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2024-09-20 14:25:36

#OtD 20 Sep 1878 American author Upton Sinclair was born. He often wrote about the everyday lives and struggles of working class people and his investigative exposés written as fiction had many concrete results in terms of improving conditions https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9328/upton-sinclair?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-09-20 13:18:10

#OtD 20 Sep 1973 a member of the @npub1hkm…yuhl, Frank Teruggi, was snatched from his home in Santiago, Chile by soldiers following the right-wing military coup. He was tortured then murdered and his body dumped in a public street https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9333/murder-of-frank-teruggi?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-09-20 10:22:34

#OtD 20 Sep 1898 migrant anarchist worker Polenice Mattei was murdered by police in São Paulo. Anarchists were central to the Brazilian workers' movement at the time, fighting for shorter hours and health insurance https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9330/polenice-mattei-murdered-by-police?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-09-20 09:02:06

#OtD 20 Sep 2015 the #piggate scandal broke when claims from Tory donor Lord Ashcroft were published in a right-wing newspaper that UK Prime Minister David Cameron had sex with a dead pig's head while at university https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9335/piggate-scandal?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-09-19 13:41:35

#OtD 19 Sep 1795 the Curaçao slave rebellion was crushed by Dutch forces, who executed two rebel leaders, in addition to the many killed in fighting. Despite this, the government was forced to grant limited rights to the enslaved https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9146/cura%C3%A7ao-slave-revolt-crushed?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-09-19 12:08:04

#OtD 19 Sep 1952 musician, producer and former Black Panther, Nile Rodgers, was born in NYC. He said: "being a Panther was making breakfast, fixing people’s houses, washing the streets. That's what we really did" https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/12493/nile-rodgers?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-09-19 11:40:07

Xu Lizhi was a migrant worker poet at the Foxconn factory in Shenzhen. In 2014, Xu took his own life, like so many other Foxconn workers did within a few years around that same time.
This is Xu's poem, 'I Speak of Blood'. Learn more in our podcast: https://www.patreon.com/posts/wcl8-chinese-2-112351667?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-09-18 21:46:04

#OtD 18 Sep 1990 Canadian soldiers and police tried to invade the Kahnawake reservation. Kanyen'kehà:ka (Mohawk) First Nations people who were resisting construction of a golf course resisted them, and forced them to retreat after seven hours of fighting https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/12595/invasion-of-kahnawake-reserve?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-09-17 04:58:33

#OtD 17 Sep 1849 abolitionist Harriet Tubman and her brothers escaped from slavery. Her brothers decided to go back, forcing Harriet to do the same. But shortly after, Harriet Tubman escaped again, then helped rescue hundreds more enslaved people https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8941/harriet-tubman-escapes-slavery?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-09-16 16:10:38

#OtD 16 Sep 1973 Chilean communist folk singer and musician Victor Jara was murdered by Pinochet's troops following his US-backed coup a few days before. He was brutally tortured and shot over 40 times in the Chile Stadium https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8846/victor-jara-murdered?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-09-16 09:00:06

#OtD 16 Sep 1923 in Japan, Itō Noe and her lover Ōsugi Sakae, both worker activists, anarchists and free love advocates, were arrested by Tokyo police. They were beaten and strangled to death in their cells, then dumped in a well https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8841/it%C5%8D-noe-and-osugi-sakae-murdered?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-09-16 05:37:36

#OtD 16 Sep 1979 a group of eight East Germans escaped the Iron Curtain in a home-made hot air balloon https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8847/hot-air-balloon-escape-from-east-germany?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-09-16 04:16:34

#OtD 16 Sep 1982 right-wing Christian militias, supported by the Israeli army, began carrying out out acts of murder, torture, rape, and abuse in the Sabra and Shatila Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut, Lebanon. 800- 3500 people were killed. Learn more: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/12710/sabra-and-shatila-massacre?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-09-15 21:33:09

#OtD 15 Sep 1933 Max Hoelz, the German communist "Red Robin Hood," died in a supposed "boating accident", but was likely murdered by the NKVD (Russian secret police). He earned his nickname during the German revolution robbing banks to give to workers https://libcom.org/history/articles/1889-1933-max-hoelz?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-09-15 15:44:11

