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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · Sep 3

New podcast! 2nd of a double episode about the poll tax non-payment campaign which defeated Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government. Available for early listening without ads if you join us on Patreon. Support us and listen today at www.patreon.com/posts/138013...

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#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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#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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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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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 18h

#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 · 16h

#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 · 15h

#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/

Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 4h

#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...

Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 6h

#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...

Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 8h

#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/...

Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 9h

#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...

Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 9h

#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...

Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 15h

#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/

Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 16h

#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-...

Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 18h

#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...

Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 20h

#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...

Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 21h

#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...

Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 22h

#OtD 14 Oct 1889 Max Hoelz, a German communist known as the "Red Robin Hood", was born. He frequently robbed banks and requisitioned food and fuel for the unemployed and poor stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8615...

Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 23h

#OtD 14 Oct 1907 revolutionary autoworker Aniela Wolberg was born in Poland. Moving to France, she was deported back to Poland because of her agitation at the factory. Later travelled to Spain during the civil war to fight the fascists stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8618...

Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

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/...

Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

#OtD 14 Oct 1894 Sail Mohamed Ameriane ben Amerzaine, an Algerian anarchist, WWI deserter, anti-colonialist, staunch anti-Stalinist, and anti-fascist fighter in the Spanish Civil War, was born in Kabylie in northern Algeria stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8616...

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#OtD 14 Oct 1976 over million workers in Canada staged a one-day strike against wage and price controls considered the worst attack on labour since the 1930s. The wage controls were eventually reversed. The PM had previously campaigned against controls stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8623...

Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

#OtD 14 Oct 1973 a mass uprising involving student demonstrations and workers' strikes took place in Thailand, overthrowing the military dictatorship and demanding more democratic freedoms stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8622...

Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

#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...

Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

#OtD 14 Oct 1943 400 prisoners at the Sobibór death camp staged a mass breakout. They killed several guards before being discovered and having to dash for freedom under fire. 150 escaped, many joining partisan units or the Red Army stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8620...