Winter 2012-13: Two years after the start of the revolution President Morsi gave himself unchecked powers. Tensions rise between the Brotherhood and the revolutionaries. ibid.
Religion is the biggest problem we face in this next phase. ibid. Ahmed
The people demand the fall of the regime! ibid. Square protest
Revolution is a culture of the people. ibid. Ahmed
This could be the largest demonstration seen in the history of the world. ibid.
Ahmed and Khalid continue to fight for an alternative to Military or Brotherhood rule. ibid.
This is my country. And this is the way it’s been for more than 40 years. I only remember a few weeks when things were any different. In 1988 I was just a little boy. But that’s when everybody in Burma got into the streets. They’d had enough of military rulers. They wanted change. It was the students who led the demonstrations … At the end of the day 3,000 people were killed in the streets. And it was all over. Burma VJ: Reporting From a Closed Country ***** 2008
We have no more people to die. ibid.
I feel the world is forgetting about us. ibid.
I followed very close and saw them throw the demonstrator on the truck. ibid.
The movement is bigger and bigger. ibid.
‘The whole world must know that the monks are on strike.’ ibid. head of monks
The monks protected the reporters. ibid.
‘Today up to 100,000 people took to the streets of Rangoon.’ ibid. news
‘They beat them up and dragged them on to trucks.’ ibid. witness
‘We’ve seen amazing scenes of defiance on the streets of Rangoon today.’ ibid. BBC news
‘Soldiers beat up and arrested the monks.’ ibid. witness
They are shooting. ibid.
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 dollars. 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.
103,954. The most important of these demonstrations – the occupation of the factories. ibid.
We live in a free and open society where dissent is not to be stifled or silenced. Michael Moore Hates America, 2004
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 protest mural
‘The body fights back sure enough.’ ibid.
August 20th 1967 11.15: A white Ford Cortina drives down Park Lane in London’s West End. In the car three men: young Spanish anarchists. They turn into Grosvenor Square, draw alongside the American Embassy [and open fire]. The Angry Brigade: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Britain’s First Urban Guerrilla Group, BBC 1973
A movement that introduced a new form of urban guerrilla activity. ibid.
Six explosions, six locations in three countries and all claimed by the 1st of May Group. ibid.
The Italians had a total of 145 explosions in 1969 alone. Britain had its Spanish influenced 1st of May Group, and in fact after a bomb attempt in 1969 at the Bank of Bilbao in Covent Garden two 1st of May men were caught with a communique in their pockets. But in Britain other forms of urban violence were growing. ibid.
In Britain these experiments in revolutionary lifestyle were slow to catch on. ibid.
The political idea behind Squatting & the Claimants’ Union was to make people on the fringes of society aware of their situation and to fight it. ibid.
And then followed the trial of the so-called Stoke Newington 8. The longest criminal trial in legal history and certainly one of the most controversial. ibid.