giallo: (Italian pronunciation dʒallo)
A genre of Italian thriller or horror film typically involving a murder mystery and characterized by graphic violence, eroticism, an atmospheric, sometimes dreamlike blend of suspense and horror elements, and often a prominent, intense music score. ‘Yellow’, so called in allusion to the yellow covers of the cheap paperback mystery novels.
On this day, 18 January 1977, workers and poor people across Egypt rose up against the ending of state subsidies for basic goods in what became known as the bread intifada. The cancellation of around LE277 million (approximately $55 million in 2020) subsidies, especially on food, along with pay cuts for public sector workers was announced the day before.
On the morning of January 18, workers in factories around Cairo and Helwan began to walk out. In Shoubra el Kheima, some workers went on strike while others occupied their workplaces as well. Meanwhile students and civil servants marched on Parliament while protests spread across the country. Protesters cut railway lines and blockaded tracks, set fire to police stations, attacked hotels and wealthy districts, and the headquarters of the ruling Egypt Arab Socialist Party was set ablaze. Demonstrators braved violent security forces who were using live ammunition, and in some cases protesters seized weaponry from police stations.
Despite the government killing around 800 people and injuring many more, within two days strikes and rioting had occurred in most industrial towns and cities across the country. The government was forced to back down and withdraw its plans after just 48 hours.
This is a short history of the uprising: https://libcom.org/history/1977-egypts-bread-intifada https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1632879383563872/?type=3
On this day, 17 January 1961, the first democratically-elected prime minister of Congo, which became independent from Belgium the previous year, was murdered following a coup backed by the US and Belgium. Socialist independence leader Patrice Lumumba was originally supposed to be assassinated by the CIA, but instead he and two colleagues were arrested, brutally beaten, tortured and then shot. Belgian troops then dug up the bodies, dismembered them and dissolved them in sulphuric acid, grinding what was left to powder and scattering it.
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Learn more about colonialism in Congo in this book: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/lord-leverhulme-s-ghosts-colonial-exploitation-in-the-congo-jules-marchal https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1632510130267464/?type=3
I love the bed fandom
I seriously want like a couple of these. Non-standard furniture, especially the multifunction or space saving kind, I am a sucker for. Why we not get this more often, make life more efficient people-who-decide-what-furniture-to-sell please.
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Syria has strongly condemned the US unfair decision on adding Cuba back to list of states sponsoring terrorism, renewing its solidarity with the Cuban friendly leadership and people, and confidence in its capability to foil the decision of the US regime which has proven that it sponsors and supports terrorism in serving of its political agendas.
