![]() Thiers accomplished this separating himself as far as possible from the Government of National Defense, the government which would be forced to surrender and sign the treaty with Germany. ![]() Through his maneuvering, he placed himself in a victorious political position after France’s crushing defeat in the war, despite his entire career of agitatation for war. Leading up to 1870, Thiers strongly agitated for a war with Prussia, but when France’s armies suffered defeat after defeat (this all within a period of a few weeks), Thiers quickly changed his policy, and "spoke out against the war" when France had already but lost. Later assisted Louis Bonaparte in 1848 to attain the throne, and became a deputy under his government of the Second Empire. Under the Orleanist monarchy, Thiers was undersecretary of state for the treasury (1830), minister of the interior (18-36), minister of trade and public works (1833-34), premier and minister of foreign affairs (18). ![]() Thiers was particularly noted for his brutality in crushing all popular rebellions against the monarchy, particularly at Duchesse de Berry in 1832 and of the Republicans in 1834. First president of the Third Republic (1871-73). His nephew, Kethish Loganathan, was a leading figure in contemporary Tamil politics until he was assasinated in 2006.įrench politician, journalist, and revisionist historian. “Tharmakulasingham Day” used to be celebrated every July in Jaffna in his honor. Ran for Parliament from Point Pedro Constituency on LSSP ticket, 1947. Sided with Philip Gunawardena in the post-war split in LSSP. Joined Lanka Sama Samaja Party, giving the party its first trade union base in the North. President, North-Ceylon Bus Workers Union and Cigar Workers Union. Helped form the North Ceylon Workmen’s Union and North Ceylon Vehicleman’s Union. Organized the bus workers and cigar workers in Jaffna Pennisula. Regarded as the first Tamil Marxist in Ceylon. Educated Jaffna College, Vaddukkoddai, Ceylon. Joined RWPI.īorn Point Pedro (Jaffna province), Ceylon, into a high-caste (Vellala) family. Worked in Pannaipuram (Theni District, Tamil Nadu). Member of the Bolshevik Leninist Party of India. Thalheimer fled to Cuba, where he died in 1948. Incapable of any action that could be construed as high treason to the They are anti-Fascists and revolutionaries, ‘We take upon ourselves any political and personal guarantee for ourĪrrested comrades. Statement co-signed by Brandler saying that: Stalinists and charged with the usual crimes in July 1937, he issued a When six members of the KPO were arrested in Barcelona by the In exile in Paris from 1932 onwards, Thalheimer went to Spain in 1936,Īnd then back to France again where the KPO’s exile organisation Involved in a heated argument with Nin over the POUMÕs condemnation of ‘We do not want to draw the conclusion that as the politics of theĬomintern are wrong, it must follow that the politics of Russia areĪlso wrong.’ (GdST, 4/1931) Thalheimer himself supported forcedĬollectivisation and Stakhanovism, and whilst in Barcelona became ![]() The Brandlerite organisation restricted most of its criticisms to theįoreign policy of the Soviet Union, whilst maintaining that itsĭomestic operations were basically healthy. Was expelled from the KPD along with Brandler, and they went on to form Thälmann, secured his return to Germany in 1928, but a year later he Pressure from the KPD, still uneasy with the leadership of Were published as a textbook in philosophy (which appeared in EnglishĪs Introduction to Dialectical Materialism, New York, 1936), and heĪlso worked on the draft programme of the Comintern along withīukharin. His lectures delivered at the Sun Yat-Sen University in 1927 Local government, was subsequently blamed along with Brandler for theĭebacle, and was called to Moscow in 1924, where he worked in theĬommunist International apparat, as well as for the Marx-Engels Quickly rose to prominence as the party’s main theoretician, beingĮditor of Rote Fahne as well as of Franz Mehring’s manuscripts leftĭuring the 1923 crisis he was Minister of Finance in the Württemburg ![]() Spartakusbriefe, and was a member of the USPD (Independent Socialists) fromġ917, and a founder member of the German Communist Party (KPD). From 1916 he assisted in the production of the Democratic Party before the First World War, and editor of one of its ![]()
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