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On this day, 10 April 1919, Emiliano Zapata, peasant leader during the Mexican revolution of Nahua Indigenous and Spanish descent, was assassinated in Chinameca, Ayala, by the "revolutionary" Carranza government. Early in life, he began to advocate for the rights of Indigenous peoples in Morelos when he saw wealthy landowners continually stealing their land, with no response from the government. So he began taking part in armed land occupations.With the outbreak of revolution in 1910, Zapata became the leader of the Liberation Army of the South. The force was a peasant militia fighting for "tierra y libertad" (land and freedom), a slogan they adopted from Mexican anarchist Ricardo Flores Magón.After Francisco Madero took power in 1911, Zapata denounced him for betraying the revolution, and drafted the Ayala Plan: a radical programme of land reform. Madero himself was then overthrown by counter-revolutionary Victoriano Huerta.Zapata's southern army allied with the revolutionary armies in the north, led by Pancho Villa and Venustiano Carranza. They soon overthrew Huerta, and called a convention to form the new government, which Zapata declined to participate in as none of the organisers had been elected.With Carranza in power, he only implemented moderate reforms, which fell well short of the Ayala Plan, so the Zapatistas fought on.Carranza put a bounty on Zapata's head, hoping that one of his own fighters would betray him, but none of them did. In the end he was lured to a meeting with one of Carranza's men who pretended to be interested in defecting.When Zapata arrived for the meeting he was riddled with bullets, and his body photographed for propaganda purposes.He remains to this day a national hero, and Indigenous rebels in Chiapas who rose up in 1994 and created an autonomous territory named themselves after him.Learn more in this biography and check out our reproduction of this photo: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/all/emiliano-zapataTo access this hyperlink, click our link bio then click this photo

Privacy is slowly becoming a privilege rather than a human right.

TIL that schizophrenic hallucinations vary across culture, western illusions usually being more violent and harmful [source, comments]

Good idea: bricks made from plastic waste

https://phys.org/news/2022-03-trash-kenyan-inventor-plastic-bricks.html

"Plastic still has value," said Nzambi Matee of the mountains of discarded oil drums, laundry buckets, yoghurt tubs and other trash being shredded into colourful flakes at her Nairobi factory.

"I believe that plastic is one of the misunderstood materials."

The 30-year-old Kenyan engineer and inventor would know: her start-up recycles tonnes of plastic destined for landfill into eco-friendly bricks that are stronger, cheaper and lighter than concrete.

O. J. Simpson war eine Symbolfigur für den Rassismus in Amerika https://www.watson.ch/!930223338

“In Russia, there is only one traditional value, and that is power.” This is how Russian writer Mikhail Shishkin describes the current situation in his native country. 🇷🇺

He now lives in Switzerland, and in this exclusive interview from our series On the Record, he discusses how to defend Russian culture with reporter Elena Servettaz. He also shares his thoughts on how Switzerland welcomed dirty money with open arms and the possibility of a Russia-Ukraine reconciliation.

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Tremors in Turkey

How the Resistance of Wan Defeated Erdoğan Twice

https://crimethinc.com/Wan2024

In the city of Wan, in the part of Kurdistan ruled by Turkey, the Turkish state has repeatedly invalidated election results outright, installing its own representatives in positions of authority without any pretense of democracy.

They tried to do this once again in response to the municipal elections of March 31. In response, demonstrators flooded the streets, ultimately forcing the state to capitulate. In this report, a longtime participant in the Kurdistan liberation movement explains how the political dynamics in Turkey are shifting in the wake of the resistance in Wan.

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On this day, 12 April 1943, young Walter Mayer was jailed by a Nazi court in Düsseldorf for stealing state property and being a member of the Edelweiss Pirates, and later sent to a concentration camp. The Pirates were working-class youths who fought the Hitler Youth in the streets. Mayer recounted that his justification for forming a group of Pirates was “anti-authoritarian. We’re not going into psychoanalysis here but it may be because I hated authority.”In particular, he resented the attitude of people who joined the Nazis for a taste of power: “I was pretty much the king on the street. If something had to be done, like stealing apples or whatever, they would call me. I saw guys that I considered sissies and weaklings. They suddenly got a star, they became lieutenants and I had to salute them. Well, I was not about to do a thing like that… There were others who kind of felt the same way I did. That prompted me to start a little movement.”Mayer’s group would meet in a café on Kings Avenue in Düsseldorf, and discuss their plans:“Someone would say, ‘What are we going to do next?’ Maybe someone would say, ‘The Hitler Youth store their equipment at such and such a place. Let’s make it disappear.’ ‘Okay, when are we going to meet?’ ‘We’ll meet at such and such a time.’ That’s what we did. It came to the point where we became enemies and people began to look for us because we went a little too drastic. We started maybe by deflating the tyres and then we made the whole bicycle disappear. It came to the point when there were too many complaints.”This increased attention eventually led to Mayer's arrest and imprisonment, during which he became extremely ill and almost died. But in 1945 he managed to escape from the concentration camp, and was sheltered by a local farmer.Our podcast episode 72 is about the Pirates and other anti-fascist youth movements, including testimony from Walter: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/72-edelweiss-pirates-swing-kidsTo access this hyperlink, click our link in bio then click this photoPictured: Mayer more recently

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On this day, 13 April 1985, Danuta Danielsson, a woman of Polish-Jewish origin whose mother had been put in a concentration camp during World War II, hit a neo-nazi on the head with her handbag in Växjö, Sweden. The Nordic Reich Party (NRP), originally named Sweden’s National Socialist Struggle, had organised a march in the town. Especially in the 1980s, many members of the party involved in carrying out acts of terrorism, and crimes including murder, bombings, harassment and assault.During their march, photographer Hans Runesson captured this iconic image of 38-year-old Danielsson hitting one of the Nazis. Approximately 2500 residents of the town many left-wingers, also took to the streets and attacked the Nazis. First they threw eggs and tomatoes, then fights broke out. One Nazi was kicked unconscious, and in the end the Nazis fled, and had to be escorted out of the town by police for their own safety.Local authorities in Växjö blocked plans to erect a monument to Danielsson, on the grounds that it might be seen to be "advocating aggression". Instead, a sculpture of her was built in the town of Alingsås.The Nazi hit by Danielsson subsequently murdered a gay Jewish man, and was imprisoned. The NRP folded in 2009, but some of its members were involved, with other fascists and white supremacists, in forming the Sweden Democrats in 1988. As of 2024, the Sweden Democrats are the largest member of Sweden’s right-wing governing bloc.We have numerous books and other items about anti-fascism available in our online store, with global shipping: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/anti-fascistTo access this hyperlink, click our link in bio then click this photo