By which I obviously mean the British Army, here being deployed during the 1926 general strike.
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Here they are in Glasgow, 1919 to quell a feared 'bolshevist uprising'; see Red Clydeside and the Battle of George Square for more.
English units were chosen to go to the city, supposedly because of fears that Scottish soldiers might have been sympathetic to leftist political agitators and strikers.
Also, here's the U.S. National Guard deployed to the 1934 San Francisco strike. :amerikkka:
Not to mention the Bavarian Soviet, the Paris Commune, Revolutionary Catalonia, the Korean People's Association, the Finnish Soviet Republic etc. all being defeated by capitalists and fascists with soldiers & tanks.
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If you think about it, 'tankie' is more appropriate an epithet for capitalists given their propensity to deploying military force against even mild civil unrest.
Feel free to contribute more examples of western/capitalist repression - I like to keep a running list of tangible instances of hypocrisy.
This happened pretty much everywhere. In Argentina, May 1969, a massive civil uprising was crushed by the military. It's called Cordobazo, a general strike was conducted in the industrial city of Córdoba (where the military government was implementing corporation-friendly reforms) led by Marxist union leaders and heavily supported by the working class. The situation got out of hand as the workers battled and defeated the local police forces, by then the military government decided to send in the army, which used it's advantage in sheer firepower to put down the workers heroic struggle. For many, this was the first taste of state-sponsored repression and terrorism, which would replicate itself during the late Perón years as the Triple A (Argentine Anti-Communist Alliance) hunted down left wing militants and after the genocidal 1976 Military Junta took power, torturing, disappearing and killing people.
We named our school after Agustín Tosco, Union Leader and head of the uprising.
