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Congrats to the artist who managed to get the NYPD to put ACAB on their own vehicles! It's reminiscent of some other possible examples of graphic design worker sabotage:
Happy Pride Month!
Over the years,
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20 Dec 1973 Spanish fascist PM due to succeed Franco, Luis Carrero Blanco, was assassinated, and dubbed "Spain's first astronaut" as his car was blown over a 5-storey building. His death was credited by some as hastening the return to democracy
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26 Dec 1943, communist partisan, Mario Fiorentini, cycled to the Regina Coeli prison in Rome and threw two kilos of TNT at the SS officers guarding the gates. Eight were killed, five instantly. Guards opened fire, but were unable to hit him as he pedalled away to safety
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8 Apr 2013 former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher died. Street parties spontaneously broke out across the country. Pictured: Thatcher being welcomed to hell by one of her good friends and supporters, serial paedophile Jimmy Savile
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2 Jan 2020 El Vaquita, a street dog who'd joined protestors in confrontations with the police, wouldn't allow himself to be adopted, even though he'd been shot. So, the people of Antofagasta, Chile, staged a fake protest to lead the dog to the vet.
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Due to what is trending on Twitter, thought it would be a good moment to post this photo of the original Antifa HQ in Berlin, Germany, 1932.
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8 Apr 2013 former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher died. Street parties spontaneously broke out across the country. Pictured: Thatcher being welcomed to hell by one of her good friends and supporters, serial paedophile Jimmy Savile
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23 Jul 1944 19-year-old French resistance fighter Madeleine Riffaud saw a Nazi officer walking in Paris. She took out her gun and shot him twice in the head. Captured by French collaborators, she survived a concentration camp and lives to this day.
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8 Apr 2013 former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher died. Street parties spontaneously broke out across the country. Pictured: Thatcher being welcomed to hell by one of her good friends and supporters, serial paedophile Jimmy Savile
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20 Dec 1973 Spanish fascist PM due to succeed Franco, Luis Carrero Blanco, was assassinated, and dubbed "Spain's first astronaut" as his car was blown over a 5-storey building. His death was credited by some as hastening Spain's return to democracy
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20 Dec 1973 Spanish fascist PM due to succeed Franco, Luis Carrero Blanco, was assassinated, and dubbed "Spain's first astronaut" as his car was blown over a 5-storey building. His death was credited by some as hastening the return to democracy
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31 May 1927 Donald Trump's father Fred Trump was arrested at a Ku Klux Klan rally in Queens, NY. Despite Donald Trump denying it happened, multiple newspapers reported it, giving Fred Trump's address and reporting that all of those arrested were wearing KKK robes.
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14 Oct 1977 anti-gay crusader Anita Bryant was "pied" by Tom Higgins, a gay rights activist. She then began praying and burst into tears. Following a boycott, she lost her job as brand ambassador for Florida orange juice. More LGBT+ history here:
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22 Jul 2005 Brazilian commuter Jean Charles de Menezes was killed by armed London police at Stockwell tube station. Despite being restrained, he was shot seven times in the head and once in the torso. No officers faced charges related to his death
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8 Apr 2013 former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher died. Street parties spontaneously broke out across the country. Pictured: Thatcher being welcomed to hell by one of her good friends and supporters, serial paedophile Jimmy Savile
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22 Mar 1974 Scottish workers in the East Killbride Rolls Royce factory refused to work on plane parts from Pinochet's Chile. They kept the refusal up for 4 years, leaving the engines outside to rust, before they went missing one night
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19 Dec 1925 anti-Nazi communist resistance fighter Lepa Svetozara Radic was born in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Captured in 1943 Nazis offered to spare her life if she gave up the names of her comrades but she refused and was executed
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3 Nov 1889 Mexican revolutionary Amelio Robles Ávila was born - assigned female at birth but later lived as a man, and insisted on being treated as such. He fought in the ranks of Emiliano Zapata, delivering weapons and extorting money from oil companies
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23 Jul 1944 19-year-old French resistance fighter Madeleine Riffaud saw a Nazi officer walking in Paris. She took out her gun and shot him twice in the head. Captured by French collaborators, she survived a concentration camp and lives to this day.
