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(DIR) Post #AwuA5BsO2kQfQr5N20 by workingclasshistory@mastodon.social
2025-08-06T14:56:24Z
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#OtD 6 Aug 1945 the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, slaughtering tens of thousands of civilians, despite believing that Japan was about to surrender, which was noted by multiple US officials https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10593/u.s.-drops-atomic-bomb-on-hiroshima
(DIR) Post #AwuA6nBcoHdrRBqdGK by workingclasshistory@mastodon.social
2025-08-06T10:11:45Z
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#OtD 6 Aug 1970 300 Yippies – countercultural radical youth – invaded Disneyland, protesting against the Vietnam war and calling for the liberation of Minnie Mouse from patriarchal captivity. Disney security and armed riot police were brought in https://workingclasshistory.com/tag/vietnam-war
(DIR) Post #AwuA7qNwP37DeD6sz2 by workingclasshistory@mastodon.social
2025-08-05T19:56:23Z
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#OtD 5 Aug 1939 56 socialists, including 13 women and girls, known as the 13 Roses, were executed en masse by the right-wing regime of general Francisco Franco. Commemorated here by a shirt made by a workers' co-op supporting grassroots unions in Asia: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/t-shirt-of-month-unisex2208
(DIR) Post #AwuA9MEdTHWciZTmWu by workingclasshistory@mastodon.social
2025-08-05T19:12:11Z
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#OtD 5 Aug 1835 the first factory in Spain to use a steam engine to power machinery, the Bonaplata factory in Barcelona, was assaulted and burned to the ground by luddite gangs known as Bullangues https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10489/bonaplata-factory-destroyed-by-luddites
(DIR) Post #AwuAB98R9DWMfUQtmK by workingclasshistory@mastodon.social
2025-08-05T18:11:36Z
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#OtD 5 Aug 1964 the US began bombing North Vietnam in Operation Pierce Arrow, after "intelligence" reported a North Vietnamese attack on US ships. These reports were false. In our podcast episode, Noam Chomsky explains the geopolitics of the Vietnam war: https://workingclasshistory.com/2018/10/31/e14-the-vietnam-war-with-noam-chomsky/
(DIR) Post #AwuABwaTHm3q2cvTmK by workingclasshistory@mastodon.social
2025-08-05T13:26:14Z
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#OtD 5 Aug 1895 Friedrich Engels, communist and lifelong collaborator, friend and sponsor of Karl Marx, died in London aged 74. Most famously, he co-wrote the Communist Manifesto: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/books/products/the-communist-manifesto-a-modern-edition-karl-marx-and-frederick-engels
(DIR) Post #AwuACdmggENm0xyLI0 by workingclasshistory@mastodon.social
2025-08-05T13:21:14Z
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#OtD 5 Aug 1993 the Japanese govt admitted it forced women to work in military brothels from 1932-1945. 200k women and girls, mostly from Korea and China, but also Japan, the Philippines and Dutch Indonesia were abducted/tricked into these brothels https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10496/japan-admits-sex-slavery
(DIR) Post #AxXFkhh6j5m6vGrSmu by workingclasshistory@mastodon.social
2025-08-25T17:26:32Z
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#OtD 25 Aug 1921 the Battle of Blair Mountain, the largest armed rebellion in the US since the civil war, began. 10,000 striking West Virginia coal miners battled with armed strikebreakers following the killing of miners, until disarmed by federal troops https://workingclasshistory.com/2018/06/09/wch-e7-the-west-virginia-mine-wars-1902-1922/
(DIR) Post #Axf8Am91YecXsxWGy8 by workingclasshistory@mastodon.social
2025-08-29T12:41:09Z
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#OtD 29 Aug 1979 after years of fruitless campaigning, 30-40 activists took direct action and occupied the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare in protest at homosexuality being classified as a mental illness. They quickly won https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/12479/lgbt-occupation-of-swedish-health-board
(DIR) Post #AylouyNEmRKjbVdOwy by workingclasshistory@mastodon.social
2025-10-01T16:02:15Z
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#OtD 1 Oct 1931 hundreds of tenants of an estate in Neukolln, Berlin, launched a rent strike to pressure their landlord into evicting the SA (Nazi Brownshirts). However, due to many of the tenants being on welfare the strike eventually crumbled https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8147/berlin-rent-strike-to-evict-nazis
