#OtD 22 Sep 1958 workers at the flax mill in Sandy Bay, in the British overseas territory of Saint Helena, went on strike. The strike was organised by the Saint Helena General Workers Union, which had been formed July 23 that year stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7871...

#OtD 22 Sep 1934 the United Textile Workers of America ordered its striking members back to work despite bosses conceding nothing. Over 420,000 had been out since July against cuts in hours. 13 were killed in the South alone. More in this great book: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

📣 New Podcast! "22 September 1912: Casa del Obrero Mundial founded" on @Spreaker #history #mexico #workers

If you haven't I HIGHLY recommend checking out @marcusrediker.bsky.social 's work on (the history of) pirates. He did a two-part pod with @workingclasshistory.com recently, it's awesome!

#OtD 21 Sep 1921 Lev Chernyi, Russian individualist anarchist theorist, activist and poet, was executed without hearing or trial by the Bolshevik secret police after strongly denouncing the new Bolshevik government stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9439...

#OtD 21 Sep 1919 Teresa Rebull, revolutionary folk singer, was born in Barcelona. Involved in the Spanish revolution until she was jailed by the NKVD (Russian secret police). She managed to escape and went to France, joining the French resistance stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9438...

#OtD 21 Sep 1945 200,000 coal miners in the US went on strike in support of supervisory employees' demand for collective bargaining; part of a wave of strikes in the wake of WWII. Learn more in this great book which tells the story of those strikes: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

#OtD 21 Sep 1908 William White, a Black man, was hospitalised and maybe killed by white patrons in Hanover, PA, as part of a carnival game, "hit the c**n". Instead of the light balls the patrons used their own heavy ones to repeatedly strike White stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9437...

#OtD 21 Sep 1976 Chilean socialist refugee Orlando Letelier and think tank worker Ronni Moffitt were murdered in Washington, DC by a car bomb planted by US and UK-backed dictator General Pinochet's secret police stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9441...

📣 New Podcast! "21 September 1945: US coal supervisors strike" on @Spreaker #coalmining #history

#OtD 20 Sep 2019 during a global schoolchildren's climate strike, scientists protested in Antarctica with placards declaring things like: "Rise! Before sea level does!" and "There is only one Earth". Pic from @psycho_kriller stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7842...

#OtD 20 Sep 1973 a member of the @IWW, 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 stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9333...

#OtD 20 Sep 1978 Ford workers in the UK sparked the "winter of discontent" when 15,000 of them walked out against a Labour govt-union pay cap. They stayed out till Nov, winning a 17% increase, and 1m other workers followed them stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9527...

#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 stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9330...

#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 stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9335...

#OtD 20 Sep 1763 Filipina revolutionary anti-colonial leader Gabriela Silang was executed by Spanish authorities. The previous week she attempted to besiege Vigan, but was forced back to Abra, where she was captured stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9327...

#OtD 20 Sep 1915 publications by the radical Industrial Workers of the World union, @IWW, including its Australian newspaper, Direct Action, were banned from being imported into Aotearoa (New Zealand) for its opposition to World War I stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9331...

#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 stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9328...

#OtD 20 Sep 1979 New Zealand/Aotearoa's only nationwide general strike took place when the Federation of Labour called a one-day strike of all members in support of the Drivers' Union. 300,000 took to the streets after the govt blocked a pay agreement stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9334...

#OtD 20 Sep 1893 Yiddish anarchist newspaper Fraye Arbiter Shtime (Free Voice of Labor) sponsored its first NYC Yom Kippur concert, ball and buffet. A mass, 24-hour anti-religious event, thousands attended and several were arrested by police stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9329...

#OtD 20 Sep 1961 22 unions at Ford in the UK initiated strike action against attacks on workers' tea breaks. Management had offered a pay increase and 40-hour week if workers gave it up stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9332...

📣 New Podcast! "20 September 1979: New Zealand general strike" on @Spreaker #history #new #workers #zealand

#OtD 19 Sep 1981 250,000-500,000 marched in Washington, DC in support of air traffic controllers who were fired by president Ronald Reagan for striking for safer conditions, shorter shifts, a 32-hour week and better pay stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1259...

#OtD 19 Sep 1894 Italian anarchist songwriter and lawyer Pietro Gori was shot several times while a refugee in Switzerland. Despite this he managed to fight off his unidentified attackers and survive stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9149...

#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 stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9146...

#OtD 19 Sep 1893 following two decades of struggle, all women in Aotearoa/New Zealand, not just white women or property owners, won the right to vote in parliamentary elections. Māori and working-class women had played an important role in the movement stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9148...

