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On this day, 13 April 1919, the Jallianwala Bagh massacre took place in Amritsar, India, when British troops opened fire on a crowd of predominantly Sikh pilgrims, murdering up to 1000 or more people and injuring many more. As well as pilgrims, there were large numbers of Muslims and Hindus, many of whom were farmers, traders and merchants attending a horse and cattle fair. The youngest victim was just six weeks old.
The killings were not reported in Britain until December that year, and no one charged with any offence. The incident sparked widespread outrage and led to the non-cooperation movement which began the following year.
In 1940 an Indian independence activist who was wounded in the massacre, Udnam Singh, assassinated the Lieutenant Governor who was responsible, and was subsequently executed.
The killings were not reported in Britain until December that year, and no one charged with any offence. The incident sparked widespread outrage and led to the non-cooperation movement which began the following year.
In 1940 an Indian independence activist who was wounded in the massacre, Udnam Singh, assassinated the Lieutenant Governor who was responsible, and was subsequently executed.
On this day, 13 April 1985, Danuta Danielsson, a woman of Polish-Jewish origin whose mother had been put in a concentration camp during the Second World War, hit a neo-nazi of the now defunct Nordic Reich Party on the head with her handbag in Växjö, Sweden. The fascists were subsequently chased out of town.
On this day, 14 April 1919 in Limerick, Ireland, a general strike was declared in protest against the declaration by the British military of a ‘special military area’ in the region, which led to the establishment of a soviet (workers' council).
The military crackdown was in response to an attempt to an attempted jailbreak of trade unionist and Irish Republican Army volunteer Robert J Byrne, which ended with the death of Byrne as well as two police constables. The military zone prevented freedom of movement for everyone other than people issued special permits by the British Army and the Royal Irish Constabulary – including many workers who needed to enter in order to go to work.
A strike began in protest at the move by workers at the condensed milk factory in Lansdowne on Saturday, April 12, and that evening workers gathered and decided to call for a general strike beginning at 5 AM on Monday, April 14. 15,000 walked out and by the following day everything was shut down except for banks, public services, and enterprises given permits by the strike committee which had been established.
The workers then took control of the town, closing down the pubs, maintaining order, and arranging for the distribution of food which was brought in from around Ireland and from trade unions in Britain. The strike committee set up its own newspaper and then printed its own money, while the British troop presence in the area increased.
On April 27, with Irish capitalists and British trade union leaders withdrawing their support for the soviet, it was declared over with the promise that the special military designation would be withdrawn seven days later, which it was.
The Bruree soviet mills. The sign says: Bruree Worker's Soviet Mills - We Make Bread Not Profits.
The military crackdown was in response to an attempt to an attempted jailbreak of trade unionist and Irish Republican Army volunteer Robert J Byrne, which ended with the death of Byrne as well as two police constables. The military zone prevented freedom of movement for everyone other than people issued special permits by the British Army and the Royal Irish Constabulary – including many workers who needed to enter in order to go to work.
A strike began in protest at the move by workers at the condensed milk factory in Lansdowne on Saturday, April 12, and that evening workers gathered and decided to call for a general strike beginning at 5 AM on Monday, April 14. 15,000 walked out and by the following day everything was shut down except for banks, public services, and enterprises given permits by the strike committee which had been established.
The workers then took control of the town, closing down the pubs, maintaining order, and arranging for the distribution of food which was brought in from around Ireland and from trade unions in Britain. The strike committee set up its own newspaper and then printed its own money, while the British troop presence in the area increased.
On April 27, with Irish capitalists and British trade union leaders withdrawing their support for the soviet, it was declared over with the promise that the special military designation would be withdrawn seven days later, which it was.
The Bruree soviet mills. The sign says: Bruree Worker's Soviet Mills - We Make Bread Not Profits.
On this day, 15 April 1989, the Hillsborough disaster took place during an FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest when a crush occurred after police directed fans into overcrowded areas, resulting in 96 dead and over 700 injured.
