We are watching #ICE agents aka weak foot soldiers, kill people in the streets.

The same way the US empire has been funding a #genocide for decades and throughout history to maintain dominance.

This has been normalized in our #capitlaist and #consumerist culture. It is not just or moral.

If the people don't shut it down via #generalstrike and #workingclass #solidarity, history has shown us, another power eventually will.

The USA experiment is a complete failure.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/h5VHHMzpSBg

Today in Labor History January 24, 1977: Right-wing extremists assassinated five labor activists in Madrid during the Atocha massacre. It was part of the far-right reaction to Spain's transition to democracy after the death of fascist dictator Francisco Franco. While the reactionaries hoped to provoke a violent left-wing response that would legitimize a right-wing counter coup d'état, the massacre actually increased popular revulsion of the far-right and accelerating the legalization of the long-banned Communist Party. In Madrid up to 100,000 people joined the funeral procession on January 26 for three of the victims of the Atocha massacre.

Remember, the original poem by pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984) began with the lines: first they came for the socialists, but I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a socialist. Then they came for the union members…. Of course, in today’s scenario, they’re already coming for the immigrants, and the trans and nonbinary people. But unions and labor activists are most definitely in their crosshairs, too. This was one of the primary goals of Project 2025.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #spain #massacre #fascism #franco #communism #dictator #labor #organizer #Project2025 #trump #immigration #lgbtq #transrightsarehumanrights #proudboys #januarysix #oathkeepers

Today in Labor History January 24, 1835: Slaves in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, started a revolt, which helped lead to the end slavery there 50 years later. Muslim slaves and freedmen, inspired by Muslim teachers, launched the rebellion during Ramadan. They were also inspired by the Haitian Revolution (1791−1804) and wore necklaces bearing the image of President Dessalines, who had declared Haitian independence.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #slavery #brazil #revolt #independence #islam #ramadan #haiti #uprising #rebellion #BlackMastodon

Today in Labor History January 24, 1919: Staff and patients revolted at the St. Davnet's psychiatric hospital in County Monaghan, Ireland, and declared it a worker-run Soviet. At the time, staff were working 93-hour weeks and earning only £60-£70 per year. They asked Peadar O'Donnell, an Irish republican and militant in the Irish Transport and General Workers Union, to negotiate on their behalf. When negotiations failed to resolve their grievances, they hoisted the red flag and declared the facility a soviet. O’Donnell is believed to be the first Irish person to use the term "occupation" to describe a workplace occupation. The St. Davnet occupation was also the first action in Ireland to describe itself as a soviet. During the occupation, they declared a 48-hour workweek for themselves. To protect themselves from attack by the police, they barricaded the windows and corridors, put on patients’ clothes to confuse the attackers, and armed themselves with shovels and pitchforks. Eventually, the authorities agreed to their wage demands, but only for male workers. The workers maintained solidarity and refused to concede, demanding equal pay for women. The Asylum Committee ultimately gave in to all their demands, and by February 4 they returned to work.

O’Donnell’s uncle had been an IWW member in Butte, Montana. O’Donnell, himself, became a socialist and a leader in the Irish ITGWU, and was a follower of the Easter Rising martyr and IWW cofounder James Connolly. During the Irish War of Independence (1919-1921), he fought with the IRA, leading guerrilla activity in the Derry and Donegal regions of Northern Ireland. After the peace treaty and creation of the Republic of Ireland (which, of course, left Northern Ireland as part of the UK), he continued the struggle, participating in the occupation of the Four Courts, and the Civil War that followed. He was eventually captured and imprisoned, where he took part in the 1923 Mass Hunger Strikes against the illegal imprisonment of IRA militants without trial or conviction. After 21 months in prison, he escaped, writing about it in his 1932 memoir “The Gates Flew Open.” In the 1930s, he left the IRA to co-found the Republican Congress, along with other socialists, communists and Cumann na mBan members, with a focus on defeating fascism. They were also successful in getting many people to defect from the IRA to join their anti-capitalist organization, and even recruited many Protestants. In 1936, he joined the Spanish Republican militia that was fighting against Franco's fascist insurgency. He also helped organize the Connolly Column of Irish Republican Congress members, named for James Connolly, to join the Spanish anti-fascist struggle. In the 1960s, he cofounded the Irish Voice on Vietnam antiwar organization.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #strike #occupation #soviet #socialism #fascism #antifascism #mentalhealth #ireland #republican #independence #union #IWW #books #author #writer #memoir @bookstadon

Veteran Jason Crow is really pissed

#workingclass #FuckTrump #FuckWar

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/jEcfW3MIYpI

Today in Labor History January 23, 1941: Charles Lindbergh testified before the U.S. Congress, recommending that the U.S. negotiate a neutrality pact with Hitler. Many suspected that Lindbergh was a Nazi sympathizer, based on his speeches and writings on race, religion and eugenics, and his glorification of Hitler’s “methods.” President Roosevelt told Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, "If I should die tomorrow, I want you to know this, I am absolutely convinced Lindbergh is a Nazi." Elon Musk is not, of course, the first U.S. political figure to give the Nazi salute. In the accompanying photograph, you can see Senator Burton Wheeler making the Nazi salute alongside Charles Lindbergh.

There will always be rats and scabs who side with their oppressors in hopes of winning a few more crumbs, or a few less beatings, than their peers who resist. But the politicians, whether Democrat or Republican, ultimately serve the same interests: the financial elite, not the working class. And no matter how odious they might find Trump’s language, behavior, and actions, in their calculations it better serves their interests to side with him, than it is does to piss him off.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #nazi #nazisalute #charleslindburgh #trump #elonmusk #fascism #democrats #hitler #immigrants #lgbtq #transrightsarehumanrights #media

Today in Labor History January 23, 1958: The Venezuelan military overthrew the dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez. Almost immediately, people took to the streets, looting the homes of the regime's supporters, attacking National Security headquarters and lynching officials. The Caracas neighborhood, Barrio 23 de Enero, is named for this event. Protests against the dictatorship began nearly a year before, in March, 1957, during a performance of Aaron Copland's “Lincoln Portrait.” Near the end of the performance, an actress quoted from the Gettysburg Address, which inspired the audience to shout against the president. An American foreign service officer told Copland that his Lincoln Portrait had started the revolution.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #venezuela #caracas #dictatorship #coup