#OtD 15 Sep 1954 Veterans of the Abraham @LincolnBrigade – US volunteers in the Spanish Civil War – were brought before the Subversive Activities Control Board as the government attempted to classify them as a subversive organisation https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8742/attempt-to-proscribe-veterans-of-the-abraham-lincoln-brigade?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-09-15 15:03:12

#OtD 15 Sep 1963 four African-American girls were killed and 22 others were wounded after KKK members planted a bomb against a predominantly Black church in Birmingham, Alabama. This act of terrorism marked a turning point in the Civil Rights Movement https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8743/16th-street-baptist-church-bombing?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-09-15 09:14:09

#OtD 15 Sep 2005 the Guardian revealed that Britain's largest arms manufacturer, BAE Systems, had secretly paid more than £1 million to former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. The firm used a front company registered in the British Virgin Islands https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8747/bae-pinochet-bribes-uncovered?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-09-14 10:18:06

#OtD 14 Sep 1911 1000s of schoolchildren in Dundee, Scotland, walked out of lessons demanding more holidays and less corporal punishment. Marching armed with sticks and stones, they pulled other children out and attacked schools which were still open https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8626/dundee-pupil-strike?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-09-13 13:12:06

#OtD 13 Sep 1879 Annie Kenney, cotton mill worker and pioneering direct action suffragette, was born. She and her friend and possible lover Christabel Pankhurst sparked the adoption of militant tactics across the movement https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8531/annie-kenney-born?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-09-12 21:56:05

#OtD 12 Sep 2012 video was broadcast showing systemic torture and sexual assault of inmates in Tbilisi, Georgia, resulting in mass protests. The government was then forced to make reforms and dismiss and arrest prison guards and officials https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8443/georgia-torture-protests?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-09-12 16:19:36

#OtD 12 Sep 1969 the recently-founded Gay Liberation Front protested in New York City against the Village Voice newspaper's use of homophobic slurs and it's censorship of gay ads. Learn more about the GLF in our podcast featuring founders of the group: https://workingclasshistory.com/2019/05/13/e21-22-the-stonewall-riots-and-pride-at-50/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-09-12 13:38:09

#OtD 12 Sep 1992 Anti-Fascist Action fought neo-Nazis heading to a Blood & Honour gig in the "Battle of Waterloo" in London. By occupying the redirection point for the gig, anti-fascists were able to ambush small groups of Nazis as they arrived https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8441/the-battle-of-waterloo?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-09-12 13:11:08

The other episodes will be released shortly, but in the meantime we have sources, further reading, images, videos and eventually a transcript on the webpage for this series. Check it out here: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/wcl-7-9-chinese-migrant-worker-poetry/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-09-12 13:11:05

New @workingclasslit podcast! First of three episodes on migrant worker poetry in China. In Part 1, we discuss the precarious conditions migrant workers live under, and the poems of two migrant worker poets. Available now for our Patreon supporters: https://www.patreon.com/posts/wcl7-chinese-1-111916658?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-09-12 10:42:34

#OtD 12 Sep 2001 anarchist textile worker, Dolors Prat, died aged 96. A lifelong revolutionary, she fought for the eight-hour day, participated in the Spanish revolution and following its defeat escaped to France, where she remained active https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8442/dolors-prat-dies?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-09-11 18:34:13

#OtD 11 Sep 1928 the Port Adelaide strike began in Australia when waterfront workers refused work in protest at new, inferior terms of employment. While the strike largely ended by mid-October, intermittent strikes and riots continued for three years https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8355/port-adelaide-strike?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-09-11 14:58:06

#OtD 11 Sep 1973 right-wing general Pinochet launched a coup against the elected left-wing government in Chile of Salvador Allende. Backed by the US and UK, Pinochet went on to torture, jail and kill 10,000s of working class activists https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8360/general-pinochet's-coup-against-the-left-wing-government-in-chile?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-09-11 13:23:35

#OtD 11 Sep 1917 Spanish Civil War and resistance activist Maruja Lara was born in Granada. Joining a militia during the civil war, she was later interned in a fascist concentration camp but escaped and joined the underground resistance. Learn more: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8354/maruja-lara?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-09-11 10:28:06

As part of our new series of Patreon-only content, in our latest Fireside Chat, we chat to Annie Powers from @NOlympicsLA about the negative consequences of the games on host cities, and the ongoing campaign against hosting the 2028 Olympics in LA https://www.patreon.com/posts/e93-fireside-la-111544493?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-09-10 23:00:07

