#OtD 6 Nov 1915 Spanish anarchist, and member of the Mujeres Libres, María Bruguera Pérez, was born. She fought fascists during the Spanish Civil War, was jailed for life in 1937 but released in 1945, and then joined the underground resistance stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1247...

Hell yeah Hilde ❤️😇 I really love @workingclasshistory.com so much, their work is so important because it allows us to reappropriate our histories (of resistance, liberation and rebels of all kinds), against the powers that be's historical narratives and even bourgeois historiography

New book! Argentina a Tale of Two Utopias weaves together 2 simultaneous yet seemingly unrelated events in 2001: the popular uprising and the 1st championship in 35 years of football club Racing Club de Avellaneda. Preorder now: www.kickstarter.com/projects/wrk... by @batallonbakunin.bsky.social

#OtD 6 Nov 1922 79 coal miners were killed in an explosion in Pennsylvania. Despite the mine being rated gaseous and miners being burned by gas at least four times, the mine was rated non-gaseous at the insistence of new mine operators stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1065...

#OtD 6 Nov 1986 the Iran-Contra scandal — where the US sold arms to Iran to fund right-wing paramilitaries in Nicaragua — began to break. Acting Pres Ronald Reagan said the revelations had "no foundation", which turned out to be a lie stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1065...

#OtD 6 Nov 1903 Hilde Radusch was born. She was a German anti-fascist, feminist, lesbian, postal worker and communist activist. She was jailed by the Nazis in 1933, then released and went underground, surviving the war and remaining active stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1065...

📣 New Podcast! "6 November 1912: Grabow mill arson" on @Spreaker #history #iww #workers

#OtD 5 Nov 1921 German Jewish communist resistance fighter and nurse Marianne Prager-Joachim was born. A slave labourer for Siemens, she and others at the plant formed the Baum resistance group. She was executed in 1943 stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1056...

#OtD 5 Nov 1916 at least five members of the revolutionary Industrial Workers of the World union were massacred by police and bosses' thugs in Everett, WA, after a ship carrying union members from Seattle was fired on. More in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/2018/12/02/e...

#OtD 5 Nov 1855 American socialist and labour leader Eugene Debs was born. He helped found both the American Railway Union and the @IWW, and was jailed in 1919 for his opposition to WWI. While in prison he ran for president, and received nearly 1m votes workingclasshistory.com/tag/iww

#OtD 5 Nov 1975 300 youths fought police in protest at racist harassment in Leeds, UK. Police had used cars to circle groups of young Black people. After the battle, a plainclothes officers' car was destroyed while two other officers were hospitalised stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1056...

#OtD 5 Nov 1937 the Man Power Citizens' Association was formed in Guyana (then British Guiana), a union which primarily focused on the organising workers in the sugar industry stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1056...

#OtD 5 Nov 1945 a national strike of over 40,000 UK dockers for a pay increase ended in victory. Despite the Labour government sending in 21,000 troops to break the strike, workers managed to hold out for two months and win a 19% increase stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1056...

#OtD 5 Nov 1843 an enslaved woman called Carlota led a slave uprising in Matanzas, Cuba. It lasted until the following year when authorities crushed it, executing Carlota. Slavery in Cuba was eventually abolished in 1886 stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1055...

#OtD 5 Nov 2007 thousands of TV and film writers in the Writers Guild of America walked out on strike. The strike ended on Feb 12 when workers won residual payments for online streaming, and union jurisdiction over video content made for the web. More: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1134...

📣 New Podcast! "5 November 1811: Saint-Leu enslaved revolt" on @Spreaker #black_history

#OtD 4 Nov 1921 Paris Communard and anarchist Victorine Rouchy died aged 83. She joined the militia and fought on the barricades when the army came to retake the city, but was arrested alongside her husband. Condemned to death, but escaped stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1046...

#OtD 4 Nov 1947 ex-general in Mussolini's Nazi-backed army, Ferruccio Gatti, was assassinated in his home. Post-WWII, Gatti led a fascist paramilitary group. He was killed by the Volante Rossa, ex-partisans who continued to fight fascism after the war workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e77-...

#OtD 4 Nov 1913 the East London Federation of Suffragettes who were fighting for women’s rights and working class emancipation, had its first paramilitary assembly and gun drill in Victoria Park, London stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1046...

#OtD 4 Nov 1839 the Newport rising took place. 1000s of armed workers marched on Newport, Wales, as part of the struggle for the People's Charter. Marchers attempted to free imprisoned Chartists, but were shot by soldiers leading to a number of deaths stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1304...

#OtD 4 Nov 1811 Luddites attacked machinery in Bulwell, England. While 'Luddite' is used today to mock those who don't like/know how to use technology, the Luddites didn't oppose technology as such, but how capitalists used it to make them unemployed stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1046...

#OtD 4 Nov 1947 ex-general in Mussolini's Nazi-backed army, Ferruccio Gatti, was assassinated in his home. Post-WWII, Gatti led a fascist paramilitary group. He was killed by the Volante Rossa, ex-partisans who continued to fight fascism after the war workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e77-...

#OtD 4 Nov 1910 in a prelude to the Champagne riots of the following year, several grape growing communes in the Champagne region of France decided to stop paying taxes. They were demanding that Champagne have to be made with grapes from the area stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1046...

