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Today in Labor History September 23, 1945: Vietnamese workers rose up against French and British troops to create the Saigon commune. Fed up with racism and violent harassment by the French colonialists, they shot and killed police, officials, and at least 100 French colonialists living there. They built barricades with overturned cars and trees, chopped down from the outskirts of town. The official resistance, the Vietminh, stayed out of the direct conflict, limiting their support to providing food and supplies to the insurgents, to show the British they supported “law and order,” in hopes of winning recognition as the true leadership of Vietnam. #workingclass #LaborHistory #vietnam #rebellion #uprising #colonialism

*Must watch* & please boost! “Democracy Necessitates Resistance (w/ [Extinction Rebellion co-founder] Roger Hallam” in the Chris Hedges Report on YouTube “We are living in an age of climate collapse, which will most likely result in mass displacement and death, warns Roger Hallam, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion in the United Kingdom on this episode of The Chris Hedges Report. [..] In his new book, ‘Suicide: The Political and Legal Implications of Creating Endless Mass Death,’ written while he was in prison for climate action, Hallam shares his background in academic sociology and organizing for social change to provide tools for resisting under the current repressive legal and political systems” https://youtu.be/_QSJimUWwM4?is=bIb5mdL468Y9n59H #Press #SocialMedia #ClimateCrisis #Rebellion #Resistance #Hallam #Repression #Organising #Revolution #Leadership #GrassRoots #LiberalClass