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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…
29 likes · 13 reposts · 0 replies · 3h ago
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…
73 likes · 17 reposts · 0 replies · 17h ago
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…
29 likes · 6 reposts · 0 replies · 17h ago
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…
31 likes · 9 reposts · 0 replies · 19h ago
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 · 20h 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 · 20h 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…
22 likes · 5 reposts · 0 replies · 21h ago
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 · 22h 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...
33 likes · 9 reposts · 0 replies · 1d ago
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…
72 likes · 25 reposts · 0 replies · 1d ago
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…
60 likes · 23 reposts · 0 replies · 1d ago
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 …
9 likes · 4 reposts · 0 replies · 1d ago
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
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
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#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
Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social
"I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown or yellow, rich or poor, we all have the blues."
-- B. B. King, born #OTD 1925
33 likes · 8 reposts · 3 replies · 1d ago
Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social
"The thrill is gone
The thrill is gone away
The thrill is gone baby
The thrill is gone away
You know you done me wrong baby
And you'll be sorry someday"
-- B. B. King, born #OTD 1925
16 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies · 1d ago
Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social
"Blind hatred, my mother had taught me, poisons the soul. I kept hearing her say, 'If you're kind to people, they'll be kind to you.'"
-- B. B. King, born #OTD 1925
22 likes · 4 reposts · 2 replies · 1d ago
Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social
"I keep my feelings to myself. If you hurt me, chances are I won't tell you. I'll just move on. Moving on is my method of healing my hurt and, man, I've been moving on all my life."
-- B. B. King,…
12 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies · 1d ago
Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com
#OtD 16 Sep 1920 Dutch communist resistance fighter Hannie Schaft was born. Under Nazi occupation, she stole ID cards for Jewish locals, and sabotaged and assassinated fascists. She was eventually …
126 likes · 51 reposts · 4 replies · 1d ago
Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com
#OtD 16 Sep 1952 the crew of the fishing trawler Carella were exposed to harmful biological agents by the British Royal Navy and military scientists in the Outer Hebrides, as part of Operation Caul…
30 likes · 11 reposts · 0 replies · 2d ago
Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com
#OtD 16 Sep 1874 (or 1873) Mexican anarchist communist Ricardo Flores Magón was born in an Indigenous Mazatec community in Oaxaca. He was one of the major thinkers of and activists in the Mexican r…
98 likes · 31 reposts · 1 replies · 2d ago
Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com
#OtD 15 Sep 1888 the first ever Yom Kippur ball was held in London, UK, organised by Jewish anarchists in the Arbayter Fraynd (Worker's Friend) group. An explicitly anti-religious gathering, it was…
39 likes · 13 reposts · 2 replies · 2d ago
Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com
#OtD 15 Sep 1993 Ward 2/3 of UCH hospital in London was occupied by local residents and some nurses in protest at its closure, part of a series of struggles at hospitals around that time stories.wo…
18 likes · 6 reposts · 0 replies · 2d ago
Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com
#OtD 15 Sep 1970 police in New Orleans, Louisiana attacked an office associated with the Black Panthers, opening fire for over 20 minutes on the adults and children inside. The attack came the morn…
57 likes · 24 reposts · 1 replies · 2d ago
Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com
#OtD 15 Sep 1897 an appeal to women workers written by Italian textile militant and anarchist-feminist, Maria Roda, was published in Paterson, NJ. She raised eight children (pictured) and helped or…
40 likes · 11 reposts · 0 replies · 2d ago
Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com
#OtD 15 Sep 1963 four African-American girls were killed and 22 others were wounded after KKK members planted a bomb against a predominantly Black church in Birmingham, Alabama. This act of terrori…
47 likes · 26 reposts · 1 replies · 2d ago
Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com
#OtD 15 Sep 2012 just before midnight National Hockey League bosses locked out all 750 players when they refused to agree to a 10% pay cut after being told that the owners deserved more money. A co…
22 likes · 3 reposts · 0 replies · 2d ago
Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com
#OtD 15 Sep 2023 a campaign of strikes began at GM, Ford and Stellantis in the US. After 6 weeks, @UAW workers won a 25% wage increase, more jobs, abolition of a 2-tier pay system at GM, and union …
34 likes · 8 reposts · 1 replies · 2d ago
Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com
#OtD 15 Sep 1983 Michael Stewart, a 25-year-old Black student, was beaten to death by 10 NYPD officers after being caught painting graffiti. The medical examiner then helped them cover up the murde…
74 likes · 44 reposts · 0 replies · 2d ago
Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com
#OtD 15 Sep 1919 the Düsseldorf Congress began where the Freie Arbeiter Union (Free Workers' Union) in the Rhineland-Westphalia region was founded. The new union combined the practice of syndicalis…
27 likes · 8 reposts · 1 replies · 2d ago
Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com
#OtD 15 Sep 1954 Veterans of the Abraham @LincolnBrigade – US volunteers in the Spanish Civil War – were brought before the Subversive Activities Control Board as the government attempted to classi…
53 likes · 22 reposts · 0 replies · 2d ago
Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com
#OtD 15 Sep 1980 hundreds of people stormed Sydenham hospital in Harlem and occupied part of it. It was part of a series of protests against the closure of one of the only hospitals in a poor, most…
23 likes · 6 reposts · 0 replies · 2d ago
Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com
#OtD 15 Sep 1933 Max Hoelz, the German communist "Red Robin Hood," died in a supposed "boating accident", but was likely murdered by the NKVD (Russian secret police). He earned his nickname during …
54 likes · 13 reposts · 0 replies · 2d ago
Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com
#OtD 15 Sep 1978 a strike of 11,600 workers in Sudbury, Canada began after the mining company Inco Ltd. proposed layoffs and cuts to pay and benefits. After nine months, strikers won concessions
28 likes · 6 reposts · 0 replies · 2d ago
Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."
-- Agatha Christie, born #OTD 1890
15 likes · 5 reposts · 0 replies · 2d ago
Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social
"There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and a…
10 likes · 3 reposts · 2 replies · 2d ago
Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social
"I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them."
-- Agatha Christie, born #OTD 1890, in "The Mystery of the Blue Train" (Hercule Poirot, #6)
18 likes · 5 reposts · 0 replies · 2d ago
Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com
#OtD 15 Sep 2005 the Guardian revealed that Britain's largest arms manufacturer, BAE Systems, had secretly paid more than £1 million to former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. The firm used a fro…
87 likes · 54 reposts · 3 replies · 2d ago
Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social
"To every problem, there is a most simple solution."
-- Agatha Christie, born #OTD 1890, in "The Clocks" (Hercule Poirot, #39)
1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies · 2d ago
Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social
"Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it."
-- Agatha Christie, born #OTD 1890
8 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies · 2d ago
Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social
"Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go."
-- Agatha Christie, born #OTD 1890, in "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" (Hercule Poirot, #1)
3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies · 2d ago
Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social
"The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it."
-- Agatha Christie, born #OTD 1890, in "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" (Hercule Poirot, #4)
5 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies · 2d ago
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