#OtD 10 Feb 1930 Slovene-Croatian anti-fascist resistance organisation, TIGR, bombed the HQ of Italian fascist newspaper, Il Popolo di Trieste, killing the editor, Guido Neri stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8188...

#OtD 10 Feb 1921, Peter Kropotkin's funeral procession began in the city of Dmitrov, Russia. His body was transported by train to Moscow where thousands of anarchists marched for hours in the last public demonstration of anarchists in Russia for decades. shop.workingclasshistory.com/en-gb/collec...

#OtD 10 Feb 1979, striking lettuce grower Rufino Contreras was killed by a foreman in California. 4300 workers in the United Farm Workers union were on strike in Imperial Valley in a violent dispute. Authorities declined to prosecute the murderer. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8191...

#OtD 9 Feb 2007 Alejandro Finisterre, anarchist poet and inventor of the Spanish table football (foosball) died in Zamora, Spain. He invented the game following injury during the Spanish Civil War so injured children could still play football workingclasshistory.com/2018/07/29/s...

#OtD 10 Feb 1987, a telephone box in Puerto Real, Spain was burned, leaving 14,000 phones out of service, in an act of sabotage by dock workers and their supporters, who were fighting against privatisation of the port. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8192...

#OtD 10 Feb 1920 physician, anarchist and novelist who was most famous for writing The Joy of Sex, Alex Comfort was born. A member of the Committee of 100 group, he regularly broke into BBC newscasts to denounce nuclear weapons. Commemorated here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/t-s...

#OtD 10 Feb 1938, Spanish anarchist miner Pedro Masera was sentenced to death and executed by Franco's forces during the civil war. In 2017 his granddaughter was finally able to get his body exhumed, to be properly reburied. This is a short biography: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

#OtD 10 Feb 2025 Israeli authorities raided 2 branches of the Palestinian Educational Bookshop in East Jerusalem. Even though censors approved all the books police claimed books contained "nationalist Palestinian themes" and arrested the owners. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1357...

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#OtD 9 Feb 2020 Bribrí Indigenous rights activist Mainor Ortíz Delgado was shot & wounded on his land in Salitre, Costa Rica. Most land is still illegally occupied and defenders attacked despite official granting to Indigenous peoples in 1977 stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1089...

#OtD 9 Feb 2007 Alejandro Finisterre, anarchist poet and inventor of the Spanish table football (foosball) died in Zamora, Spain. He invented the game following injury during the Spanish Civil War so injured children could still play football workingclasshistory.com/2018/07/29/s...

#OtD 5 Feb 1885 King Leopold of Belgium declared his new colony the Congo Free State. What followed was one of the most horrific examples of European colonialism, with 8 to 10 million killed. More on colonialism in the Congo here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

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#OtD 5 Feb 1894 anarchist Auguste Vaillant was beheaded in France. He called the bomb he threw into the Chamber of Deputies "the cry of an entire class that calls for its rights and will soon join its acts to its words." More details here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

#OtD 6 Feb 1974 with the prospect of a UK-wide coalminers strike Conservative Prime Minister Edward Heath called a snap election under the slogan "Who governs Britain?" - meaning the government, or the unions? He lost, and miners won 35% pay increase workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e81-...

#OtD 6 Feb 1915 women's liberation activist and militant chemical worker, Soledad Estorach, was born. She built barricades in Barcelona with the outbreak of revolution in 1936, and was active in the Mujeres Libres women's group shop.workingclasshistory.com/en-gb/collec...

#OtD 7 Feb 1919 construction workers in Essex, NJ, voted to strike if alcohol prohibition came into force. However, union leaders called off the action, saying it would make them "look ridiculous". We made this commemorative merch: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

#OtD 8 Feb 1968 the Orangeburg massacre took place in South Carolina when police opened fire on Black SC State students, killing three and wounding 27 after Black student-led protests at a segregated bowling alley shop.workingclasshistory.com/en-gb/collec...

#OtD 9 Feb 1874 AmaHlubi Chief Langalibalele became one of the first Black activists to be banished to Robben Island for refusing to register firearms, which killed colonial troops trying to arrest him. It was deemed a rebellion and he was captured stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1089...

#OtD 8 Feb 1921 Peter Kropotkin, famous proponent of anarchist-communism, died of pneumonia in Russia. He took part in revolutionary groups in four countries and was a major contributor to anarchist theory. Works by and about him available here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

#OtD 8 Feb 1887 the Dawes Act was signed into US law. It authorised the President to subdivide Native American tribal communal land into allotments for Native American individuals, thus forcing a capitalist and proprietary relationship with land shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/500...

#OtD 8 Feb 1912 the San Diego Free Speech Fight began, when a 5000 strong march against the ban on public meetings was disrupted by police who made 41 arrests. Violent police and vigilante thugs tried to crush @iww. More in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/2018/05/23/w...

#OtD 8 Feb 1937 tens of thousands of Spanish civilians - mostly families with children and the elderly - fleeing Malaga in the Civil War were bombarded from the air and sea by Spanish, German and Italian fascist forces killing up to 5000 people. More: workingclasshistory.com/2020/06/17/e...

#OtD 9 Feb 1995 the Mexican govt cancelled the peace process with Zapatista rebels and invaded their Chiapas strongholds following the demand by an adviser to US Chase Manhattan Bank that the government eliminate them. More about the Zapatistas: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

#OtD 9 Feb 1932 clashes broke out during an unemployed demonstration in Bristol. The march of 2000-3000 unemployed people had been blocked by police who attacked both demonstrators and bystanders. More info, sources, and a map here: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1343...

