On the 7th of january in 1919, the “Semana Trágica” began in Argentina when police attacked striking metalworkers in Buenos Aires, killing five, after workers set the police chief’s car on fire. The city was quickly placed under martial law.
The “Semana Trágica” (Tragic Week in English, not to be confused with the Spanish Tragic Week) was the violent supression of a general workers’ uprising, beginning with the attack on January 7th. In addition to the actions of the police and military, right-wing vigilantes launched pogroms against the city’s Jews, many of whom were not involved, in order to suppress the rebellion.
The conflict began as a strike at the Vasena metal works, an English Argentine-owned plant in the suburbs of Buenos Aires. On January 7th, workers overturned and set fire to the car of the police chief Elpidio González. Militant workers also shot and killed the commander of the Army detachment protecting González. Following this, police attacked, killing five workers and wounding twenty more.
On the same day, maritime workers of the port of Buenos Aires voted in favor of a general strike for better hours and wages. After the police attack at Vasena, a waterfront strike began: all ship movements, and all loading and unloading, came to a halt.
Rioting soon spread throughout Buenos Aires, and workers battled with both state and right-wing paramilitary forces. Police utilized members of the far-right Argentine “Patriotic League”, who targeted the city’s working class Russian Jewish population, which they associated with the rebellion, beating and murdering many uninvolved civilians.
On the 11th, the city was placed under martial law, and the military restored control over the city over the next several days. Estimates of the death toll range from between 141 to over 700. The United States embassy reported that 1,500 people were killed in total, “mostly Russians and generally Jews”
La Semana Trágica - el historiador
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BAAAAAAAAAACK.
Cuba was amazing and reinvigorated my belief in the revolution. Met up with a friend of ours who lived in Guatemala briefly before moving back. From him I was able to meet other comrades and spread the word of NATO Leftists and their kind. Americans are annoying as fuck and ask invasive questions all the god damn time. You don’t answer and they immediately assume it’s because you fear the government.
It’s actually embarrassing how much better shape it’s in than Guatemala despite the sanctions. Crime is significantly lower, lgbt aren’t nearly as harassed, and people overall are healthier and in better shape than our increasingly obese population.
I will personally strangle any Vaushite who tells me Cuba could be more Democratic. They should maybe try pushing the Cuban lgbt legislation they like so much in their own states and see how well that goes in their “democracy.”
Edit: Finally saw the FNAF movie on a bootleg. The story was mid but the production quality of the animatronics and restaurant were great. I wish they had shown more of that.
The feel when my posts dont get an upbear within 5 seconds of posting them
I appreciate this site having a strong trans presence. One of my family members is trans and I see him struggle sometimes with the attitude towards people like him on the internet. It is very nice to see a more supportive environment.
I have not hung out with a friend IRL as an adult yet (stopped having any friends in high-school) and I’m frickin 33 years old :(
I feel like I’ve missed out on important personal development milestones that I can never recover, and I don’t see a light at the end of the tunnel.
I feel like a lot of development is like losing your virginity in that you’d only ever recognize that it’s not a big deal after having experienced it (even if people tell you). Therefore you are best served by that which is present in your present moment and the anxious yearning to be in some other context is a fool’s game in your head. All of that to say, if you had the milestones in the past or if you didn’t, your objective isn’t to be happy for a lifetime or a decade or a year. All you have to do is do your best today. Then tomorrow you do your best that today. Whatever’s for you will be there and whatever’s not will slide off your back like water off a duck. At least that’s what I hope and tell myself.
Good post
Strong “Today is a good day to die” energy.
I feel like a lot of development is like losing your virginity
yeah there’s another one I hope to find out before I’m too old. lol
I’m sorry, yo. Life’s hard, harder without people around. I hope you can find a way to get stuck in to a community.
The traditional Hexbear anti-alienation therapy is to see if there’s a Food Not Bombs chapter in your area and go help out. Most chapters are chill and helping out people directly, just serving food to anyone who’s hungry, is a potent weapon against alienation.
This site has me hooked. I only join after being annoyed by posts about Taiwan and now I can not stop myself from posting.
not sure if it was on here or on chapo or where but whoever it was that first described the people on january 6 as “milling around waiting for a cutscene to happen” really nailed it
I don’t need therapy, I need capitalism to end and the people who uphold it facing a wall
Learning to draw
Being conscious of how I am a beginner
Someone recently posted here about their transition and told how they are not feeling bad things and have like supporting family and friends and a partner and just made cry so hard my transition is only pain and bad feelings got no supporting family (my dad came screaming at me at Christmas eve saying a bunch of transphobic shit my sister is like a femcell terf that think I just some weirdo) got no friends because I lived isolation for such a long time because of bullying, abuse and assault now I can’t barely talk to people and no partner only a broken heart I’m so fucking alone.
