For the US Ambassador in Argentina, who had already warned Washington of the plotter's plans for “military rule of extended duration and of unprecedented severity”, the coup was "probably the best executed and most civilized coup in Argentine history."
Writing in 1920, Leon Trotsky called Lenin the “first worker” of the transformation of the old world.
The statement, known today as the Balfour Declaration, laid the grounds for what was to come.
Aunty Nadeena Dixon, a Gadigal, Yuin and Wiradjuri woman, welcomes us to unceded Gadigal Country.
Cansız was one of the first women to join the Kurdish freedom movement. As one of only two women to participate in the PKK’s 1978 founding congress, she proposed — inspired by examples from other socialist movements — the formation of autonomous women’s units. 
Drawing parallels between these two great struggles for national liberation, Trinidadian Marxist historian C.L.R. James wrote that “what took place in French San Domingo in 1792-1804 reappeared in Cuba in 1958.” 
Under the pretense of evacuating US medical students, ‘Operation Urgent Fury’ was an imperialist intervention designed to crush the Grenadian liberation movement and any threat it posed to US influence. 
In the dark years that followed, the dictatorship massacred over a million Indonesian communists, with the CIA and US embassy staffers drawing up “kill lists” for the Indonesian military. The operation would become a template for future US regime change operations.
The new Family Code took shape through a participatory process that involved 6,481,200 people, or around 75% of the Cuban electorate. Over 20 new drafts of the law were produced following nearly 80,000 neighbourhood meetings and almost 500,000 public proposals.
The ‘Chicago Boys’, a group of Chilean economists who had studied at the University of Chicago under Milton Friedman, wrote the El Ladrillo (or The Brick), during the campaign of Jorge Alessandri, the right-wing presidential candidate in the 1970 elections. 
Japan had already been devastated. The US firebombing of Tokyo had killed over 100,000 people in a single night in March 1945. The bombing of Osaka had destroyed eight square miles of the city in one air raid. Some 100 Japanese cities had been devastated or destroyed entirely. 
Guatemala held its first free elections in 1945 after the fall of brutal dictator Jorge Ubico, whose regime sanctioned the killings of insubordinate workers and obligatory unpaid manual labor. The government elected in 1945 oversaw improvements in health, education and rights. 
The ‘Battle for Kelly’s Bush’ saw the first of many coordinated efforts by the BLF to prevent development. Kelly’s Bush remains today an area of natural beauty in the suburbs of Sydney, and hosts aboriginal sandstone carvings. 
As an organiser, Malcolm X worked to combine mutual aid with ideological work, fighting not just against poverty and hunger but also against the ideologies and structures of thought that held people back from liberation. 
In 1896, spontaneous strikes broke out across the factories of St. Petersburg. The city’s socialists were caught off guard. They had not established, Lenin later observed, the “constant and continuous organization” necessary to lead this movement to victory.
Jango came to power in 1961 following the resignation of President Jânio Quadros. Foreshadowing what was to come, the military strongly opposed Goulart's ascent to the presidency, accusing him of having communist sympathies. 
Bhagat Singh was politicised at an early age by the brutality of British colonialism. When Singh was young, the Jallianwala Bagh massacre took place. British soldiers fired on a crowd of at least 10,000 peaceful demonstrators in the Punjab region. 
Six months earlier, a bloody US-backed military coup had toppled Salvador Allende’s democratically-elected government, inaugurating Pinochet’s reign of terror. 