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22 Mar 1974, Scottish workers in the East Killbride Rolls Royce factory refused to work on engines from planes belonging to Pinochet's regime. They kept the refusal up for 4 years, leaving the engines outside to rust, before they went missing overnight.
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30 Apr 1923 radical Jewish actor Al Lewis was born in NYC. Best known for the role of grandpa Munster in the Munsters, his mother took him to May Day protests and he became a socialist. He later helped rehouse evicted people during the depression.
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29 Oct 1948 a massacre by the Israeli army took place in the Palestinian village of Al-Dawayima killing hundreds of people (content note: physical and sexual violence).
One Israeli soldier, S Kaplan, wrote a letter to a newspaper describing what happened:
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28 Feb 1972 the trial of legendary Black communist Angela Davis for murder, kidnapping & conspiracy began in San Jose, CA. Amidst a global campaign of support in June an all-white jury acquitted her of all charges
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20 Dec 1973 the Spanish fascist PM due to succeed Franco, Luis Carrero Blanco, was assassinated in Madrid. Dubbed "Spain's first astronaut" as his car was blown over a building, his death was credited by some as hastening the return to democracy
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13 Apr 1985 Danuta Danielsson, the Polish-Jewish daughter of a Holocaust survivor, hit a neo-Nazi on the head with her handbag in Växjö, Sweden. The Nazis were then chased out of town. We have some anti-fascist merch here to help fund our work:
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16 Apr 1889, Charlie Chaplin, actor, filmmaker and staunch critic of capitalism, militarism and racial prejudice, was born. This is perhaps his most heartfelt speech, from the film The Great Dictator:
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2 Jan 2020 a fake protest was held in Antofagasta, Chile, to lead a street dog called El Vaquita to a vet. El Vaquita wouldn't let himself be taken, even though he'd been shot, but had joined previous protests, so voluntarily joined the march, which led him to get treatment
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Today, May 1, is International Workers' Day! It commemorates the sentencing to death of eight anarchist workers in Chicago who were framed for throwing a bomb at police who had attacked a strike demonstration in May 1886. Learn more about May Day here:
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23 Jul 1944 19-year-old French resistance fighter Madeleine Riffaud saw a Nazi officer walking in Paris. She took out her gun and shot him twice in the head. Captured by French collaborators, she survived a concentration camp and lives to this day
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13 May 1985 Philadelphia police attacked the home of Black liberation and environmental group MOVE, then dropped a bomb on it, killing 5 adults and 6 children, destroying 61 homes in the predominantly Black neighbourhood, and making 250 people homeless.
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3 Dec 1944 British-trained Greek police with Nazi collaborators, fired on an anti-Nazi demonstration in Athens, killing 28 people while British troops watched. The rationale was to weaken the anti-Nazi partisans who were too left-wing for Churchill
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7 Jun 1954 computer genius Alan Turing, who also helped the Allies win World War II, died by suicide shortly after being given the choice between prison or chemical castration as punishment for homosexuality
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14 Jan 1930 gangster and militant of the German Communist Party's (KPD) Roter Frontkämpferbund paramilitary organisation, Albrecht "Ali" Höhler, shot Horst Wessel, leader of the Berlin Nazi stormtroopers.
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@WestminsterWAG
@campbellclaret
Is the book on Hitler by renowned Holocaust denier David Irving yours or does it belong to
@michaelgove
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(On a related note, it's a good news anti-Semitism is only a problem in the Labour party)
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@ztsamudzi
Solidarity! Getting hated on by the Daily Mail, which supported Hitler and Mussolini, and helped inspire Nazi terrorists like Breivik, puts you in some very good company!
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23 Apr 1914 Robert Tressell's classic working-class novel, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, was first published. A house painter by trade, Tressell's book explains capitalism through the experiences of its working-class characters. Read it here:
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14 Aug 1944 29-year-old Italian resistance partisan Irma Bandiera was murdered by the Nazis. She refused to give the names of her comrades, despite being blinded and tortured for seven days. Today a street commemorates her in her native Bologna.
