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Today, 16 May, is European Romani Resistance Day, commemorating the Roma people who fought the fascists during World War II. The date was chosen due to a Holocaust survivor stating that on 16 May 1944, there was a rebellion of Roma detainees at the Auschwitz Birkenau concentration camp. However subsequent research by the Auschwitz Museum discovered that this date was most likely incorrect. It was actually in early April that a number of Roma prisoners refused orders from the SS to leave to work in Germany. Instead a Polish prisoner was ordered to make a list of Roma able to work to be transported later. By 2 August 1944, those Roma able to work had been transported elsewhere, when the SS came to take the others to the gas chambers. The prisoners armed themselves with crowbars and fought back, but were eventually overcome and gassed. Pictured: a Romani resistance fighter during World War II https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1717878201730656/?type=3

#not a fact #european romani resistance day #wwii #++

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On this day, 12 May 1940, 20-year-old Austrian Jewish Edinburgh University student Edgar Lion was arrested by British police. His friends wouldn’t see him or hear from him for years. Lion was taken to a police station, then shipped to the Isle of Man alongside thousands of other Jewish detainees where they were locked up in hotels surrounded by barbed wire. He was then taken to a dockyard and told to choose between two ships. He chose the one on the left, and so was taken to Canada – the other would end up in Australia. In Canada, Lion was then interned alongside 2,300 other Jewish refugees in internment camps alongside German Nazis who had also been interned. Here the refugees were forced to perform harsh and boring physical labour for almost no pay: in Lion’s camp, Sherbrooke, detainees could choose to make fishing nets or socks. The refugees were held in camps in appalling and unsafe conditions for nearly three years. Learn more about struggles of Jewish people in Britain at this time in our podcast episodes 35-37 about the anti-fascist 43 Group: https://workingclasshistory.com/2020/02/17/e35-37-the-43-group/ Pictured: Jewish detainees making fishnets https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1714495302068946/?type=3

#see a clear version of history is written by the victors #not a fact #++ #britain

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This is a summarized post for those who want to be informed. Obviously it does not cover everything, but it is in a simple format and highlights important points and is easy to understand.

Everyone has to do their own research. Not everything will be handed to you. There are many websites and sources out there, you have to look for them. The issues between Israel and Palestine is not an easy cut deal, there are many different factors that play into everything that is happening right now.

Free Palestine🇵🇸✌️

#not a fact #atualidade #palestine #free palestine

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Today's a Special Day!

Today is the day Hitler put a pistol to his head and blew his brains out whilst his "Thousand Year Reich" collapsed around him.

Happy Hitler Blew His Brains Out Day!!!

#it was yesterday #the fitting way to end the amazing month of april #fascism #not a fact #++

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To all my followers who are citizens of the EU and of voting age, please consider signing and sharing this EU citizens’ initiative requesting that the European Commission stop upholding intellectual property rights regarding COVID vaccines and treatments and make them a public good instead.

In order for the European Commission to read these proposals this initiative needs a lot more people signing that it has now, so every person counts.

#reblogging this again bc it’s important and we’re still far away from our goal #so go sign it’s safe #not a fact #atualidade

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1942 - A captured bust of Benito Mussolini is crushed in some beautifully prophetic foreshadowing to resemble what Mussolini’s actual face would look like after he was caught by antifascist partisans in 1945. [video]

#not a fact #++ #benito mussolini #fascism #italy

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Happy “you’re fucking dead” day to benito mussolini xx

#i’d love to reblog a more elaborate post on this but all of them have the pics and it’s a bit explicit so i won’t #not a fact #++ #benito mussolini #fascism #once again april a beautiful month

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On this day, 25 April 1960, 300 university professors took to the streets in Seoul, South Korea against the dictatorship which had massacred 130 students a few days previously. Martial Law Command under General Song Yo Chan refused to follow orders to open fire on demonstrators. This was the peak of the April revolution which would conclude the following day. Learn more about South Korean people’s history in this book: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/asias-unknown-uprisings-volume-1-south-korean-social-movements-in-the-20th-century-george-katsiaficas https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1702676163250860/?type=3

#april really is a beautiful month isn’t it #not a fact #++ #south korea

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On a day like today 81 years ago

The nazi Condor Legion destroyed Gernika on a market day following the orders of Francisco Franco. The town was full of people from the surrounding areas who attended the market as well as the refugees come from Durango after the bombing of that town.

The city was burning for 3 days and 3 nights, inspiring Pablo Picasso to paint his masterpiece “Guernica”.

The town had no strategic value, and was bombed to strike the Basque army psychologically since the town guarded the Tree of Gernika, an almost sacred symbol for Basque people, a representation of the Basque old laws and identity.

Despite the horror, when dust settled, the fascists discovered that the tree stood standing. Just like Basque people.

Ez dugu ahaztuko. We won’t forget.

#this post is from 2018 so it’s actually 84 years today #not a fact #++ #gernika #guernica #fascism

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To all my followers who are citizens of the EU and of voting age, please consider signing and sharing this EU citizens’ initiative requesting that the European Commission stop upholding intellectual property rights regarding COVID vaccines and treatments and make them a public good instead.

In order for the European Commission to read these proposals this initiative needs a lot more people signing that it has now, so every person counts.

