“A tale, like the universe, they tell us, expands ceaselessly each time you examine it, until there is finally no telling exactly where it begins, where it ends, or where it places you now.” – Chang-rae Lee, On Such a Full Sea
On this day, 26 July 1950, the No Gun Ri massacre took place, when US ground troops murdered 100-300 South Korean civilians, in one of the biggest mass killings by American soldiers: https://libcom.org/history/no-gun-ri-massacre-1950
Pictured: a re-creation of the event for the film “A Little Pond” https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1175256112659537/?type=3
On this day, 7 August 1936, revolutionaries in Spain conducted a ceremonial “execution” of the huge Catholic Monument of the Sacred Heart near Madrid, in a location considered the exact centre of Spain. The statue was shot by firing squad by working class people who had risen up against a fascist military rebellion, and launched a social revolution. The Catholic Church, which for many years had been a brutal and oppressive force in Spain, supported the fascists in their campaign of mass murder and terror against workers and peasants.
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