thousands of Nicaraguans celebrat the 44th anniversary of the Sandinista socialist revolution that ousted brutal US-backed dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle

#celebration #ousting #usbacked #dictator #debayle #deathsquads #fascism #corporateprofits

Abbott's buoys and razor wire speak of “inhumanity” toward immigrants

https://www.expressnews.com/columnist/elaine-ayala/article/abbott-buoys-rio-grande-cruel-18198634.php#photo-24026915

How long will the public put up with open political mass murder?

#politicalmurder #humanrights #assylumseekers #deathsquads #corporatecontrol #neocolonialism #resourcestealing #immigration #internationalcriminal #texas #gregabbot

brutal truth of bloody US Foreign policy fallout in 4 minutes.
lyrics so you can read this.

The 3rd World - Immortal Technique (LYRICS)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOINSUWOqyo&list=LLbS-BLQlcayYQybyKu2-eqA&index=100&ab_channel=AndyT

#neocolonialism #deathsquads #slavery #massacres #drugs #dirtybombs #starvation #moneylaundering #3rdworld #guerillas #occupation #rape #CatholicChurch #trafficking #assassination #CIA #sweatshops #corporations #culturalgenocide #gentrification #poison #pollution

'Totally Indefensible': Biden Nominates Death Squad Backer Elliott Abrams to Diplomacy Panel

"Elliott Abrams, enemy of human rights, apologist for mass murder, should have no place within spitting distance of any Democratic administration in any capacity."

Republican official's past as a defender of Latin American death squads and cheerleader for murderous U.S. foreign policy interventions.

#biden #abrams #deathsquads #humanrights #fascist

https://www.commondreams.org/news/biden-elliott-abrams-diplomacy

Today in Labor History June 19, 1985: Gunmen opened fire on an outdoor restaurant in San Salvador’s upscale Zona Rosa, killing 13, including four U.S. Marines and two U.S. businessmen. A broadcast by Radio Venceremos, the FMLN’s pirate radio station, said: "If U.S. Army members and CIA agents died in San Salvador, it was because they came to attack our people. No one had summoned them; they died as a result of the interventionist policy carried out by President Reagan, whose intervention grows day by day. Reagan will have to assume full responsibility for his deeds."

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #imperialism #ElSalvador #DeathSquads #FMLN #Reagan #cia #marines #CivilWar

Today in Labor History June 14, 2006: Mexican state police attacked 50,000 striking teachers occupying streets Zocalo of Oaxaca. No one died on this date, but over one hundred teachers were hospitalized. Protesters fought back and were able to eject the police for several months, creating an anarchist community in that period. They covered the town with anti-capitalist graffiti and formed neighborhood watches that fought off the military with rocks and fireworks. Overall, the conflict lasted for seven months, during which, the government used spies and death squads, killing 27 people.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #strike #teachers #anarchism #protest #occupation #mexico #PoliceMurder #DeathSquads #PoliceBrutality #acab #oaxaca

Today in Labor History June 10, 1971: Mexican police and death squads killed 120 student protesters, including a 14-year-old boy, in the Corpus Christi Massacre. In 1968, the government massacred hundreds of students and bystanders in the Tlatelolco massacre.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #student #protest #massacre #DeathSquads #Mexico #police #PoliceBrutality #PoliceMurder #acab #Tlatelolco

Today in Labor History June 1, 1981: Two Filipino longshore labor organizers, Domingo & Viernes, were assassinated in Seattle, Washington on orders of U.S.-backed dictator Ferdinand Marcos. In 1986, as a result of ongoing protests, President Ronald Reagan told Marcos to “cut and cut cleanly.” That evening, Marcos and his wife Imelda fled to Hawaii aboard a U.S. air force plane, after 20 years of rule, with an entourage of 90 people (mostly servants), with 22 crates of cash valued at $717 million, 300 crates of jewelry of unknown value, $4 million worth of unset precious gems, $200,000 in gold bullion, $1 million in Philippine pesos and deposit slips for $124 million in banks in the Cayman Islands. Plus, countless crates of shoes. The Marcos hold the Guinness record for the largest ever theft from a government. Today, their son, Bong Bong Marcos, rules over the Philippines, with Sara Duterte as his vice-president, daughter of the brutal previous president, Rodrigo Duterte, who has been linked to the death-squad murders of over 1,400 alleged drug dealers and street children.

