55 years | Solidariogb | 7th September 2026 It’s been 55 years since the rise of Salvador Allende’s Popular Unity government in Chile. His government lasted about three years until a coup toppled it in a bloody coup on 11 September 1973. Factual summary recognising both the aspirations and the severe limitations of the AllendeContinue reading “Chile 1970-1973: The Peaceful Road Experiment, Its Social Achievements and the Forces That Overthrew It”
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THE MOZAMBICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE (1964–1975): A Complete History
SolidarioGb | History of Liberation Wars | 23rd June 2026 I. The Colonial Context: Five Centuries of Domination Portuguese Colonisation Mozambique was colonised by Portugal from the sixteenth century, when Portuguese explorers established trading posts and feitorias along the Indian Ocean coast. Unlike other colonial powers, Portugal never developed significant modern infrastructure in its AfricanContinue reading “THE MOZAMBICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE (1964–1975): A Complete History”
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Semyon Timoshenko Semyon Timoshenko was born in Bessarabia on 18th February, 1895. At the beginning of the First World War he served as a cavalryman in the Russian Army on the Eastern Front. Timoshenko was a Bolshevik and supported the forces that overthrew Tsar Nicholas II. After the Russian Revolution he joined the Red Army and took part in the Russian Civil War. While defending Tsaritsyn against the White Army he met JosephContinue reading “In a day like today…”