#OtD 10 Sep 1909 Quechua Indigenous activist and communist Tránsito Amaguaña was born in Ecuador to a family of day labourers on a hacienda. She took part in strikes, went underground, co-founded the Indigenous Ecuadorian Federation and lived till 99 https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8252/tr%C3%A1nsito-amagua%C3%B1a-born?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-09-10 09:38:07

#OtD 10 Sep 1676 pioneering English revolutionary Gerrard Winstanley died aged 66. He was a tailor and the primary theoretician of the Diggers during the English civil war who took over enclosed lands and farmed them https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8250/gerrard-winstanley-dies?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-09-10 09:11:07

#OtD 10 Sep 1922 women telephone operators in Dublin, Ireland, who were the first to walk out on strike in the 1922 Irish postal strike against pay cuts, were fired upon by the National Army of the Provisional Government of Ireland https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8253/irish-postal-strike-begins?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-09-09 22:38:35

#OtD 9 Sep 1934 over 100k Londoners flooded Hyde Park to protest a rally by fascist leader Oswald Mosley. Mostly was drowned out by the anti-fascist locals, who then chased the police-protected Nazis out of the park. More about the fight in the 40s: https://workingclasshistory.com/2020/02/17/e35-37-the-43-group/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-09-09 09:49:11

#OtD 9 Sep 1945 Uruguayan teacher militant Elena Quinteros, who was disappeared by the US-backed dictatorship, was born in Montevideo. She was arrested, imprisoned, and sacked from her job, however she did not give up her activities https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10955/elena-quinteros?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-09-09 09:21:34

#OtD 9 Sep 1919 the majority of police officers in Boston went on strike when 19 of their union leaders were fired. The State Guard was brought in to keep order and the strikers were all fired, and a new police force recruited over the next three months https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10952/boston-police-strike?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-09-09 09:08:04

#OtD 9 Sep 1917 towards the end of WWI, a mutiny of British troops broke out in Etaples, France, after military police killed a soldier protesting an arrest. 1000 soldiers chased them off the base, grabbed the commander and paraded him through the town https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10951/british-troops'-mutinity-in-etaples,-france?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-09-08 11:08:36

#OtD 8 Sep 1943 during WWII, Italy formally surrendered to the Allies. However, Central and Northern Italy, remained in the hands of the Nazis and the fascist Republic of Salò. And so, working-class resistance to fascism continued. More in our podcast: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e77-80-italian-resistance/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-09-08 07:59:14

#OtD 8 Sep 1972 60 Black sailors aboard the USS Constellation during the Vietnam war gathered to discuss the racism in the navy. They would later form the Black Fraction, which would be responsible for the first mass mutiny in the history of the US Navy https://workingclasshistory.com/2018/08/06/e10-the-gi-resistance-in-vietnam-part-1/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-09-08 07:44:34

#OtD 8 Sep 1965 the Delano grape strike began when mostly Filipino farm workers in California walked out on strike demanding to be paid the federal minimum wage. Joined by Mexican-Americans, after an incredible five years, they won https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10867/delano-grape-strike?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-09-08 07:31:07

#OtD 8 Sep 1946 numerous empty properties, including 148 luxury flats in the Duchess of Bedford House in Kensington, were squatted by homeless ex-servicemen and their families in London in a wave of occupations across the country https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10866/duchess-of-bedford-house-squatted?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-09-07 15:19:34

#OtD 7 Sep 1934 anti-fascists hung a banner atop the BBC, advertising a counter-rally against Oswald Mosley and his British Union of Fascists. The BBC had Mosley on to promote his Nazi views and rally. Even so, over 100,000 locals drove out the fascist https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10756/bbc-anti-fascist-banner-drop?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-09-06 21:33:34

#OtD 6 Sep 1925 Dutch resistance fighter Freddie Oversteegen was born in Schoten, Netherlands. During WWII she and her sister Truus joined the resistance, distributing anti-fascist papers, helping refugees, and later sabotaging and killing fascists https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/12476/freddie-oversteegen-born?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-09-05 21:52:12

