Thread by @PeterGelderloos

#OtD in 1936, fascists executed 4000 unarmed people connected to the workers' movement in Badajoz.
Also during these days, 15 years earlier, Spain began a massive campaign of mustard gas against rebelling Amazigh populations in their north African colonies.

https://twitter.com/PeterGelderloos/status/1426571820153647107

Many thousands were killed, though there is little documentation and almost complete apathy across the Spanish left.
Even a focus on self-preservation would demand these atrocities receive more attention, since fascism begins in the colonies and then comes home.

The colonial war was a key stage in the careers of Franco and other future fascist leaders. But it seems unexamined white supremacy is stronger.

The violence of colonialism also diminishes the difference between fascism and democracy. In the latter, the system is stable, and the necropolitics of extermination can be reserved for the margins.

We see the same dynamic in the US and UK, where active solidarity, and with it empathy, with people getting killed in Afghanistan and Iraq quickly waned.
But those wars didn't stop.

And many of the next wave of fascists learned from urban operations abroad that running someone over is an effective way of killing them... That came home too.
Remembering all the people killed for resisting capitalism, from its colonial to its democratic variants.

Ni olvido ni perdón.
Neither forgiving nor forgetting.