On this day, 11 May 1923, after months of agitation 150 mostly women rent strikers who had been jailed in the Mexican town of Veracruz the previous year were freed by the governor.
The women had organised strikes in detention, and fought with prison guards, while workers outside threatened a general strike for their freedom.
The tenants left the jail in groups of 10, the women wearing cream dresses and straw hats with red ribbons, while their supporters sang songs, shouted slogans and set off firecrackers.
The group then paraded through the main streets of the city to the office of the renters' union, where they declared their commitment to continue their direct action against landlords.
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The women had organised strikes in detention, and fought with prison guards, while workers outside threatened a general strike for their freedom.
The tenants left the jail in groups of 10, the women wearing cream dresses and straw hats with red ribbons, while their supporters sang songs, shouted slogans and set off firecrackers.
The group then paraded through the main streets of the city to the office of the renters' union, where they declared their commitment to continue their direct action against landlords.
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If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.
~ Vladimir Lenin
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On this day, 12 May 1918, blind anti-Nazi resistance activist Yakov Batyuk was born near Volyn, Ukraine.Batyuk lost his sight in an accident as a child. He later graduated from school and university, and became a lawyer, residing and working in Nizhyn.After the outbreak of World War II, as the Nazis approached, rather than evacuate, Batyuk remained in the city, and instead helped organise in the underground communist resistance to the Nazis.First, he worked in a cooperative which produced harnesses for horses used by German troops, and they sabotaged the harnesses, so that after they came into contact with water or snow they would cause a burning sensation and incapacitate the horse. In 1942, he organised a secret anti-fascist printing house, distributing thousands of leaflets. Later he supplied weapons to partisans by stealing them from Nazi warehouses, and helped recruit dozens of new resistance activists. In 1943, along with his sister, he managed to derail a train in North-East Ukraine. In August 1943 his entire group was arrested by the Gestapo and, after days of torture, 26 anti-fascists were executed, including Batyuk.
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"Che Guevara's Avenger" was shot dead on this day in 1973. After the assassination of the legendary revolutionary by CIA-backed commandos in the Bolivian jungle in 1967, Monika Ertl embarked on a mission of revenge.
Her relentless pursuit culminated on this day in 1971 when she successfully shot and killed right-wing Bolivian colonel Roberto Periera in Hamburg, Germany. Read on to find out the whole breathtaking story.
Her relentless pursuit culminated on this day in 1971 when she successfully shot and killed right-wing Bolivian colonel Roberto Periera in Hamburg, Germany. Read on to find out the whole breathtaking story.
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“As Marxists we have maintained that peaceful coexistence among nations does not include coexistence between exploiters and the exploited.”
- Che Guevara
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"At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality."
-Ernesto Che Guevara
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On this day, 13 May 1985, Philadelphia police attacked the home of Black liberation and environmentalist group MOVE with automatic weapons, then dropped a bomb on it, killing five adults and six children, destroying 61 homes in the predominantly Black neighbourhood, and making 250 people homeless.
Almost 500 police officers fired over 10,000 rounds of ammunition into the house, which was filled with women and children, while other officers blew holes in the walls with explosives. The police commissioner then ordered the house to be bombed, which they did using an improvised device made from C4 given to them by the FBI.
Only two people survived the blast and ensuing fire: Ramona Africa, and Michael Ward, aged 13. While no officials were prosecuted, Ramona Africa was subsequently jailed for seven years on riot and conspiracy charges. The incident occurred during the tenure of Philadelphia's first Black mayor, a Democrat named Wilson Goode.
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Almost 500 police officers fired over 10,000 rounds of ammunition into the house, which was filled with women and children, while other officers blew holes in the walls with explosives. The police commissioner then ordered the house to be bombed, which they did using an improvised device made from C4 given to them by the FBI.
Only two people survived the blast and ensuing fire: Ramona Africa, and Michael Ward, aged 13. While no officials were prosecuted, Ramona Africa was subsequently jailed for seven years on riot and conspiracy charges. The incident occurred during the tenure of Philadelphia's first Black mayor, a Democrat named Wilson Goode.
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