“UK parts in missile that killed Iranian schoolgirls”

by HG in The Canary

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“Byline Times has linked the components used in the Tomahawk missiles which hit a girls’ school in Mibab, to two defence companies with a strong presence in the UK.

The US missiles murdered around 165 school girls on February 28 in a double-tap attack. The second missile killed sheltering survivors, two first responders, and the parent of a murdered child.”

https://www.thecanary.co/global/2026/03/21/uk-parts-in-missile/

#Press #SocialMedia #UK #IranWar #Tomahawk #Missiles #BAeSystems #Raytheon #Mibab #School #SchoolChildren #Massacre

Today in Labor History March 21, 1960: South African police opened fire on peaceful black protesters, killing 69 and wounding 180 in the Sharpeville massacre. Many were shot in the back as they fled. Thousands had been out protesting the hated pass laws, when they decided to march on the police station. The town of Sharpeville had high unemployment and poverty. Its residents had been forcibly moved there from the neighboring town of Topville in 1958. Passbooks were used by the Apartheid regime to control the movement of black residents and to enforce segregation.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #apartheid #racism #SouthAfrica #Sharpeville #massacre #unemployment #poverty #BlackMastodon

Today in Labor History March 21, 1937: Palm Sunday, cops killed 19 unarmed men, women and children marching in a protest in Ponce, Puerto Rico. They injured another 200 civilians. The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party organized the march to commemorate the abolition of slavery in 1873 and to protest the imprisonment of the party’s leaders by the U.S. The police used Thompson submachine guns, rifles and pistols, shooting marchers in the back, during the Ponce Massacre. A commission placed the blame for the massacre on the U.S. appointed governor of Puerto Rico, Blanton Winship. However, no one, including Winship, nor any of the shooters, were ever prosecuted or punished.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #ponce #massacre #PuertoRico #colonialism #slavery #abolition #prison

Today in Labor History March 18, 1871: The Paris Commune began on this date. It started with resistance to occupying German troops and the power of the bourgeoisie. They governed from a feminist and anarcho-communist perspective, abolishing rent and child labor, and giving workers the right to take over workplaces abandoned by the owners. The revolutionaries took control of Paris and held on to it for two months, until it was brutally suppressed. During Semaine Sanglante, the nationalist forces slaughtered 15,000-20,000 Communards. Hundreds more were tried and executed or deported. Many of the more radical communards were followers of Aguste Blanqui. Élisée Reclus was another leader in the commune. Many women participated, like Louise Michel and Joséphine Marchais, including in the armed insurrection. Nathalie Lemel, a socialist bookbinder, and Élisabeth Dmitrieff, a young Russian exile, created the Women's Union for the Defence of Paris and Care of the Wounded, demanding gender and wage equality.

Read my complete biograph of Louise Michel here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/20/louise-michel/

#workingclass #LaborHistory #paris #commune #anarchism #communism #execution #massacre #feminism #ChildLabor #Revolution #wageequality #socialism #agusteblanqui #ÉliséeReclus #womenshistorymonth #louisemichel

Despicable

#Israel urges Iranians to revolt but privately assesses they’ll be ‘slaughtered’

Israeli officials told #US counterparts they hope for an uprising even though it would lead to a #massacre, according to a #State Department cable reviewed by The Post.

#TrumpsWar #Iran #war #Trump #Netanyahu #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity #RegimeChange #RulesOfWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #MiddleEast
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/03/17/israel-iran-cable-revolt-slaughtered/

#OTD in 1968 Hugh Thompson and two helicopter crew members placed themselves between American troops and the villagers they were murdering at My Lai in #Vietnam. Thirty years later the three men visited Vietnam and a few of the (now) women they saved. One woman asked why the other men (those doing the killing) didn't come along ... so they could forgive them.

Detailed story well worth reading. Hugh Thompson was pilot in command,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Thompson_Jr.

#MyLai #War #Military #Massacre

Today in Labor History March 16, 1968: Up to 500 Vietnamese villagers were slaughtered by U.S. troops in the My Lai Massacre. The story was broken by investigative journalist Sy Hersch, who also covered Watergate, the secret US bombing of Cambodia, CIA domestic spying within the US, and the US torture and abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib. More recently, he has written articles showing that Syrian rebel forces, not the Assad regime, contrary to US propaganda, were responsible for the sarin gas attack in Ghouta. And that the US, with Norwegian collaboration, blew up the Nord Stream pipelines between Russia and Germany (also contrary to US propaganda).

#workingclass #LaborHistory #mylai #massacre #WarCrimes #vietnam #seymourhersch #AbuGhraib #torture #nordstream #sabotage #russia #putin #watergate