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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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.
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.