Working Class History

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2024-06-16 08:10:39

#OtD 16 Jun 1531 Henry VIII modified vagrancy laws which were key in creating the working class. People kicked off communal land who were not in wage labour were designated as vagabonds and were to be whipped, then mutilated, then executed https://t.co/DPJmlP5BRH https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8796/henry-viii-vagrancy-laws?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-06-16 07:15:35

#OtD 16 Jun 1937 the anti-Stalinist Marxist party the POUM was declared illegal in Republican Spain by the Communist Party-run authorities. Many were rounded up and arrested. More info in our podcast episodes on the Spanish Civil War: https://t.co/Let6mwyWX4 https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e39-the-spanish-civil-war-an-introduction/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-06-12 22:58:34

#OtD 12 Jun 1963 Medgar Wiley Evers, African American civil rights activist from Mississippi, was shot in the back and killed by a white supremacist who was initially found not guilty and bragged about the murder at KKK rallies https://t.co/pegIj8BLn7 https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8409/medgar-wiley-evers-murdered?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-06-09 16:30:14

#OtD 9 Jun 1963 civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer was arrested in Mississippi on trumped up charges and brutally beaten in jail on the orders of police. She had previously been sterilised without consent, as were many other Black women https://t.co/VokUcsMmCu https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10916/fannie-lou-hamer-arrested?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-06-07 08:53:34

#OtD 7 Jun 1968 women workers at Ford's Dagenham plant in England walked out on strike for equal pay with men. The strike led to the Equal Pay Act of 1970, although pay equality at Ford was only achieved after a later strike in 1984 https://t.co/qweL6aolsf https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10719/ford-dagenham-womens'-strike?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-06-03 00:16:06

#OtD 2 Jun 1967 left-wing student, Benno Ohnesorg, was shot and killed by police in West Berlin during a protest against the visiting US-backed Shah of Iran. His death triggered a huge upsurge in radical activism in West Germany https://t.co/tiZPpbJ4TV https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9203/death-of-benno-ohnesorg?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-06-01 19:56:36

#OtD 1 Jun 1981 700 Schlitz brewery workers in Milwaukee, WI, went on strike after being offered a worse deal than local Miller workers. Schlitz had been struggling since an unpopular recipe change. The strike continued till the plant closed in Sep https://t.co/4uKWdoitRT https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8098/schlitz-workers-strike?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-06-01 00:21:13

#OtD 31 May 1927 Donald Trump's father, Fred Trump, was arrested at a KKK rally in Queens, NYC. Despite Donald Trump denying it happened, multiple newspapers reported it, giving Fred Trump's address and reporting all those arrested as wearing KKK robes https://t.co/dixD9K26tN https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10390/fred-trump-arrested-at-kkk-rally?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-05-31 16:53:05

#OtD 31 May 1919 revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg's body was found and identified after an autopsy in Berlin, five months after being murdered by right-wing paramilitaries working at the behest of the Social Democratic government. More in this book: https://t.co/PQX8adRq8Q https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/the-murder-of-rosa-luxemburg-klaus-gietinger-hardback?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-05-28 00:21:11

#OtD 27 May 1971 800 pupils in a school in east London went on strike and won the reinstatement of a teacher who had been sacked for publishing a book of the children's poetry https://t.co/8tB1MIfSVh https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9943/800-east-london-kids-strike?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-05-25 06:15:08

Just another example to point to when right-wingers say how the police are necessary because they help people. Look what they did to this man who called them because his father went missing:
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2024-05-22 18:11:36

#OtD 22 May 1948 Tantura, a Palestinian village, was attacked at night by Zionist paramilitaries. The next day, up to 250 were massacred, some buried in mass graves. Learn more in our podcast on workers' struggles in Palestine during the British Mandate: https://t.co/qvEP1Ggmfy https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e86-87-class-struggle-in-palestine/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-05-17 21:31:13

