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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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
I am disabled and, I have to say, we accommodate non-disabled people so why don’t they accommodate us?
right? the “debate” always centers the abled (which is assumed to be society at large, but it isn’t), but my uncle, other people i know? they’re stronger than me. i couldn’t fucking navigate this horrible torturous system they’ve made, just to earn the right to fucking live
death to america
Death to America, of course!
The phase “If you had what I have you’d be dead” has been lodged in my head every since the Pandemic started and a few weeks staying home and wearing a mask broke people. So many disabled and neurodivergent people I know have endured far worse for decades, it was shocking to see how little it took “healthy” people to break.
I am once again advocating that all disabled people pool our skills and build a 50 story tall battle wheelchair armed with nukes and lasers and shit and use it to turn things around on the ableds.