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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1h

#OtD 16 Oct 1918 the Immigration Act of 1918 (aka: Alien Anarchists Exclusion Act of 1918) was signed into US law by Pres Wilson. It expanded earlier powers to target anarchists and @IWW members, nearly 1000 of whom were later deported stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8829...

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Ned Flanders Fields, CFO of Antifa @duidefensela.bsky.social · 17h

Listening to a @workingclasshistory.com podcast about the Italian resistance to fascism. Im at the part thst pretty much lays out the late 20th and 21st centuries. Its the part where, the fascists are absorbed into the government and the partisans were ostracized.

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E79: Italian resistance, part 3 | Working Class History

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 11h

#OtD 16 Oct 1854 Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in Dublin, Ireland. Moving to London, he became an advocate of libertarian socialism and an early inspiration for what would become a movement for LGBT+ rights. Commemorated here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 12h

📣 New Podcast! "15 October 1913: Indian miners protest indenture tax" on @Spreaker #history #india #miners

15 October 1913: Indian miners protest indenture tax

Mini podcast about people's history on this date.

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 12h

📣 New Podcast! "16 October 1951: Spit and polish action" on @Spreaker #firefighters #history #uk

16 October 1951: Spit and polish action

Mini podcast about people's history on this date.

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 18h

#OtD 15 Oct 1902 Amparo Poch y Gascon, Spanish revolutionary, doctor, and founding member of Mujeres Libres (Free Women), was born. She supported sex workers and promoted awareness about women's sexuality and sexual freedom. ML merch here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 21h

#OtD 15 Oct 1926 French philosopher Michel Foucault was born. A critic of liberal democracy and power structures, Foucault noted: “Where there is power, there is resistance”. Commemorated in this design supporting grassroots unions in Asia: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/uni...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 22h

#OtD 15 Oct 1964 Labour politician Harold Wilson won the UK election. During this time, he sent British troops to Oman, the only legal slave state, to defend the mediaeval puppet rule of the Sultan against a popular insurgency stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8731...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

#OtD 15 Oct 1884 French anarchist, teacher, and beekeeper, Stephen Mac Say (Stanislas Masset) was born in northern France. He contributed to the anarchist press and helped run a libertarian school stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1262...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

#OtD 15 Oct 1970 the West Gate Bridge, which was under construction in Australia, collapsed killing 35 workers and injuring 18. The workers had previously raised concerns about the project but bosses said it was safe and they returned to work stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8733...

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#OtD 14 Oct 1968 27 GI inmates at the Presidio military stockade in San Francisco held a sitdown protest demanding an investigation of the shooting of a prisoner, an end to the Vietnam war, for better conditions and against racism. More in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/2018/08/06/e...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 2d

Today in the US is #IndigenousPeoplesDay. Held in opposition to the federal govt holiday Columbus Day and celebrates Native American culture and resistance to colonialism as opposed to the genocide, murder, slavery and torture brought by Columbus shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

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#OtD 14 Oct 1859 anarchist François Claudius Koenigstein, aka Ravachol, perhaps the most famous practitioner of "propaganda by deed" (armed attacks on state officials and capitalists), was born in St-Chamond, France. Learn more in this excellent book: shop.workingclasshistory.com/en-gb/collec...

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#OtD 14 Oct 1897 worker-organiser and anti-colonial activist Elma Francois was born in Overland, St Vincent. She organised sugar workers, socialist and anti-war groups and was tried for sedition by the British workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e75-...

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#OtD 14 Oct 1977 anti-gay crusader Anita Bryant was "pied" by Thom Higgins, a gay rights activist. She then began praying and burst into tears. Following a boycott, she lost her job as brand ambassador for Florida orange juice. More LGBT+ history here: workingclasshistory.com/tag/lgbtq/

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

#OtD 15 Oct 1902 French anarchist bookstore owner and writer André Prudhommeaux was born. An early council communist, he later became an anarchist and editor of Le Libertaire and Le Monde Libertaire stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8729...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

#OtD 15 Oct 1940 Charlie Chaplin's first talkie The Great Dictator debuted in New York (while the US was still formally at peace with Nazi Germany). The antifascist film ends with this impassioned speech to the audience opposing all forms of oppression stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8730...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

#OtD 15 Oct 1966 in Oakland, CA, the Black Panther Party for Self Defence was set up. The Party would exist, despite heavy repression, until 1982 and did things like feed breakfast to children and run community health clinics. Learn more: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

#OtD 15 Oct 2007 armed police in New Zealand carried out coordinated raids and roadblocks across the country using anti-terrorist legislation to arrest environmental and Indigenous Māori activists. No terrorism charges were filed stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8735...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

#OtD 15 Oct 2005 rioting broke out in Toledo, Ohio in protest at a neo-Nazi demonstration in the city being facilitated by the police. Police escorted and protected 14 neo-Nazis from Virginia from 1000 angry antiracist locals stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8734...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

#OtD 14 Oct 1977 anti-gay crusader Anita Bryant was "pied" by Thom Higgins, a gay rights activist. She then began praying and burst into tears. Following a boycott, she lost her job as brand ambassador for Florida orange juice. More LGBT+ history here: workingclasshistory.com/tag/lgbtq/

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

#OtD 14 Oct 1897 worker-organiser and anti-colonial activist Elma Francois was born in Overland, St Vincent. She organised sugar workers, socialist and anti-war groups and was tried for sedition by the British workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e75-...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

#OtD 14 Oct 1859 anarchist François Claudius Koenigstein, aka Ravachol, perhaps the most famous practitioner of "propaganda by deed" (armed attacks on state officials and capitalists), was born in St-Chamond, France. Learn more in this excellent book: shop.workingclasshistory.com/en-gb/collec...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

#OtD 14 Oct 1896 a meeting of 'London Anarchist Communists' to 'bid farewell to Louise Michel and Pietro Gori on their departure to America on a lecturing tour' took place in Holborn stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1247...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 2d

#OtD 14 Oct 1913 the Senghenydd Colliery Disaster occured. The explosion killed 439 miners and a rescuer. It is still the worst mining accident to have occurred in the United Kingdom stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8619...

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