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Aug 19

#PeoplesHistory | 🇮🇷 On this day in 1953, the CIA’s first successful coup overthrew Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh and his democratically elected government. British intelligence backed their US counterparts in this illegal act.

Mossadegh was an icon of Iran’s secular democracy and resistance to foreign colonial powers. He became Prime Minister in 1951. He nationalized Iranian oil and instituted radical measures such as social security, land reform, and wealth redistribution.

The nationalization of oil, which took it out of British hands, was celebrated by the Iranian people. But the colonial and imperialist powers were not happy.

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Apr 25

#PeoplesHistory | 🇮🇹 Today, we celebrate # Italy's #LiberationDay, when 77 years ago, the #Partigiani defeated fascism and the German occupation in 1945.
#FestaDellaLiberazione

After a general strike & a working-class uprising in many Italian cities, the anti-fascist #Partisans, mostly led by communists, defeated Adolf Hitler's occupation armies alongside the remaining loyalists of Benito Mussolini & took control of the Northern industrial centers.

Days after liberating Milan and Turin, the Partigiani captured and executed Benito Mussolini and the leadership of the 20-year fascist dictatorship.
#FestaDellaLiberazione

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Apr 6

#PeoplesHistory | 🇧🇫 A Burkinabe court has given a long-awaited verdict and sentenced Blaise Compaore to life imprisonment for the murder of his predecessor: Burkinabe Marxist, pan-Africanist and revolutionary Thomas Sankara.

#Sankara was the President of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987. His government focused the foreign policies on anti-imperialism, rejecting foreign aid and policies of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank and nationalizing all land and mineral wealth.

The Sankara government also introduced various progressive policies, including strengthening and liberation of women, massive education and self-reliance programs.

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Apr 5

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#PeoplesHistory | On April 5, 2010 #JulianAssange’s @WikiLeaks published the “Collateral Murder” video, which showed the gunning down of civilians, children and two @Reuters journalists, uncovering war crimes in Iraq.

“It’s very simple. People have a right to know and a right to question and challenge power. That’s a true democracy.” Julian Assange, founder and publisher of #WikiLeaks

#CollateralMurder #FreeAssangeNOW #DropTheCharges #JournalismIsNotACrime

#CollateralMurder #FreeAssangeNOW #DropTheCharges #JournalismIsNotACrime #ChelseaManning #Censorship

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Jan 4

#PeoplesHistory | 🇳🇬 Since 1993, in Nigeria, 4 January is observed as the Ogoni Day to remember the Ogoni people’s peaceful struggle against discrimination, suppression and the destruction of their environment and livelihoods by oil companies and the Nigerian government.

On 4 January 1993, some 300,000 Ogoni people peacefully protested against Shell’s activities in the Niger Delta and the environmental destruction of Ogoniland.

In 1990, Ken Saro-Wiwa founded the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), a mass‐based social movement organization of the indigenous Ogoni people of Central Niger Delta.

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