Kevin CarsonJan 7, 2023
The Red Summer riots of 1919. After WWI, black veterans across the U.S. used their military training to defend their communities against ethnic cleansing efforts by white mobs.
https://www.history.com/news/red-summer-1919-riots-chicago-dc-great-migration
Red Summer of 1919: How Black WWI Vets Fought Back Against Racist Mobs

When dozens of brutal race riots erupted across the U.S. in the wake of World War I and the Great Migration, black veterans stepped up to defend their communities against white violence.

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Show threadChuffMeister
@KevinCarson1 it’s amazing how working men returning home with weapons and confidence can transform society.
How do we bring this learning to the squashed oppressed generations enduring abusive exploitation?
Jan 8, 2023 at 4:41pmWeb
Show threadKevin CarsonJan 8, 2023
@ChuffMeister Makes me think of Chomsky's observation that populations became radicalized during WWI and WWII and the forces of reaction responded with violence afterwards in both cases.
Show threadChuffMeisterJan 8, 2023
@KevinCarson1 Churchill order troops to fire on Liverpool strikers, but I doubt women or men without property would have got a vote if the population hadn’t been used as pawns in a family squabble- particularly as the main arms producers on both sides cut a deal to share profits= investors made cash from every death regardless of nationality.
Classic modern business model.
Show threadKevin CarsonJan 8, 2023
@ChuffMeister Hell, probably goes back to labor militancy after the Napoleonic Wars, leading up to the Peterloo massacre