(DIR) Post #AzHh1SVJ5WoaDIhyvQ by workingclasshistory@mastodon.social
2025-10-16T19:31:37Z
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#OtD 16 Oct 1859 abolitionists led by John Brown, including Black people recruited by Harriet Tubman, raided a federal armoury in Harpers Ferry, WV, to get weapons to arm enslaved people. Several were killed, and Brown later executed for treason https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8828/harpers-ferry-raid
(DIR) Post #AztpFkN7jOLKSFptqq by workingclasshistory@mastodon.social
2025-11-04T10:26:08Z
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#OtD 4 Nov 1811 Luddites attacked machinery in Bulwell, England. While 'Luddite' is used today to mock those who don't like/know how to use technology, the Luddites didn't oppose technology as such, but how capitalists used it to make them unemployed https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10465/bulwell-luddites-attack
(DIR) Post #B0ZGa42v1rIEGMGgb2 by workingclasshistory@mastodon.social
2025-11-24T10:26:21Z
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#OtD 24 Nov 1942 Scottish comedian and former shipyard apprentice, Billy Connolly, was born. He was involved in the Clyde shipyards apprentices strikes of the 1960s, striking alongside future Manchester United manager, Alex Ferguson, among others https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9685/billy-connolly-born
(DIR) Post #B0zrL57JVthled06sa by workingclasshistory@mastodon.social
2025-12-02T22:56:46Z
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#OtD 2 Dec 1984 the world's worst industrial disaster took place in Bhopal, India, when the Union Carbide chemical plant leaked poisonous gases to 5 million people, killing, blinding and disabling tens of thousands. No bosses were punished https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9175/union-carbide-chemical-plant-leak
(DIR) Post #B0zrLT2AafqnpcmLC4 by workingclasshistory@mastodon.social
2025-12-04T21:41:45Z
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#OtD 4 Dec 1853 Errico Malatesta, mechanic and key anarchist theorist and organiser was born in Italy. Despite being repeatedly jailed, exiled and sentenced to death 3 times, he remained active and lived until the age of 78. Learn more in this book: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/life-and-ideas-the-anarchist-writings-of-errico-malatesta
(DIR) Post #B1bYU7LiKsQqWtZ0i0 by workingclasshistory@mastodon.social
2025-12-25T09:31:22Z
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#OtD 25 Dec 1906 nine people in Lodz, Poland were found guilty of belonging to an anarchist organisation and received sentences ranging from 8 to 15 years' exiled to Siberia https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9723/lodz-anarchist-court-martials
(DIR) Post #B2Bt8Lhi3V10SbBctU by workingclasshistory@mastodon.social
2026-01-11T23:11:42Z
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#OtD 11 Jan 1883 Jenny Marx died aged just 38. The eldest daughter of Karl Marx, she followed in his footsteps as a militant socialist https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8298/jenny-marx-dies
(DIR) Post #B2Rbw32gkIe89TSOmm by workingclasshistory@mastodon.social
2026-01-19T13:26:43Z
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#OtD 19 Jan 1984 protests began in the Rif, Morocco, against the introduction of fees in public schools mandated by the International Monetary Fund. Mostly Amazigh (Berber) students, workers and unemployed rose up but troops killed and jailed hundreds https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9093/rif-uprising
(DIR) Post #B2YACECfa0pkn3lvZA by workingclasshistory@mastodon.social
2026-01-22T17:26:07Z
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#OtD 22 Jan 1971 25 homeless families occupied an empty apartment block in the working class neighbourhood of Quarto Oggiaro, Milan. They were attacked by over 2,000 police but the families' militancy forced the local council to rehouse them https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9476/quarto-oggiaro-occupation
(DIR) Post #B33i3dKvu0IBnC0vmS by workingclasshistory@mastodon.social
2026-02-06T22:41:25Z
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#OtD 6 Feb 1916 the Cabaret Voltaire nightclub opened in Zürich, Switzerland. Described as "history's wildest nightclub" it was the spiritual home of the often radical Dada art movement, formed by artists revolted by the capitalist carnage of WWI https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10606/opening-of-the-cabaret-voltaire-nightclub