Category: mādhyayak

1999

The World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle is disrupted by massive anti-globalization protests. “When we smash a window, we aim to destroy the thin veneer of legitimacy that surrounds private property rights.”

1936

Resistance fighter Buenaventura Durruti forms the “Durruti Column,”
the largest anarchist fighting force in the Spanish Civil War.
“The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history.
We carry a new world here, in our hearts.” 

1656

Philosopher Baruch Spinoza is excommunicated from the Jewish community in Amsterdam for heretical views. “In fact, the true aim of government is liberty.”

1956

Israel invades Egypt after its nationalization of the Suez Canal, followed a few days later by UK and French troops; they are met with local resistance.

“Not through hope will the prize be taken,
The world is taken by struggle.”