📣 New Podcast! "4 November 1910: Champagne tax strike" on @Spreaker #champagne #france #history

We've added dozens of new historical events to our Stories app, which contains all of our historical events, browsable by date, topic, person, and other categories, and in timelines with full sources and more information. Check them out at stories.workingclasshistory.com/

Nos protestos da Argentina em 2001 as pessoas batiam panelas nas ruas pra mostrar que elas estavam vazias. Aí a classe média brasileira (que obviamente não estava passando fome) decidiu bater panelas dentro de casa pra protestar contra a Dilma durante o golpe. Eu nunca entendi a lógica…

Vejam o documentário "Memórias do Saque"

“I am not satisfied with the amount I have already killed; we killed 100s but for me it is not enough. At every opportunity I take revenge on them, & opportunities are not lacking, especially these days when I am among 1000s of Arabs." stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1245...

#OtD 3 Nov 1970 a regional office of the United Farm Workers union in California was bombed. The UFW - largely made up of Latine and Filipine workers - had been on strike for weeks in a jurisdictional dispute with the Teamsters union stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1023...

"...we became the terror of tyrants & the masters of our destinies. (...) at the tragic cost of 38 lives, we had already toppled a gvmnt. (...), with the state seemingly dissolving around us— re-appearing only sporadically in the form of murderous repression— we got a glimpse of the new world."

#OtD 31 Oct 1995 the largely Turkish and Kurdish workforce at a JJ Foods warehouse in Tottenham, UK, went on strike against appalling conditions and the sacking of their union rep. Attacked by Turkish fascists, they kept striking for four months stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1039...

#OtD 31 Oct 1978 30k oil workers went on strike in Iran marking one of the early actions of the revolution. The workers' and women's movements would play a major role in the revolution until they were crushed by religious fundamentalists stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1039...

Today is Halloween. On All Hallows' Eve in 1590, Scottish authorities claimed 200 witches tried to prevent King James from reaching his bride in Denmark. Dozens were arrested & tortured, and 1000s killed in an era of sexist witch-hunts. Learn more here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/wit...

#OtD 1 Nov 1919 425,000 miners across the US went on strike for a 30 hour week and a 60% wage increase. The strike was banned by the government, who moved in federal troops, and the union caved, calling off the strike. Learn more in this book: shop.workingclasshistory.com/en-gb/collec...

#OtD 1 Nov 1910 anarchist and syndicalist workplace militants met in Barcelona to found the @CNTsindicato union. It became the leading force in Spanish working-class politics, organising general strikes and a revolution during the civil war. Learn more: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

In 2001, working-class Argentinians rose up in a rebellion which shook the global neoliberal financial order, and forced the president to resign and flee. Preorder a discounted copy of this thrilling first person account of the revolt on our Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/wrk...

#OtD 2 Nov 2011 10,000s took to the streets of Oakland and attempted to organise a general strike in protests originating in the Occupy movement, shutting down a significant proportion of the city's businesses, including the Port of Oakland stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9224...

#OtD 2 Nov 1970 actor and Vietnam GI resistance supporter @JaneFonda was arrested at Cleveland airport after supporting Vietnam Veterans Against the War and charged with drug smuggling. The bogus charges were dismissed. Learn more about the resistance: workingclasshistory.com/2018/08/06/e...

#OtD 3 Nov 1918 a mutiny in Germany spread to Kiel, and ultimately ended WWI. Sailors refused to fight a suicidal offensive, and instead rebelled and raised red flags. Protests spread across the country and led to revolution. Learn more in this book: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/all...

#OtD 3 Nov 1889 Mexican revolutionary Amelio Robles Ávila was born. Assigned female at birth but later lived as a man and insisted on being treated as such. He fought alongside Emiliano Zapata, delivering weapons and extorting money from oil companies www.tiktok.com/@workingclas...

#OtD 3 Nov 1970 this legendary mugshot of actress and anti-war activist @JaneFonda was taken in Cleveland for allegedly kicking a police officer. She was returning from supporting Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Charges were later dismissed workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e10-...

#OtD 3 Nov 1972 dozens of Black sailors on the USS Constellation mutinied when they found out six of their colleagues would be discharged with inferior benefits. It was part of a wave of protest against the Vietnam war and racism in the forces. Podcast: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e10-...

#OtD 3 Nov 1956 the Israeli army massacred hundreds of Palestinians in the Khan Yunis refugee camp in Gaza during the Israeli-France-UK invasion of Egypt. They lined up men aged 16-50 and machine-gunned them. Between 275 and 1200 were killed stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1245...

#OtD 3 Nov 1979 the Greensboro, NC, massacre occurred when five communists at an anti-Ku Klux Klan protest were murdered by members of the KKK and the American Nazi Party., who were helped by police who gave them a map of anti-racists stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1023...

#OtD 3 Nov 1913 women strikers fought scabs during a strike at Jacob's Biscuits factory in Dublin, which began in protest at sackings for a solidarity strike. The women attacked the scabs, mostly from Liverpool, punching them and pulling their hair stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1023...

#OtD 3 Nov 1983 lifelong militant May Picqueray died in France, aged 95. She was heavily involved in workplace organising, fighting for women's rights and during World War II was active in the French resistance stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1023...

#OtD 3 Nov 1929 trouble broke out between rival Korean and Japanese students in Gwangju. It spread into a nationwide movement against Japanese colonialism with 54,000 students across 194 schools going on strike stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1023...

#OtD 3 Nov 1918 a mutiny in Germany spread to Kiel, and ultimately ended WWI. Sailors refused to fight a suicidal offensive, and instead rebelled and raised red flags. Protests spread across the country and led to revolution. Learn more in this book: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/all...

📣 New Podcast! "3 November 2017: Marshall Islands fish strike" on @Spreaker #history #islands #marshall

WCH Podcast and Patreon Update An update for you on the Working Class History podcast and its future. In short, we began releasing much more frequent podcast episodes 18 months ago, in an effort to get more supporters on Patreon. While we were able to grow our support,