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2024-09-14 08:17:06

#OtD 14 Sep 1960 a US-backed coup took place in Congo against the country's first democratically elected PM, socialist independence leader Patrice Lumumba. He was tortured, shot and had his body dissolved in acid. Learn more about colonialism in Congo: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/lord-leverhulme-s-ghosts-colonial-exploitation-in-the-congo-jules-marchal?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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2024-09-03 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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2024-08-20 09:50:16

#OtD 20 Aug 1948 workers at the African Wharfage Company in Zanzibar City struck. Due to intimidation by the British colonial authorities, other workers joined them which led to a general strike. The general strike ended in victory on 13 Sep https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9248/zanzibar-general-strike?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-08-18 20:19:35

#OtD 18 Aug 1966 a million Red Guards arrived in Beijing to hear Mao Zedong speak at the start of the 'Cultural Revolution'. While considered a factional ploy by some, the subsequent events opened up space for working class self-activity. Learn more: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/all/products/maoism-and-the-chinese-revolution-a-critical-introduction-elliott-liu?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-08-18 13:35:36

#OtD 18 Aug 1936 the gay socialist poet Federico García Lorca was most likely executed, during the Spanish civil war. "I will always be on the side of those who have nothing and who are not even allowed to enjoy the nothing they have in peace." https://workingclasshistory.com/2020/06/17/e39-the-spanish-civil-war-an-introduction/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-08-03 04:28:07

#OtD 3 Aug 2010 two contractors at Canada Post in Edmonton were told their pay would be cut by nearly 8%, so they walked out and were followed by the rest of the contractors, mostly non-union African immigrants. The boss then promptly reversed the cut https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10164/canada-post-contractor-wildcat-strike?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-07-29 13:56:08

#OtD 29 Jul 1962 fascist Oswald Mosley tried to march with the Union Movement in Manchester, UK. However, he was attacked by anti-fascists and had to be rescued by police. A Mosley speech later was drowned out by a crowd of anti-fascists. More info: https://www.patreon.com/posts/e37b-62-group-in-34110286?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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