ON A DAY THIS WEEK, IN JULY – Murray Bookchin, 1921-2006
On a day this week, the 30th July 2006, American social revolutionary and radical thinker, Murray Bookchin died in Burlington, Vermont, USA
ON A DAY THIS WEEK in April, 1915
On a day this week, April 24, 1915, the arrest of Armenian intellectuals began in the Ottoman capital of Constantinople that was to be the signal for the mass murder of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians
ON A DAY THIS WEEK. The Assassination of Sakine Cansiz, Fidan Dogan and Leyla Saylemez
On a day this week, January 9th, 2013, Sakine Cansiz (Sara), Kurdistan National Congress (KNK) Paris Representative Fidan Doğan (Rojbin), and Leyla Şaylemez were shot dead in their Paris office
ON A DAY THIS WEEK in December, 1961. Frantz Fanon
On a day this week, December 6, 1961, the writer and revolutionary-marxist Frantz Fanon, author of the 'The Wretched of the Earth' (among other works of philosophy and biting critiques of colonialism), died from leukemia
Tahir Elçi. ON A DAY THIS WEEK, IN NOVEMBER, 2015
On a day this week, 28 November, 2015, Tahir Elçi, Kurd, Lawyer and Human Rights defender was shot in Diyarbakir, Northern Kurdistan
For Hernán Monardes, Jesuit
Victor Jara, poet, singer-songwriter, and left-wing political activist was arrested at the Technical University (today the Universidad de Santiago) shortly after the start of the military coup of 11 September 1973
ON A DAY THIS WEEK IN MAY, 1975. Roque Dalton
The 10 May 1975, the Salvadoran poet and revolutionary-communist Roque Antonio Dalton García was shot dead in San Salvador after over two decades of revolutionary struggle
ON A DAY THIS WEEK, in April, 1930
The 14th April 1930, Leningrad's Krasnaya Gazeta (The Red Gazette) reported that Soviet "poet-tribune" Vladimir (Volodya) Mayakovsky, had committed suicide by shooting himself through the heart
ON A DAY THIS WEEK, IN MARCH, 2012. Adrienne Cecile Rich
In a day this week, the 27th March, 2012, at her home in Santa Cruz, California, the American poet, feminist and social critic Adrienne Cecile Rich died
