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#OtD 11 Oct 1972 approximately fifty inmates at the Washington D.C. jail seized control of a cellblock and held twelve jail officials hostage, demanding improved conditions and reductions in overcrowding stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8351...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 11h

#OtD 11 Oct 1972 Mexican-American activists occupied the abandoned Beacon Hill School in Seattle and founded El Centro de la Raza (Centre for People of All Races) a Chicane/Latine civil rights community organisation. It still exists today stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8352...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 14h

#OtD 11 Oct 2010 police officer, Epaminondas Korkoneas, was convicted of the ‘culpable homicide’ of 15-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos, an act that in 2008 sparked some of the most serious riots and protests in recent Greek history stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8353...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 17h

#OtD 11 Oct 1946 the UK govt announced that 39,535 people were squatting in 1038 military camps across England and Wales. Many were ex-servicemen's families demanding housing after WWII, and eventually a forced the govt to build mass council housing stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8350...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 17h

#OtD 11 Oct 1937 Polish Jewish revolutionary Aniela Wolberg died aged just 29. She had recently travelled to Spain to support the revolution, but had to return to Poland where she died from post-operative complications stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8348...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 17h

#OtD 11 Oct 1884 one of the longest-burning fires in the world began when striking miners set fire to the New Straitsville mine in Ohio. Miners walked out in Jun and were replaced by scabs, so strikers set mines on fire. It is still burning today stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1107...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 21h

#OtD 11 Oct 1941 the Macedonian uprising against fascism during WWII began with an attack by communist partisans on a police station in Prilep, then Yugoslav territory, which had been occupied by German, Italian, Albanian and Bulgarian forces stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8349...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 22h

📣 New Podcast! "11 October 1884: New Straitsville mine fire" on @Spreaker #history #miners #workers

11 October 1884: New Straitsville mine fire

Mini podcast of history on this date.

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

You can read the full paper in the link detailed in our sources in the OP: libcom.org/article/span...

Spanish anti-fascist ‘prisoners of war’ in Lancashire, 1944–46

Fascinating and detailed paper by Richard Cleminson examining the appalling treatment of Spanish anti-fascist resistance fighters during World War II being detained in internment camps in Britain alon...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

#OtD 10 Oct 1971 the men of Bravo Company, 1/12, 1st Cavalry Division of the US Army declared a private unofficial ceasefire with the North Vietnamese. It followed a mutiny shortly before. Authorities instead shipped them out to safety. Learn more: workingclasshistory.com/2018/08/06/e...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

#OtD 10 Oct 1947 a strike began by Black African railway workers. The strike spread throughout the whole of French West Africa (Senegal, Benin, Ivory Coast & Guinea). It lasted 5 months till workers won many concessions stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8246...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

That's not the original source that's an AI summary of the original source

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Ike N Reid @ikenreid.bsky.social · 1d

I'm tellin' ya "I learn more about history from WCH than I ever did in school." Always interesting stuff too! If you aren't following them, you need to.

Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 2d

#OtD 9 Oct 1945 the UK Labour govt defended its jailing of 226 Spanish Civil War and anti-Nazi resistance fighters, describing them as "members of an enemy paramilitary organisation". Some killed themselves, others were deported to Spain for execution stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1094...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

#OtD 10 Oct 1933 three striking cotton workers in Pixley, California were killed and others wounded, and striking grape pickers in Arvin, California were fired on by bosses' thugs, killing one and injuring several stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1262...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

#OtD 10 Oct 1889 a nationwide wave of schoolchildren's strikes was sparked in East London, when kids from a dozen schools walked out of class and took to the streets waving red flags, and banners emblazoned with "No cane" and "Shorter hours" stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8241...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

#OtD 10 Oct 1800 enslaved blacksmith and abolitionist Gabriel Prosser was executed in Virginia alongside his two brothers and 23 followers. They had planned a revolt of enslaved people in Richmond, but were betrayed and captured stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8240...

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#OtD 10 Oct 1922 Puerto Rican strike leader and women's rights advocate Luisa Capetillo died of TB aged 43. She had taken part in many strikes, including the highly successful sugarcane strike of 1916 which won 13% pay increases stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8244...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

#OtD 10 Oct 1903 the Women's Social & Political Union was founded at the Pankhurst family home in Manchester by six women. A split from the non-militant NUWSS, they chose the slogan "Deeds, not words" and a direct action approach to win votes for women stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1262...

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#OtD 9 Oct 1945 the UK Labour govt defended its jailing of 226 Spanish Civil War and anti-Nazi resistance fighters, describing them as "members of an enemy paramilitary organisation". Some killed themselves, others were deported to Spain for execution stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1094...

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#OtD 9 Oct 2014 the Guardian reported that Greek 'riot dog' Loukanikos ("sausage") died peacefully in his sleep. He was the most famous of the Athens strays who joined riots against police violence and later against austerity. More info and merch here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/en-gb/collec...

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#OtD 9 Oct 1912 the Little Falls textile strike began at the Phoenix mill when the mostly women workers walked out to reduce working hours from 60 to 54 a week. Workers joined the @IWW and spread the strike. Learn more about IWW women: workingclasshistory.com/2018/12/02/e...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 2d

New! Thanks to support from our listeners on Patreon, we have been able to add a transcript of our fantastic double podcast episode on the radical history of the Golden Age of Piracy check it out on our website: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e103...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 2d

New! Thanks to support from our listeners on Patreon (patreon.com/workingclass...), we have been able to add transcripts to our double podcast episode about the successful movement against the UK poll tax. Check it out on our website: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e110...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

#OtD 10 Oct 1995 the first mass walkout of French public sector workers occurred against cuts to their pensions shutting transport, schools, universities and the post. Later, private sector workers joined, and by December they won stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8249...

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#OtD 10 Oct 1908 suffragettes and unemployed men stormed a meeting hosted by PM Herbert Asquith in Leeds, UK. The groups were holding separate protests and met by chance, and decided to rush the meeting. A window was broken and there were a few arrests stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8243...

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