aren’t provided here.
This is the site in question:
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This is the site in question:
However there are those who do not believe in the concept of intellectual/artistic property and see the information/material provided as much more important than people getting credit for stuff, which can be seen as a corporate concept (and has resulted in all sorts of things being copyrighted).
In anycase, as I've mentioned on here previously this stuff is done by people who are with Working Class History, I get the info from facebook (from their page). I've given them credit before but just didn't see it as necessary to do it with every single post on here.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I think you should from now on, to give people the opportunity to find out more.
And I don’t think you have given credit to them before.
And your first paragraph there reads like after-the-fact self-justification rather than coming from earnestly-held political belief.
Own your mistakes, fella
I really don't care what you think
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
i'll do it for you from now on, and pair it with a different insult each time, until you do the decent thing.
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Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
I can see why someone who can't create something himself would say they don't believe in citing their sources assiduously
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
You missed out yesterday, AmateurAgitator
Don’t you like East Timorese and Indonesians?
Don’t you like East Timorese and Indonesians?
Get a life dickhead. I don't have to explain myself to you.
You're a sad weirdo
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Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Are you going to apologise for that?People from Egypt clearly don't matter to you
You're on ignore now you creepy twat
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
More from Working Class History:
“On this day, 8 December 1949, a conference of dock workers in France agreed to prevent all cargo destined for Indochina from being transported from multiple ports during the anti-colonial war in the region. France had been at war with the anti-colonial movement in Vietnam since 1946 in a conflict which spread to the neighbouring French protectorates of Cambodia and Laos. The ports on the Mediterranean coast which were blacked were Marseille, Sete, Nice, Port-de-Bouc, Port-Saint-Louis, Port Vendre and Toulon. The move followed a refusal of dockers the previous month to load two ships headed for Indochina: the Montbeliard and the Cap Tourane (pictured).
Learn more about the Vietnam war and opposition to it in our podcast series: Vietnam war – Working Class History “
“On this day, 8 December 1949, a conference of dock workers in France agreed to prevent all cargo destined for Indochina from being transported from multiple ports during the anti-colonial war in the region. France had been at war with the anti-colonial movement in Vietnam since 1946 in a conflict which spread to the neighbouring French protectorates of Cambodia and Laos. The ports on the Mediterranean coast which were blacked were Marseille, Sete, Nice, Port-de-Bouc, Port-Saint-Louis, Port Vendre and Toulon. The move followed a refusal of dockers the previous month to load two ships headed for Indochina: the Montbeliard and the Cap Tourane (pictured).
Learn more about the Vietnam war and opposition to it in our podcast series: Vietnam war – Working Class History “
platinumsage
HaveMyPassword123
From Working Class History (to avoid petty arguments and this thread being derailed further by bellends with nothing better to do with their sad, pathetic, shit and futile lives but engage in petty, pointless arguments and be unnecessarily insultiing . . . )
On this day, 29th December 1939, French physician, libertarian socialist and women's rights activist Madeleine Pelletier died in an asylum where she had been interned after openly assisting an abortion for a teenage survivor of incest. Born into a poor family in 1874, Pelletier became a feminist and socialist, and was arrested for breaking a window at a polling place after she and other women were denied entry. While never admitted into intellectual circles, she was a pioneer of advanced feminist ideas, like gender roles being largely determined by society, rather than biology. While expressing no interest in sex in her personal life, and so possibly asexual, Pelletier advocated for women's rights to sexual pleasure, as well as to contraception and abortion. Despite all the misfortune she experienced, Pelletier declared: "I remain a feminist. I will remain one until my death even though I don't like women as they are now any more than I like the working class as it is. Slave mentalities revolt me."
