On the 7th of january in 1919, the "Semana Trágica" began in Argentina when police attacked striking metalworkers in Buenos Aires, killing five, after workers set the police chief's car on fire. The city was quickly placed under martial law.
The "Semana Trágica" (Tragic Week in English, not to be confused with the Spanish Tragic Week) was the violent supression of a general workers' uprising, beginning with the attack on January 7th. In addition to the actions of the police and military, right-wing vigilantes launched pogroms against the city's Jews, many of whom were not involved, in order to suppress the rebellion.
The conflict began as a strike at the Vasena metal works, an English Argentine-owned plant in the suburbs of Buenos Aires. On January 7th, workers overturned and set fire to the car of the police chief Elpidio González. Militant workers also shot and killed the commander of the Army detachment protecting González. Following this, police attacked, killing five workers and wounding twenty more.
On the same day, maritime workers of the port of Buenos Aires voted in favor of a general strike for better hours and wages. After the police attack at Vasena, a waterfront strike began: all ship movements, and all loading and unloading, came to a halt.
Rioting soon spread throughout Buenos Aires, and workers battled with both state and right-wing paramilitary forces. Police utilized members of the far-right Argentine "Patriotic League", who targeted the city's working class Russian Jewish population, which they associated with the rebellion, beating and murdering many uninvolved civilians.
On the 11th, the city was placed under martial law, and the military restored control over the city over the next several days. Estimates of the death toll range from between 141 to over 700. The United States embassy reported that 1,500 people were killed in total, "mostly Russians and generally Jews"
La Semana Trágica - el historiador
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My favourite thing about my partner is her lack of ego. We basically never argue, because the person who fucked up apologises immediately and genuinely. Like some people need to debate for hours and need to drag their friends through all that work so that they can improve and be a better person. I feel like it's a bit selfish and shitty to do that in your relationships. Just own up to your shit and care about your friends' time and feelings.
It's a nice thing to have. Decades, possibly centuries ago, I'd ask my partner every few weeks "want to have a fight?" and we'd talk about anything we were concerned about and end it with "Good fight".
That's a good practice to have. I feel like two kind people together aren't always gonna vent their gripes at they comes, and need to have their grievances teased out of them a bit. I usually need to see an unhappy look on my partner's face, and then ask twenty questions to see what's bothering her.
I picked up the practice from some ancient bs about healthy relationships requiring fights and arguments bc otherwise people wouldn't say when they were upset. Totally silly, but "Want to have a fight?" was a decent way to say "Hey, is there anything that's bother you or that you'd like to address"? in context. Idk if i'd use it anymore. THere was actually a joke that went with it to make it explicit that it wasnt a "fight" fight, but I can't remember the joke.
Fuck that sounds pretty wicked. Me and my lady get there but we still have a bit of a spat now and then. I feel like we are getting better at owning our shit but its not an easy thing for most people. We are on a similar scale of how much and how long we try to pass blame on each other though. so Its not like one of us is a bigger asshole than the other so that's good. And we don't really let shit sit around unresolved. If we have a fight we get through it. We might take a little break to cool down but we don't keep stacking half resolved fights in a closet that is waiting to burst.