#OtD 17 May 1965 in reaction to a general strike, the right-wing Bolivian military dictatorship declared a state of siege and passed laws dismantling labour unions and calling up all Bolivians aged 19 to 50 into the service of the military https://t.co/IxiOd7qiGF https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8917/bolivia-emergency-laws?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-05-17 16:09:07

#OtD 17 May 1890 the biggest rally outside London to date for the 8-hour working day was held in Aberdeen, Scotland with 10,000 in attendance https://t.co/VvSE6aO48r https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8911/aberdeen-eight-hour-rally?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-05-17 12:23:36

#OtD 17 May 1935 the Nazis banned the teaching of Esperanto for "weakening… national character". Esperanto is a constructed international auxiliary language which was particularly popular at the time with workers' groups and revolutionaries https://t.co/YOdmpgbrPY https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8912/german-esperanto-groups-banned?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-05-16 13:43:11

#OtD 16 May is European Romani Resistance Day, commemorating the Roma people who fought fascism during WW2, like the 'Lions of Breda Solini', a partisan battalion in Italy made up entirely of Sinti participants who had escaped from a concentration camp https://t.co/vRxd5E7P8O https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10965/European-Romani-Resistance-Day?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-05-13 22:12:10

#OtD 13 May 1948 the Palestinian village of Najd was ethnically cleansed of its Arab residents by Zionist militia. They were expelled and forced to live in nearby Gaza as refugees. The Israeli town of Sderot was later constructed over it. Learn more: https://t.co/RRaJ3aEwu2 https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/11420/najd-ethnically-cleansed?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-05-11 17:05:07

#OtD 11 May 1972 the OPR-33, armed wing of the Uruguayan Anarchist Federation, kidnapped a shoe manufacturer whose workers were on strike. They ransomed him for $10 million which they used to publicise the crimes of the dictatorship https://t.co/F54vkeEhuM https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8339/molaguero-kidnapping?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-05-10 18:04:10

#OtD 10 May 1654 an enslaved African man named Olivier Le Jeune was buried in Québec, Canada. He had been the first recorded enslaved African brought to New France. Prior to that point, all of the enslaved people in the colony were Native Americans. More: https://t.co/dnIynN5Fet https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8222/olivier-le-jeune-buried?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-05-06 19:19:07

#OtD 6 May 1933 Nazis raided the Institute of Sex Research in Berlin, a pioneering org which supported gay and trans rights, and equality for women. It employed numerous trans workers and pioneered gender affirmation surgery. Its library was then burned https://t.co/pDixseOD0n https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10648/nazis-raid-sex-institute?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-04-16 02:10:37

The first book burning by Nazis was of books seized from the Sexology Institute, which advocated for gay and transgender rights, had a trans employee, performed gender affirmation surgery, and whose founder literally coined the term "transsexualism". https://t.co/0qdSFW4die https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/11315/Nazi-book-burning?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-04-14 00:14:36

#OtD 13 Apr 1919 the Jallianwala Bagh massacre took place when British troops in Amritsar, India, opened fire on a crowd of predominantly Sikh pilgrims, but also with many Hindus and Muslims, murdering up to 1000 or more people and injuring many more https://t.co/fMGDiI6hhe https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8446/jallianwala-bagh-massacre?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-04-07 00:41:35

#OtD 6 Apr 1968 17-year-old Black Panther, Bobby Hutton, was murdered by police in Oakland, California. The first recruit to the Party, he was unarmed, shirtless and had surrendered to police when they shot him at least 10 times. More on the Panthers: https://t.co/VozKk4THq9 https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/en-gb/collections/books/black-panthers?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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2024-04-06 09:13:37

#OtD 6 Apr 1994 massacres of minority Tutsis, civil rights activists and moderate Hutus began in the Rwanda genocide. At least half a million were killed in an act of ethnic cleansing in which Western governments like France were intimately involved https://t.co/sRamQLGKbr https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10589/rwanda-genocide?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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