Today in Labor History March 20, 1922: The Red Army completed their defeat of the Iakov Fomin Mutiny. In March, 1920, Iakov Efimovich Fomin, formerly a Cossack commander within the Red Army, and inspired by the Kronstadt mutineers, led a mutiny against the Bolsheviks over food requisitioning for the Cossack troops. The mutineers’ slogan was, “Down with the requisitioning! Down with non-local Communists!” They had nearly 100% support among the local population of Veshenskaia, with many local peasants and anarchists joining the uprising. The mutiny developed into a 2-year guerilla uprising against Bolshevik terror and repression and for the power of worker-led soviets. They called on all citizens to rise up and establish “the true power of the whole laboring people.”

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Today in Labor History March 19, 1742: Tupac Amaru was born. Tupac Amaru II had led a large Andean uprising against the Spanish. As a result, he became a mythical figure in the Peruvian struggle for independence and in the indigenous rights movement. The Tupamaros revolutionary movement in Uruguay (1960s-1970s) took their name from him. As did the Túpac Amaru Revolutionary guerrilla group, in Peru, and the Venezuelan Marxist political party Tupamaro. American rapper, Tupac Amaru Shakur, was also named after him. Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, wrote a poem called “Tupac Amaru (1781).” And Clive Cussler’s book, “Inca Gold,” has a villain who claims to be descended from the revolutionary leader.

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„Senior Israeli officials have told U.S. diplomats that Iranian protesters will “get slaughtered” if they take to the streets against their government even as Israel publicly calls for a popular #uprising, according to a State Department cable reviewed by The Washington Post.“

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/03/17/israel-iran-cable-revolt-slaughtered/

OTD March 17 in PETROGRAD, 1921 “Kronstadt has fallen today. Thousands of sailors and workers lie dead in its streets. Summary execution of prisoners and hostages continues.”

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https://organisemagazine.org.uk/2021/03/17/kronstadt-diary-mar-17th-historical/