Seeds of Fire: A People’s Chronology

Recalling events that happened on this day in history.
Memories of struggle, resistance and persistence.

Compiled by Ulli Diemer

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November 18, 1918  
Rosa Luxemburg’s article A Duty of Honour: Against Capital Punishment, is published. She writes: “The existing penal system, which is permeated through and through with the brutal class spirit and barbarism of capitalism, must be extirpated root and branch.”
Related Topics: Capital PunishmentPrisonersPrisons
November 18, 1998  
Newspaper editor Tara Singh Hayer is assassinated in Surrey, British Columbia, for his strong opposition to Sikh extremists. He had survived a previous attack in 1988 that left him confined to a wheelchair.



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