Arab attacks on isolated Jewish settlements and the British failure to protect them led to the creation of the Haganah (" Defense "), a mainly socialist underground Jewish militia dedicated to defending Jewish settlements.

The city was a stage to the Austrian Civil War of 1934, when Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss sent the Austrian Army to shell civilian housing occupied by the socialist militia.

The White Guard ( Finnish: Suojeluskunta, plural: Suojeluskunnat, Finland-Swedish: Skyddskår, literary translated as Protection / Defense Corps ) was a voluntary militia that emerged victorious over the socialist Red Guard as part of the Whites in the Finnish Civil War of 1918.

In 1921, a local socialist deputy, Giuseppe Di Vagno, was assassinated in Mola di Bari by Fascist militia.

If the peasant militia could have occupied the cities, according to Majumdar, the so-called bourgeois government would fall making the passage to the coming of a socialist government ; but the Naxalites could not and did not come up to a stage capable of organizing the peasants and thereby encircling the towns.

Castillo was a member of the Union Militar Republicana Antifascista ( UMRA ), an anti-fascist organization for military members, and also worked in training the militia of the socialist youth.

Besides these nationalisms, liberal and even socialist currents resisted the empire's longstanding conservatism.

He advocated the co-operative model of economic organisation, but resisted alliance between the ILP and other socialist organisations in Britain, like the Fabians.

On this occasion he restored the system of uninominal constituencies, resisted the socialist agitation, and pressed, though in vain, for the adoption of drastic measures against the false bank-notes put in circulation by the Banca Romana.

They often resisted attempts by the parties to which they were affiliated to bring them into line with the aims or platform of the group as a whole ; indeed, at some points the various Language Federations made up such a large portion of socialist groups as to make top-down dictation of a uniform policy very difficult.

In 1989, the socialist regime collapsed after 40 years, despite its omnipresent secret police, the Stasi.

But it was split about the law allowing the police the power to expel socialist agitators from their homes, a power used excessively at times against political opponents.

* May 20 – In Japan, police carry away socialist members of the Diet of Japan.

Terms were also arbitrarily extended by police, while some practitioners had ambiguous charges levied against them, such as " disrupting social order ", " endangering national security ", or " subverting the socialist system ".

In a case that attracted international attention, Lori Berenson, a former MIT student and U. S. socialist activist living in Lima, was arrested on 30 November 1995, by the police and accused of collaborating with the MRTA.

The police apparatus of the day was ubiquitous and quite thorough in attempting to control the socialist movement.

East Germany stagnated as its socialist economy was linked to the Soviet Union ; the secret police ( Stasi ) tightly controlled daily life, and the Berlin Wall ( 1961 ) ended the steady flow of refugees to the west.

Markievicz also joined James Connolly's socialist Irish Citizen Army ( ICA ), a small volunteer force formed in response to the lockout of 1913, to defend the demonstrating workers from the police.

The socialist movement in Puerto Rico grew in the 1960s and 1970s despite police repression and terrorist activities from right-wing exiled Cubans and pro-Statehood Puerto Ricans.

In a parallel universe, England and Imperial Russia have fought the Crimean War for more than a century ; England itself is a police state run by the Goliath Corporation ( a powerful weapon-producing company with questionable morals ); and Wales is a separate, socialist nation.

His head was injured during street clashes with police forces over the Potemkin issue ; while recovering, Rakovsky befriended the Romanian poets Ştefan Octavian Iosif and Dimitrie Anghel, who were publishing works under a common signature — one of the two authored a sympathetic portrait of the socialist leader, based on his recollections from the early 1900s.

In 1906, Tsarist counterrevolution in the form of police raids and organized pogroms forced the socialist movement of the Russian empire back underground.

A visit from the police prompted the young socialist schoolteacher to escape to the United States through emigration.

Yevno Azef (, 1869 – 1918, also transliterated as Evno Azef ), was a Russian socialist revolutionary who was also a double agent working both as an organizer of assassinations for the Socialist-Revolutionary Party ( also known as SRs or Esers ) and a police spy for the Okhrana, the Imperial secret police.

In 1903, the Socialist Party of America won its first victory west of the Mississippi when Anaconda elected a socialist mayor, treasurer, police judge, and three councilmen.

Between 1926 and 1928, the central government organized the " Peace Preservation Department " ( an antisubversive police section ), and prosecuted all local communists who proposed a socialist form of government.

Since 1948 when a period of violence erupted against countryside farmers, thousands of people who had have been displaced by wealthy landowners with the help of the army and police from their lands in other parts of Colombia moved to Villavicencio seeking a promised land, una tierra de promision, a refuge from socialist and right wing groups, and even the army and police.

