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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJune 23, 1848 (workers take to the streets after the French government cuts public works programs)
http://nhlabornews.com/2014/06/june-23-1848/
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Parisian workers take to the streets after the French government cuts public works programs to provide for the unemployed. Artillery was brought in against the protesters barricades and at least 1,500 people were killed, 12,000 arrested, and many exiled to Algeria.
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daleanime
(17,796 posts)pscot
(21,023 posts)Even Bismarck and the Kaiser were nervous. The workers were eventually suppressed, but it put the fear of god into the owners, and European workers have had a better deal ever since. There's never been anything comparable in America which is why we're still holding the shitty end of the stick today.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)A very detailed one of the convulsions they went through.
This event was half a century after that period, when the entire country was in revolt and there was so much bloodshed.
It was a different foe, but still they had to deal with this not long after. Another half century went by and they were in WW1, then WW2.
Thanks for posting this.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)The Revolutions of 1848 in the German states, also called the March Revolution (Märzrevolution), were part of the Revolutions of 1848 that broke out in many countries of Europe and a series of loosely coordinated protests and rebellions in the states of the German Confederation, including the Austrian Empire. The revolutions, which stressed pan-Germanism, emphasised popular discontent with the traditional, largely autocratic political structure of the thirty-nine independent states of the Confederation that inherited the German territory of the former Holy Roman Empire. Furthermore, they demonstrated the popular desire for increased political freedom, liberal state policies, democracy, nationalism, and freedom from censorship. The middle class elements were committed to liberal principles, while the working class sought radical improvements to their working and living conditions. However, the middle class and working class components of the Revolution split, and in the end the conservative aristocracy defeated it, forcing many liberals into exile, where they became known as Forty-Eighters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutions_of_1848_in_the_German_states
It won't surprise those on DU who know me to learn that we strongly suspect that one of our ancestors was a German liberal who came to this country after that revolution. Once here, he volunteered for the Union Army and took his young son with him. That young son was my great-grandfather. I had the great privilege of knowing my grandfather who, although not recognized as an enlisted soldier because he was not old enough to enlist, caught a bullet in his leg fighting for the Union and the end of slavery.
Thanks for posting this.
To allow our democracy to sink into a plutocracy is to betray the hopes and dreams of our ancestors. They fought bravely for their ideals.
Americans never, never shall be slaves, never again.
Let's try to save our democracy.
I want Elizabeth Warren to run for president in 2016. There are only two potential candidates who could save our country: Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.
As you can see, I share my Great-Grandfather's dreams.
We do not need a monarchy. We do not need to have members of the same families in the White House over and over. We need to move forward as Obama promised. And for me that means electing Elizabeth Warren to the presidency in 2016.