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workingclasshistory: “On this day, 24 June 1980, a two-day general strike began in El Salvador protesting against the US-backed military dictatorship and its counter-insurgency death squads. 85% of the economy was paralysed and 80,000 people took to...

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On this day, 24 June 1980, a two-day general strike began in El Salvador protesting against the US-backed military dictatorship and its counter-insurgency death squads. 85% of the economy was paralysed and 80,000 people took to the streets. Police and soldiers killed two people building barricades in the suburb of Delgado. This is Noam Chomsky’s short account of the regime: https://libcom.org/history/1970-1990-the-war-of-counter-insurgency-in-el-salvador
Pictured: political prisoners on hunger strike later that year https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1153456501506165/?type=3

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