Driving with Calvo Sotelo in a police car of the Assault Guard, police officer and socialist gunman Luis Cuenca shot him in the back of the neck.

One socialist was so angry with the police, that he tried to kill the chief superintendent of the police.

On the night of 2 – 3 May 1889, he was arrested by the Russian police and spent six months in jail in Pułtusk because he was mistaken for his older brother Feliks, who was engaged in the socialist movement abroad ( he attended the Congress of the Second International in Paris ).

In September 1933 Dollfuss merged his Christian Social Party with elements of other nationalist and conservative groups, including the Heimwehr, which encompassed many workers who were unhappy with the radical leadership of the socialist party, to form the Vaterländische Front, though the Heimwehr continued to exist as an independent organization until 1936, when Dollfuss ' successor Kurt von Schuschnigg forcibly merged it into the Front, instead creating the unabidingly loyal Frontmiliz as paramilitary task force.

In October 1955, socialist groups reunited under the Japan Socialist Party, which emerged as the second most powerful political force.

The event was significant not only for Yugoslavia and Tito, but also for the global development of socialism, since it was the first major split between Communist states, casting doubt on Comintern's claims for socialism to be a unified force that would eventually control the whole world, as Tito became the first ( and the only successful ) socialist leader to defy Stalin's leadership in the COMINFORM.

Oscar Wilde, famous anarchist Irish people | Irish writer who published the libertarian socialist work titled The Soul of Man under SocialismThe anarchist writer and bohemian Oscar Wilde wrote in his famous essay The Soul of Man under Socialism that " Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.

In Die Welt, a communist newspaper published in Stockholm the exiled communist leader Walter Ulbricht opposed the allies ( Britain representing “ the most reactionary force in the world ”) and argued: “ The German government declared itself ready for friendly relations with the Soviet Union, whereas the English-French war bloc desires a war against the socialist Soviet Union.

The experience of other socialist countries suggests that widespread labor force participation by women often goes hand-in-hand with more traditional role expectations ; in other words, they are still responsible for housework and childrearing.

It is likely that annual population growth rates will increase in the future, as well as difficulties in employing the many young men and women entering the labor force in a socialist economy already suffering from stagnant growth.

The Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) () is an Irish republican paramilitary organisation whose aim was to remove Northern Ireland from the United Kingdom and bring about a socialist republic within a united Ireland by force of arms and political persuasion.

The Soviet Union's policy of compelling the socialist governments of its satellite states to subordinate their national interests to those of the " Eastern Bloc " ( through military force if needed ) became known as the Brezhnev Doctrine.

Although socialist legality remained in force after 1960, the dictatorial and utopian trends continued to influence the legal process.

Politically, since the fall of the Wall, the successor party of the former East German socialist state party has become a major force in German politics.

To lead the social revolution, the Communist Party of China, which had legitimized itself into the guiding force of socialist China, had extended its rank-and-file to all Chinese regions and set up various institutions to lead changes in rural areas, the military, and the bureaucracy.

He argued for a combination of socialist politics on economic issues and traditional " physical force " Irish republicanism.

Since the beginning of the 20th century, socialism and the socialist labour movement rose to replace liberalism as the major political force for radical reforms.

The Russian Bolsheviks, headed by Vladimir Lenin, believed that unless socialist revolution swept Europe, they would be crushed by the military might of world capitalism, just as the Paris Commune had been crushed by force of arms in 1871.

On the one hand there were those who advocated the policy of " boring from within " the already-existing unions, attempting to win their memberships over to the idea of socialist reorganization of society through the force of propaganda and practical example.

In October 1955, socialist groups reunited under the Japan Socialist Party, which emerged as the second most powerful political force.

The socialist were the mainstream political force in this period, carrying out social reforms and public investment.

Like Paddy Devlin before him, he claimed the SDLP had ceased to be a socialist force.

The result of the general election, the return of a constituent assembly predominantly moderate if not monarchical, dashed the hopes of those who had looked for the establishment, by a peaceful revolution, of their ideal socialist state ; but they were not prepared to yield without a struggle, and in Paris itself they commanded a formidable force.

The Italian labor force ( large parts of which had remained socialist or communist despite fascist rule ) regarded socialization as a sham and responded with a massive strike on March 1, 1944.

Finn Gustavsen, former leader of the Socialist People's Party, believed that the Labour Party were not socialists, and the only socialist force in parliament were members from the Socialist Electoral League.

The party came close to expressing support for the Republican side of the Spanish Civil War-on grounds of supporting defence of democracy ( some writers initially took Spain as an example of what could happen if the capitalists class tried to use force to overturn the result of a socialist electoral revolution ).

Party speakers do emphasise, though, that the SPGB is not a pacifist party, and would countenance force being used to defend a socialist revolution.