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.
To choose through rebellion his own life and death. For the man who dies in the struggle for liberation, death is no longer the end. The Hour of the Furnaces ***** 1968
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 to 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.
No sooner had the party began then it started to unravel. The Summer of Love: How Hippies Changed the World II: Where Have All the Flowers Gone? BBC 2017
June 1967 and San Francisco was on the brink on a hippy revolution. ibid.
At the heart of the community were an anarchist group of artists and radicals called The Diggers. ibid.
The MC5 were closely connected to the White Panther Party. ibid.
The most extreme of these were the Weather Underground. ibid.
One of the models for would-be revolutionaries were the Marxist-Leninist Black Panther Party under the joint leadership of the charismatic Fred Hampton. Their armed struggle was seen as inspirational by other guerrilla groups. ibid.
Jimi Hendrix’s performance of Star Spangled Banner in the Woodstock film both encapsulated the distorted the dystopian vision of a nation caught up in a war it didn’t believe in and at the same time was a requiem for a political movement that was not to be. ibid.
We’re many generations overdue for a revolution … that takes place in the human soul, in the human mind: tear everything down, throw everything out … Collapse, Michael Ruppert, 2009
The CIA tried unofficially to recruit me into an operation where they were smuggling drugs into the country back in 1976/77. ibid.
There are no major oil finds left. ibid.
We’re never going to leave Iraq. ibid.
They’re chasing a $700 trillion derivatives bubble down the drain. ibid.
The whole economy is a pyramid scheme. ibid.
By 2006 I knew that the collapse was very imminent, that there would be a major implosion of the US economy. ibid.
The collapse must happen fast if we’re to leave infrastructure standing. ibid.
Only the iron leadership of the communist party can guarantee the victory of the popular masses. October: Ten Days that Shook the World, directors Aleksandrov & Eisenstein, caption, 1928
February: May the provisional government have a long life! ibid.
Down with the Provisional Government! ibid. Lenin
The uprising is premature! ibid. Bolsheviks
Everybody to the defence of the Petrograd! ibid.
The government opened the arsenal. ibid.
The Bolsheviks organised a military plot against the legitimate authorities. ibid.
One hundred years ago a huge chunk of the planet became ruled by workers and peasants with a socialist economy with the success of the Russian revolution … a challenge to the reigning system of capitalism. Abby Martin, The Empire Files: What the Russian Revolution Proved Possible
These rebels changed the world. But countless others failed. What makes a rebellion succeed? Why do rebellions start? How do rebel movements spread? And what makes the rebels’ spirit ignite a revolution? The Story of Us with Morgan Freeman s1e6: The Spirit of Rebellion, National Geographic 2017
Hackers are a new form of rebel. ibid.
Real rebellion is a marathon. 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
So we say – we always say in the Black Panther Party that they can do anything they want to us. We might not be back. I might be in jail. I might be anywhere. But when I leave, you’ll remember I said, with the last words on my lips, that I am a revolutionary. And you’re going to have to keep on saying that. You’re going to have to say that I am a proletariat, I am the people. I am not the pigs. You’ve got to make a distinction. And the people are going to have to attack the pigs. The people are going to have to stand up against the pigs. That’s what the Panthers are doing here. That’s what the Panthers are doing all over the world. Fred Hampton, speech I am a Revolutionary