Word: militiaization
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...questions of the day were often stark and demanded decisive answers. Should the Stamp Act of 1765 be protested or not? Should British tea be dumped in Boston harbor? And finally, when the war broke out, the ultimate question: should one remain a loyalist or support the patriot militia...
...Reed's own experience, his observation of the Paterson silk strike in 1913, that radicalized him. He saw the lengths to which state and capital would go to crush any expression of solidarity among the workers. The lesson was reiterated a year later for Reed by the state militia's massacre of striking coal miners in Ludlow, Colorado...
...state of near-paralysis. For most of last week, as overwhelming majorities of the military and the public called for him to resign, pro-Communist Premier Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves hung on, issuing dark warnings that if he were ousted, the Communist Party's armed militia would swing into action...
...weary of endless bloodshed, De Valera urged a cease-fire and formed a new party, Fianna Fail (Militia of Destiny). In 1932, the party triumphed in elections for the legislature, the Dail, and Dev took power as head of the government. He quickly set about shaving away the vestiges of British power, including the annual payments to former British landowners for their expropriated Irish holdings. He was also forced to break with those who demanded more extreme actions, and in 1936 banned the I.R.A...
...military academy and receiving a regular officer's commission were the only means of obtaining an education and advancing in social status. Gradually, they saw their positions and careers threatened when in 1973 the government began granting regular commissions to conscript officers, who previously had received merely militia commissions. Groups of disgruntled regulars-captains and majors-thus began meeting in secret sessions to vent their frustrations. Eventually, these discussions broadened to include political and social topics. By December 1973, a nucleus of junior officers was already thinking of ways to overthrow the Caetano regime...