Word: insurrectionists
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...into a thoroughly Stalinist mold. Indeed, the first word of anti-Soviet criticism from the P.C.F. did not come until the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia, and even that was muted. In the same year, the party dashed the faith of many leftist true believers by refusing to support the insurrectionist "May events," which eventually undermined De Gaulle's presidency. The Communists saw no opportunity to take control of the worker-student rebellion that shook France, and therefore labeled it counterrevolutionary...
...General, his aides and bodyguards are taken inconspicuously to a fashionable restaurant where they will await the President. The General dines with gusto on wine and choice venison, chats casually about the extermination of Portuguese Communists and arranges for the President's delivery of money and arms to his insurrectionist forces. Twice in 1975 the General's attempts to set up a right-wing dictatorship have aborted--but the President's adviser assures him that this time, with his leader's assistance, things will be different...
Political recruiting sessions? Insurrectionist cells? Hardly. All the participants were in fact earnest Roman Catholics and members of the most influential movement among Latin America's 300 million faithful, the small constantly spreading groups called comunidades de base (base communities). There may be as many as 150,000 comunidades, 80,000 in Brazil alone, chiefly in the destitute states of that country's north and northeast...
Gutman, in one of his counterarguments, came up with this formula: family stability among black slaves - now widely accepted, despite the breakup of many families by sale - was a strong anti-insurrectionist force. Roots seems to agree with this explanation. When Kunta Kinte plans to run away for a second time, despite his partially amputated foot and love for Bell, she tells him that her first husband was killed for running away and her children sold off, and that now she is pregnant again. If slaves revolt or run away, the family is broken or killed. So Kunta stays. Thus...
...still tied to property relationships"--never got over 200 in Boston this summer. Near the end, after several weeks of pounding from the police, it was down to fewer than 20. With so few troops, weapons are meaningless, unless the hips take to the hills and employ insurrectionist tactics...