#OtD 31 Mar 1945 Latvian socialist, poet, nun and activist Maria Skobtsova died in Ravensbrück concentration camp. Involved in the Russian revolution, she planned to assassinate Trotsky for repressing the Socialist-Revolutionary Party stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1037...

#OtD 31 Mar 1968 Zengakuren - Japanese radical students - clashed with police in riots against the new Narita airport. It was part of an extended campaign for years against the airport which was going to displace hundreds of farmers stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1038...

#OtD 31 Mar 1990 the Poll Tax riots broke out in Trafalgar Square, after police attacked a group of 200,000 demonstrators. The riots increased opposition to the tax, which was eventually defeated by mass non-payment workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e110...

#OtD 31 Mar 1979 15 men, including off-duty police, attacked patrons and workers at Peg's Place, a lesbian bar in San Francisco. When police arrived, they didn't take witness statements or give medical help. One woman was hospitalised for 10 days stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1038...

#OtD 31 Mar 2009 Belfast workers spontaneously occupied the Visteon Ford car parts plant in response to its closure. The next day, Visteon workers in North London occupied their plant while workers at Basildon trashed their site offices stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1038...

#OtD 31 Mar 2009 40 workers in the Caterpillar factory in Grenoble, France stormed their bosses' offices and kept four of them hostage, demanding better severance packages for workers being laid off. They won average payouts of €80,000 each stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1038...

📣 New Podcast! "Grenoble: The Caterpillar Bossnapping" on @Spreaker #2009_grenoble #action #bossnapping #caterpillar #france #france_caterpillar #france_direct #france_trade #france_workplace #grenoble_labor #labor #movement_factory #occupation #protest #protests_industrial #rights #unions

#OtD 28 Apr 1965 20,000 US Marines invaded the Dominican Republic on orders of President Johnson to prevent creation of "a second Cuba" stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9976...

#OtD 30 Mar 1919 the Transvaal Native Congress launched a campaign against the racist pass laws in South Africa. It lasted 3 months, and around 700 Africans were arrested and charged until conservatives within the movement shut it down stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1030...

#OtD 30 Mar 1949 protestors both for and against Iceland joining NATO clashed in Austurvöllur. Rejkavik police began beating rioters after missiles caused damage to the parliamentary buildings and eventually dispersed them through the use of tear gas stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1031...

#OtD 30 Mar 2020 up to 60 workers at JFK8 Amazon distribution centre on Staten Island, NY, went on wildcat strike for better safety amid the Covid-19 pandemic after a breakout. One of the organisers, Chris Smalls (@Shut_downAmazon), was then fired stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1031...

#OtD 30 Mar 1915 legendary Catalan anarchist guerrilla, Francesc Sabate Llopart aka El Quico, was born in Barcelona. After the Civil War, he fought in the underground resistance against the Franco dictatorship, becoming Franco's public enemy no. 1 stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1030...

#OtD 27 Mar 1942 France's Vichy govt issued a decree demanding barbers to collect cut hair and donate it to the war effort. The Zazous (rebellious anti-fascist youths) refused and grew their hair long. More info in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/72-e...

#OtD 27 Mar 1993 the Red Army Faction (aka the Baader-Meinhof group) blew up the Weiterstadt prison under construction after removing everyone from the premises, causing $93 million in damages. It was to be the group's last armed action. Learn more: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

#OtD 27 Mar 1912 rail workers of various nationalities in BC, Canada went on strike. Led by the revolutionary @IWW union, thousands joined and worker-run camps were built. Joe Hill even came and wrote his famous song "Where the Fraser River Flows." workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e52-...

#OtD 27 Mar 1945 First Nations activist Annie Mae Aquash was born in Nova Scotia. Moving to the US she got involved in the American Indian Movement and took part in the Wounded Knee occupation. Tragically, she was murdered in 1975 stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9932...

#OtD 28 Mar 2022 the railway line headed into Vyeraytsy station in Belarus was sabotaged by anti-war activists: one of multiple attacks on Belarus rail infrastructure by opponents of the Russian invasion of Ukraine the previous month stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7931...

#OtD 28 Mar 1915 anarchist Emma Goldman delivered a lecture in NYC on family planning, despite having previously been arrested for doing so. Although she gave explicit information on birth control and police were present, she wasn't arrested this time. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1003...

#OtD 28 Mar 1919 the state of Arkansas joined most US states in banning anarchism and communism. The law to "define and punish anarchy and… Bolshevism" barred revolutionary activism and red and black flags, with up to six months jail as a punishment stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1003...

#OtD 28 Mar 1918 Trotsky announced the end of elected officers in the Red Army so that former Tsarist officers could be restored. Slacking workers were also to be shamed in Soviet newspapers and specialists take over factory management from workers stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1003...

#OtD 28 Mar 1939 the Stanbrook ship left Alicante with 3500 refugees fleeing Franco's victory in the Civil War. It went to North African French colonies, where many were used as forced labour in the Sahara stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1003...

#OtD 28 Mar 1977 1300 mostly Black sanitation workers in Atlanta walked off the job for a 50 cent an hour pay increase. Atlanta's first Black mayor, who came to power on the back of civil rights & Black power movts, sacked them all stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1003...

#OtD 29 Mar 1933 a mob of right-wing religious zealots destroyed the HQ of the Revolutionary Workers' Groups in Dublin following a three-day siege. It was one of many attacks by mobs whipped into anti-communist hysteria by the Catholic Church stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1011...

#OtD 29 Mar 1943 nine members of the "Juventudes libertarias" (Anarchist Youth) in Spain, an underground group opposing the fascist military takeover, were arrested and garroted at the "Modelo" prison in Barcelona. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1011...

