#OtD 1 Mar 1968 Commonwealth Immigrants Act came into force in UK in response to the new Kenyan govt threatening tens of thousands of Asians who were mostly British passport holders. The Labour govt passed the Act to prevent them coming to Britain stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8115...

Resistant Communiqués is proud to return with the 1st episode of our 2nd season, featuring journalist & author @annalekasmiller.bsky.social. She discusses misinformation, the state of 21st-century journalism, & the role of content creators in the spread of information. bit.ly/rc2026annalekasmiller

After a short winter break, the Resistant Communiqués Podcast is back for its second season! We've got a great lineup of guests. Listen wherever you get your podcasts, and follow us here: resistantcommuniques.com

Work Week Radio; Labor Radio on KBOO; Riverside Rank and File; Unite & Win; Labor History Today; Labor History in 2:00 On this week’s Labor Radio Podcast Weekly: On Work Week Radio, more than 6,500 San Francisco educators strike for living wages, safe staffing, and protections for immigrant stude

#OtD 28 Feb 1972 the trial of legendary Black communist Angela Davis for murder, kidnapping & conspiracy began in San Jose, CA. Amidst a global campaign of support in June an all-white jury acquitted her of all charges. Davis tells her story in this book: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

#OtD 27 Feb 1973 armed Native American activists occupied Wounded Knee, South Dakota, in protest at corruption and US treaty breaches with Native Americans. Despite state violence and killings they held out for 71 days and galvanised huge support stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9898...

Really handy primer on getting involved in ICE resistance, with some quotes from @jamilahammami.bsky.social and a shoutout to the podcast we’re a part of, @resistantcommpod.bsky.social. www.truthdig.com/articles/a-g...

Today is the start of #BlackHistoryMonth in the US. It is also the anniversary of #OtD 1 Feb 1960 in Greensboro, NC, when four Black college students refused to move from a Woolworth's lunch counter after they were denied service stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1096...

#OtD 1 Feb 1922 British authorities in Hong Kong banned the striking Chinese Seamen's Union, raided its office, seized furniture, books and documents, and closed the premises. Workers declared a sympathy general strike, and next month the strike won stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7700...

An absolutely chilling read from my good friend @hyunniejoo.bsky.social on the threat posed to adoptees by the assault on birthright citizenship, and why it’s a dagger pointed at so many people. Read it, boost this message, and follow her.

On the new Resistant Communiqués, Prexy Nesbitt offers a comparative analysis of racism in the United States and apartheid-era Southern Africa, arguing that contemporary American racism mirrors earlier colonial systems of power. Listen: bit.ly/rc2025prexynesbitt

#OtD 2 Jan 1920 the start of the second Palmer Raids, an attempt by the US Department of Justice to arrest and deport radical workers and leftists, especially anarchists. Some 6000 were arrested and held without trial and over 500 deported stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9188...

#OtD 1 Jan 1974 the UK govt implemented the three-day week to save electricity, which had been restricted by overtime ban by coal miners. The miners ended up bringing down the government and winning their pay increase. Learn more in our podcast: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8072...

#OtD 1 Jan 1804 Haiti became an independent republic, the culmination of the Haitian revolution abolishing slavery and freeing itself from French rule. It began as a rebellion of the enslaved in 1791. Learn more about this and other Black revolts here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/a-h...

#OtD 1 Jan 1994 the Zapatista uprising began, when indigenous people in Chiapas, Mexico rose up and took control of their communities, redistributing power and organising new, directly democratic ways of running society. Learn more about the Zapatistas: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

#OtD 1 Jan 1934 Nazi Germany enacted a law which forcibly sterilised more than 400,000 disabled people. Later they began murdering them, killing 250,000. Their rhetoric about disabled and ill people being a burden on workers is still widespread today stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8069...

In the new Resistant Communiqués, Prexy Nesbitt challenges dominant narratives of revolutionary struggle by centering on the ethical and political principles that guided liberation movements in Southern Africa. Listen: bit.ly/rc2025prexynesbitt

A special end-of-year/end-of-season episode of the podcast I’ve been working on, and with a very good friend of mine: Prexy Nesbitt. Prexy’s been a labor organizer, teacher, and activist for decades; he was also heavily active in the anti-apartheid movement.

New Resistant Communiqués: Prexy Nesbitt reflects on his work with Liberation Movements in Southern Africa, reshaping his understanding of struggle in the U.S. Liberation is transforming systems & building collective power through education, solidarity, & shared struggle. bit.ly/rc2025prexynesbitt

Dr. @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social shares the history of The Standing Rock Struggle, Obama sending militarized forces to attack Water Protectors, fighting for Indigenous rights and environmental justice. Smiles demonstrates why and urges to resist liberal nostalgia. Listen: bit.ly/rc2025ndsmiles

In our latest, we look back at 2025, a year where normalization slipped into naturalization, as a cadre of villains who rose to prominence on the back of covid denial took the reins of the federal government to play out their revenge fantasies. It’s Covid Year Six. www.patreon.com/posts/145947...