#LaborHistory #WorkingClass #union #seattle #philippines #filipino #DeathSquads #assassination #Marcos #Duterte #organizers #dictator

Today in Labor History March 23, 1980: Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador gave a speech appealing to the men of the Salvadoran armed forces to stop killing Salvadoran civilians. The next day, they assassinated him, too.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #imperialism #DeathSquads #ElSalvador #assassination #ArchBishopRomero

Today in Labor History March 12, 1967: Suharto took power from Sukarno in Indonesia. He ruled Indonesia as an authoritarian, kleptocratic dictator for 31 years. During that time, he amassed a fortune worth $38 billion. He rose to power under Sukarno during the 1965-1966 genocide. During that ostensibly anti-Communist purge, Suharto’s troops murdered up to 1.0 million communists, labor activists, peasants and ethnic minorities. In 1974, the Suharto regime, with approval of U.S. president Gerald Ford, invaded East Timor, killing over 200,000 Timorese. Another 75,000-200,000 died from starvation and disease.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #genocide #indonesia #EastTimor #massacre #DeathSquads #Suharto #Sukarno #dictator #communist #union

Today in Labor History February 4, 1981: Death squads killed 68 campesinos in the massacre of Chimaltenango, Guatemala. The massacre was one of many massacres making up the Guatemalan genocide. 200,000 Guatemalans died in the genocide. 93% of them were killed by government forces and death squads. 83% of the victims were Maya.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #guatemala #genocide #indigenous #maya #DeathSquads #imperialism #massacre #campesinos

Today in Labor History January 16, 1992: The government of El Salvador and the FMLN rebels signed a peace accord, formally ending their 12-year-old civil war. 75,000 people died in that war, mostly civilians, and mostly at the hands of the military and government-supported death squads. 25% of the population became refugees. The U.S. taxpayers heavily subsided the Salvadoran government and its death squads and also trained many of them at the School of the Americas (AKA School of the Assassins), in Fort Benning, Georgia. The FMLN was named after Farabundo Marti, a Salvadoran revolutionary from the 1930s, who led a communist uprising that created the short-lived Salvadoran soviet, the first soviet in the western hemisphere. The Martinez dictatorship then slaughtered over 40,000, mostly indigenous people, in a genocide known as La Matanza. Martinez was one of the first world leaders to recognize Hitler.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #massacre #genocide #elsalvador #FMLN #soviet #communism #imperialism #DeathSquads #uprising #civilwar

"We speak with journalist #LynzyBilling, whose investigation for #ProPublica details how #CIA-backed #DeathSquads, known as #ZeroUnits, have yet to be held accountable for killing hundreds of civilians during the #USWarInAfghanistan. The Afghan units, which were routinely accompanied by U.S. soldiers, became feared throughout rural #Afghanistan for their brutal night raids.."

#AfghanWar #WarCrimes

#DemocracyNow

https://www.democracynow.org/2023/1/12/afghanistan_zero_units_cia_civilian_deaths

"We speak with journalist #LynzyBilling, whose investigation for #ProPublica details how #CIA-backed #DeathSquads, known as #ZeroUnits, have yet to be held accountable for killing hundreds of civilians during the #USWarInAfghanistan. The Afghan units, which were routinely accompanied by U.S. soldiers, became feared throughout rural #Afghanistan
for their brutal night raids.."

#AfghanWar #WarCrimes

#DemocracyNow

https://www.democracynow.org/2023/1/12/afghanistan_zero_units_cia_civilian_deaths

Today in Labor History January 10, 1981: The FMLN launched its first major offensive against the Salvadoran military. As a result, they gained control of the departments of Morazan and Chalatenango. They held onto these regions of El Salvador for most of the civil war. In 1989, it became clear after their “final” offensive, that the government could not defeat them. At this point, the U.S., which had previously supported the government’s genocidal war against the Salvadoran people, began to support negotiations. The United Nations estimated that 85% of all civilian killings during the civil war were committed by government forces and government-supported death squads. Despite the peace process, death squad killings continued. There were several during the two months I was there in 1993, in spite of the presence of UN observers.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #elsalvador #DeathSquads #FMLN #communism #rebellion #imperialism #unitednations

Today in Labor History December 2, 1980: Four American missionaries were raped and murdered by a Salvadoran death squad. The Salvadoran Civil War began after a 1979 military coup. Catholic activists protested against the junta's oppression of the poor and working class. Death squads assassinated Óscar Romero, the Archbishop of San Salvador, March 24, 1980. After the four Americans were murdered, U.S. President Jimmy Carter suspended aid to El Salvador. However, succeeding President, Ronald Reagan, promptly authorized increased military aid. He also sent more U.S. military advisers, escalating attacks on civilians. His foreign policy advisor, Jean Kirkpatrick, claimed that "the nuns were not just nuns; they were political activists," as if this justified their rapes and murders. After the release of declassified documents in the 1990s, New Jersey congressman Robert Torricelli stated that it was "now clear that the Reagan Administration was certifying human rights progress in El Salvador they knew the terrible truth that the Salvadoran military was engaged in a widespread campaign of terror and torture".

#elsalvador #romero #DeathSquads #imperialism #SchooloftheAmericas #poor #workingclass #reagan

Songs of Note

If I Had A Rocket Launcher

#BruceCockburn

#music #PoliticalMusic #Guatemala #DeathSquads #Refugees

https://movingtrainmedia.com/polyrical-podcast/songs-of-note-if-i-had-a-rocket-launcher