#OtD 5 Sep 1962 militant textile worker and Spanish Civil War militia woman, Giuditta Zanella, died in Turin, Italy aged 77. She had fought in the anarchist Durruti Column, and was one of only three survivors from her company. Learn more: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10579/giuditta-zanella-dies?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-09-05 12:33:06

#OtD 5 Sep 1939 African-American nurse and civil rights activist Claudette Colvin was born in Montgomery, AL. At 15, she was arrested and convicted for refusing to give up her seat on a bus for white passengers, several months before Rosa Parks https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/tag/11435/claudette-colvin?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-09-04 19:28:34

#OtD 4 Sep 1895 Xiang Jingyu, communist and pioneer of the Chinese women's movement, was born. She led a strike of women workers in 1924, and organised women's support for the Canton-Hong Kong workers' strike in 1925. The Kuomintang executed her in 1928 https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10478/xiang-jingyu-born?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-09-04 13:20:10

Today is the last full day you can preorder a discounted copy of our first graphic novel, Black Coal and Red Bandanas: An Illustrated History of the West Virginia Mine Wars. Preorder, and get a bunch of other free rewards here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wrkclasshistory/black-coal-and-red-bandanas-a-graphic-novel?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-09-04 11:59:05

#OtD 4 Sep 2005, the Danziger Bridge shootings took place, when several New Orleans police officers opened fire with assault weapons on an unarmed African-American family. One man was shot five times in the back and a teenage girl was shot four times https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10483/danziger-bridge-shootings?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-09-03 17:05:37

#OtD 3 Sep 1945 President Harry Truman approved and expanded Operation Paperclip, a secret plan to bring over 1500 Nazi scientists and war criminals to live in the US where they worked on the space program as well as biological and chemical weapons https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10255/operation-paperclip?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-09-03 11:39:08

As the far-right continues to rise around the world, now is a good time to learn about the anti-fascist struggles of the past, to inform our actions in the present.
More books on anti-fascist history around the world in our online store: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/books/anti-fascism?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-09-03 11:39:04

#OtD 3 Sep 1940 Uruguayan radical author and journalist Eduardo Hughes Galeano was born in Montevideo. The dictatorship imprisoned and exiled him, three countries banned his books, and Argentinian death squads tried to kill him, but he survived https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10254/eduardo-hughes-galeano-born?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-09-03 07:47:06

#OtD 3 Sep 1791 post-revolutionary France completed its new penal code. It became the first Western European country to decriminalise homosexuality, as it no longer made any mention of prohibitions against sodomy in private. More about the rev here: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/en-gb/collections/books/french-revolution?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-09-02 22:53:05

#OtD 2 Sep 1921 federal troops arrived at Blair Mountain, W Virginia, to support mine bosses who were fighting a violent conflict against striking miners, forcing the miners to surrender. Learn more in our first graphic novel: preorder in the next 3 days! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wrkclasshistory/black-coal-and-red-bandanas-a-graphic-novel?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-09-02 20:50:36

#OtD 2 Sep 1936 the Macbeth mine in Logan County, West Virginia, exploded killing 10 workers. Learn more about the struggles between West Virginia miners and their bosses in the previous decade in our podcast: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e57-west-virginia-mine-wars-1902-1922/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-09-02 17:26:10

#OtD 2 Sep 2015 the body of 3-year-old Alan Kurdi washed up on the Bodrum shore, Turkey. Fleeing war in Syria, he had drowned after the boat he and his family were sailing in capsized. Photos of his body sparked a rare but brief outpouring of sympathy https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9240/death-of-alan-kurdi?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-09-02 17:12:37

#OtD 2 Sep 2005 after hurricane Katrina, New Orleans police shot in the back and killed Henry Glover, an unarmed African-American. Police physically attacked people trying to help Glover. Another officer drove Glover away, then set the car on fire https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9239/henry-glover-killed-and-burned-by-police?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-09-02 16:58:34

#OtD 2 Sep 1945 Japan surrendered, ending WWII. The war is viewed as a victory of democracy over fascism, but the Allies maintained dictatorships after. For example, the US restored Japanese officials to power in Korea and killed thousands of protestors https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9237/japanese-surrender-in-ww2?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-09-01 21:13:06

#OtD 1 Sep 2007 the Guardian newspaper revealed that Indian soldiers in now-Pakistan had chemical weapons tested on them by the British colonial administration from the 1930s onwards, to see if mustard gas inflicted greater damage on South Asian skin https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8163/british-chemical-weapons-tests-on-indians-revealed?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-09-01 18:57:08

