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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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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.
"Das zeigt einmal mehr, dass der Kulturkampf gegen alles «Woke» eine Brücke nach ganz rechts baut. Die Absurdität des Vorhabens, einer behaupteten «Sprachdiktatur» mit einem Sprachverbot entgegenzutreten, ist darum eigentlich keine: Sie passt vorzüglich zur autoritären Denkweise, die viele von jenen vereint, die sich den Kampf gegen «Gendergaga» auf die Fahne schreiben." https://www.woz.ch/!XBPZ2QE6G0CJ
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Genderverbote: Wer hat Angst vor Sternchen?
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On this day, 5 April 1971, a left-wing uprising began in Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) against the "anti-imperialist" government when militants attacked police stations across the country. The insurgents were mostly young people organised by the People's Liberation Front (JVP). They had previously supported the United Front (UF) government which included the Stalinist Communist Party of Sri Lanka (CPSL) and the Trotskyist Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP). The election of the UF had been greeted with with much joy across the international left, which considered it a victory for "anti-imperialism."JVP forces initially took control of several towns and rural areas. But then an unlikely-sounding coalition emerged to suppress it. Ceylon government forces were given support, troops and weaponry by the UK, the former colonial power, the US, Australia, Egypt, India and Pakistan as well as China, the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia.By June the rebellion had been suppressed, leaving an estimated 1,000 to 5,000 dead.While calling themselves communist, the JVP, the CPSL, and the LSSP were all majority Sinhala organisations which espoused forms of nationalism, all engaged in racism and ethnic cleansing against the minority Tamil population. Especially in more recent years the JVP became much more openly and virulently racist against Tamils, and in the early 2000s became the primary force opposing the peace process between the government and Tamil rebels, which prolonged the deadly civil war.More information, sources and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10487/jvp-uprising To access this hyperlink, click our link bio then click this photo Pic: JVP prisoners
On this day, 5 April 1971, a left-wing uprising began in Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) against the "anti-imperialist" government when militants attacked police stations across the country. The insurgents were mostly young people organised by the People's Liberation Front (JVP). They had previously supported the United Front (UF) government which included the Stalinist Communist Party of Sri Lanka (CPSL) and the Trotskyist Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP). The election of the UF had been greeted with with much joy across the international left, which considered it a victory for "anti-imperialism."JVP forces initially took control of several towns and rural areas. But then an unlikely-sounding coalition emerged to suppress it. Ceylon government forces were given support, troops and weaponry by the UK, the former colonial power, the US, Australia, Egypt, India and Pakistan as well as China, the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia.By June the rebellion had been suppressed, leaving an estimated 1,000 to 5,000 dead.While calling themselves communist, the JVP, the CPSL, and the LSSP were all majority Sinhala organisations which espoused forms of nationalism, all engaged in racism and ethnic cleansing against the minority Tamil population. Especially in more recent years the JVP became much more openly and virulently racist against Tamils, and in the early 2000s became the primary force opposing the peace process between the government and Tamil rebels, which prolonged the deadly civil war.More information, sources and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10487/jvp-uprising To access this hyperlink, click our link bio then click this photo Pic: JVP prisoners