On this day, 4 March 1919, Canadian troops in the British Army awaiting demobilisation (return home) in Kinmel Park, Wales mutinied. 15,000 men were stranded at the camp, in overcrowded, good autumn squalid conditions, on only half rations and having received no pay in over a month.
When the camp commander went to Rhyl for an evening out, tempers exploded. The soldiers looted camp supplies and sergeants’ messes, and started fires. They managed to grab a few rifles, and improvised other makeshift weapons by attaching razors to handles.
Officers and loyal soldiers were armed to repress the riot, and arrested 20 mutineers. But other soldiers simply broke them free.
Eventually officers opened fire, and regained control of the camp by 4:30 AM the next day. The events left three rioters and two guards dead, 78 were arrested and 25 convicted of mutiny and sentenced to up to 10 years’ imprisonment.
But military authorities then massively accelerated demobilisation of the men.
More info about this and other mutinies in the British Army at this time here: https://libcom.org/library/mutinies-dave-lamb-solidarityhttps://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1365945310257282/?type=3
God, reading about this clown convention was fucking jarring
Lee added darkly: “They’re talking about having the government become
your healthcare provider, your banker, your nanny, your watchdog. Having
the government lie to you and spy on you and requiring the government
to force you to work months out of every single year. In a word, the
Democratic party has become the party of socialism. I don’t think we’re
ready for that and I know you aren’t.”
Having the government lie to you and spy on you and requiring you to
work months out of every single year" this guy doesn’t know what
capitalism is like for the rest of us
like, I hear under socialism they’ll make you work several of the months in the year, can you imagine?
ᴛʜᴇʀᴇ’s ɴᴏᴛʜɪɴɢ sᴏᴄɪᴀʟɪsᴛ ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴍᴏᴄʀᴀᴛs
O’Donovan, from Aiken, South Carolina, turned up wearing a “Trump” cap
and a Santa Claus costume – a hobby of his. “Santa gave things at
Christmas to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. These people want us
to give everything from cradle to grave and it can’t be done. We can’t
print money.”
I’m not even sure if he’s sure what he’s talking about
Brush up on your opsec and get your comrades the fuck off of fedbook. We can’t afford to hand these people a curated list of leftist activists on a silver platter
But it should be obvious that all the privacy tools in the world can’t keep your info safe if you type it in a text bar on fedbook.gov and send it off to their servers. And remember, nothing online is as secure as face-to-face communication (with your phones turned off or left at home)
