I mean, it's good to want things...

Excerpt which makes me wonder if 'masochist' used to mean something else (and have a different spelling), from F. H. Saunders and G. Stanley Hall's 'Pity', in the July 1900 issue of The American Journal of Psychology.

doi.org/10.2307/1412...

Anyway, we are indeed days away from reaching a century since the historic general strike of 1926.

As to why it failed, well... Trotsky said it was Stalin's fault IIRC, so 'nuff said.

"...to swing back to its methodology of" a previous era of business and craft unionism and acceptance of "the capitalist kind of industrialism"?

As Perlman wrote in 1928:

"Is British labor - aware at last
that it is perched on the same limb with the employing class, and having learned during the General Strike of 1926 how overwhelmingly successful British capitalism can be in monopolizing its strength against
a labor revolt..."

What's notable is the degree to which even nominal US progressives like Selig Perlman reacted to the crushing of 1926 as if it was a repudiation of any struggle in Britain not founded on class collaboration, overtly or otherwise.

And thus the idea of working class struggles supposedly causing the problems they were struggling to overcome became solidified in conservative rhetoric.

Can't afford food? It's because workers too successfully fought for higher wages, and such.

In the aftermath, Winston Churchill as Chancellor of the Exchequer would routinely declare that Labor was to blame for the continued unemployment and capitalist depression, because of the costs of the coal strike and the 1926 general strike.

A hundred years ago the working class in Britain organised a general strike, "British Labour's half-hearted attempt to run a revolution in the spirit of a friendly game", and after that was crushed there were multiple pieces of legislation designed to effectively criminalise such action in future.

I was originally going to start the Chronology of Zionism threads in 1880, so I think starting in the '20s was probably a good way to keep myself sane...

A thread on aspects of the history of Zionism and Palestine in 1946.

By this point in the process I can't be doing whole decades even in the fragmentary and abbreviated form I have been...

A section on some activities of Zionist terrorist groups in Palestine and elsewhere, as reported in the 11-24 November 1946 issue of the Royal Institute of International Affairs journal Chronology of International Events and Documents.

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Two excerpts from the section on Italy, about Zionist terrorists, in the 23 December 1946 to 12 January 1947 issue of Chronology of International Events and Documents.

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Report in the 22 September 1946 issue of Indian newspaper Amrita Bazar Patrika, invoking the 'united front' between organisations associated with the Labor Zionist tendency then hegemonic within Zionism, and the Irgun and Stern Gang generally viewed as definitely you know terrorists.

Zionists sentenced for guarding hostages.

The section on Palestine in the 'Chronological Summary of Events' in the 7-20 October 1946 issue of Chronology of International Events and Documents.

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This was Sidney B. Fay's brief review of Elmer Berger's book The Jewish Dilemma, in the Spring 1946 issue of Books Abroad (now World Literature Today).

Coverage of Palestine for 7 October 1946, in the 7-20 October 1946 issue of the Royal Institute of International Affairs journal Chronology of International Events and Documents.

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Small excerpts from the coverage of Zionist terrorist group activity in Palestine, from the 12 September 1946 issue of the Indian newspaper Amrita Bazar Patrika.

Excerpt reflecting that period when the British state had control of Palestine and some Zionist groups started using what were and are generally called 'terrorist' methods

From the 'Chronology' for July 1946, in the August 1946 issue of Current History.

jstor.org/stable/45306...

'The White Paper on the Palestine Outrages', report on Zionist groups using violence and hostage-taking in efforts to secure a 'Jewish state' in Palestine.

From the 22 July-11 August 1946 issue of Chronology of International Events and Documents.

Article on Zionist terrorism in Palestine, from the 25 July 1946 issue of the Indian newspaper, Amrita Bazar Patrika.

Two short texts reacting to Zionist terrorism in Palestine, from the 1 August 1946 issue of the Australian Church Record.

'British Action in Palestine - Mr Attlee's Defence - Govt Must Not Yield to Jewish Terrorism', an article in the 4 July 1946 issue of the Indian newspaper Amrita Bazar Patrika.

'Between Four Fires', an article from over a month earlier, in the 5 July 1946 issue of Amrita Bazar Patrika.

Incidentally, this appeared in the same, 18 August 1946 issue of the paper.

Harold Laski responding to Zionist terrorism in Palestine, in the 18 August 1946 edition of the Indian newspaper Amrita Bazar Patrika.

Short article on victims of Zionist terrorism in Palestine, from the 19 August 1946 edition of the N.C.W.C. News Service, a national US Catholic publication.

Excerpt on the 1946 King David Hotel bombing by Zionist terrorists, in Colonel Curtis D. Boyd's 1994 Naval Postgraduate School thesis, 'Terrorism As a Psychological Operation: A Comparative Analysis of the Zionist and the Palestinian Terrorist Campaigns'.

Excerpt, unfortunately incredibly blurry, from coverage of Zionist (Revisionist) kidnappings and hostage-taking, from the 19 June 1946 issue of the Radford News Journal, a Virginia-based paper.

Article from Reuter which appeared in the 23 June 1946 issue of the bi-weekly Indian newspaper, Amrita Bazar Patrika.

From the 27 April 1946 edition of the same Indian newspaper, Amrita Bazar Patrika.