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2 May 1980 the Dublin wax museum was broken into and 15 waxworks vandalised. The intruders beheaded JFK and broke off the arm of Irish revolutionary Wolfe Tone, using his sword to slice off Margaret Thatcher's face and plunge it into her body.
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14 May 1940 Emma Goldman, legendary anarchist and advocate of women's rights and sexual freedom, died in Toronto, Canada. A Lithuanian-born Jew, she moved to the US from which she was eventually deported because of her activism. Books & more:
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9 Apr 1944 legendary Palestinian socialist, Leila Khaled, was born in Haifa. Forced to flee during the Nakba, she joined the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. She was the first woman to hijack a plane, doing so as part of the struggle against Israeli occupation
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6 May 1933 Nazis raided the Institute of Sex Research in Berlin. It was a pioneering org which supported gay and trans rights, and equality for women. It employed numerous trans workers and pioneered gender affirmation surgery. Its library was then burned
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Many people incorrectly describe the Haitian revolution as the "only successful" rebellion of enslaved people in the world . To illustrate how wrong that is, today, 2 July, is the anniversary of two successful enslaved rebellions we are aware of: 🧵
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9 Apr 1898, Paul Robeson, African-American singer, actor, communist and former shipyard worker was born. He was involved in anti-fascism, the civil rights movement and workers' struggles, and was blacklisted under McCarthyism
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14 Oct 1977 anti-gay crusader Anita Bryant was "pied" by Thom Higgins, a gay rights activist. She then began praying and burst into tears. Following a boycott, she lost her job as brand ambassador for Florida orange juice. More LGBT+ history here:
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12 Apr 1918 Bolshevik forces attacked 26 anarchist centres in Moscow, as the anarchists were growing in the area. At least 40 anarchists were killed by Cheka forces, and about 500 were arrested and jailed
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FYI, this is false. Lenin was shot by Fanya Kaplan, a socialist revolutionary.
🚨🚩 Anarchists are always whining about Marxists "betraying the revolution" bro you shot Lenin
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9 Jun 1944 German socialist and resistance activist, Johanna Kirchner, was beheaded by the Nazis in Berlin. On the day of her execution she wrote to her children: "Don't cry for me. I believe in a better future for you"
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11 Apr 1945 the Buchenwald concentration camp was liberated by its resistance as US troops arrived. However, many of those interned in camps for homosexuality were not freed by the Allies, but required to serve out the full term of their sentences under the Nazi penal code
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13 May 1985 Philadelphia police attacked the home of Black liberation and environmental group MOVE, then dropped a bomb on it, killing 5 adults and 6 children, destroying 61 homes in the predominantly Black neighbourhood, and making 250 people homeless.
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18 Mar 1871, the Paris Commune, the first ever attempt at a working class uprising to create socialism, organized by workers councils, was established. When the army eventually retook Paris in May they killed 30,000 workers in revenge.
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11 Aug 1964 18-year-old Scottish anarchist Stuart Christie was arrested in Madrid, Spain with explosives to assassinate dictator General Franco. He was wearing a kilt, which confused the Spanish press, who described him as "a Scottish transvestite".
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1 Jan 1994 the Zapatista uprising began, when indigenous people in Chiapas, Mexico rose up and took control of their communities, redistributing power and organising new, directly democratic ways of running society. Learn more about the Zapatistas:
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18 Sep 1990 Canadian soldiers and police tried to invade the Kahnawake reservation. Kanyen'kehà:ka (Mohawk) First Nations people who were resisting construction of a golf course resisted them, and forced them to retreat after 7 hours of fighting.
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13 Nov 1938, American screen icon and Black Panther supporter Jean Seberg, who was hounded to death by the FBI, was born. She was targeted by COINTELPRO, which planted fake stories leading to the death of her premature baby and then her suicide.
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1 Jan 1804 Haiti became an independent republic, the culmination of the Haitian revolution abolishing slavery and freeing itself from French rule. It began as a rebellion of the enslaved in 1791. Learn more about this and other Black revolts here:
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16 Nov 2019 Chilean riot dog Rucio Capucha was injured by police water cannon during a protest in Santiago. Rucio frequently joined protests, and became a target of deliberate police violence. He survived the attack, and was adopted by a family.
