45 years ago today
Sandinista! is the fourth studio album by English punk rock band the Clash, released on this day in 1980 as a triple album containing 36 tracks, with 6 songs on each side

#punk #punks #punkrock #theclash #sandinista #history #punkrockhistory #otd

Sandinista!: нашим друзьям 20 лет спустя

20 лет назад, 13 ноября 2005 года, антифашист и хардкор-музыкант Тимур Качарава погиб в результате варварского нападения неонацистов в самом центре Санкт-Петербурга. И хотя его смерть стала для нас не только огромной личной утратой, но и событием, во многом определившим дальнейшие траектории наших жизней, нам меньше всего хотелось бы, чтобы этот текст был похож на некролог, сентиментальное воспоминание или биографическую справку. Цель, которую мы преследуем, превосходит любой личный опыт и любую личную биографию.

(репост с @CrimethInc )

https://avtonom.org/news/sandinista-nashim-druzyam-20-let-spustya
#ТимурКачарава #Sandinista #Crimethinc #СтаниславМаркелов #ПьерБурдье #ВальтерБеньямин #Россия #СанктПетербург #анархизм #АвтономноеДействие

Today in Labor History October 26, 1926: Augusto Sandino took up arms against the Nicaraguan state and the U.S. military that was occupying Nicaragua. Sandino had been living in exile in México during the early 1920s, where he participated in strikes led by the IWW. Inspired by the IWW, he adopted the IWW's black & red colors for the Sandinista flag. One of the original Sandinista army manifestos read, “It is better to be killed as a rebel than to live on as a slave.” The U.S. didn’t withdraw its troops until 1933, when Juan Sacasa took over as president. Sacasa named Anastasio Somoza head of the hated Guardia Nacional. Sacasa met privately with Sandino and won his support. However, Sandino continued to call for the dismantling of the Guardia Nacional. Somoza assassinated him in 1934. After that, the Somoza dynasty ruled Nicaragua until the FSLN (the modern Sandinista Nation Liberation Front) overthrew them in 1979.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #Nicaragua #sandino #sandinista #Revolution #IWW #anarchism #socialism #imperialism

Today in Labor History October 10, 1980: The Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front was founded in El Salvador. The FMLN, which fought a long civil war to overthrow the rightwing dictatorship, was named after Salvadoran revolutionary Farabundo Marti (1893-1932). Marti, a comrade of Augusto Sandino, the Nicaraguan revolutionary leader, helped found the Central American Communist Party. In 1932, he helped lead an uprising that, for ten days, was the first Soviet in the western hemisphere. The rebellion was crushed by the dictator Maximiliano Martinez, who slaughtered over 30,000 peasants, indigenous people and communists in the Matanza. Martinez had once proclaimed, “America is great because it eradicated its Indians. For El Salvador to become great, so must we.” Martinez was also one of the first world leaders to recognize Adolf Hitler. He also believed in the “court of invisible doctors.”

#workingclass #LaborHistory #elsalvador #FarabundoMarti #communism #soviet #Revolutionary #imperialism #fascism #genocide #indigenous #FMLN #Nicaragua #Sandinista

The most beautiful assassinations of the last century No. 11: Rigoberto López Pérez vs. Anastasio Somoza García

On September 21, 1956, Nicaraguan poet Rigoberto #Pérez [de.wikipedia.org] admission to an election convention at the Casa de Obrero in León, where Anastasio Somoza García [en.wikipedia.org] was running for re-election. He disguised himself as a waiter, which allowed him to get close to the president and seriously injure him with five shots from his Smith & Wesson .38 & .32 Double Action [en.wikipedia.org]. The surrounding Guardias Nacionales [de.wikipedia.org] of Somoza's bodyguard shot López Pérez immediately afterwards. Shortly afterwards, Anastasio Somoza García was taken by military aircraft to the US military hospital Hospital Gorgas in the Panama Canal Zone, which was then still under US control, where he died eight days later. After the death of Anastasio Somoza García, his son Luís Somoza Debayle [de.wikipedia.org] succeeded him as president of Nicaragua.

Yo tengo el dolor de toda mi patria

y en mis venas anda un héroe buscando la libertad.

Las flores de mis días siempre estarán marchitas

si la sangre del tirano está en sus venas.

Yo estoy buscando al pez de la libertad

en la muerte del tirano.“

”I am suffering.

I carry the pain of my entire homeland within me,

and in my veins flows a hero who strives for freedom.

The flowers of my days will always be withered if the blood of the tyrant flows in his veins.

I am searching for the fish of freedom

in the death of the tyrant."

My dear mother:

#Somoza #Nicaragua #USA #Tyrant #tyrannicide #Revolution #OtD #Sandinista #OnThisDay

Die schönsten Attentate des letzten Jahrhunderts Nr. 11: Rigoberto López Pérez vs. Anastasio Somoza García

"Ich leide. Ich trage den Schmerz meiner ganzen Heimat in mir, und in meinen Adern fließt ein Held, der nach Freiheit strebt. Die Blumen meiner Tage werden immer verwelkt sein, wenn das Blut des Tyrannen in seinen Adern fließt. Ich suche den Fisch der Freiheit im Tod des Tyrannen."

Brief von Rigoberto an seine Mutter, San Salvador, 4. September 1956

Meine liebe Mutter:

Quelle: trueten.de

#Sandinista #Sandino #Nicaragua #OtD #Lateinamerika #TyrannenMord #Revolution #Attentat #Rigoberto #perez

Today in Labor History September 9, 1981: The Sandinista government banned all strikes. We’re a workers’ paradise, motherfucker. We don’t need strikes! Yippie!

#workingclass #LaborHistory #nicaragua #sandinista #socialism #union #strike #repression

Today in Labor History July 19, 1979: Sandinista rebels overthrew the Somoza government in Nicaragua, ending the authoritarian 43-year Somoza family dynasty and replacing it with a revolutionary government. They instituted a program of mass literacy, gender equality and access to medical care. However, they also committed many human rights abuses, including the oppression and mass execution of indigenous people. The Sandinistas are named after Augusto Sandino, who led the rebellion against the U.S. occupation of Nicaragua in the 1930s. He was murdered by Somoza senior in 1934, launching the decades-long dictatorship. In the 1920s, Sandino lived in exile, in Mexico, where he was influenced by anti-imperialist, anarchist and communist revolutionaries, including the IWW. The original and modern Sandinista flags were influenced by the IWW’s anarcho-syndicalist red and black colors.

The CIA orchestrated a Civil War between the Sandinistas and the right-wing Contras from 1984-1989. The Contras blew up rural schools and hospitals and routinely carried out rape and torture. In 1983, U.S. Congress passed the Boland Amendment, banning further aid to the Contrals. And in 1984, the International Court of Justice ruled that the U.S. prior support had been in violation of International law. However, even after the Boland Amendment, the Reagan administration continued to back the Contras by raising money from allies and covertly selling arms to Iran (then engaged in a war with Iraq), and funneling the proceeds to the Contras. In later Congressional hearings, when questioned for 8 hours, Reagan responded that he couldn’t remember at least 124 times, which was sufficient for Congress to absolve him of violating their own law, while National Security Council aide Lt. Col. Oliver North took much of the blame.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #nicaragua #sandinista #reagan #imperialism #civilwar #contras #cia #IWW #rebellion #uprising #Revolution #internationallaw #rape #torture #anarchism #communism