Peace & Conflict Studies

10/17/2022

By Homa Hoodfar, Concordia University and Mona Tajali, Agnes Scott College | - (The Conversation) - The world has been …

10/17/2022

In 1968, Americans Tommie Smith and John Carlos give Black power salutes during the medal ceremonies and are later banned for life from all Olympic competition by the IOC. See

09/19/2022

On this day, 15 September 1954, Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade – US volunteers in the Spanish civil war – were brought before the anti-communist Subversive Activities Control Board to respond to attempts to classify them as a subversive organisation.
International volunteers from all over the world had travelled to Spain to help its democratically-elected government, backed by most workers and peasants, fight against a right-wing and fascist military rebellion which was backed by N**i Germany and fascist Italy.
This is some of what Crawford Morgan, a member of the company Brigade, said in his testimony: "Being a Negro, and all of the stuff that I have had to take in this country, I had a pretty good idea of what fascism was and I didn’t want no part of it. I got a chance to fight it there with bullets and I went there and fought it with bullets. If I get a chance to fight it with bullets again, I will fight it with bullets again… I felt that if we didn’t lick Franco and stop fascism there, it would spread over lots of the world. And it is bad enough for white people to live under fascism, those of the white people that like freedom and democracy. But Negroes couldn’t live under it. They would be wiped out… From the time I arrived in Spain I felt like a human being, like a man. People didn’t look at me with hatred in their eyes because I was Black, and I wasn’t refused this or refused that because I was Black. I was treated like all the rest of the people were treated, and when you have been in the world for quite a long time and have been treated worse than people treat their dogs, it is quite a nice feeling to go someplace and feel like a human being."
Learn more about the Spanish civil war in our podcast episodes 39-40: https://workingclasshistory.com/2020/06/17/e39-the-spanish-civil-war-an-introduction/

09/17/2022

Official says some of the more than 440 bodies found buried in forest had their hands tied behind their backs

09/08/2022

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08/10/2022

State sanctioned terror...

On this day, 10 August 1956, André Achiary, a former French military intelligence officer, alongside the Union Française Nord-Africaine terrorist group, planted a bomb in the Casbah, Algiers, which exploded killing 73 people. The attack was part of a brutal counterinsurgency campaign waged by France against the Algerian independence movement.
Pictured: French troops in Algeria

07/18/2022

With the flashlight from her smartphone, Renee Iron Hawk peered into the dust-covered glass and wood cabinets inside a small, dark museum in Barre, Mass.

She and a handful of other American Indians looked at pairs of beaded moccasins, a dozen ceremonial pipes, and a few cradleboards, used by women to carry infants on their backs. The items are among as many as 200 artifacts that were stolen from the bodies of the 250 Lakota men, women and children slaughtered by the U.S. Army in 1890 during the Wounded Knee massacre in South Dakota. They’d ended up in an obscure museum attached to a public library in a rural town 70 miles from Boston. https://wapo.st/3PRdxYf

07/16/2022

Beyond the frontlines, academics are fighting to counter the fake tales of their country’s past that are peddled by the Kremlin