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Unrest has broken out in the regions of Kurdistan that are occupied by the Turkish government. People are protesting the decision of the ruling AKP party, the party of president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, to give the post of mayor of the city of Wan to its own candidate, despite the fact that the AKP candidate lost the election. This decision, and the widespread violence with which it has been imposed, illustrates how Turkish democracy is a form of autocracy.
For deep background, you could consult this text we published in 2015, at the height of a previous wave of resistance:
https://crimethinc.com/2015/09/23/feature-understanding-the-kurdish-resistance-historical-overview-eyewitness-report
For deep background, you could consult this text we published in 2015, at the height of a previous wave of resistance:
https://crimethinc.com/2015/09/23/feature-understanding-the-kurdish-resistance-historical-overview-eyewitness-report
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In an exclusive interview with SWI swissinfo, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba discusses the upcoming peace conference to be held in Switzerland, negotiating with Russia, and repatriating orphans to Ukraine. Read the whole interview 👉 https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/foreign-affairs/room-for-more-action-by-switzerland-says-ukrainian-foreign-minister/73976619
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Wird die AfD von Russland bezahlt? Rechtes Schweigen über Ton-Aufnahmen über Bystron
Ton-Aufnahmen der tschechischen Regierung sollen belegen, dass die AfD und ihr Spitzenpolitiker Petr Bystron von Russland geschmiert wurden. Die AfD-Fans, die sonst überall eine Verschwörung wittern, wo keine sind, sind bei diesem Thema erstaunlich ruhig.
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On this day, 1 April 1939, the Spanish civil war ended, with victory for general Franco and his Nationalist forces. Workers, largely organised in the anarchist CNT and socialist UGT unions, had launched a social revolution in 1936 and beaten back the right-wing military takeover. But after nearly 3 years of intense fighting, the anti-fascist forces were eventually overcome by brute force. While the "democratic allies" of the Republic like the UK blockaded Spain, military aid for the Nationalists from Nazi Germany and fascist Italy poured in. After hundreds of thousands of deaths, many of the remaining anti-fascists had to flee the country to avoid the punitive mass executions which killed tens of thousands. Spanish refugees were interned in concentration camps in France, which then came under Nazi control during German occupation. But large numbers of civil war veterans joined resistance movements, and help liberate France. We give an overview of the conflict in our podcast episodes 39-40: https://workingclasshistory.com/2020/06/17/e39-the-spanish-civil-war-an-introduction/To access this hyperlink, click our link bio then click this photo
On this day, 1 April 1939, the Spanish civil war ended, with victory for general Franco and his Nationalist forces. Workers, largely organised in the anarchist CNT and socialist UGT unions, had launched a social revolution in 1936 and beaten back the right-wing military takeover. But after nearly 3 years of intense fighting, the anti-fascist forces were eventually overcome by brute force. While the "democratic allies" of the Republic like the UK blockaded Spain, military aid for the Nationalists from Nazi Germany and fascist Italy poured in. After hundreds of thousands of deaths, many of the remaining anti-fascists had to flee the country to avoid the punitive mass executions which killed tens of thousands. Spanish refugees were interned in concentration camps in France, which then came under Nazi control during German occupation. But large numbers of civil war veterans joined resistance movements, and help liberate France. We give an overview of the conflict in our podcast episodes 39-40: https://workingclasshistory.com/2020/06/17/e39-the-spanish-civil-war-an-introduction/To access this hyperlink, click our link bio then click this photo
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On this day, 1 April 1982, oil company Exxon produced a private, internal report on carbon dioxide (CO2) and the greenhouse effect. A summary of the report circulated to senior management stated that carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was concentrated at 340 ppm, and that burning fossil fuels and clearing forests was causing this figure to increase. It does state that there was "currently no unambiguous scientific evidence that the Earth is warming" but goes on to state that global warming could be detected by 1995. It warns that this warming might be irreversible, and says that mitigating against negative effects of global warming would require a reduction in fossil fuel combustion. Exxon scientists projected that surface temperatures would warm 3-6°C above preindustrial levels by the year 2100. The report proves that as early as the 1970s Exxon, like many fossil fuel companies, knew that their products were going to cause devastating climate change to the planet, even though it was not yet detectable. However, Exxon took no corrective action, and instead funnelled $31 million to fund misinformation campaigns to try to manufacture doubt about climate change. More information and sources: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8039/exxon-greenhouse-effect-reportgreenhouse-effect-reportTo access this hyperlink, click our link bio then click this photoPictured: a temperature graph from the report
On this day, 1 April 1982, oil company Exxon produced a private, internal report on carbon dioxide (CO2) and the greenhouse effect. A summary of the report circulated to senior management stated that carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was concentrated at 340 ppm, and that burning fossil fuels and clearing forests was causing this figure to increase. It does state that there was "currently no unambiguous scientific evidence that the Earth is warming" but goes on to state that global warming could be detected by 1995. It warns that this warming might be irreversible, and says that mitigating against negative effects of global warming would require a reduction in fossil fuel combustion. Exxon scientists projected that surface temperatures would warm 3-6°C above preindustrial levels by the year 2100. The report proves that as early as the 1970s Exxon, like many fossil fuel companies, knew that their products were going to cause devastating climate change to the planet, even though it was not yet detectable. However, Exxon took no corrective action, and instead funnelled $31 million to fund misinformation campaigns to try to manufacture doubt about climate change. More information and sources: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8039/exxon-greenhouse-effect-reportgreenhouse-effect-reportTo access this hyperlink, click our link bio then click this photoPictured: a temperature graph from the report
