John Wilson WSWS's latest activity

@workingclasshistory FYI:1921 federal troops arrived at Blair Mountain, W Virginia
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/09/10/bmtn-s10.html

the Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921, when as many as 20,000 coal miners in southern West Virginia waged armed combat against a private army of gun thugs hired by the coal operators. The pitched battle lasted from August 25 to September 2, 1921, when US military forces deployed by President Warren Harding occupied the coalfields, disarming and arresting hundreds of miners under martial law

@workingclasshistory The WSWS has three articles on Joy Gardner.

The killing of Joy Gardner: A Workers Inquiry is needed
The International Communist Party (July 1 1995)
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/07/28/stat-j28.html

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/07/28/gard-j28.html

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/08/01/gard-a01.html

The ICP/SEP did hold a Workers' Inquiry and its results were published:

Socialist Equality Party
A State Murder Exposed: The Truth about the Killing of Joy Gardner
https://mehring.com/product/a-state-murder-exposed-the-truth-about-the-killing-of-joy-gardner/

@workingclasshistory … On the Spanish Civil War’s outcome hung the fate not just of Spain, but of Europe and the world. In France, Premier Léon Blum’s Popular Front government was stepping up the police repression of workers after the May–June 1936 French general strike, …
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https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/07/17/pers-j17.html

@workingclasshistory @iww
FYI: …James Connolly was among the minority of socialists who sharply criticised the embrace of national chauvinism by European socialism. Indeed there is no better refutation of the politically motivated portrayals of Connolly as an Irish nationalist icon than to cite his powerful writings from the period at length.
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@workingclasshistory Why didn’t the German trade unions see it coming and fight?

1933 May 1: May Day. The remaining SPD is a different beast than Frederick Engels had known. This creature supports Hitler’s various labor “reorganizations” and encourages workers to march in the Nazi “National Day of Labor” parade May 1.

1933 May 2: Nazis take over the trade-union movement and send labor leaders to concentration camps.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/germany/index.htm

@workingclasshistory People being drawn into politics won't know what the Cheka (the Soviet secret police) was or how its assassinations of revolutionaries helped betray the Spanish Revolution. (Another service by Stalinism to world imperialism).

Tragically Nin and the POUM ignored Trotsky's advice.

The Spanish Revolution was the last opportunity for the working class to stop fascism and WWII.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2009/01/sple-j26.html