#not a fact #other stuff

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On this day, 25 April 1974, Portugal’s right-wing Estado Novo dictatorship was overthrown by a military coup by low ranking army officers who had formed the Movement of the Armed Forces (MFA). When officers loyal to the dictatorship ordered the troops to open fire, a mutiny by rank-and-file soldiers effectively prevented a counter-revolution. The events would become known as the Carnation Revolution, as few shots were fired and people adorned troops with red and white carnations which were in season and being widely sold on the streets at the time. The collapse of the regime was then followed by a working class uprising which lasted over 18 months. Urban workers took over their workplaces and rural workers took over land and farmed it collectively. The key factor in the unpopularity of the regime was the long-running colonial war against independence movements in Angola, Mozambique, Guinea Bissau, Cape Verde, and São Tomé and Principe which had been raging since anti-colonial uprisings in the early 1960s. After the revolution these former colonies all soon achieved independence. Learn more in our podcast episodes 41-42: https://workingclasshistory.com/2020/08/13/e41-42-the-portuguese-revolution/ Books and other items commemorating the events are available in our online store: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/portuguese-revolution https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1702294433289033/?type=3

#not a fact #++ #25 de abril

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25 de Abril - Revolução dos Cravos

The Carnation Revolution (Portuguese: Revolução dos Cravos), also referred to as the 25 April (Portuguese: 25 de Abril), was a military coup began on 25 April 1974 in Lisbon, Portugal, and which overthrew the dictatorial regime of the Estado Novo. The revolution started as a military coup organized by the Movimento das Forças Armadas (Armed Forces Movement, MFA), composed of military officers who opposed the regime, but the movement was soon coupled with an unanticipated and popular campaign of civil resistance. This movement would lead to the fall of the Estado Novo and the withdrawal of Portugal from its African colonies.

The name “Carnation Revolution” comes from the fact no shots were fired and when the population started descending the streets to celebrate the end of the dictatorship and war in the colonies, carnation flowers were put into the muzzles of rifles and on the uniforms of the army.

The Portuguese celebrate the national holiday of Freedom Day (Portuguese: Dia da Liberdade) on 25 April every year to celebrate these events.

#kinda wanted to do a post of my own but sadly i have no time :( so ill reblog a bunch of stuff #hope all of you have a great and peaceful day #not a fact #++ #25 de abril

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This blog is on a 24h revolution lockdown. If it’s not about overthrowing oppressive regimes and ending dictatorships don’t interact.

#it’s a beautiful day today #fuck fascism and punch a fascist ✌️ #25 de abril #not a fact #++

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Please don't forget Armenians

Today is Armenian genocide remembrance day. On april 24, 1915 started mass deportations of hundreds of Armenian intelectuals and community leaders, who were (most of the time) eventually killed. Armenian women and children were systematically r//ed and forcibly converted into islam. There were more than 2 milion Armenians in ottoman empire prior to ww1, 1,5 milion of them were viciously killed. Three millennia of Armenian civilaziation in eastern Anatolis was fully destroyed. Turkey today refuses to acknowledge genocides of christian minorities in early 20th century.

Do you know that mass ethnic cleansing of Armenians in ottoman empire inspired Lemkin to coin the term 'genocide'?

Last year in september azerbaijan allied with turkey initiated a war against Armenia. More that 5000 Armenians were murdered, thousands of Armenia families had to live their ancestrial land to not get murdered. There are hundreds of vids on internet where armenian p.o.w.s are tortured. Recently azerbaijan opened a "museum" displayind dead or dying Armenians and kids were allowed to visit it.

Please educate yourself on Armenian genocide. You can also donate here to help Armenia. Thanks for reading!!

#armenian genocide #armenia #not a fact #++

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On this day, 20 April 1853, the formerly enslaved woman-turned abolitionist Harriet Tubman began working on the Underground Railroad, which smuggled enslaved people to freedom. She personally rescued some 70 people, and assisted many more. This is an account of a rescue mission she led during the civil war: https://libcom.org/history/combahee-river-raid-1863-earl-conrad https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1698938170291326/?type=3

#sorry i’ve been gone #covid won’t (likely) kill me but the mental straining this pandemic is putting in my mental health might #okay this sounded more worrying than it should i’m ok but exhausted #not a fact #++ #harriet tubman

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A friendly reminder that both the Irish potato famine and the Scottish highland clearances were little more than masked genocide in the name of the British crown that fundamentally changed the culture, language, politics, and wealth distribution of both countries in ways that can still be felt today. So I’m not saying Prince Philip was a terrible person but I am saying there’s a fucking reason why the Scots and Irish are probably digging out the good whisky tonight.

#well here’s something i didn’t know! #not a fact #++ #scotland #ireland

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On this day, 9 April 1945, Georg Elser, a factory worker and folk musician who tried single-handedly to kill Hitler, was murdered in the Dachau concentration camp. Working in a weapons factory and then a quarry, he gradually built up an arsenal of stolen explosives, which in 1939 he planted in a pub in Munich, which he knew Hitler visited every year on 8 and 9 November to celebrate the Nazi putsch of 1923. Unbeknownst to Elser, that year Hitler left early and the bomb missed him by minutes, instead killed six senior Nazis, as well as accidentally a waitress. Elser was later arrested and tortured, but insisted he acted alone and refused to give up any other names, other than one of a communist who had already died. He was sent to the concentration camps, where he was killed on the orders of Himmler just a few days before their liberation. Learn more about German resistance to Nazism in our podcast episode 4: https://workingclasshistory.com/2018/04/04/wch4-anti-nazi-youth-movements-in-world-war-ii/ https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1690238627827947/?type=3

#not a fact #++ #Georg Elser #nazism #antifascists