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20 Dec 1973 Spanish fascist PM due to succeed Franco, Luis Carrero Blanco, was assassinated, and dubbed "Spain's first astronaut" as his car was blown over a 5-storey building. His death was credited by some as hastening the return to democracy
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3 Feb 2006 Al Lewis, lifelong socialist and actor who played grandpa Munster in the popular TV show The Munsters died in NYC. During the Depression he would break into evicted tenants' houses and move their furniture back in, and protested for relief
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16 Oct 1859 abolitionists led by John Brown, including Black people recruited by Harriet Tubman, raided a federal armoury in Harpers Ferry, WV, to get weapons to arm enslaved people. Several were killed, and Brown later executed for treason
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18 Jun 1984 striking miners faced off against 1000s of police as they attempted to picket the Orgreave coking plant. The police violently attacked, made mass arrests, and fabricated evidence to suppress the miners. Learn more in our podcast series:
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30 Aug 1948 leading Black Panther Fred Hampton was born in Summit, Illinois. He was key in forming links between the Panthers and working class people of all races in the Rainbow Coalition. At 21 he was assassinated by the FBI and Chicago police.
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12 Aug 2017 32-year-old anti-racist Heather Heyer was killed and 19 injured in a neo-Nazi terror attack in Charlottesville, VA. Heather was one of many protesting a white supremacist rally when a Nazi drove his car deliberately into the crowd
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8 Apr 2013 former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher died. Street parties spontaneously broke out across the country. Pictured: Thatcher being welcomed to hell by one of her good friends and supporters, serial paedophile Jimmy Savile
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24 Aug 1943 French philosopher and anti-fascist, Simone Weil, died. She opposed French colonialism, took part in factory occupations and joined the Durruti Column to fight Franco, besides working as an agricultural labourer and WWII resistance member
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1 May 1886, 300,000-500,000 workers went on strike and rallies were held throughout the United States, with the cry, "Eight-hour day with no cut in pay." This strike would lead to the Chicago Haymarket Affair and the start of May Day itself
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28 Apr 1945, Italy's fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini, was executed by anti-fascist partisans. His body was then hung up in Milan's Piazzale Loreto, a square in which 15 partisans had been killed and left publicly to rot the previous year
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Loads of blue tick journalists and the like have been tweeting this video. But in every other video, police are still fighting protesters. Even the TUC posted it, but when we asked them for a source they deleted it. So what's going on? To us this seems extremely unlikely.
Many police officers in France are stepping down and standing with the protestors.
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29 Jul 1962 fascist Oswald Mosley tried to march with the Union Movement in Manchester, UK. However, he was attacked by anti-fascists and had to be rescued by police. A Mosley speech later was drowned out by a crowd of anti-fascists. More info:
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5 May 1818, Karl Marx was born in Trier, Germany. Living until the age of 64, Marx was a journalist, revolutionary socialist, philosopher and economist, and one of the most influential figures in world history. Works by our about him available here:
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1 Jun 1915 Irish Jewish anti-fascist Max Levitas, who battled Oswald Mosley's fascists at the Battle of Cable Street, was born. He became a communist as a teenager, moved to East London, and remained active until his death aged 103
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25 Dec 336, was the first recorded celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ, a Middle Eastern Jewish refugee and radical, on this date. His early followers practised an informal type of communism. Learn more about them here:
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6 May 1933 Nazis raided the Institute of Sex Research in Berlin. It was a pioneering organisation which supported gay and trans rights, and equality for women. It employed numerous trans workers and pioneered gender affirmation surgery. Its library was then burned
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Anti-war protest in Moscow now
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30 Aug 1948 leading Black Panther Fred Hampton was born in Summit, Illinois. He was key in forming links between the Panthers and working class people of all races in the Rainbow Coalition. At 21 he was assassinated by the FBI and Chicago police.
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16 Apr 1853 Black waiters in New York City organised and demanded a pay rise to $16 a month and encouraged white waiters to do the same
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6 Jul 1907 Frida Kahlo, painter, communist, and one of Mexico's greatest artists, was born. Her work included themes of feminism, colonialism and Indigenous resistance: "I’m more and more convinced it’s only through communism that we can become human"
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30 Apr 1923 radical Jewish actor Al Lewis was born in NYC. Best known for the role of grandpa Munster in the Munsters, his mother took him to May Day protests and he became a socialist. He later helped rehouse evicted people during the depression.
