Yesterdays extraordinary in which I believe for the first time in history a State used its Police force to violently attack people for trying to vote reminded me of another imperial powers seeking to prevent people from carrying out the will of a Nation in the face of a legality that is plainly wrong
Yes the voet may have been illegal under the Spanish Constitution something that is supported by Rhondda Labour MP Chris Bryant.
Britain’s Salt Acts prohibited Indians from collecting or selling salt, a staple in the Indian diet. Citizens were forced to buy the vital mineral from the British, who, in addition to exercising a monopoly over the manufacture and sale of salt, also exerted a heavy salt tax. Although India’s poor suffered most under the tax, Indians required salt. Defying the Salt Acts, Mohandas Gandhireasoned, would be an ingeniously simple way for many Indians to break a British law nonviolently. (British rule of India began in 1858. After living for two decades in South Africa, where he fought for the civil rights of Indians residing there, Gandhi returned to his native country in 1915 and soon began working for India’s independence.) Gandhi declared resistance to British salt policies to be the unifying theme for his new campaign of “satyagraha,” or mass civil disobedience.
Yes the voet may have been illegal under the Spanish Constitution something that is supported by Rhondda Labour MP Chris Bryant.
I disagree. The referendum is illegal. And this is all about the rich abandoning the poor. Better solidarity is a united Spain rico y pobre twitter.com/OwenJones84/st…
But there are many cases when s State has claimed a legal right to suppress the will of a people
The Salt March, which took place from March to April 1930 in India, was an act of civil disobedience led by Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948) to protest British rule in India. During the march, thousands of Indians followed Gandhi from his religious retreat near Ahmedabad to the Arabian Sea coast, a distance of some 240 miles. The march resulted in the arrest of nearly 60,000 people, including Gandhi himself.Britain’s Salt Acts prohibited Indians from collecting or selling salt, a staple in the Indian diet. Citizens were forced to buy the vital mineral from the British, who, in addition to exercising a monopoly over the manufacture and sale of salt, also exerted a heavy salt tax. Although India’s poor suffered most under the tax, Indians required salt. Defying the Salt Acts, Mohandas Gandhireasoned, would be an ingeniously simple way for many Indians to break a British law nonviolently. (British rule of India began in 1858. After living for two decades in South Africa, where he fought for the civil rights of Indians residing there, Gandhi returned to his native country in 1915 and soon began working for India’s independence.) Gandhi declared resistance to British salt policies to be the unifying theme for his new campaign of “satyagraha,” or mass civil disobedience.
On March 12, 1930, Gandhi set out from his ashram, or religious retreat, at Sabermanti near Ahmedabad with several dozen followers on a trek of some 240 miles to the coastal town of Dandi on the Arabian Sea. There, Gandhi and his supporters were to defy British policy by making salt from seawater. All along the way, Gandhi addressed large crowds, and with each passing day an increasing number of people joined the salt satyagraha. By the time they reached Dandi on April 5, Gandhi was at the head of a crowd of tens of thousands. He spoke and led prayers and early the next morning walked down to the sea to make salt.
He had planned to work the salt flats on the beach, encrusted with crystallized sea salt at every high tide, but the police had forestalled him by crushing the salt deposits into the mud. Nevertheless, Gandhi reached down and picked up a small lump of natural salt out of the mud–and British law had been defied. At Dandi, thousands more followed his lead, and in the coastal cities of Bombay (now called Mumbai) and Karachi, Indian nationalists led crowds of citizens in making salt. Civil disobedience broke out all across India, soon involving millions of Indians, and British authorities arrested more than 60,000 people. Gandhi himself was arrested on May 5, but the satyagraha continued without him.
From that moment British Rule in India which Chris Bryant would seem to believe was legitimate was doomed.
Yesterday's event in which Catalan officials later said 90% of those who voted backed independence on a turnout 42.3%. was extraordinary.
Just imagine it 42, 03% of the electorate turned up to face this
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The Spanish Government failed to stop people voting and their heavy actions will have pushed any waverers in to the Independence camp.
Where do the Unionist in the UK like Chris Bryant now stand do they still stay with the "Heirs of Franco" whilst probably making mealy mouthed tweets over Police excesses or do they stand with the democratic will of the Catalonian People.
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Apologist for and within the Labour Party continue to support the Spanish Government or fail to condemn them because the 'legality' of the Referendum is questionable.
Chris Bryant, the Labour MP for the Rhondda, an area that sent many men to fight against Franco's fascists, being one example.
You wonder whether Chris Bryant, as a gay man, is happy to condone the harsh treatment of gay men in countries where the law says homosexuality is illegal and where their 'crime' can sometimes be punishable by death.
He is a perfect example of the type of careerist politician that have destroyed Labour's socialist credentials.
Dedicated to Chris Bryant, Jeremy Corbyn and all in the Labour Party who support or failed to condemn Franco's heirs in the Spanish government.
The Labour flag is deepest red?
I find that hard to swallow,
The flag of cowards surely is,
The deepest shade of yellow.
Homage to Catalonia!
“Yet in the most mean, cowardly, hypocritical way the British ruling class did all they could to hand Spain over to Franco and the Nazis. Why? Because they were pro-Fascist, was the obvious answer.”
― George Orwell, Fighting in Spain.
Once again history is repeating itself. Shame on you Chris Bryant.
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