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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
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mf figured this shit out in 1931, yet we're still got braindead morons that are like "the NAZIS were socialists!!"
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Könnte es so einfach sein? Die Palästinenserin Shirine Dajani und die Jüdin Rochelle Allebes über Regeln an Demonstrationen, realitätsfremde Medien und darüber, warum nicht alle erfreut sind, wenn sie sich gut verstehen. https://www.woz.ch/!MT9BV5JHG20V
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Könnte es so einfach sein? Die Palästinenserin Shirine Dajani und die Jüdin Rochelle Allebes über Regeln an Demonstrationen, realitätsfremde Medien und darüber, warum nicht alle erfreut sind, wenn sie sich gut verstehen.
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On this day, 6 April 1871, rebel national guard troops of the 137th Battalion in the Paris commune seized the local guillotine, smashed it to pieces and burned it outside the town hall of the 11th district to the applause of a huge crowd of onlookers. The government had recently created a new type of guillotine which was quicker and easier to transport. The district commune committee had voted to seize these "servile instruments of monarchist domination" and destroy them "once and forever… for the purification of the district and the consecration of our new freedom". While some on the left glorify the guillotine, in fact it has mostly been used as a weapon against radicals and the powerless. For example while use of the guillotine is most famously remembered in terms of the execution of aristocrats during the French revolution, the new "revolutionary" government soon began using it against those on their left. The German Nazi government was also a big proponent of the guillotine, executing over 16,000 people with the device, including many resistance activists like Sophie and Hans Scholl. More recently it was used in places like French colonies in the Caribbean, in state socialist East Germany and in France itself, where its last use was against a Tunisian agricultural worker who was convicted of murder and was beheaded in 1977. Learn more about the commune in this book of writings of participants: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/books/products/voices-of-the-paris-communeTo access this hyperlink, click our link in bio then click this photo
On this day, 6 April 1871, rebel national guard troops of the 137th Battalion in the Paris commune seized the local guillotine, smashed it to pieces and burned it outside the town hall of the 11th district to the applause of a huge crowd of onlookers. The government had recently created a new type of guillotine which was quicker and easier to transport. The district commune committee had voted to seize these "servile instruments of monarchist domination" and destroy them "once and forever… for the purification of the district and the consecration of our new freedom". While some on the left glorify the guillotine, in fact it has mostly been used as a weapon against radicals and the powerless. For example while use of the guillotine is most famously remembered in terms of the execution of aristocrats during the French revolution, the new "revolutionary" government soon began using it against those on their left. The German Nazi government was also a big proponent of the guillotine, executing over 16,000 people with the device, including many resistance activists like Sophie and Hans Scholl. More recently it was used in places like French colonies in the Caribbean, in state socialist East Germany and in France itself, where its last use was against a Tunisian agricultural worker who was convicted of murder and was beheaded in 1977. Learn more about the commune in this book of writings of participants: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/books/products/voices-of-the-paris-communeTo access this hyperlink, click our link in bio then click this photo