Migrant workers from Mexico had become a super-exploited class. ibid.
Most of the San Diego press cheered on the violence … The vigilantes represented the bankers and merchants. ibid.
‘The insurrectional fact, destined to affirm socialist principles by deed, is the most efficacious means of propaganda … It is therefore necessary to destroy with violence, since one cannot do otherwise, the violence which denies these means to the workers.’ ibid. Erico Malatesta 1876
‘Remember that you are fighting more than your own fight. You are fighting for the entire working class and you must stand together.’ ibid. Big Bill Haywood, IWW leader
The Lawrence Textile strike of 1912 which involved immigrants from over forty different nationalities, both men and women … Before long, police began attacking the picket lines. ibid.
‘Your violent and chaotic society always bears within it war as a sleeping cloud bears a storm.’ Plutocracy III: Class War, Jean Jaures, French socialist leader
Massive wealth inequality remained. Between the years 1800 and 1920 economic inequality in the United States increased more than a hundred-fold. ibid.
The most notorious of the battles occurred in Ludlow, Colorado, 1914 … ‘owned by the Rockefeller trust … The National Guard fired into the tents.’ The killing of their [strikers’] families caused national outrage. Protests erupted across the country. ibid.
An expression of growing working-class solidarity. ibid.
The Socialist Party was also experiencing national growth. ibid.
Joe Hill had a unique weapon in his arsenal: not just speech but song. ibid.
Another important Labour Leader imprisoned under the Espionage Act was the anarchist Ricardo Flores Magon. ibid.
We were making history. And there wasn’t nice and clean. There wasn’t easy. It was complex. The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, Erica Huggins, member, Netflix 2015
The police jump on you, beat you up, put the gun at your head, this is what we’re going through on a daily basis. ibid. Warne Pharr
We want freedom, we want decent housing, we want education for our people, we want an immediate end to police brutality … ibid. Black Panthers
The Black Panther Party demands that Huey P Newton be set free. ibid. Eldridge Cleaver
Free Breakfast For Children Served Here Every School Morning. ibid. sign
The reality is that the majority of the rank and file by the end of the ’60s are women. ibid. Claybourne Carson, historian
In other cities the Panthers were under physical attack from the police departments. But New York City was going to handle its Panther problem differently: they created a conspiracy case that allowed them to arrest the entire leadership of the New York City Black Panther Party. ibid. Jamal Joseph
He [Bobby Seale] kept insisting on his right to represent himself, and the judge’s response to that was to order the bailiffs to put gaffer tape over his mouth and tie him to his chair. ibid. Mike Gray, filmmaker
It was like a slaughterhouse. And there was blood all over the place. ibid. Mike Gray, assassination of Fred Hampton
It was a death squad that did this raid. It was a police death squad. And the whole thing was set up by the FBI. ibid. historian
It was a split in the party. And within days we began to feel just how bad it was. ibid. William Calhoun
There are over 20 Panthers that remain in prison. ibid. caption
The FBI was most disturbed by the Panthers’ survival programs providing community service. The popular free breakfast program, in which the party provided free hot breakfasts to children in Black communities throughout the United States, was, as already noted, a particular thorn in the side of J Edgar Hoover. Finding little to criticize about the program objectively, the Bureau decided to destroy it. Huey P Newton, dissertation ‘War Against the Panthers: A Study of Repression in America’
Political repression in the United States has reached monstrous proportions. Black and Brown peoples especially, victims of the most vicious and calculated forms of class, national and racial oppression, bear the brunt of this repression. Literally tens of thousands of innocent men and women, the overwhelming majority of them poor, fill the jails and prisons; hundreds of thousands more, including the most presumably respectable groups and individuals, are subject to police, FBI and military intelligence surveillance. The Nixon administration most recently responded to the massive protests against the war in Indochina by arresting more than 13,000 people and placing them in stadiums converted into detention centers. Angela Davis, If They Come in the Morning, 1971
Repression is the response of an increasingly desperate imperialist ruling clique to contain an otherwise uncontrollable and growing popular disaffection leading ultimately, we think, to the revolutionary transformation of society. ibid.
Every Saturday we go to demonstrate in Paris. Georgia Pouliquen, Alternative View 10 lecture, ‘The 21st Century French Yellow Vest Revolution, Youtube 1.11.49
I want to provide a testimony from France to the world about massive domestic oppression in my country France and violence of our government. ibid. Georgia’s video testimony
Yellow Vests are a humanist movement, a beautiful movement, and now we suffer massive domestic oppression … This is about freedom, and government commits violence of fundamental human rights here in France. ibid.
That’s not crowd control: that’s massive and bloody repression, and the French government tries to hide the truth. ibid.
Macron passed a law to prevent us to demonstrate in the streets: now it’s an offence … We don’t have freedom of assembly any more. ibid.
A lot of young people lost an eye. ibid.
We have no choice: that’s a survival movement. ibid.
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament. Karl Marx
What I was told was a lie … Mau-Mau represented a radical reaction to a series of economic, political and social changes brought about by the British rulers for their own gain … A bitter and bloody war had been fought on the way to Kenya’s independence. Britain’s Forgotten Wars with Tony Robinson VI: Mau-Mau, Channel 4 2021
The British would rather choose to forget … The freedom fighters took an oath to expel the white man from their homeland. ibid.
Kenya had been colonised ever since the British East Africa Company arrived towards the end of the nineteenth century. ibid.
The workers were repressed while the land owners lived a life of luxury. ibid.
‘Kenya also had an apartheid system that was imported by the British and by white settlers.’ ibid. Anna Adima, York University
The British officially declared them to be terrorists. ibid.
Guerrilla warfare had broken out in Kenya. ibid.
Nato, that brutal military alliance has become the most treacherous instrument of repression known in the history of mankind. Fidel Castro
On 24 February 2022 President Vladimir Putin ordered his troops to invade Ukraine. Inside Russia, Putin launched the biggest crackdown on dissent since the Soviet era. Now only a small number continue to speak out. Inside Russia: Putin’s War at Home, ITV 2022
Amazon: The world’s biggest only retailer. Their founder is one of the richest men on the planet. The Great Amazon Heist, Channel 4 2023
Amazon patented cages for workers to work in in 2016. ibid.
For a while now trouble has been brewing between Amazon and sections of its workforce. And it was all coming to a head here. Coventry. ibid.
Amazon has reacted pretty badly to workers trying to form a union in the past. ibid.
They didn’t really trust their own staff at all. ibid.
It felt like we were being surveilled at every second. ibid.
‘I got back pain we well. Standing for 10 hours.’ ibid. Employee
Amazon was hotter on surveillance than health and safety. ibid.
Amazon are flooding the world with piss [bottles ejected by drivers] ibid.
Amazon don’t actually pay much tax. ibid.