Though it was caused by police negligence and a ground which did not adequately meet health and safety standards, the police and the Conservative government, with help from the mainstream media, concocted an entirely false story blaming working class Liverpool fans for the disaster. The right-wing tabloid Sun newspaper falsely claimed that Liverpool fans robbed the dead, urinated on police and attacked officers who were trying to save lives.
After years of campaigning by the families of the victims, eventually in 2012 the truth finally came to light, with the Hillsborough Independent Panel determining that the primary cause of the disaster was a "lack of police control". They also revealed that police had doctored 164 witness statements, that Conservative MP Irvine Patnick had passed lies from the police to the press. The police also went to extreme lengths in their attempts shift responsibility to the victims, even testing the blood of dead children for alcohol to try to blame them for their own deaths.
New inquests held in 2016 also found that the crush was caused by police, exacerbated by stadium defects. They determined that the senior police officer responsible breached his duty of care and that this amounted to gross negligence. They determined that the 96 victims were unlawfully killed.
To this day, many people in Liverpool still boycott The Sun.
Though it was caused by police negligence and a ground which did not adequately meet health and safety standards, the police and the Conservative government, with help from the mainstream media, concocted an entirely false story blaming working class Liverpool fans for the disaster. The right-wing tabloid Sun newspaper falsely claimed that Liverpool fans robbed the dead, urinated on police and attacked officers who were trying to save lives.
After years of campaigning by the families of the victims, eventually in 2012 the truth finally came to light, with the Hillsborough Independent Panel determining that the primary cause of the disaster was a "lack of police control". They also revealed that police had doctored 164 witness statements, that Conservative MP Irvine Patnick had passed lies from the police to the press. The police also went to extreme lengths in their attempts shift responsibility to the victims, even testing the blood of dead children for alcohol to try to blame them for their own deaths.
New inquests held in 2016 also found that the crush was caused by police, exacerbated by stadium defects. They determined that the senior police officer responsible breached his duty of care and that this amounted to gross negligence. They determined that the 96 victims were unlawfully killed.
To this day, many people in Liverpool still boycott The Sun.
From the facebook page of Atilla the Stockbroker:
Today is the anniversary of the Jewish Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943 against fascist genocide, one of the most heroic ‘last stands’ in the history of humanity, led by Marek Edelman.
I honour the memory of Marek Edelman and of his fellow ghetto fighters, Bundists, Communists, Labour Zionists and anarchists, divided politically but united in life, and mostly in death, against fascism.
It is a tragedy that right wing Revisionism, in the modern day shape of Likud and Netanyahu, now claim control over the narrative of a history in which their hateful ideas had no place.
Today is the anniversary of the Jewish Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943 against fascist genocide, one of the most heroic ‘last stands’ in the history of humanity, led by Marek Edelman.
I honour the memory of Marek Edelman and of his fellow ghetto fighters, Bundists, Communists, Labour Zionists and anarchists, divided politically but united in life, and mostly in death, against fascism.
It is a tragedy that right wing Revisionism, in the modern day shape of Likud and Netanyahu, now claim control over the narrative of a history in which their hateful ideas had no place.
From the Working Class History page:
On this day, 19 April 1943, the Warsaw ghetto uprising broke out in earnest when Jewish people fought back against Nazi attempts to deport them to the Treblinka extermination camp.
2000 German troops and police backed up with tanks entered the ghetto with the intention of removing the surviving residents, and were met by around 750 resistance fighters with a small number of smuggled small arms and some home-made Molotov cocktails. They forced the Germans to retreat and come back with reinforcements. After several days of failure to overcome the rebels, the Germans began burning down the entire ghetto one building at a time.
Despite this, the resistance managed to hold out against the onslaught for 27 days, killing around 300 Germans. While some fighters managed to escape through the sewers, 7000 Jewish people were killed and another 7000 eventually deported to Treblinka.
Pictured: Warsaw ghetto resistance fighters including Malka Zdrojewicz, right, who survived the death camps.
