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On this day, 8 April 2013, former Conservative prime minister Margaret Thatcher died. Street parties broke out across the UK, particularly in working class areas and in former mining communities which were ravaged by her policies. Her legacy is best remembered for her destruction of the British workers' movement, after the defeat of the miners' strike of 1984-85. This enabled the drastic increase of economic inequality and unemployment in the 1980s. Her government also slashed social housing, helping to create the situation today where it is unavailable for most people, and private property prices are mostly unaffordable for the young.Thatcher also complained that children were "being cheated of a sound start in life" by being taught that "they have an inalienable right to be gay", so she introduced the vicious section 28 law prohibiting teaching of homosexuality as acceptable. Abroad, Thatcher was a powerful advocate for racism, advising the Australian foreign minister to beware of Asians, else his country would "end up like Fiji, where the Indian migrants have taken over". She hosted apartheid South Africa's head of state, while denouncing the African National Congress as a "typical terrorist organisation". Chilean dictator general Augusto Pinochet, responsible for the rape, murder and torture of tens of thousands of people, was a close personal friend. Back in Britain, she protected numerous politicians accused of paedophilia including Sir Peter Hayman, and MPs Peter Morrison and Cyril Smith. She also lobbied for her friend, serial child abuser Jimmy Savile, to be knighted despite being warned about his behaviour. Margaret Thatcher was eventually forced to step down after the defeat of her hated poll tax by a mass non-payment campaign.Pictured: Jimmy Savile welcoming Thatcher to hell, reportedly. We are currently working on a podcast miniseries with former miners about the strike. Listen to it first and help fund its production by joining us on patreon at https://patreon.com/workingclasshistoryTo access this hyperlink, click our link in bio then click this photo

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Bis heute werden in Ruanda Massengräber gefunden, drei Jahrzehnte nach dem Völkermord von 1994. Oft treten dabei direkte Verbindungen zur Gegenwart zutage – und zum anhaltenden Krieg im angrenzenden Kongo. https://www.woz.ch/!64G7KYM5NDKF

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On this day, 9 April 1948, the Deir Yassin massacre took place when around 120 fighters from the Zionist paramilitary groups Irgun and Lehi attacked the Palestinian village of Deir Yassin near Jerusalem, in which most of the residents were stonecutters and quarry workers (content note: sexual violence). From 100 to 150 or more Palestinians, including many women and children, were killed, among them people who had been decapitated, disembowelled, mutilated, and raped. One Zionist militiaman, Yehuda Feder, described his part in the massacre: “I killed an armed Arab man and two Arab girls of 16 or 17 who were helping the Arab who was shooting. I stood them against a wall and blasted them with two rounds from the Tommy gun”.He also recounted looting from the Palestinians' homes: "a lot of money and silver and gold jewelry fell into our hands", and described the massacre as a "tremendous operation".Other Israelis later reported witnessing other atrocities like an elderly couple shot in the back, and one man tied to a tree and set on fire. Dozens of bodies were then piled up and burned. Mordechai Gichon, a Zionist intelligence officer described the aftermath as looking "like a pogrom… When the Cossacks burst into Jewish neighborhoods, then that should have looked something like this.” The incident led to many Palestinians fleeing in terror, and was a key event in the ethnic cleansing of the area, during which over 700,000 of the 900,000 Palestinian Arab residents of what became Israel were expelled or forced to flee from their homes.The Israeli army, which incorporated Irgun, today still refuses to release its photographs and documentation of the massacre.Learn more about Palestinian stone workers in this book: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/stone-men-the-palestinians-who-built-israel-andrew-ross To access this hyperlink, click our link in bio then click this photo Pictured: Orphans whose parents were massacred