On #ThisDayInHistory in 1968, during the #May68 events in Paris, #Marxists and #anarchists erected barricades in response to police violence on the 6th. Street battles followed, and on 13 May 2/3 of French workers began a #GeneralStrike. We must recover this spirit of defiance.
If you ever hear that the #Nazis were #socialists from some faschy chud, tell them that on #ThisDayInHistory in 1933, Nazi Germany banned #unions and #CollectiveBargaining, increased the maximum working hours to 72 per week, and began conscripting citizens for #ForcedLabour.
On #ThisDayInHistory in 1967, the #BlackPantherParty staged a protest against California's #MulfordAct, which was designed to end their ability to patrol neighbourhoods and prevent both crime and #PoliceBrutality. The modern era of #GunControl began by defending systemic #racism.
On #ThisDayInHistory in 1945, US troops took control of the #Dachau #ConcentrationCamp and freed its prisoners... all except for the #LGBTQ inmates, who were transferred to new prisons and held under Nazi-era laws. Americans keep electing people who want such laws restored here.
On #ThisDayInHistory, in 1992, the #LARiots began. Five days, 63 killed, 2383 wounded, a billion in property damage, and it wasn't enough. 33 years later, #PoliceBrutality is worse, #QualifiedImmunity still exists, and both parties arm the #PoliceState.
#AbolishThePolice #BLM
On #ThisDayInHistory in 1945, #Mussolini was cornered in a small village whilst fleeing the country, and summarily executed by a communist partisan. His body was beaten and hanged in the streets of Milan. It is hard to escape #fascism peacefully.
#SicSemperTyrannis #AntiFascist
On #ThisDayInHistory in 1914, the National Guard & company militia opened fire on striking coal miners and then torched their camp. Over 100 were killed in the #LudlowMassacre, including women and children. Take away strong unions and/or regulations and capitalism will kill you.
(1/2) On #ThisDayInHistory in 1943, a final #Aktion to deport Jewish residents to #Treblinka was met with the #WarsawGhettoUprising. By this point, a quarter of a million had been sent to #ExterminationCamps and many of those left chose to fight back. They held out for a month...
On #ThisDayInHistory in 1889 #CharlesChaplin was born into poverty in south London. Remembering his childhood in Victorian #workhouses, he stood against #capitalism, #militarism, and #racism throughout his life and in his films, some of which remain among the greatest ever made.
On #ThisDayInHistory in 1873, the worst incident of #WhiteSupremacist anti-#Reconstruction violence of the era took place, when a mob of #KKK #racist shitstains attacked a courthouse in Louisiana. 150 black men were murdered. The sign below was erected by segregationists in 1950.
Prior to the #MexicanRevolution, 87% of rural land was owned by just 2000 families. On #ThisDayInHistory in 1919, the Carranza régime had #EmilianoZapata murdered. #Zapata's principled fight for #TierraYLibertad remains inspiring and relevant in a world of brutal #oligarchy.
In 1889, the French flag was placed on top of the Eiffel Tower by French engineer Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, officially marking its completion.
10 weird and wondrful things which happened on 31 March:
In 1912, both the Oxford and Cambridge boats sank in the Thames, so the boat race had to be rerun.
10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 28 March.
The urban myth pf Ronald Opus, The Bendigo Tickler and Captain Scott's diary: some of the weird and wonderful things which happened on 23 March:
On #ThisDayInHistory in 2003, 23-year-old American peace activist #RachelCorrie was protesting the demolition of homes in #Rafah, #GazaStrip, when she was crushed to death by an Israeli military bulldozer. Senseless home destruction has long been a #genocide tactic in Palestine.
On #ThisDayInHistory in 1952, US-backed dictator Fulgencio #Batista took power in a coup in #Cuba. He suspended a democratic constitution and murdered at least 20,000 Cubans suspected of socialist activity. His #PoliceState was never denounced by the US; instead, it gave him aid.
Having lectured on #Dutch colonialism recently, here is another history post.
On #ThisDayInHistory in 1643, settlers from the #Netherlands slaughtered ~120 #indigenous Lenape people in the #PavoniaMassacre. This hardened resistance in surrounding nations to what became #NYC.
On #ThisDayInHistory in 1943, legendary #Beatles lead guitarist #GeorgeHarrison was born. Initially overshadowed by his bandmates, George later proved an exceptional songwriter, and his melodic style and fondness for 12-string & slide were key components in the Beatles' success.
(1/2) On #ThisDayInHistory in 1994, American-Israeli #BaruchGoldstein murdered 29 #Palestinians and wounded 125 others in the #IbrahimiMosque massacre in #Hebron/#AlKhalil. A physician and Kahanist, Goldstein had refused to treat Arab wounded and supported outright genocide. ...
Trump’s defiance of a funding order, his push for control over agencies, IRS layoffs botched by a glitch, and delays in the Corporate Transparency Act.
And #thisdayinhistory John Mitchell sentenced.
https://www.minimumcomp.com/p/legal-news-for-fri-221-trump-defies