On this day, 19 April 1943, the Warsaw ghetto uprising broke out in earnest when Jewish people fought back against Nazi attempts to deport them to the Treblinka extermination camp.
2000 German troops and police backed up with tanks entered the ghetto with the intention of removing the surviving residents, and were met by around 750 resistance fighters with a small number of smuggled small arms and some home-made Molotov cocktails. They forced the Germans to retreat and come back with reinforcements. After several days of failure to overcome the rebels, the Germans began burning down the entire ghetto one building at a time.
Despite this, the resistance managed to hold out against the onslaught for 27 days, killing around 300 Germans. While some fighters managed to escape through the sewers, 7000 Jewish people were killed and another 7000 eventually deported to Treblinka.
Pictured: Warsaw ghetto resistance fighters including Malka Zdrojewicz, right, who survived the death camps.
On this day, 22 April 1993, Stephen Lawrence, a Black British teenager, was murdered in a racist attack while he waited for a bus in Eltham, London. Rather than devote adequate resources to finding the killers, instead the London Metropolitan Police infiltrated the Lawrence family's campaign for justice in order to find ways to smear and discredit the family. However, ultimately years of campaigning forced the government to acknowledge the institutional racism of the police force, and two of the killers were eventually convicted in 2012.
On this day, 25 April 1945, Milan and Turin were liberated from fascism following a working class uprising and general strike. Though other towns and cities had been liberated both before and afterwards, it was 25 April which would become immortalised in Italy's annual Liberation Day celebration.
On this day, 25 April 1974, Portugal’s right-wing Estado Novo dictatorship was overthrown by a military coup by low ranking army officers who had formed the Movement of the Armed Forces (MFA). When officers loyal to the dictatorship ordered the troops to open fire, a mutiny by rank-and-file soldiers effectively prevented a counter-revolution. The events would become known as the Carnation Revolution, as few shots were fired and people adorned troops with red and white carnations which were in season and being widely sold on the streets at the time.
The collapse of the regime was then followed by a working class uprising which lasted over 18 months. Urban workers took over their workplaces and rural workers took over land and farmed it collectively.
The key factor in the unpopularity of the regime was the long-running colonial war against independence movements in Angola, Mozambique, Guinea Bissau, Cape Verde, and São Tomé and Principe which had been raging since anti-colonial uprisings in the early 1960s. After the revolution these former colonies all soon achieved independence.
The collapse of the regime was then followed by a working class uprising which lasted over 18 months. Urban workers took over their workplaces and rural workers took over land and farmed it collectively.
The key factor in the unpopularity of the regime was the long-running colonial war against independence movements in Angola, Mozambique, Guinea Bissau, Cape Verde, and São Tomé and Principe which had been raging since anti-colonial uprisings in the early 1960s. After the revolution these former colonies all soon achieved independence.
On this day, 26 April 1982, the trial of the Bradford 12 began at Leeds Crown Court. The 12 were activists of the United Black Youth League, arrested on conspiracy charges for preparing to defend their community from fascists by making Molotov cocktails.
The trial lasted nine weeks with the defence taking the surprising decision to put forward the case that because the police had failed to defend Asian and Afro-Caribbean people in Britain from racist attacks, then those communities had the right to take action in self-defence. In a landmark verdict, the 12 were all acquitted.
The trial lasted nine weeks with the defence taking the surprising decision to put forward the case that because the police had failed to defend Asian and Afro-Caribbean people in Britain from racist attacks, then those communities had the right to take action in self-defence. In a landmark verdict, the 12 were all acquitted.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
On this day, 26 April 1937, the ancient Basque town of Guernica was bombed and largely obliterated by the German and Italian air forces at the behest of the Spanish nationalists during the civil war and revolution. A third of Guernica’s 5,000 inhabitants were killed or wounded. It was one of the earliest examples of mass aerial bombardment of civilians in a conflict, and was famously depicted in Picasso’s painting, Guernica, a copy of which now hangs by the UN Security Council. Possibly the world’s most famous anti-war artwork, it was covered by officials when Colin Powell was due to speak about the Iraq war in 2003.
weltweit
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Why?
