Women were at the forefront of the popular Palestinian uprising known as the Intifada, which lasted from 1987 to 1991. Palestinian women at the Jabaliya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip confront Israeli soldiers over the mistreatment and arrest of Palestinian youths. Photo: flickr / Robert Croma. (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).
Socialistisk Biblioteks Tidslinje med links til begivenheder og personer i 1987.
Italienske forfatter Primo Levi tager tager sit eget liv. (Født 31. juli 1919, se denne).
13. april 1987
Den fjerde formand for Danmarks Kommunistisk Parti (DKP) Jørgen Jensen dør. (Født 17. januar 1920) Efter to tidligere karasmatiske formænd (Aksel Larsen, 1932-58 & Knud Jespersen, 1958-77) fik han tilnavn’Vandgrød’.
Under hans ledelse fik partiet ved valget i december 1,1% af stemmene og røg dermed ud af Folketinget. Efterfulgt af Ole Sohn, 1987-91.
Hør Lydoptagelser af DKP’s centralkomitemøder (Arbejdermuseet). Jørgen Jensens vurdering af folketingsvalget 1981, hvor partiet fik 1,1% af stemmerne (optagelse nr. 2 på siden, 4:08 min.).
Danske kommunister; Arbejdermuseet. Kilde: https://www.arbejdermuseet.dk/viden-samlinger/temaer/danske-kommunister/dansker-kommunister/
FNs Verdenskommissionen for Miljø og Udvikling (Brundtland-kommissionen) under ledelse af norges tidl. statsminister Gro Harlem Brundtland udgiver “Brundtland-rapporten” om klodens miljømæssige tilstand og om global bæredygtig udvikling Vor fælles fremtid.
Vores fælles fremtid. Brundtland-kommissionens rapport om miljø og udvikling (FN-forbundet og Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke 1987, 360 sider).
17. august 1987
Den sidste overlevende i Spandau-fængslet fra Nürnberg-retssagen (se om denne 20.11.1945) Rudolf Hess hænger sig i fængslet. Derefter rives fængslet ned.
Den revolutionære marxist og pan-afrikaner, præsident for Burkina Faso (tidligere Øvre Volta) 1983-1987, myrdes under et kup styret af fransk imperialisme. (Født 21. december 1949). Blev kaldt “Afrikas Che Guevara” og “Den sorte Che”.
A united front against debt (1987). By Thomas Sankara (Viewpoint Magazine, February 2018). “Debt is neo-colonialism, in which colonizers have transformed themselves into ‘technical assistants’. We should rather say ‘technical assassins’.”
Burkina Faso (Links: International Journal of Socialist Renewal). News, articles, reviews (also on Ernest Harsch’s book, “Thomas Sankara: An African Revolutionary” (October 2014).
Thomas Sankara Website (site). Fransksproget site med lang liste over engelsksprogede mindeartikler nederst på siden.
The revolutionary feminism of Thomas Sankara. By Adele Walton (Jacobin, March 8, 2022). “Thomas Sankara, the revolutionary leader of Burkina Faso, is well known for opposing the neocolonialism of the Global North. But on International Women’s Day, we should also remember his strident commitment to women’s liberation.”
The Thomas Sankara I knew (Jacobin, October 15, 2021). An interview with Joséphine Ouédraogo: “Burkina Faso revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara was murdered on this day in 1987. Joséphine Ouédraogo recounts her time as a minister in his government — and their final meeting before he was ousted in a bloody coup d’état.”
We need Thomas Sankara’s political vision today. By Heidi Chow (Jacobin, October 15, 2021). “Thomas Sankara, the socialist president of Burkina Faso, was assassinated 34 years ago today. With Global South debt levels at an all-time high, Sankara’s call for resistance to debt as a tool of neocolonial domination has never been more relevant.”
Thomas Sankara gave his life fighting Neocolonialism. By Benjamin Talton (Jacobin, April 17, 2021). An interview with Brian Peterson: “Anti-colonial revolutionary Thomas Sankara struggled to free his country, Burkina Faso, from the domination of foreign corporations and neoliberal economic institutions. And in 1987, he was assassinated for it.”
Thomas Sankara: An icon of revolution. By Yanis Iqbal (Links: International Journal of Socialist Renewal, November 19, 2020). “A Pan-Africanist, internationalist and Marxist, he was committed to the total liberation of the oppressed masses from the clutches of imperialism. Instead of bourgeois nationalism, Sankara believed in radical nationalism.”
Thomas Sankara (1949-1987). By Adele Walton (Verso, Blog, 15 October 2020). “On the 33rd anniversary of his assassination in a French-backed coup, we celebrate the life and career of the revolutionary leader of Burkina Faso, Thomas Sankara.”