#OtD 9 Feb 1962 bagel bakers in New York City and Nassau County walked out on strike, reducing the bagel-hungry city's supplies by 85%. Around 300 workers at 36 employers remained out for a month, until the employers acquiesced to the workers' demands stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1089...

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#OtD 9 Feb 1912 women workers in a factory in Bridport staged a wildcat strike over pay and conditions. They refused arbitration and ended strike only after a London union official came down to sign them up and settle the dispute stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1089...

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#OtD 8 Feb 1962 the Charonne massacre took place in Paris, when nine members of the CGT trade union, most of them communists, were killed by the police while demonstrating against the OAS: French paramilitaries in Algeria stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1078...

#OtD 8 Feb 1937 tens of thousands of Spanish civilians - mostly families with children and the elderly - fleeing Malaga in the Civil War were bombarded from the air and sea by Spanish, German and Italian fascist forces killing up to 5000 people. More: workingclasshistory.com/2020/06/17/e...

#OtD 8 Feb 1912 the San Diego Free Speech Fight began, when a 5000 strong march against the ban on public meetings was disrupted by police who made 41 arrests. Violent police and vigilante thugs tried to crush @iww. More in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/2018/05/23/w...

#OtD 8 Feb 1887 the Dawes Act was signed into US law. It authorised the President to subdivide Native American tribal communal land into allotments for Native American individuals, thus forcing a capitalist and proprietary relationship with land shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/500...

#OtD 8 Feb 1517 Hernandez de Cordova set sail from Cuba heading west to Mexico in search of Indigenous peoples to enslave for the mines. He was defeated by Maya fighters and forced to retreat, dying from his wounds shortly after returning to Cuba stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1078...

#OtD 8 Feb 1921 Peter Kropotkin, famous proponent of anarchist-communism, died of pneumonia in Russia. He took part in revolutionary groups in four countries and was a major contributor to anarchist theory. Works by and about him available here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

#OtD 8 Feb 1943 Lepa Svetozara Radic, a 17-year-old partisan from Bosnia-Herzegovina was captured by the Germans. The Nazis offered her her life if she gave up the names of her comrades, but she showed "unprecedented defiance", refused and was executed stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1078...

#OtD 8 Feb 1915 DW Griffith’s film The Birth of a Nation premiered. The first major blockbuster in the US, it glorified the KKK and inspired a resurgence in KKK membership, still having an impact to this day stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1078...

#OtD 8 Feb 1840 began the fight for the 8-hour working day in New Zealand. Samuel Parnell (pictured), a carpenter from London, insisted on 8 hours when offered a job, to which the employer had to agree, leading to more 8-hour day organising in NZ stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1078...

#OtD 8 Feb 2011 Egyptian workers joined the Arab Spring, starting a series of strikes against Mubarak and his regime, leading him to abdicate three days later stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1079...

#OtD 8 Feb 1938 veteran metalworker and anarchist, Olga Taratuta, was executed in the USSR for organising rail workers. She had been arrested and imprisoned many times by the regime and by the Tsar, but never gave up the fight for the working class stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1078...

#OtD 8 Feb 1968 the Orangeburg massacre took place in South Carolina when police opened fire on Black SC State students, killing three and wounding 27 after Black student-led protests at a segregated bowling alley shop.workingclasshistory.com/en-gb/collec...

#OtD 7 Feb 2006 400k people in 187 cities across France protested against the new CPE law which gave bosses right to fire 18-26 year-old workers with neither notice nor reason. Strikes, riots, occupations and blockades forced govt to drop it stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1070...

#OtD 7 Feb 1952 nine anarchist anti-Franco guerrillas of the Tallion action group were sentenced to death. Five were executed the following month but four (inc Miguel Garcia, pictured) had sentences commuted to life imprisonment and were later freed stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1069...

#OtD 7 Feb 1917 US labour leader, Tom Mooney, who was framed for a bombing was convicted & sentenced to death. Mass campaigning eventually forced President Wilson intervene to grant him a stay of execution, then commutation stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1069...

#OtD 7 Feb 2008 Pilar Molina Beneyto, Spanish historian, writer, filmmaker, revolutionary and feminist died aged 68. Leaving school at 14, she joined the @CNTsindicato union, fought for women's rights and helped record civil war anti-fascist history stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1070...

#OtD 7 Feb 1952 workers won a bagel bakers' and drivers' strike in New York City. Bagel Bakers Local 338 had won their demands on 28 January, but drivers in the Teamsters union remained out until employers agreed to pay them back wages stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1069...

#OtD 7 Feb 1974 Grenada achieved independence from Britain, following a turbulent period of civil unrest, including a nationwide general strike which had been ongoing since 1 January, protesting against police and paramilitary brutality stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1070...

#OtD 7 Feb 1919 construction workers in Essex, NJ, voted to strike if alcohol prohibition came into force. However, union leaders called off the action, saying it would make them "look ridiculous". We made this commemorative merch: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

#OtD 7 Feb 2019 George Zreik set himself ablaze at the Our Lady of Kaftoun secondary school, where his daughter attended, in the Koura district of Lebanon after a fee dispute with the management. He died a few days later from his burns stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1251...

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