On this day, 29th December 1939, French physician, libertarian socialist and women's rights activist Madeleine Pelletier died in an asylum where she had been interned after openly assisting an abortion for a teenage survivor of incest. Born into a poor family in 1874, Pelletier became a feminist and socialist, and was arrested for breaking a window at a polling place after she and other women were denied entry. While never admitted into intellectual circles, she was a pioneer of advanced feminist ideas, like gender roles being largely determined by society, rather than biology. While expressing no interest in sex in her personal life, and so possibly asexual, Pelletier advocated for women's rights to sexual pleasure, as well as to contraception and abortion. Despite all the misfortune she experienced, Pelletier declared: "I remain a feminist. I will remain one until my death even though I don't like women as they are now any more than I like the working class as it is. Slave mentalities revolt me."
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
50 years ago today the UK formally acceded to the, then, EEC.
Hey leavists, don't shoot the messenger!
Hey leavists, don't shoot the messenger!
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
On this day, 7th January 2019, a group of Indigenous land defenders was attacked by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) who had been instructed to use violence and were prepared to use deadly force. The activists were defending the Gidimt’en checkpoint, east of the Unist'ot'en protest camp, which had been erected to prevent the construction of a gas pipeline on ancestral lands of the Wet’suwet’en nation in the province of British Columbia, Canada. Senior RCMP officers had stated that “lethal" force was "req'd”, and had instructed police to “use as much violence toward the gate as you want”.
During the attack 14 people were arrested and the barricades were destroyed. For more than 20 years, First Nations peoples have been fighting the growing encroachment by fossil fuel companies in the region.
Despite the repression, resistance to the pipeline continued.
Tlingit land defender Anne Spice told the Guardian newspaper: “The police are here to support the invasion of Indigenous territories… It is what they’ve always done."
The paramilitary RCMP was specifically created to facilitate genocide against Indigenous peoples, by violent relocation, to suppress any resistance and forcibly remove Indigenous children from their families in order to place them in residential schools and indoctrinate them into colonialist and capitalist structures.
(From Working Class History)
During the attack 14 people were arrested and the barricades were destroyed. For more than 20 years, First Nations peoples have been fighting the growing encroachment by fossil fuel companies in the region.
Despite the repression, resistance to the pipeline continued.
Tlingit land defender Anne Spice told the Guardian newspaper: “The police are here to support the invasion of Indigenous territories… It is what they’ve always done."
The paramilitary RCMP was specifically created to facilitate genocide against Indigenous peoples, by violent relocation, to suppress any resistance and forcibly remove Indigenous children from their families in order to place them in residential schools and indoctrinate them into colonialist and capitalist structures.
(From Working Class History)
On this day, 10th January 1859, Catalan educator and anarchist, Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia was born. He is best known for his development of the idea of the Modern School: radical, secular education particularly for working class children, which remains influential around the world today.
Born the 13th of 14 children, Ferrer's formal education ended at the age of 13 when he began work, later working on the railways before becoming a Spanish teacher in France. At the age of 24 Ferrer became a Freemason, at a time when Masonic lodges where important organising spaces for secular radicals and anarchists.
In 1901 a wealthy student of Ferrer died and left him a property in Paris in her will, which Ferrer was able to sell to set up his first Modern School in Barcelona. The school opened in September 1901 with 18 boys and 12 girls, and Ferrer set about propagating its methodology elsewhere.
In 1909, a strike broke out in Barcelona in protest at the Spanish government sending poor and working class conscript soldiers to suppress an uprising against Spanish colonialism in Morocco. The events culminated in the Tragic Week, when civil guards violently crushed the strike. A major force behind the stoppage was the revolutionary group Solidaridad Obrera (Workers' Solidarity), which Ferrer had covertly funded. Despite Ferrer having minimal input into the strike itself, he was accused by the state of masterminding it, and was quickly sentenced to death by a kangaroo court and executed.
(From Working Class History)
Born the 13th of 14 children, Ferrer's formal education ended at the age of 13 when he began work, later working on the railways before becoming a Spanish teacher in France. At the age of 24 Ferrer became a Freemason, at a time when Masonic lodges where important organising spaces for secular radicals and anarchists.
