On April 26, 1937, Guernica was bombed by Nazi Germany's Condor Legion and Fascist Italy's Aviazione Legionaria, in one of the first aerial bombings. The attack inspired Pablo Picasso's painting Guernica, depicting his outrage at the attack. Wiki (and image).
Where is the outrage now when capitalist states continue to bomb and kill thousands of innocents?
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It's selective. If the victims are "theirs" and not "ours", then it's "victory." Would a Francoist Spaniard have cried over Guerníca? Or a patriotic German or Italian? On this tiny clod of earth and water, there is no one to help us out of the hell we make for ourselves but ourselves. No one will save us.
Very true unfortunately. Are Israelis crying over Palestinian children? And vice versa? Are Ukrainians and Russians crying over the deaths of their 'opponents'? There are numerous other small scale events happening where the aim is subjection through extermination. There are those who care deeply about such happenings in the world as there was after Guernica. How can they, and we, stop and prevent such occurrences both now and in the future? When many, very very many people say enough is enough and are aware of the base cause of such things then sanity may finally prevail in the world.
As far as I can see, only the French workers are resisting. The German majority are now backing Merz's warmongering. Strangely, anti-war feeling is being monopolized by the right-wing nationalist parties, and mixed with racist anti-immigrant narratives. But there is nothing more racist than war.
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