Historical Events of the Revolutionary World Movement

TULSA MASSACRE 1921

"Black Lives Matter!

Proletarian Anti-Rascism is a matter of revolutionary class struggle, is a matter of proletarian internationalism.

The question of rascism, in general, and the black question, in particular, will be solved by the world socialist revolution".

- Comintern (SH), 1st of July 2016 -

The

TULSA MASSACRE

1921

A Black Holocaust in America

What is the main lesson of the Tulsa Massacre ?

The main lesson of the Tulsa Massacre is the necessity of revolutionary violence against rascism of the American bourgeoisie, is the unification of all oppressed and exploited classes for the revolutionary overthrow of the classes of exploiters and oppressors.

The Tulsa Massacre differs from all the previous Massacres in this:

The organized armed struggle of resistance.

The struggle of the bourgeoisie against the truth of history develops in three main steps:

First main step:

The bourgeoisie keeps quit about her crimes and pretended Tulsa Massacre "never happened".

Second main step can be defined by the words of Frederick Engels:

"The bourgeoisie turns everything into a commodity, hence also the writing of history. It is in its nature, a condition of its existence, to falsify all commodities: it falsified history. And the version of history which is most highly paid is that which is best falsified for the purposes of the bourgeoisie."

(MECWSH, Volume 21, page 313; Plan of Chapter Two and Fragments for The History of Ireland)

Third main step:

The bourgeoisie turns history into an open weapon against the opressed and exploited classes, against communism.

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The history can not cheat itself. History is always falsified by the bourgeoisie.

The truth of history can only be liberated by the working class.

- Comintern (SH) -
 
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The 95 years long history of the Tulsa Massacre teaches that the worldwide genocide, committed by air assaults of the USA-imperialists, had started in America - thus in the own country.

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The worst act of domestic terrorism in "peacetime" America was the Tulsa, Oklahoma massacre of African Americans in 1921

The night of May 31st., airplanes distributing nitroglycerin bombed the affluent community, and an angry white mob (in the service of the American bourgeoisie!) began the destruction of Little Africa.

Tulsa 1921 is a story of brutal "ethnic cleansing" and genocide. This was the largest "civil disturbance" since the Civil War and the anti-Indian wars of the 1800s. It is a story that has been systematically censored by the system--despite the repeated efforts of the Black press, revolutionary forces and progressive historians to bring the facts to light.
Black veterans came back from World War 1 with pride and a fresh belief that they deserved respect and equality. In urban areas, many Black people were bolder in questioning the lynch-law customs of Jim Crow. The revolutionary storms of Europe and Russia after World War 1 inspired the new revolutionary and communist organization among Black people - also in Tulsa.