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On this day, 3 April 1978, Black anarchist prison organiser and former Panther, Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin, and three other Black incarcerated people were placed in the behaviour modification control unit at the Marion Illinois federal penitentiary after a protest over conditions.In March, prisoners organised a food boycott, and later people confined to the isolation unit protested, complaining that glass was in their food. The protesters were brutally beaten by guards.Prison activist newsletter Anarchist Black Dragon reported that "on [Kom'boa's] second day in the unit, prison officials tried to set him up by letting two white prisoners out of their cells while he was taking his recreation period and tried to incite them to attack him, in the hope that they would either kill or badly injure him. But the two prisoners refused to swallow the racist bait and do the officials' dirty work. As a result they were called 'N-word-lovers' and threatened with beatings. In the control unit there are constant attempts to pit one race against the other by the guards."Kom'boa (pictured) was eventually released from prison and remains active today, residing in Memphis, Tennessee.More information, sources and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10155/illinois-prison-protestTo access this hyperlink, click our link bio then click this photo
On this day, 3 April 1978, Black anarchist prison organiser and former Panther, Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin, and three other Black incarcerated people were placed in the behaviour modification control unit at the Marion Illinois federal penitentiary after a protest over conditions.In March, prisoners organised a food boycott, and later people confined to the isolation unit protested, complaining that glass was in their food. The protesters were brutally beaten by guards.Prison activist newsletter Anarchist Black Dragon reported that "on [Kom'boa's] second day in the unit, prison officials tried to set him up by letting two white prisoners out of their cells while he was taking his recreation period and tried to incite them to attack him, in the hope that they would either kill or badly injure him. But the two prisoners refused to swallow the racist bait and do the officials' dirty work. As a result they were called 'N-word-lovers' and threatened with beatings. In the control unit there are constant attempts to pit one race against the other by the guards."Kom'boa (pictured) was eventually released from prison and remains active today, residing in Memphis, Tennessee.More information, sources and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10155/illinois-prison-protestTo access this hyperlink, click our link bio then click this photo
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“Perhaps we haven’t sufficiently demonstrated that colonialism is not satisfied merely with holding a people in its grip and emptying the native’s brain of all form and content.
By a kind of perverted logic, it turns to the past of the oppressed people, and distorts, disfigures, and destroys it. This work of devaluing pre-colonial history takes on a dialectical significance today.”
— Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
By a kind of perverted logic, it turns to the past of the oppressed people, and distorts, disfigures, and destroys it. This work of devaluing pre-colonial history takes on a dialectical significance today.”
— Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
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Stop using Google for important shit.
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Feminist anti-religion pasteups in Iran
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On this day, 4 April 1968, civil rights activist, socialist and advocate of nonviolence Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated while in Memphis supporting a strike of Black sanitation workers. His ideas had become increasing radical in recent years, and in addition to opposing racism he had begun opposing US imperialism in Vietnam and elsewhere, as well as capitalism itself. King had also begun organising a Poor People's Campaign, to unite working class and poor people, Black and white. Though he is widely lauded by establishment figures now, at the time he was hated by the rich and powerful as well as most white Americans. Fuelled by negative media coverage, only 22% of Americans approved of “Freedom Rides” for the desegregation of public transport, and 63% disapproved of King. The FBI's domestic intelligence chief called him "the most dangerous Negro of the future in this Nation from the standpoint of communism, the Negro and national security", and later sent King an anonymous letter attempting to blackmail him into suicide. His murder left many disillusioned with pacifism, and riots broke out across the US in the biggest explosion of social unrest since the civil war.More information, sources and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10400/mlk-assassinated To access this hyperlink, click our link bio then click this photo
On this day, 4 April 1968, civil rights activist, socialist and advocate of nonviolence Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated while in Memphis supporting a strike of Black sanitation workers. His ideas had become increasing radical in recent years, and in addition to opposing racism he had begun opposing US imperialism in Vietnam and elsewhere, as well as capitalism itself. King had also begun organising a Poor People's Campaign, to unite working class and poor people, Black and white. Though he is widely lauded by establishment figures now, at the time he was hated by the rich and powerful as well as most white Americans. Fuelled by negative media coverage, only 22% of Americans approved of “Freedom Rides” for the desegregation of public transport, and 63% disapproved of King. The FBI's domestic intelligence chief called him "the most dangerous Negro of the future in this Nation from the standpoint of communism, the Negro and national security", and later sent King an anonymous letter attempting to blackmail him into suicide. His murder left many disillusioned with pacifism, and riots broke out across the US in the biggest explosion of social unrest since the civil war.More information, sources and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10400/mlk-assassinated To access this hyperlink, click our link bio then click this photo
Die Sinnkrise der Grünen: Eine Partei im politischen Niemandsland https://www.watson.ch/!816468174
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Die Sinnkrise der Grünen: Eine Partei im politischen Niemandsland
Die Grünen wählen mit Lisa Mazzone eine neue Parteipräsidentin. Sie tritt ihr Amt in einer schwierigen Zeit an und folgt damit auf Balthasar Glättli.