In 1901 a wealthy student of Ferrer died and left him a property in Paris in her will, which Ferrer was able to sell to set up his first Modern School in Barcelona. The school opened in September 1901 with 18 boys and 12 girls, and Ferrer set about propagating its methodology elsewhere.
In 1909, a strike broke out in Barcelona in protest at the Spanish government sending poor and working class conscript soldiers to suppress an uprising against Spanish colonialism in Morocco. The events culminated in the Tragic Week, when civil guards violently crushed the strike. A major force behind the stoppage was the revolutionary group Solidaridad Obrera (Workers' Solidarity), which Ferrer had covertly funded. Despite Ferrer having minimal input into the strike itself, he was accused by the state of masterminding it, and was quickly sentenced to death by a kangaroo court and executed.
(From Working Class History)
Shoulda posted this yesterday -
On this day, 11th January 1943, Italian-American anarchist union organiser and newspaper editor Carlo Tresca was assassinated in New York City.
Tresca had been a railway union activist and editor back in Italy, and migrated to the US to avoid a prison term. In his new home, Tresca travelled around the country, helping organise workers with the Industrial Workers of the World union. He was active in organising and supporting strikes of miners in Pennsylvania, textile and hotel workers in New York, silk workers in New Jersey and miners in Minnesota. Tresca also dodged assassination, bombing and lynching attempts, arrests, deportation and bogus criminal charges of offences including murder.
With the rise of fascism in Italy, Tresca agitated strongly amongst Italian workers in the US to oppose fascists' attempts to gain a foothold in the migrant community as well. Tresca was surveilled by the Department of Justice, and his anti-fascist newspaper Il Martello was held up in the post. Eventually when the Italian fascist government asked the US to suppress Il Martello, the government happily complied. They prosecuted Tresca for sending "obscene matter" through the post, and sentenced him to a year and a day's imprisonment, until mass outrage forced the president to commute his sentence.
The most recent research suggests that Tresca was murdered by contract killer Carmine Galante, on the orders of fascist-sympathising mobsters.
After his death, Tresca's friend Max Eastman wrote: "For Poetry’s sake, for the sake of his name and memory, Carlo had to die a violent death. He had to die at the hand of a tyrant’s assassin. He had lived a violent life. He had loved danger. He had loved the fight. His last motion was to swing and confront the long-expected enemy. So let us say farewell to Carlo as we hear him say—as he surely would if the breath came back—‘Well, they got me at last!’"
(From Working Class History)
On this day, 11th January 1943, Italian-American anarchist union organiser and newspaper editor Carlo Tresca was assassinated in New York City.
Tresca had been a railway union activist and editor back in Italy, and migrated to the US to avoid a prison term. In his new home, Tresca travelled around the country, helping organise workers with the Industrial Workers of the World union. He was active in organising and supporting strikes of miners in Pennsylvania, textile and hotel workers in New York, silk workers in New Jersey and miners in Minnesota. Tresca also dodged assassination, bombing and lynching attempts, arrests, deportation and bogus criminal charges of offences including murder.
With the rise of fascism in Italy, Tresca agitated strongly amongst Italian workers in the US to oppose fascists' attempts to gain a foothold in the migrant community as well. Tresca was surveilled by the Department of Justice, and his anti-fascist newspaper Il Martello was held up in the post. Eventually when the Italian fascist government asked the US to suppress Il Martello, the government happily complied. They prosecuted Tresca for sending "obscene matter" through the post, and sentenced him to a year and a day's imprisonment, until mass outrage forced the president to commute his sentence.
The most recent research suggests that Tresca was murdered by contract killer Carmine Galante, on the orders of fascist-sympathising mobsters.
After his death, Tresca's friend Max Eastman wrote: "For Poetry’s sake, for the sake of his name and memory, Carlo had to die a violent death. He had to die at the hand of a tyrant’s assassin. He had lived a violent life. He had loved danger. He had loved the fight. His last motion was to swing and confront the long-expected enemy. So let us say farewell to Carlo as we hear him say—as he surely would if the breath came back—‘Well, they got me at last!’"
