{"id":22158,"date":"2022-09-13T12:27:12","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T12:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/?p=22158"},"modified":"2023-04-05T14:01:27","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T14:01:27","slug":"the-reign-of-elizabrit-70-years-of-imperialist-and-unionist-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/republicancommunist.org\/blog\/2022\/09\/13\/the-reign-of-elizabrit-70-years-of-imperialist-and-unionist-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"The reign of Elizabrit – 70 years of imperialist and unionist violence"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE \u00a0REIGN OF ELZABRIT – \u00a070 YEARS OF IMPERIALIST AND UNIONIST VIOLENCE<\/strong><\/p>\n

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One stark feature of the reign of queen Elizabeth, commander in chief of the British Armed Forces, 1952-2022, has been continuous UK involvement in military interventions and wars<\/a>. \u00a0This has led to many tens of thousands of deaths amongst those fighting for their political freedom, and for many civilians, as well as hundreds of thousands of injured and millions displaced. \u00a0This has been combined with a record of mass internment, torture and rape. \u00a0Some of these atrocities have taken place in Northern Ireland within the UK itself.<\/p>\n

In 1897, James Connolly helped to organise a protest again the diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria<\/a>, which he called a \u201cfeast of flunkeyism\u201d. He wrote, \u201cJoin your voice with ours in protesting against the base assumption that we owe to this empire any other debt than that of hatred of all its plundering institutions.\u201d \u00a0One march was held across the city, with a mock coffin draped in a black cloth with the words British Empire embroidered on it. Maud Gonne organised the production of a series of black flags, on which were written statistics of the famines\/starvations, evictions and other social disasters that had taken place in Ireland during the long reign of Queen Victoria.<\/p>\n

In this spirit, we are posting the UK\u2019s record of imperialism under queen Elizabeth.<\/p>\n

Malaysia Emergency – 1948-60<\/strong><\/p>\n

Korean War \u2013 1950-53<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mau Mau Uprising \u2013 1952-60<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jebel Akhdar War \u2013 1954-59<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cyrus Emergency \u2013 1955-59<\/strong><\/p>\n

Suez Crisis \u2013 1956-57<\/strong><\/p>\n

Border campaign \u2013 1956-63<\/strong><\/p>\n

First Cod War \u2013 1958-61<\/strong><\/p>\n

Upper Yafa Disturbances \u2013 1959<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dhofar Rebellion \u2013 1962-75<\/strong><\/p>\n

Indonesia-Malaysia \u2013 1963-66<\/strong><\/p>\n

Asian Emergency \u2013 1963-67<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Troubles \u2013 1968-98<\/strong><\/p>\n

Second Cod War \u2013 1972-73<\/strong><\/p>\n

Third Cod war \u2013 1975-76<\/strong><\/p>\n

Falklands War \u2013 1982<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lebanon- 1982-84<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gulf War \u2013 1990-91<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bosnia War \u2013 1992-95<\/strong><\/p>\n

Operation Desert Fox \u2013 1998<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kosova War \u2013 1998-99<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sierra Leone Civil War \u2013 2000-01<\/strong><\/p>\n

Afghanistan \u2013 2001-21<\/strong><\/p>\n

Iraq War \u2013 2003-09<\/strong><\/p>\n

First Libyan Civil War \u2013 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n

Operation Shader \u2013 2014-<\/strong><\/p>\n

Persian Gulf Crisis \u2013 2019-21<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The 14 unarmed protestors shot by the Parachute Regiment in Derry on January 30th 1972<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Colonel-in-chief reviews Parachute Regiment<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Her son Charles has become the new commander on chief. He was colonel-in-chief to the notorious s Parachute Regiment at the time of the Ballymurphy Massacres in Belfast between 9th<\/sup>-11th<\/sup> June 1971<\/a> and Bloody Sunday in Derry on 30th<\/sup> January 1972<\/a>. In June 1973 \u00a0the queen awarded lieutenant-colonel Wilford responsible for these actions an OBE for services to the union and empire.<\/p>\n

Of all the institutions of the UK state given sanction under the sovereignty of the Crown-in-Westminster, the monarchy’s central role in fronting the British armed forces as commander-in-chief is one of the most anti-democratic of all. “The days of of empire upon which the sun never sets” may well be over, but there is still never a day when the British imperial gun remains silent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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