Direct Action Day in British India, intended to be a peaceful demonstration in favor of carving out Muslim Pakistan, turned violent resulting in more than 10,000 people being killed around Calcutta.
The Muslim minority of India was adamantly opposed to being if a federation with India's Hindu majority, something that's understandable if we consider that Indian itself is a country, but not a nation. The hope of the Muslims, at the time, was to carve out what is today Pakistan and Bangladesh into one country.
Bangladesh became independent of Pakistan, from which it differs ethnically, in 1971. I can recall it very dimly occuring.
On the same day, in the same country, the All Hyderabad Trade Union Congress (AHTUC) was formed. It was a trade union center in the Hyderabad State which was affiliated to the All India Trade Union Congress and which was aligned with the Communist Party of India.
It's easy for us to forget how strong Communism was in unions, even in some in the United States. The real kind, I might add, not the Mike Johnson, "oh my, . . .they'd rather have national health care than die in the gutter so I'm pissing my pants" sort of stuff the GOP comes up with.
Anyhow, it was very strong in Australian trade unions, where it was opposed by the Catholic Church, which is one of the reasons the Australian political left still hates the Church to this day.
The Kurdistan Democratic Party was founded in Iraq by Mustafa Barzani.
Today the party is the ruling party in Iraqi Kurdistan and the senior partner in the Kurdistan Regional Government. The ideology of the party is based on conservatism, secularism, and Kurdish nationalism.
Kurdistan really should be an independent country.
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