#OtD 19 Sep 2007 workers in Germany who had been occupying their bicycle factory against closure restarted production under workers' control, making "strike bikes". Learn more in this short account: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9151...

#OtD 19 Sep 1969 Sam Melville and Jane Alpert and army office in Federal Plaza in NYC in protest against the Vietnam war, injuring no one. Alpert later turned state's evidence, while Melville was jailed and eventually killed in prison by police stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7819...

#OtD 19 Sep 1793 during the Haitian revolution, 600 British soldiers sent from Jamaica landed at Jérémie, Haiti. French property owners had made an agreement with Britain for Saint Domingue to become a British colony with slavery reinstated. Learn more: shop.workingclasshistory.com/en-gb/produc...

#OtD 19 Sep 1868 the Camilla massacre took place in Georgia, US. Several hundred Black Republicans had marched in protest at Black and mixed race elected representatives being expelled. White racists opened fire, killing around 12 and wounding more stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9147...

#OtD 19 Sep 1892 after attempting to assassinate the notoriously anti-union manager Henry Clay Frick, Jewish Russian anarchist Alexender Berkman was sentenced to a total of 21 years in prison and one year in the workhouse stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1259...

#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" stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1249...

📣 New Podcast! "19 September 1795: Curaçao slave revolt crushed" on @Spreaker #black #curacao #history

#OtD 18 Sep 2013 Pavlos Fyssas (aka: Killah P), a Greek anti-fascist rapper, was murdered by a member of the Nazi party Golden Dawn in the western Athens district of Keratsini. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1248...

#OtD 18 Sep 1963 a crowd of thousands burned down the British Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, in protest at the colonialism of the creation of Malaysia two days earlier, and also attacked the ambassador's residence stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9056...

#OtD 18 Sep 1974 Flora Sanhueza Rebolledo, Chilean teacher, anarchist and Spanish Civil War refugee died as a result of the torture she suffered at the hands of the Pinochet regime, aged 63 stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9057...

#OtD 18 Sep 1809 the old price riots began in the Covent Garden Theatre in London in protest at increased prices at the newly reopened venue. Protests, with much humour and merriment, continued for 64 days until the increase was rescinded stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9052...

#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 fought back, and forced them to retreat after seven hours of fighting stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1259...

#OtD 18 Sep 1945 Russian anarchist, Vsevolod Mikhailovich Eichenbaum, commonly known as Voline, died of tuberculosis in Paris. He was a main proponent of the anarchist organisational form known as synthesis anarchism stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9055...

#OtD 18 Sep 2016 right-wing British tabloid the Daily Mail claimed that a terrorist attack in New York City which wounded 29 people, in one of the cities most LGBTQ friendly areas, was carried out by a "gay Trump hater". They cited a fake Tumblr page stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9058...

#OtD 18 Sep 1884 Dan Chatterton, the eccentric radical pamphleteer, slum dweller, birth control advocate and public ranter published the first issue of his journal the "Atheistic Communistic Scorcher" in London stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9053...

#OtD 18 Sep 1928 a mass meeting of dock workers at Port Adelaide, Australia resolved to continue not to work under new, inferior conditions, despite their union leadership calling off the action the previous day. They fought on for three years stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9054...

📣 New Podcast! "18 September 1809: Old price riots" on @Spreaker #art #history #inflation

#OtD 17 Sep 1988 1000s of teachers in the Philippines went on strike in protest at unpaid allowances. The government responded by dismissing and suspending 3,000 teachers. Unfortunately the strikers were isolated and defeated stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8947...

#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 stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8941...

#OtD 17 Sep 1922 soldiers of the new Irish Free State opened fire on striking postal workers, one man and three women. Olive Flood was hit, but fortunately the bullet deflected off her suspender belt and she escaped with a minor flesh wound stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8944...

#OtD 17 Sep 1963 Raghbir Singh, a Sikh man, became the first person of colour to work on a bus in Bristol, England after a mass campaign forced the dropping of the "colour bar" by bosses and the TGWU union the previous month stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8946...

Now out for all! 1st of a double podcast about the successful fight against the UK poll tax in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Covering the background, Thatcherism, introduction of the tax in Scotland, the beginnings of resistance, and the poll tax riot: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e110...

#OtD 17 Sep 1939 troops of the USSR invaded Poland, jointly occupying it with German Nazis. This completed the terms of the non-aggression pact between Hitler and Stalin on 23 Aug stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8945...

#OtD 17 Sep 2011 inspired by events in Egypt and Spain, Occupy Wall Street began as 1000 people gathered in New York City's financial centre to protest economic inequality and austerity amid a global crisis. Occupy encampents soon spread across the US stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8948...