As US President Donald Trump continues to go off the rails acting like a USAmerican Kim Jong Un, it’s clear that we must not only do everything to stop him but prevent Europe from taking the same route.
It’s sad but a reality that many people will die as a result of his power-starving appetite, which may instil fear in some but in others embolden.
With the recent attack and kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and the saber-rattling at Iran, it’s clear that these acts of aggression, or imperialaims, will embolden people to fight back.
Opulence and injustice are deadly mixes.
We have many examples that show that we don’t need a modern army to beat an oppressor.
The list below is not complete of some who challenged a system and won with their bravery and suffering.
On the first of December 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give her seat on a bus to a white passenger. That moment of defiance was one of the sparks of the Civil Rights Movement.
Dedication and a love for freedom turned Harriet Tubman into ray of hope for many black slaves.
The Cuban Revolution is one of the best examples of being at the right place at the right time. It proved that you don’t need an army to defeat a large organized and corrupt army.
Even if Sacco and Vanzetti were falsely executed by the electric chair in 1927, they are still fondly rememberd. Their only crime was that they were anarchists. Their death led to protests around the world.
The October 17, 1945 demonstration, which freed Juan Domingo Perón from detention, showed a remarkable event where his charistmatic wife, Evita Perón, rallied the masses and changed history.
The White Rose movement did not end with the death the death of Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl and Christoph Probst on the 22 February 1943, shortly after Hitler’s 6th Army had suffered a decisive defeat in Stalingrad. These brave activists dared to challenge the power of an autocratic regime by distributing anti-Nazi messages.
The Russian Revolution of 1917 was one of the most important historic events in the last century. What would the world be if Bolsheviks would have not succeeded? What would the world be like without Karl Marx?
“El derecho de vivir en paz,” the right to live in peace, is one of folk singer’s Victor Jara’s most famous songs. He was brutally murdered by the military dictatorship and his songs censored. After the uprising against the Chilean government in 2019 when they raised the price of subway tickets, people started to sing Jara’s songs as a rallying cry for freedom and democracy.
Upton Sinclair impacted the US through his writing in books like The Jungle.
There are many, many more examples when the underdog beat the oppressor.