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1 Jan 1804 Haiti became an independent republic, the culmination of the Haitian revolution abolishing slavery and freeing itself from French rule. It began as a rebellion of the enslaved in 1791. Learn more about this and other Black revolts here:
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4 Jul 1913 Black Spanish civil war fighter, Holocaust survivor and electrician Carlos Greykey in Equatorial Guinea. He moved to Barcelona, fought against the fascists, then fought the Nazis in France, then survived the Mauthausen concentration camp.
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22 Aug 1943 the Statesman published this photo of the Bengal famine, which killed up to 4 million after British authorities under Winston Churchill, who "hate[d]" "beastly" Indians, destroyed and diverted food from the area and restricted imports.
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1 Jan 1994 the Zapatista uprising began, when indigenous people in Chiapas, Mexico, rose up and took control of their communities, redistributing power and organising new, directly democratic ways of running society. Learn more about the Zapatistas:
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While living in South Africa Gandhi wrote that white people there should be "the predominating race" & described Black Africans as "troublesome, very dirty and live like animals". He also supported segregation of Indians and Africans, whom he referred to derogatorily as "Kaffirs"
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22 Jan 1891 Italian Marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci was born in Sardinia. His key contribution was his theory of hegemony, which describes how the capitalist class maintains power through its domination of culture. Commemorative merch here:
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1 May 1886, 300,000-500,000 workers went on strike and rallies were held throughout the United States, with the cry, "Eight-hour day with no cut in pay." This strike would lead to the Chicago Haymarket Affair and the start of May Day itself
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1 Jan 1863 Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, not because he was anti-racist but to undermine Confederacy: "I am not, nor ever have been, in favour of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white & Black races"
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30 Apr 1923, Al Lewis was born. Best known for the Role of grandpa Munster in the Munsters, he was taken to NYC May Day protests as a child. He later helped rehouse evicted people during the depression, and was a convinced socialist throughout his life
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23 Jul 1944 French resistance fighter Madeleine Riffaud saw a German military officer taking a walk in Paris. She took out her gun and shot him twice in the head. Captured by French collaborators, she survived a concentration camp and lived to 94.
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26 Aug 2017 Chilean "riot dog", Negro Matapacos ("Black Cop-Killer"), died of old age. A stray in Santiago, he joined many protests, and became famous during the 2011 student movement: defying tear gas, defending protesters and barking at police
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31 May 1927 Donald Trump's father Fred Trump was arrested at a Ku Klux Klan rally in Queens, NY. Despite Donald Trump denying it happened, multiple newspapers reported it, giving Fred Trump's address and reporting that all of those arrested were wearing KKK robes.
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23 Jul 1944 19-year-old French resistance fighter Madeleine Riffaud saw a Nazi officer walking in Paris. She took out her gun and shot him twice in the head. Captured by French collaborators, she survived a concentration camp and lives to this day
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11 Sep 1973 right-wing general Pinochet launched a coup against the elected left-wing government in Chile of Salvador Allende. Backed by the US and UK, Pinochet went on to torture, jail and kill 10,000s of working-class activists
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9 Dec 1842 one of the founders of contemporary anarchist communism, Peter Kropotkin, was born. An activist, scientist, and philosopher, he abandoned his aristocratic background in favour of the revolutionary class struggle. Works available here:
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14 Jul 1896 Spanish anarchist, rail mechanic & Civil War fighter Buenaventura Durruti was born. Involved in strikes, uprisings and bank robberies across Europe and Latin America, he was killed in Madrid during the civil war. 500k attended his funeral
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@realDonaldTrump
Hopefully something positive can come from this tweet from a racist imbecile, if at least some readers take the time to look up Wounded Knee and what happened there. Everyone should read Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee:
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24 May 1910 German shipyard worker August Landmesser was born. He is thought to be the worker defiantly refusing to perform a Nazi salute. He was later conscripted to a penal battalion then killed. His Jewish partner was sent to a concentration camp and killed
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