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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com
#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…
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com
#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 TG…
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com
#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 striker…
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com
#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.workingcl…
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com
#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,…
180 likes · 66 reposts · 1 replies · 21h ago
Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com
#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 be…
25 likes · 13 reposts · 0 replies · 21h ago
Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com
#OtD 17 Sep 1941 the Canadian government essentially made all strikes in "war industries" illegal. Any worker who struck or encouraged others to do so would be liable to a fine of $500, twelve mont…
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com
#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 glob…
49 likes · 18 reposts · 2 replies · 23h ago
Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com
#OtD 17 Sep 1980 the Polish trade union Solidarność was founded by over 20 inter-factory committees. Unknown to its members, the CIA channelled millions of dollars into the union through third part…
20 likes · 9 reposts · 2 replies · 1d ago
Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com
#OtD 17 Sep 1921 the Russian Bolshevik government, under pressure, released 10 anarchists from the Taganka prison in Moscow and deported them to Berlin stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8943...
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com
#OtD 16 Sep 1889 after nearly five weeks of striking, London dockers won nearly all their demands and headed back to work. The success of the strike was a turning point in the British workers' move…
60 likes · 15 reposts · 1 replies · 1d ago
Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com
#OtD 16 Sep 1919 Marusya Nikiforova, the Ukrainian anarchist communist and military leader, was put on trial by counter-revolutionary white authorities and later executed alongside her husband stor…
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com
#OtD 16 Sep 1917 Eva Lynch, a member of the @IWW union in Australia was arrested while addressing a meeting in Sydney where she was training women public speakers to try to keep the union alive whi…
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com
#OtD 16 Sep 1923 in Japan, Itō Noe and her lover Ōsugi Sakae, both worker activists, anarchists and free love advocates, were arrested by Tokyo police. They were beaten and strangled to death in th…
47 likes · 18 reposts · 0 replies · 1d ago
Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com
#OtD 16 Sep 1965 1200 mostly Mexican farm workers voted to join a strike of predominantly Filipine grape farm workers in Delano, California for the federal minimum wage. Holding out for five years,…
34 likes · 12 reposts · 0 replies · 1d ago
Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com
#OtD 16 Sep 1973 Chilean communist folk singer and musician Victor Jara was murdered by Pinochet's troops following his US-backed coup a few days before. He was brutally tortured and shot over 40 t…
69 likes · 38 reposts · 3 replies · 1d ago
Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social
"I believe, as do so many of my fellow Americans, that the wild horse is an irreplaceable national treasure. It would be a tragic mistake to allow this noble creature to disappear from our western …
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com
#OtD 16 Sep 1979 a group of eight East Germans escaped the Iron Curtain in a home-made hot air balloon stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8847...
50 likes · 13 reposts · 1 replies · 1d ago
Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social
"I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?"
-- Robert Redf…
22 likes · 3 reposts · 2 replies · 1d ago
Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social
Double Bee Larkspur / Delphinium elatum, c. 1820, by #CarolineMariaApplebee (English, c.1787-1854), who died #otd, Sept 16. Held by @rhslibrary.bsky.social, collections.rhs.org.uk/view/1488/do... #…
28 likes · 11 reposts · 0 replies · 1d ago
Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com
#OtD 16 Sep 1902 Berlin-based anti-fascist resistance martyr Mildred Fish-Harnack was born in Milwaukee. Under Hitler she recruited others to the resistance and organised against Nazism until she w…
51 likes · 17 reposts · 0 replies · 1d ago
Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com
#OtD 16 Sep 1982 right-wing Christian militias, supported by the Israeli army, began carrying out out acts of murder, torture, rape, and abuse in the Sabra and Shatila Palestinian refugee camps in …
56 likes · 27 reposts · 0 replies · 1d ago
Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com
#OtD 16 Sep 1945 43,000 oil workers in 20 states across the USA walked out on strike. Learn more in this incredible book about US mass strikes: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/str...
31 likes · 9 reposts · 0 replies · 1d ago
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