(From Working Class History)
Fozzie Bear
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On this day in 1983, Colin Roach was killed by a gunshot in the lobby of Stoke Newington Police Station.
This, and the police response, led to a series of very heated community protests during which several people including Colin's grieving father, were arrested.
An independent community inquiry found that there was little evidence to suggest that Colin had killed himself and that it was impossible to know who had pulled the trigger because of the failure of the police to investigate the incident properly.
This, and the police response, led to a series of very heated community protests during which several people including Colin's grieving father, were arrested.
An independent community inquiry found that there was little evidence to suggest that Colin had killed himself and that it was impossible to know who had pulled the trigger because of the failure of the police to investigate the incident properly.
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On this day, 12th January 1904, a rebellion began by the Herero people in Namibia against oppression by German occupiers of their country. The rebellion had begun in January 1904 in response to rising tensions within the German colony and was initiated by an order from Samuel Maharero, leader of the Herero.
In 1884 the German state had declared South-West Africa a German colonial territory. The Germans took land from local African inhabitants and instituted laws and policies that served to oppress the local population. The Herero remained more economically powerful until a plague in 1897 killed up to 90% of their herds, weakening the Herero. German policies became more brutal in response and the Herero people’s freedom and culture became heavily restricted.
The rebellion began with the invasion of Okahandja, a city in central Namibia, by mounted Herero, who killed 123 people, mostly Germans, and set buildings alight. The uprising spread across the region with Herero occupying a military station and killing soldiers, besieging another city and ambushing a German military company.
Eventually, however, the Herero were overwhelmed by German forces. Many died of starvation and thirst as they fled through the Omaheke desert. 12,000 were forced to surrender and were placed in concentration camps where medical experiments and daily executions occurred. Many people from the camps were enslaved and forced to build railways, docks and buildings throughout the country.
80% of the Herero population of Namibia were wiped out during the revolt. General Lothar von Trotha, who was sent to crush the resistance, ordered that, “Within the German borders every Herero, whether armed or unarmed, with or without cattle will be shot.” A report published in London in 1918 stated that German soldiers had killed unarmed women and children.
The war and the extermination order by general Lothar von Trotha, are considered by most historians to be the first genocide of the 20th century.
(From Working Class History)
In 1884 the German state had declared South-West Africa a German colonial territory. The Germans took land from local African inhabitants and instituted laws and policies that served to oppress the local population. The Herero remained more economically powerful until a plague in 1897 killed up to 90% of their herds, weakening the Herero. German policies became more brutal in response and the Herero people’s freedom and culture became heavily restricted.
The rebellion began with the invasion of Okahandja, a city in central Namibia, by mounted Herero, who killed 123 people, mostly Germans, and set buildings alight. The uprising spread across the region with Herero occupying a military station and killing soldiers, besieging another city and ambushing a German military company.
Eventually, however, the Herero were overwhelmed by German forces. Many died of starvation and thirst as they fled through the Omaheke desert. 12,000 were forced to surrender and were placed in concentration camps where medical experiments and daily executions occurred. Many people from the camps were enslaved and forced to build railways, docks and buildings throughout the country.
80% of the Herero population of Namibia were wiped out during the revolt. General Lothar von Trotha, who was sent to crush the resistance, ordered that, “Within the German borders every Herero, whether armed or unarmed, with or without cattle will be shot.” A report published in London in 1918 stated that German soldiers had killed unarmed women and children.
The war and the extermination order by general Lothar von Trotha, are considered by most historians to be the first genocide of the 20th century.
(From Working Class History)
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
today in 1881 20,000 lancashire colliers were on strike - which is particularly surprising as there was no union organisation bar small district unions 1881 Lancashire miners’ strike
On this day, 15th January 1934, the popular UK tabloid the Daily Mail published an article called “Hurrah for the Blackshirts!” in support of Oswald Mosley's fascist movement. The article was written by Viscount Rothermere, who was an avid supporter of Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini, as well as Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party. Rothermere declared in the paper that the election of Nazi MPs "represent[ed] the rebirth of Germany as a nation". After the Nazi seizure of power, when democracy was abolished and many socialists and communists were sent to the concentration camps, Rothermere praised how "Under Herr Hitler’s control, the youth of Germany is effectively organised against the corruption of Communism.” Rothermere corresponded personally with Hitler, and met with him several times, and wrote approvingly of how the Nazis had dealt with Jewish people: “Israelites of international attachments were insinuating themselves into key positions in the German administrative machine… It is from such abuses that Hitler has freed Germany.”