#OtD 1 Sep 1937 the USSR began their first deportation of an entire ethnic group moving 175,000 Koreans, including partisan vets, and 8,000 Chinese to unpopulated areas of Uzbekistan and elsewhere. Their homes were mostly given to European immigrants https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7716/korean-deportations-begin?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-09-01 08:13:11

#OtD 1 Sept 1949 trans revolutionary Leslie Feinberg was born. Ze worked in factories before writing powerfully about LGBT+ issues and publishing hir first novel, Stone Butch Blues, in 1993. Hir last words: "Remember me as a revolutionary communist" https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8159/leslie-feinberg-born?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-09-01 05:04:33

#OtD 1 Sep 1911 five women published the first issue of Japan's first all-women literary magazine, Bluestocking, credited with sparking the feminist movement in Japan. Often banned, it was still a commercial success and became more radical over time https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8155/first-issue-of-bluestocking-published?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-08-31 13:48:32

Just your periodic reminder that the Luddites were not opposed to technology as such. They destroyed machines as a tactic fighting for a better pay and conditions. https://twitter.com/spencerbeswick/status/1829532181699637646?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

2024-08-31 06:05:34

#OtD 31 Aug 1913 police attacked a crowd in O'Connell Street, in a drunken rampage that became known as 'Bloody Sunday'. During the Dublin lockout of tram workers, 300 officers attacked a crowd of mostly onlookers https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10353/dublin-bloody-sunday?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-08-30 11:32:36

#OtD 30 Aug 1948 leading Black Panther Fred Hampton was born in Summit, Illinois. He was key in forming links between the Panthers and working class people of all races in the Rainbow Coalition. At 21 he was assassinated by the FBI and Chicago police. https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9670/fred-hampton-born?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-08-29 11:14:06

#OtD 29 Aug 2005 Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, killing over 1800 people, with working-class and Black communities being most affected. The lack of govt response was criticised, while communities on the ground self-organised mutual aid https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10082/hurrican-katrina-hits-us?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-08-28 06:55:34

#OtD 28 Aug 1968 in Chicago, Black bus drivers in the city went on wildcat strike against their racist ATW union. While 80% of drivers were Black, the union leadership was white, and did not heed the concerns of Black workers. Learn more in our podcast: https://workingclasshistory.com/2018/07/22/e8-the-vietnam-war-strike-wave/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-08-26 16:34:05

#OtD 26 Aug 1921 workers in the mills and bakeries declared a soviet (aka: a workers' council) in Bruree, Ireland. A rare photograph features a sign workers affixed to one of the mills, reading "Bruree Soviet Workers Mills. We make bread not profits." https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9804/the-bruree-soviet?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-08-26 10:22:07

#OtD 26 Aug 1919 Fannie Sellins, former garment worker who became an organiser with the United Mine Workers of America, was killed by company thugs and sheriff's deputies during a coal strike in Pennsylvania as she tried to stop a miner from being beaten https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9803/fannie-sellins-murdered?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-08-25 19:29:10

#OtD 25 Aug 1996 a coalition of working poor, unemployed and homeless Philadelphians working with the Kensington Welfare Rights Union organised a campaign opposing state and national welfare cuts. The campaign lasted until June 1997 https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9717/kwru-philadelphia-campaign?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-08-24 21:48:06

#OtD 24 Aug 1945 legendary Black LGBTQ activist, sex worker, Stonewall rebellion participant, and co-founder of STAR (a radical org that provided shelter for homeless queer and trans youth) Marsha P. Johnson was born in New Jersey, US. Learn more: https://workingclasshistory.com/2019/05/13/e21-22-the-stonewall-riots-and-pride-at-50/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-08-24 16:24:06

#OtD 24 Aug 1943 French philosopher and anti-fascist Simone Weil died. She opposed French colonialism, took part in factory occupations and joined the Durruti Column to fight Franco, besides working as an agricultural laborer and WWII resistance member https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9629/simone-weil-dies?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-08-22 20:27:07

#OtD 22 Aug 1943 the Statesman published this photo of the Bengal famine, which killed up to 4 million after British authorities under Winston Churchill, who "hate[d]" "beastly" Indians, destroyed and diverted food from the area and restricted imports. https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9450/bengal-famine?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-08-22 14:42:35