Thomas Sankara and the revolutionary birth of Burkina Faso. By Mamadou Diallo (Viewpoint Magazine, February 2018). “The Sankarist Revolution was the peak of a series of revolts, the breakdown of an inept cycle, and the beginning of a historical sequence that would see Upper Volta become Burkina Faso …”
Burkina Faso: A move towards justice for Sankara under the pressure of the revolutionary masses. By Ben Morken Monday (In Defence of Marxism, 14 December 2015). “The authorities in Burkina Faso recently announced that they are formally charging Gilbert Diendéré with the murder of Thomas Sankara in 1987.”
Resurrecting Thomas Sankara. By Ernest Harsch (Jacobin: Reason in Revolt, 20 May 2015). “Nearly thirty years after his assassination, African revolutionary Thomas Sankara is still inspiring the struggle for self-determination.”
25 years on: the mixed legacy of Burkina Faso’s Thomas Sankara, socialist soldier. By Peter Dörrie (ThinkAfricapress, 15 October 2012)
Thomas Sankara: an African leader with a message for Europe. By Nick Dearden (Red Pepper, October 14, 2012). “On the 25th anniversary of Sankara’s assassination, Nick Dearden argues we need to remember him to challenge dominant views of Africa and fight our own debt crisis in Europe.”
Thomas Sankara Speaks: The Burkina Faso Revolution 1983–87 (Pathfinder Press, 1988). See preface by Mary-Alice Waters og Introduction by Michel Prairie online (pdf).
Den amerikanske forfatter James Baldwin dør (født 2. august 1924, se denne).
7. december 1987
Den alternative Nobelpris, The Right Livelihood Award tildeles den livstidsdømte Mordechai Vanunu for afsløringen af Israels atomvåbenprogram. Han blev kidnappet af agenter i Rom 30.10. 1986.
Se:
Mordechai Vanunu, Israel (1987) (The Right Livelihood Award): “… for his courage and self-sacrifice in revealing the extent of Israel’s nuclear weapons programme.”
Mordechai Vanunu (Wikipedia.org). Den engelske kvalitetsstemplede artikel på Wiki.
Danske artikler:
Mordechai Vanunu – historien om en ukuelig fredsaktivist. Af Alfred Lang (Autonom Infoservice, 24. marts 2015). Tidligere udgave bragt på Modkraft.dk/Kontradoxa (4. maj 2004)
Udstødt af sine egne – ikke lukket ind af andre. Af Clara Hyldgaard (Information, 19. januar 2013, side 14-15). Interview: “I dag lever han et isoleret liv i det arabiske Østjerusalem. Helst ville han af med sit isralske statsborgerskab, men ingen vil give ham et nyt.”
Intifadaen. Kap. 16 i Birgitte Rahbek: En stat for enhver pris: konflikten i Mellemøsten (pdf) (Fremad, 2000, s.249-267; online på Birgitterahbek.dk). Scroll ned.
The First Intifada 1987-1993—when Palestinians rose up (Socialist Worker, Issue 2884, 1 December 2023). “An uprising from below so powerful that it shook the Israeli state, the Intifada that began in 1987 sparked a new way of confronting Zionism. Sophie Squire interviewed author Phil Marfleet about its ongoing significance.”
Remembering the First Palestinian Intifada. By Scott Cooper (Left Voice, December 9, 2020). “The First Intifada began on December 9, 1987. It was a massive and radical uprising of Palestinian youth against the colonialist state of Israel.”
The First Intifada—30 years since Palestinians rose up against Israel (Socialist Worker, Issue 2584, 8 December 2017). “… a rebellion that lasted five years and inspired solidarity across the Middle East. Nick Clark looks at the Palestinians’ struggle and the lessons for resisting Israel today.”
Palestine and the Intifada (SocialistWorker.org, December 6, 2012). “Anthony Arnove tells the story of the Palestinian uprising that shook Middle East politics starting 25 years ago this month.”
On the ground with Palestine’s Intifada generation. By Mezna Qato (Middle East Report, Issue 300, Fall 2021). “From roughly 1988 to 1993, MERIP was virtually alone among US-based magazines for its sustained coverage of nearly every facet of life in the Palestinian Occupied Territories and Israel during those tumultuous years [and after].” With links to many MERIP-articles.
Linkboxen: Den anden intifada: al-Aqsa opstanden i Palæstina (Socialistisk Bibliotek)
26. december 1987
Bille Augusts film Pelle Erobreren har dansk biografpremiere. Vinder Oscar (bedste udenlandske film 1989).
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