So as not to offend him or 'show him up'. It's an anti-war piece of art and he has always been a war-hawk who was said to be involved in the My Lai massacre.
Edit: Having looked at this after years of hearing about it, it appears Powell was infact involved in the whitewashing of atleast one investigation into the My Lai massacre, not involved in the massacre itself.
At the time of the massacre though, Powell was an Army Major serving as an assistant chief of staff of operations for the American Division.
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weltweit
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Lunacy, should have made another and displayed them both for him!
Bahnhof Strasse
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On this day in 1945, Walter Audisio an Italian partisan leader, allegedly shot Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Claretta Petacci. After the war, Audisio was elected to the Italian parliament as a member of the Communist Party where he served for twenty years.
Walter Audisio. (1909-1973)
Walter Audisio. (1909-1973)
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It's also 1954 years since Saint Aphrodisius retrieved his decapitated head from a well and walked through the city of Béziers, stepping on snails without crushing them, to bury himself in a cave.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
On this day, 28 April 1945, Italy’s fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini, was executed by anti-fascist partisans in the village of Giulino de Mezzegra, northern Italy.
After his reign of terror was deposed in 1943, Mussolini was broken from captivity by Nazi troops, and put in charge of a puppet government in northern Italy, which was occupied by Germany.
As more of Italy was liberated by partisan and Allied forces, he tried to escape to Switzerland disguised in a German uniform. But he was spotted by a resistance member who called out “We’ve got Big-Head!”
Mussolini was executed near Lake Como alongside a number of other senior fascists and his mistress. Their bodies were then taken to Milan and dumped in Piazzale Loreto in the early hours of the following morning, where they were soon hung up from the frame of a petrol station.
The previous year, the Milan Gestapo had publicly executed 15 Italian partisans in that square and hung their bodies there for several days. Subsequently, Mussolini was reported to have said “for the blood of Piazzale Loreto, we shall pay dearly.”
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After his reign of terror was deposed in 1943, Mussolini was broken from captivity by Nazi troops, and put in charge of a puppet government in northern Italy, which was occupied by Germany.
As more of Italy was liberated by partisan and Allied forces, he tried to escape to Switzerland disguised in a German uniform. But he was spotted by a resistance member who called out “We’ve got Big-Head!”
Mussolini was executed near Lake Como alongside a number of other senior fascists and his mistress. Their bodies were then taken to Milan and dumped in Piazzale Loreto in the early hours of the following morning, where they were soon hung up from the frame of a petrol station.
The previous year, the Milan Gestapo had publicly executed 15 Italian partisans in that square and hung their bodies there for several days. Subsequently, Mussolini was reported to have said “for the blood of Piazzale Loreto, we shall pay dearly.”
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Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
On this in 1789 Fletcher Christian led a mutiny on HMS Bounty.
On this day, 29 April 1932, Korean anti-colonial activist Yun Bong-gil hurled a bomb into the Japanese emperor's birthday celebrations in Shanghai, killing several leading military and civil officials.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
29 years ago this weekend, the best free party ever took place...
Old bill working as parking attendants, nutter with a watering can full of rhubarb & custards selling his wares right in front of the coppers, EPIC
Happy Beltane folks.
Old bill working as parking attendants, nutter with a watering can full of rhubarb & custards selling his wares right in front of the coppers, EPIC
Happy Beltane folks.
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29 years ago this weekend, the best free party ever took place...
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Old bill working as parking attendants, nutter with a watering can full of rhubarb & custards selling his wares right in from of the coppers, EPIC
Happy Beltane folks.
And if you want to feel old, someone who was there would have been able to say "29 years ago this weekend, the Beatles first reached number one in the charts"
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125 years since the first edition of the Daily Mail. Taking up more space on the front page than any other subject were a series of notices with extensive detail on the formation of The Cycle Manufacturer's Tube Company Limited, which was liquidated three years later and whose assets were acquired by the Coventry Tube and Metal Company.
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