#OtD 22 Aug 1894 gay Dutch resistance fighter, Willem Arondeus, was born. Executed by Nazis for his part in an attack on the Amsterdam public records office, before his death, Arondeus told a friend to "let it be known that homosexuals are not cowards" https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9448/willem-arondeus-born?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-08-21 10:15:35

#OtD 21 Aug 1893 Jewish Lithuanian anarchist Emma Goldman led a march of 1000 people to Union Square in NYC, where, speaking in German and English, she told 3000 people that workers have a right to take bread if they are hungry. More about Goldman: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/all/emma-goldman?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-08-21 05:51:35

#OtD 21 Aug 1981 140 mostly women workers at the Lee Jeans factory in Greenock, Scotland returned to work after winning a seven-month occupation of the plant against closure, having won their jobs back. Learn more in our tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@workingclasshistory/video/7078027204436708614?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7379899398611109408&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-08-18 07:35:05

#OtD 18 Aug 1812 women-led food riots broke out in Leeds and Sheffield, UK. In Leeds the newspaper described the women seizing corn and wheat as being "dignified with the title of Lady Ludd". In Sheffield flour dealers were forced to reduce their prices. https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8955/lady-ludd-food-riots-in-leeds?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-08-17 04:51:33

#OtD 17 Aug 1909 Indian revolutionary Madan Lal Dhingra was executed by the British for his assassination of Sir Curzon Wyllie, an army officer and head of the secret police trying to uncover and defeat anti-colonial activists https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8859/madan-lal-dhingra-executed?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

2024-08-16 13:24:06

#OtD 16 Aug 1819 the Peterloo massacre took place when British cavalry charge into a crowd of 60,000-80,000 working-class people demanding the right to vote. 15 were murdered and up to 700 injured, including many women. Learn more in our podcast: https://workingclasshistory.com/2018/11/07/e15-the-peterloo-massacre-with-mike-leigh/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-08-16 12:15:07

#OtD 16 Aug 1921 The Times of London newspaper exposed 'The Protocol of the Elders of Zion' as an antisemitic fraud. Antisemitic businessman, Henry Ford (pictured receiving an award from Nazi officials), continued to publish it a further 91 times https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8760/%22the-protocol-of-the-elders-of-zion%22-exposed-as-a-fraud?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-08-16 08:56:07

#OtD 16 Aug 1935 the mostly women workers at the Strutwear Knitting Co. in Minneapolis walked out on strike for pay increases, union recognition and the reinstatement of eight sacked union activists. They held out for eight months until they won https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8761/strutwear-knitting-co.-walkout?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-08-13 13:24:06

#OtD 13 Aug 1977 anti-fascist South London residents staged running battles with police and National Front members to stop a fascist demonstration in what would come to be known as ‘the Battle of Lewisham’. This is a short history of the events: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8458/battle-of-lewisham,-1977?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-08-12 21:27:12

#OtD 12 Aug 2017 32-year-old anti-racist Heather Heyer was killed and 19 injured in a neo-Nazi terror attack in Charlottesville, VA. Heather was one of many protesting a white supremacist rally when a Nazi drove his car deliberately into the crowd https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8376/heather-heyer-murdered?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-08-12 15:24:34

#OtD 12 Aug 1887 pioneering Colombian socialist and women's rights advocate María Cano aka "flor del trabajo" ("flower of labour") was born. She gave fiery speeches to crowds of mining, oil and banana workers, and was repeatedly arrested for her activity https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8368/mar%C3%ADa-cano-born?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-08-12 07:03:07

#OtD 12 Aug 1969 three days of serious rioting began in the Bogside, Northern Ireland. This began the turbulent period of conflict between the British colonial state and Unionists on one side, and Irish Republicans on the other, known as the Troubles https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8375/battle-of-the-bogside?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-08-11 16:50:05

#OtD 11 Aug 1984 during the great miners' strike, 23,000 women marched in London against pit closures. Women Against Pit Closures played a crucial role in supporting the strike more info in our podcast: https://workingclasshistory.com/2018/10/30/e13-women-in-the-miners-strike/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-08-10 05:39:05