Rothermere's family still own the Mail, which today continues to advocate far right politics. For example in recent years they have attacked the National Health Service for distributing HIV medication, falsely claimed that a terrorist bomber was an LGBT+ activist, falsely claimed that most people trying to claim sickness benefits were faking it, criticised the National Trust for acknowledging the existence of gay people, falsely claimed that 10,000 people were trying to claim sickness benefits because they were "too fat", mocked gay marriage, made countless false claims about Muslim immigrants and much more. Daily Mail columnist Melanie Phillips was repeatedly quoted in the manifesto of Norwegian neo-Nazi terrorist Anders Brevik who murdered 77 people. Today, the Mail is the top-selling newspaper in the UK.
(From Working Class History)
Rothermere's family still own the Mail, which today continues to advocate far right politics. For example in recent years they have attacked the National Health Service for distributing HIV medication, falsely claimed that a terrorist bomber was an LGBT+ activist, falsely claimed that most people trying to claim sickness benefits were faking it, criticised the National Trust for acknowledging the existence of gay people, falsely claimed that 10,000 people were trying to claim sickness benefits because they were "too fat", mocked gay marriage, made countless false claims about Muslim immigrants and much more. Daily Mail columnist Melanie Phillips was repeatedly quoted in the manifesto of Norwegian neo-Nazi terrorist Anders Brevik who murdered 77 people. Today, the Mail is the top-selling newspaper in the UK.
(From Working Class History)
On this day, 15th January 1919, socialists Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht were murdered in Berlin by the right-wing paramilitary Freikorps who were acting on the orders of the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (Social Democratic Party of Germany; SPD - the German equivalent of the Labour Party and the Democrats). Luxemburg and Liebknecht had played an important part in the German Revolution of 1918–1919.
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On the 16th January 1978, the Scala nightclub in Barcelona was firebombed, killing four workers: two members of the anarchist union CNT and two from the socialist UGT. Three quarters of the club's workers were CNT members, but the police blamed the anarchists for the attack, arresting 150 within 12 hours, four of whom were later jailed for over 52 years in prison.
However the attack was really carried out by Joaquin Gambin Hernandez, an undercover police agent and fascist sympathiser - the various branches of the police in Spain to this day, are still raddled with fascists and Franco supporters.
In 1978 the CNT had just been re-legalised following the death of Franco and and the downfall of the dictatorship, and the state were anxious to stop its growth and the spread of anarchist ideas.
This is a history of the provocation from Anarchy magazine, issue #38, 1985. Scanned by Libcom: https://libcom.org/.../scala-file-case-history-state...
Grainy footage of the huge anarchist gathering in Barcelona in 1977 - this one gathering sent shockwaves through the country and the state reacted: http://www.christiebooks.com/.../CNT%20Meeting%201977...
However the attack was really carried out by Joaquin Gambin Hernandez, an undercover police agent and fascist sympathiser - the various branches of the police in Spain to this day, are still raddled with fascists and Franco supporters.
In 1978 the CNT had just been re-legalised following the death of Franco and and the downfall of the dictatorship, and the state were anxious to stop its growth and the spread of anarchist ideas.
This is a history of the provocation from Anarchy magazine, issue #38, 1985. Scanned by Libcom: https://libcom.org/.../scala-file-case-history-state...
Grainy footage of the huge anarchist gathering in Barcelona in 1977 - this one gathering sent shockwaves through the country and the state reacted: http://www.christiebooks.com/.../CNT%20Meeting%201977...
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