The monks were gone. Only the students were left in the street. Just like 1988. And military trucks were going round the city to chase them down. ibid.
Argentina 1966-1967: Act for Liberation: Notes, testimonials and debate about the recent liberation struggle of the Argentine people. The Hour of the Furnaces II
General Order 27th July 1819: Comrades in the Andes Army: we must fight however we can … or else let’s die fighting as brave men. ibid.
Revolutionary violence will put an end to imperialist crimes. Liberation or death! ibid.
The nature of imperialism is what turns man into a beast. ibid.
Chronicles of Peronism 1945-1955: National and popular movements were the first appearances in history of most Latin American peoples: they were the first actions of breaking the neo-colonial serfdom. ibid.
17th October 1945: The Argentinian masses burst for the first time on to the national political scene. ibid.
Peronism came to put an end to the effects of an infamous decade – the era that started in 1930 with the oligarchic military dictatorship that overthrew Irigoyen; the years of national corruption, soup kitchens, ignominious frauds and assassins paid by the committee. A time when Argentinian politics were managed between the British embassy and the army. A shameless handover of the national wealth. ibid.
Peronism displaced oligarchy and imperialism from positions of power. ibid.
He was the embodiment of a popular force. ibid.
The central bank is nationalized as are railways, gas, telephones. ibid.
Oligarchic economic power remained the same. The old regime’s institutions were not substantially modified. ibid.
In 1955 the National Front finally divided itself completely. The church, some sections of the army, and the whole of the bourgeoisie surrendered to the oligarchy and became an enemy of the revolution. ibid.
Peron resigned the presidency. The people took to the streets again. ibid.
Peron was isolated by a servile bureaucracy. ibid.
The army removed Peron from power … Peronism went down without a fight. ibid.
The Congress will be dissolved. Peronism will be persecuted and there will be a ban. ibid.
150,000 trade union leaders will be suspended. Tens of thousands will be arrested. ibid.
At the time of Peron’s fall there was no national debt. 10 years later the national debt reached $6 billion. The IMF will start to influence national economic policy. The economy will start a de-nationalization process … The violent decade was about the start. ibid.
September 1955: We moved towards the bridge and started to shout, ‘Mayo Square! Mayo Square!’ As if we wanted to revive 17th October 1945. And we arrived at the bridge but the army was already there. On seeing the soldiers the people stopped. And the army began to shoot. ibid. textiles trade unionist
Often we even organised the resistance while in prison. ibid. trade unionist
After the 1955 coup d’etat the country seems to have been occupied by an invading army. ibid.
In the underground the proletariat organise the first few strikes … many national militants were shot. ibid.
The promotion of private free enterprise, and an open door for foreign capital, privatization of national enterprises, liquidation and removal of small industry, subjection to the International Monetary Fund, and a repression of the people. ibid.
In 1959 the fight for popular power became extremely violent. ibid.
The most important of these demonstrations - the occupation of the factories. ibid.
‘For over 12 years the Grass Roots organisation of peace activists known as Code Pink have shaken up the Washington establishment with countless anti-war demonstrations in front of DC’s top politicians and policy makers.’ Cody Snell, cited Abby Martin, Breaking the Set: Cuba I II III, RT 25-27.02.15
‘150 members of the group … their reasons for coming here [Cuba] are as diverse as the activists themselves.’ ibid.
The power of the people can be greater than the corporate-ocracy. Abby Martin, Breaking the Set: One Last Time, RT 28.02.15
27 February, Madrid: Protesters clash with security forces over eviction. ibid.
Rebuilding Gaza could take 100 years if Israel keeps blockage, says Oxfam: Aid agency urges Israel to allow more steel and concrete into the Palestinian territory – and for Hamas to use material to build homes and tunnels. ibid. The Telegraph online article
Walmart’s also been described as an economic deathstar, destroying everything in its path, leaving behind nothing more than an homogenous wasteland. ibid.
Monsanto cannot be trusted. It’s time that we as consumers become conscious and critical thinkers. ibid.
Hillary Clinton is not just a wolf in sheep’s clothing, she’s an unabashed hawk. ibid.
There is no right to protest in the West Bank. Abby Martin, The Empire Files: Silencing Palestine: Prison & Repression, 2017
Israel responded with unspeakable repression: it deployed around 80,000 combat soldiers to crush the uprising of more than half a million Palestinians across the territories … An iron-fist policy of breaking the bones of Palestinians at protests: this was implemented by the army on a massive scale. ibid.
Throwing rocks: the majority of those arrested for this offence are children. ibid.
Since Trump took power activists have seen a disturbing escalation in state repression against civil liberties, most notably the case of the J-20 for over 200 protesters and journalists mass-arrested at Trump’s inauguration are now facing years, even up to decades, in prison. Abby Martin, The Empire Files: Trump Expands Police-State Crackdown on the Left, 2017
It all started in north London at a small photographic processing lab called Grunwick … He [Ward] sacked the strikers … He still wouldn’t deal with the unions: it was the Freedom Association … There were over 50 vehicles involved in [Operation] Pony Express … 20,000 pickets came to Grunwick … The Freedom Association kept George Ward in business. Tory! Tory! Tory! II: Path to Power, BBC 2006
In 1980 there was a massive strike in the steel industry; inflation was high and workers wanted a pay rise to match it … The strike went on for three months. ibid.
1981 Belfast, Northern Ireland: The conflict in Northern Ireland seems to be just on and on in a relentless cycle of violence, and then suddenly in 1981 it took the strangest, darkest most dramatic twist when Bobby Sands and 9 of his young comrades insisting they be recognised as political prisoners went on hunger strike. Bobby Sands: 66 Days, BBC 2017
‘The march in West Belfast was the first test of public support for this second republican hunger strike.’ ibid. television news
‘There was no-one to save us but the boys … At 18 and a half I joined the Provos.’ ibid. Sands
In 1920 Irish Republican Terence MacSwiney, the Lord Mayor of Cork, began a hunger strike against his imprisonment without trial by the British government. ibid.
After four years in the Long Kesh Internment Camp Bobby Sands was released in 1976. ibid.
By 1976 over 1,500 lives had been lost in the conflict. ibid.
When Bobby Sands returned in prison in 1976 special category status had been abolished. ibid.
‘The blanket protest was born.’ ibid.
‘There can never be peace in Ireland until the foreign oppressive British presence is removed. ibid. Sands
Their Hunger Their Pain Our Struggle. ibid. wall art protest mural
‘The body fights back sure enough.’ ibid.
Does Democracy Have You By the Throat? Anarchy is the Anecdote. Breaking the Spell, poster, 1999
Free the Third World: Stop WTO. ibid. banner
People who were needing shoes were breaking windows and getting shoes, and that’s the way it should be. ibid. protester
We need to dismantle private property, and that begins by breaking the spell; and that’s what a smashed window does. ibid.
I had no idea they were that brutal. ibid. pepper-sprayed woman
This is people power in action. ibid. protester