It’s always incredibly rough to go through transition without a good support group
I’m sorry comrade.
I’ve been thinking about the Voluspa’s prophecy of Ragnarok a lot CW: maybe anti sex worker? idk if that even applies to medieval Iceland?
Brothers will fight and kill each other, sisters’ children will defile kinship. It is harsh in the world, whoredom rife – an axe age, a sword age – shields are riven – a wind age, a wolf age – before the world goes headlong. No man will have mercy on another.
There’s so much suffering now, so much alienation, so many things are bad that don’t need to be.
Be sure to get on the c/traaaaans com. There are folks there who will understand.
I wonder if koreans also make videos titled like “eating the wettest gas station hot dog in texas”
I wanna’ be courted. I wanna’ be romanced. I need to be serenaded and wooed. I want to be doted upon. So far none of these things have happened. I’m somewhere between the age of 18 and 65.
What do I do?
hey let’s talk about the glorious welfare system of yankeeland!
my disabled uncle is on medicaid, he waited a long ass time for a spot in facility that’d provide somewhat decent (but not 24-hour) care and take medicaid. recently, he had a fucking deadly infection he’s had to go to hospital for and because he’s on medicaid the fucks are kicking him out of the hospital because i guess he’s not expected to keel over in 24 hours? but HE STILL NEEDS 24 HOURS CARE. the options presented: go to a nursing home which would -terminate- the contract with his actual fucking home, and make him homeless. or enlist volunteers to go become nurses until he’s actually healthy
my parents, bless them, are helping him as completely unprepared nurses. but it’s such an absurd fucking situation. WHY IS IT LIKE THIS? the least threatening to power, unable to do anything to the people in charge. and they just want to kill him.
and this is after not letting him have any gainful employment because if you make a certain amount of money it magically makes you able to fucking walk according to the reaganites
Drop this on people who think they aren’t smart enough to learn theory. Like we’re going to sit down and watch a bunch of 22 minute long toy commercials from the 90s, and every so often i’ma be like “that’s some pretty profound shit, right?” And they’re gonna say “yeah that blows my mind” and i’m going to be like “cool, some french dude had to use 30,000 words to say what Goku or Aang or Optimus Prime just said in one sentence you got this”.
Giving up video game will make you better at sex, but giving up sex will make you better at video games.
Meanwhile, despite these attacks from the Left and despite his own considerable misgivings about Soviet Communism, Hemingway himself remained steadfast. It was the Russians, after all, not anyone else, who were killing German soldiers in significant numbers. It was partly that awareness that led him to appear in Pravda one more time— with a New Year’s greeting published on page four of the 3 January 1943, issue. Under the heading “New Year’s Greetings to the Soviet Union from Foreign Writers,” Pravda’s back page issues statements by Dreiser, Hemingway, Leon Feuchtwanger, and Thomas Mann. Hemingway’s statement may be translated as follows:
In 1942 you saved the world from the forces of barbarity, offering resistance alone, almost without help.
At the end of the year our first efforts in Africa were launched. This is a symbol of a promise. Every able man in America will work and fight, together with the workers and peasants of the Soviet Union, for our common cause— the complete obliteration of fascism from the world and the guarantee of freedom, peace, and justice for all people.
These three contributions to Soviet publications— in 1941, 1942, and 1943— suggest that if Hemingway said farewell to the Comintern in 1940, as Kenneth Lynn claims, it was a very long goodbye indeed. In fact Hemingway stayed in contact with Communists he met in Spain still longer than that; his last letter to Rolfe was written in 1953, the year before Rolfe died. For too long, evaluations of Hemingway’s politics have been dominated by the cold war ideologies of a number of his biographers. That has led to ignoring friendships Hemingway chose to maintain and even to ignorance about several of his political statements. It is time we assess his politics in the light of all his relevant actions. We need to ask what cultural forces led Hemingway to believe and act as he did and to consider both as potentially reasonable, not to assume that conformity to our beliefs would have been his only reasonable course.
That’s cool. I’d like to know more about that. “History is written by the victors”, in the context of everything we culturally remember about the Cold War being written by right wing, often fascist, western Cold Warriors has grotesquely distorted the history of the 20th century.