#OtD 10 Aug 1680 the Pueblo Revolt (aka: Popé's Rebellion) began in the Spanish colonial province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México as the Indigenous Pueblo people rose up against the colonizers. 400 colonisers were killed and the remaining 2000 expelled https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/12583/pueblo-revolt-began?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-08-09 23:02:34

#OtD 9 Aug 1956 20,000 women in Pretoria, South Africa, marched against pass laws: apartheid laws curtailing freedom of movement for Black and Indian people. A wave of civil disobedience followed. The day is commemorated in South Africa as Women's Day https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10880/south-africa-women's-day?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-08-09 10:12:06

#OtD 9 Aug 1970 150 people, including the British Black Panthers, marched on London police stations to demand an end to raids on the Mangrove Caribbean restaurant. Nine were arrested and charged with conspiracy, but all were later acquitted https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10881/uk-black-panthers-protest?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-08-08 18:49:08

#OtD 8 Aug 1897 Michele Angiolillo, an Italian anarchist, assassinated the repressive Spanish PM Antonio Cánovas del Castillo in revenge for the torture and execution of anarchists and Filipino rebel José Rizal https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10771/spanish-prime-minister-assassinated?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-08-08 09:06:09

#OtD 8 Aug 1845 UK Parliament passed an enclosure act taking away public land and appointing officials who could enclose more land without approval from MPs – one of 5,000 such acts passed. This dispossession created the working class https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10768/enclosure-commissioners-introduced?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-08-07 22:53:35

#OtD 7 Aug 1936 rebels near Madrid conducted a ceremonial "execution" of the Monument of the Sacred Heart. It was shot by a firing squad of working-class people who had risen up against a fascist military coup backed by the Church. More in our podcast: https://workingclasshistory.com/2020/06/17/e39-the-spanish-civil-war-an-introduction/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-08-07 15:23:08

New public podcast! First of a double podcast episode with Gord Hill of the Kwakwaka’wakw nation, giving us an overview of over three decades of Indigenous resistance in the Americas since 1992: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e88-89-indigenous-resistance-since-1992/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-08-06 15:25:36

#OtD 6 Aug 1945 the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, slaughtering tens of thousands of civilians, despite believing that Japan was about to surrender, which was noted by multiple US officials https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10593/u.s.-drops-atomic-bomb-on-hiroshima?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-08-06 06:01:13

#OtD 6 Aug 1869 revolutionary working-class poet and feminist Marie E.J. Pitt was born in the mining town of Bullumwaal, Australia. Workers' rights were a central theme of her work. More info in this short biography: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10591/marie-e.j.-pitt?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-08-02 18:09:05

#OtD 2 Aug 1924 James Baldwin, gay African-American author and social critic was born. During the civil rights movement he played an active role in fighting racism, encouraging civil disobedience and taking part in demonstrations https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9166/james-baldwin-born?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-08-02 10:46:37

#OtD 2 Aug 1944 4000 Roma people in Auschwitz resisted being taken to the gas chambers. They armed themselves with sticks and crowbars, and barricaded the doors, women in particular fighting the SS with hands and nails. They were overcome and murdered https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9169/auschwitz-roma-rebellion?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-08-01 18:23:08

#OtD 1 Aug 1938 the Hilo massacre took place in Hawaii, when police opened fire at an unarmed, multiracial group of striking dock workers, injuring 50. They were fighting for equal pay with dock workers on the US West Coast https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8051/hilo-massacre?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-08-01 10:31:40

#OtD 1 Aug 1837 legendary Irish-born US labour organiser and co-founder of the @npub1hkm…yuhl, Mary Harris "Mother" Jones was baptised (her birthdate is unknown) in Cork, Ireland https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8044/mother-jones-baptised?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-08-01 07:27:04

#OtD 1 Aug 1993 Joy Gardner, a 40-year-old Jamaican woman, died in north London, a few days after police tried to deport her. They held her down and wrapped 13ft of surgical tape round her head, suffocating her https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8055/joy-gardner-dies?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-06-16 07:35:08

#OtD 16 Jun 1836 the London Working Men's Association was formed by a cabinetmaker, two printworkers and a publisher. They laid the foundations for the Chartist movement, the first nationwide mass working-class movement in Britain https://t.co/W7xmmlKr5F https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8797/london's-workingmen's-association-formed?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-05-28 02:33:10

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