#OtD 29 Mar 1986 anti-fascists in Kedichem, Netherlands, threw a smoke bomb into a merger meeting of two fascist groups. It accidentally set the place on fire causing the fascists to flee. The merger didn't take place stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1011...

#OtD 30 Mar 1976 a general strike and mass protests began in Palestine/Israel in protest at the Israeli govt seizing land owned by Arabs in Galilee to build Jewish settlements and IDF facilities. The date is now commemorated annually as Land Day stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1031...

#OtD 29 Mar 1985 two brothers, Rafael and Eduardo Vergara Toledo, were murdered by police in Santiago, Chile, for their involvement in the guerrilla struggle against the right-wing dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1011...

#OtD 29 Mar 1988 half a million workers in the Philippines went on a general strike in pursuit of an across-the-board flat rate pay increase stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1011...

#OtD 29 Mar 1986 anti-fascists in Kedichem, Netherlands, threw a smoke bomb into a merger meeting of two fascist groups. It accidentally set the place on fire causing the fascists to flee. The merger didn't take place stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1011...

#OtD 29 Mar 1943 nine members of the "Juventudes libertarias" (Anarchist Youth) in Spain, an underground group opposing the fascist military takeover, were arrested and garroted at the "Modelo" prison in Barcelona. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1011...

#OtD 29 Mar 2022 39 doctors and nurses at the Yap State Hospital in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) resigned en masse after their attempts to negotiate better pay were rejected by state authorities, and strike action is banned stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7936...

This is fantastic - wonderful to hear the voices of the strikers themselves from the archives. Don't miss it and support WCH on Patreon to get access to bonus episodes!

#OtD 29 Mar 1933 a mob of right-wing religious zealots destroyed the HQ of the Revolutionary Workers' Groups in Dublin following a three-day siege. It was one of many attacks by mobs whipped into anti-communist hysteria by the Catholic Church stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1011...

📣 New Podcast! "Eswatini: Mill Workers Fight Back" on @Spreaker #1963_eswatini #africa #colonial #eswatini #eswatini_southern #eswatini_trade #history_african #history_swaziland #industry #labor #mill #movements_industrial #protests #strike #strike_swaziland #strikes #swaziland_worker #unions

#OtD 28 Mar 1977 1300 mostly Black sanitation workers in Atlanta walked off the job for a 50 cent an hour pay increase. Atlanta's first Black mayor, who came to power on the back of civil rights & Black power movts, sacked them all stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1003...

#OtD 28 Mar 1939 the Stanbrook ship left Alicante with 3500 refugees fleeing Franco's victory in the Civil War. It went to North African French colonies, where many were used as forced labour in the Sahara stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1003...

#OtD 28 Mar 1918 Trotsky announced the end of elected officers in the Red Army so that former Tsarist officers could be restored. Slacking workers were also to be shamed in Soviet newspapers and specialists take over factory management from workers stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1003...

#OtD 28 Mar 1919 the state of Arkansas joined most US states in banning anarchism and communism. The law to "define and punish anarchy and… Bolshevism" barred revolutionary activism and red and black flags, with up to six months jail as a punishment stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1003...

#OtD 28 Mar 1915 anarchist Emma Goldman delivered a lecture in NYC on family planning, despite having previously been arrested for doing so. Although she gave explicit information on birth control and police were present, she wasn't arrested this time. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1003...

#OtD 28 Mar 2022 the railway line headed into Vyeraytsy station in Belarus was sabotaged by anti-war activists: one of multiple attacks on Belarus rail infrastructure by opponents of the Russian invasion of Ukraine the previous month stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7931...

#OtD 27 Mar 1945 First Nations activist Annie Mae Aquash was born in Nova Scotia. Moving to the US she got involved in the American Indian Movement and took part in the Wounded Knee occupation. Tragically, she was murdered in 1975 stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9932...

#OtD 27 Mar 1912 rail workers of various nationalities in BC, Canada went on strike. Led by the revolutionary @IWW union, thousands joined and worker-run camps were built. Joe Hill even came and wrote his famous song "Where the Fraser River Flows." workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e52-...

#OtD 27 Mar 1981 a four-hour 'warning strike' by the Solidarity union took place in Poland. It involved between 10-12 million people, and was the biggest strike in the Soviet bloc stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7926...

#OtD 27 Mar 1984 a bomb exploded in the union Trades Hall in Wellington, New Zealand, killing union member Ernie Abbott and badly burning his dog. Despite police HQ being across the street, nobody was caught for this anti-worker terrorist attack stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9933...

In our latest episode, we're so lucky to be able to tell the story of the 1926 General Strike using the voices of workers involved. People like Betty Harrison who began work in Bradford's textile industry when she was just 13. More here: www.patreon.com/posts/e118-1... #GeneralStrike100

#OtD 27 Mar 1993 the Red Army Faction (aka the Baader-Meinhof group) blew up the Weiterstadt prison under construction after removing everyone from the premises, causing $93 million in damages. It was to be the group's last armed action. Learn more: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

#OtD 27 Mar 1985 150 police evicted the South London Women's Hospital, which had been occupied by local women in protest of its closure. Women barricaded themselves inside and turned fire hoses on the police, eventually being kicked out and arrested stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9934...

#OtD 27 Mar 1942 France's Vichy govt issued a decree demanding barbers to collect cut hair and donate it to the war effort. The Zazous (rebellious anti-fascist youths) refused and grew their hair long. More info in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/72-e...

#OtD 27 Mar 1997 @Robbie9Fowler was fined for showing support for sacked dockworkers during a European Cup Winners Cup match. After scoring his second goal in Liverpool's 3-0 victory, Fowler displayed a T-shirt reading "Support the 500 sacked dockers" stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9936...