Dr. @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social, director of @giflab.bsky.social, illustrates how tech billionaires are sold as climate saviors, yet they helped create it. Indigenous place-and-space-based wisdom points to land‑care, crisis coping, & real climate action. Listen to the episode: bit.ly/rc2025ndsmiles

Ep 288 - Talkin' General Strike With the world getting worse and worse, the cause of labor remains the hope of the world. With that in mind, we start with headlines from workers on another general strike in Italy, the nationwide Starbucks strike, nurses and Amazon drivers unionizing with the Team

A new episode of the Labor and Energy Show goes on-air on WPHT 1210 AM in #Philly at 6:00 PM Eastern! Hear it at www.audacy.com/stations/121...#Philly #1u #UnionStrong #LaborRadioPod

December 14 - Austerity No More! Workers Strike Back! On this day in labor history the year was 1990. That was the day that 20,000 workers in the city of Fez in the North African country of Morocco went out on strike. Austerity measures had hit the country’s working people hard during the 1980's.

Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.

The new Resistant Communiqués Podcast: Dr. @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social breaks down Land Back. Land Back is about the renewal of relationships for Indigenous nations, cultures, and territories. It’s broad & multifaceted. Listen to the episode: bit.ly/rc2025ndsmiles

11 December 1913: Leeds council workers strike Mini podcast of radical history on this date from the Working Class History team. Our work is only possible because of support from you, our listeners on patreon. If you appreciate our work, please join us and access exclusive content and benefits at

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There's also some history at play here: there's a tradition of acting like the regional hegemon in Lat Am, we tolerated drone strikes elsewhere on innocent people so doing it closer to home might not feel that egregious, and maybe a little lingering fear of seeming anti-drug war.

Hey y'all! We're doing our launch for our twelfth issue in less than a week (12/9). With @redprof.bsky.social and Clara Mattei. Moderated by Izzy Plowright. Thanks to @haymarketbooks.org for hosting with us. Register 👇🏽 events.haymarketbooks.org/events/hayma...

Ep 286 - Not In Our Name, Not With Our Work Workers have been pummeled by an overload of customers on Black Friday, so there's a lot to catch up on as we enter the final month of 2025. We start with headlines covering Amazon, Highlander Charter School, Brown University, the University of Maryland

#OtD 5 Dec 2019 French public sector workers began striking against pension cuts, successfully suspending the plans in January. 69% of citizens supported the strikes as massive protests shut down the Eiffel Tower and public services. Commemorated here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/t-s...

#OtD 5 Dec 1955 the Montgomery bus boycott began, four days after arrest of Rosa Parks for refusing to vacate her seat in the "coloured" section of a segregated bus to a white passenger. The successful campaign helped spur the civil rights movement stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1050...

Military personnel: This is what following unlawful orders looks like. Don’t do it. You don’t have the president’s get out of jail free card from SCOTUS, and these losers will not protect you.

Have any of the comments on Trump’s disgusting racist tirade about Somali Americans mentioned that he accelerated the bombing of Somalia in his first presidency? From Ackerman’s Reign of Terror:

4 December 1975: Getafe general strike Mini podcast of radical history on this date from the Working Class History team. Our work is only possible because of support from you, our listeners on patreon. If you appreciate our work, please join us and access exclusive content and benefits at

I'm writing a new book for @haymarketbooks.org, and I'm writing it fast, so help is most welcome. More here: johnwashington.substack.com/p/how-to-clo...

In our latest, @reallandsend.bsky.social and @city.bsky.social speak with organizers in LA about their work defending the community against ICE and Border Patrol and lessons for others wanting to take on the same work as ICE raids expand across the US soundcloud.com/deathpanel/i...

#OtD 1 Dec 1955 Rosa Parks, a Black civil rights activist, refused her bus driver's order that she give up her seat to a white passenger, triggering a widespread bus boycott and boosting the civil rights movement. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8058...

#OtD 1 Dec 1991 Anti-Fascist Action successfully stopped the neo-Nazi British National Party from holding a march in Glasgow. Fascists were confronted in the streets while BNP leadership were trapped inside a bar and forced to escape via the sewers stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8059...

#OtD 30 Nov 1999 the WTO meeting in Seattle was disrupted by big protests as people blockaded streets to prevent it taking place. Police attacked violently, and rioting broke out downtown hitting headlines and sparking a global anti-capitalist movt stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1033...

While we’re on the topic: Letters I found in Yale archives said Skull and Bones members took Native American remains from a grave in Oklahoma in 1918. www.ctinsider.com/news/article... #nutmegsky

#OtD 30 Nov 1961 President John F. Kennedy authorised Operation Mongoose, a CIA operation aimed at overthrowing Castro's government in Cuba. Multiple terrorist attacks against railways, food storage and more were then carried out in the country stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1032...

As we end Native American Heritage month in the “U.S”, we are pleased to share, "Resistant Communiqués: Indigenous Geographies and A More Just Future with Dr. @niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social". It comes at a particularly critical time for Indigenous communities globally. 🎧 Listen: bit.ly/rc2025ndsmiles

Today is Thanksgiving in the US, or National Day of Mourning/"Unthanksgiving Day" for some Native Americans. Wampanoag people shared food with pilgrims in 1621 but were repaid with centuries of genocide. More on Indigenous resistance: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

#OtD 27 Nov 1868 a detachment of US troops under the command of General Custer ignored orders to kill only warriors and massacred 103 sleeping Cheyenne in the so-called "Battle of the Washita" stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9950...