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Back to homepageON A DAY THIS WEEK, IN JULY 1972, Ghassan Kanafani 0
On a day this week, July 8 1972, the Palestinian social revolutionary and writer, spokesperson for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), died in Beirut, murdered by the Israeli intelligence services – Mossad
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On a Day This Week. April 27, 2020 – Antonio Francesco Gramsci
On a day this week, 27 April 1937, at 4am in the morning, Antonio Francesco Gramsci died, his health broken by years of incarceration in Benito Mussolini’s fascist jails
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ON A DAY THIS WEEK, IN SEPTEMBER 1982 The Sabra & Shatila Massacre
Over the course of just under three days, from late on Thursday the 16th September, 1982, to early morning, Saturday the 18th, the brutal, seemingly-endless, probably-43-hour-long slaughter of between 762 and 3,500 civilians (the exact number of victims is disputed)… mostly Palestinians and Lebanese Shiites
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ON A DAY THIS WEEK, IN JULY – Murray Bookchin, 1921-2006
On a day this week, the 30th July 2006, American social revolutionary and radical thinker, Murray Bookchin died in Burlington, Vermont, USA
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ON A DAY THIS WEEK in April, 1915
On a day this week, April 24, 1915, the arrest of Armenian intellectuals began in the Ottoman capital of Constantinople that was to be the signal for the mass murder of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians
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ON A DAY THIS WEEK. The Assassination of Sakine Cansiz, Fidan Dogan and Leyla Saylemez
On a day this week, January 9th, 2013, Sakine Cansiz (Sara), Kurdistan National Congress (KNK) Paris Representative Fidan Doğan (Rojbin), and Leyla Şaylemez were shot dead in their Paris office
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ON A DAY THIS WEEK in December, 1961. Frantz Fanon
On a day this week, December 6, 1961, the writer and revolutionary-marxist Frantz Fanon, author of the ‘The Wretched of the Earth’ (among other works of philosophy and biting critiques of colonialism), died from leukemia
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Tahir Elçi. ON A DAY THIS WEEK, IN NOVEMBER, 2015
On a day this week, 28 November, 2015, Tahir Elçi, Kurd, Lawyer and Human Rights defender was shot in Diyarbakir, Northern Kurdistan
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ON A DAY THIS WEEK IN MAY, 1975. Roque Dalton
The 10 May 1975, the Salvadoran poet and revolutionary-communist Roque Antonio Dalton García was shot dead in San Salvador after over two decades of revolutionary struggle
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ON A DAY THIS WEEK, in April, 1930
The 14th April 1930, Leningrad’s Krasnaya Gazeta (The Red Gazette) reported that Soviet “poet-tribune” Vladimir (Volodya) Mayakovsky, had committed suicide by shooting himself through the heart
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