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Resistant Communiqués Podcast
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Resistant Communiqués Podcast is a multidisciplinary knowledge hub and digital repository of People's History and resistance in the wake of political attacks on education. Listen + Study + Learn: resistantcommpod.substack.com & linktr.ee/resistantcommpod
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Today is Halloween. On All Hallows' Eve in 1590, Scottish authorities claimed 200 witches tried to prevent King James from reaching his bride in Denmark. Dozens were arrested & tortured, and 1000s killed in an era of sexist witch-hunts. Learn more here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/wit...
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#OtD 31 Oct 1926 15-year-old Anteo Zamboni was lynched by fascists, after they accused him of trying to shoot fascist dictator Mussolini during a parade in Bologna celebrating the March on Rome. Repression increased, and some of his relatives jailed stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1039...
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#OtD 31 Oct 1978 30k oil workers went on strike in Iran marking one of the early actions of the revolution. The workers' and women's movements would play a major role in the revolution until they were crushed by religious fundamentalists stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1039...
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I had an incredible time interviewing my old comrade & friend, @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social, for @resistantcommpod.bsky.social. The episode is historically grounded, while also providing hope for the future of our movements—Palestine & beyond.

🎧 Listen & review the syllabus: bit.ly/rc2025emanabdehadi
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#OtD 31 Oct 1894 the Trial of the Thirty, a show trial aimed at repressing the French anarchist movt and restricting freedom of speech, ended in Paris. Starting in Aug, it tried 30 French and foreign anarchists on a charge of "criminal association" stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1246...
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#OtD 31 Oct 1969 lifelong militant and anarchist feminist Juana Rouco Buela died in Buenos Aires, aged 80. She took part in many strikes and rent strikes, and faced repression from police in Spain, Argentina and Uruguay, where she was jailed for a year stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1039...
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Had a great time recording this conversation! Check it out
We’re thrilled to release our new episode: an interview with Dr. @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social about the history & legacies of the Palestinian struggle for freedom. We discuss the Palestinian Liberation Movement here & abroad, & the challenges that have come with the fight.
🎧: bit.ly/rc2025emanabdehadi
We’re thrilled to release our new episode: an interview with Dr. @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social about the history & legacies of the Palestinian struggle for freedom. We discuss the Palestinian Liberation Movement here & abroad, & the challenges that have come with the fight.
🎧: bit.ly/rc2025emanabdehadi
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#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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It says a lot about how resistance was seen during Trump I; the admin was seen as kind of a joke, so standing up to them was easy and people made a show of doing it. By contrast, now they’re seen as a threat, so orgs like WaPo and others have leadership that have mostly rolled over.
wow. bezos has destroyed this paper.
Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...
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D’Angelo, the neo-soul trailblazer and modern visionary whose three albums were all heralded as classic works of art, has died at age 51.

Access the free article here: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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HAPPY INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY

TODAY
We celebrate and honor the first people of North America
Their history, culture, and resilience
Trump cannot sweep history away
Honor and Respect
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#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...
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#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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#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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A good conversation with a good friend.
The Resistant Communiqués Collective is proud to share our September episode of the Resistant Communiqués Podcast featuring Dr. Elizabeth Schmidt, entitled “Race, Foreign Policy, and Africa: A Conversation with Dr. Elizabeth Schmidt.”

Listen + learn + share:
bit.ly/rc2025elizabethschmidt
The Resistant Communiqués Collective is proud to share our September episode of the Resistant Communiqués Podcast featuring Dr. Elizabeth Schmidt, entitled “Race, Foreign Policy, and Africa: A Conversation with Dr. Elizabeth Schmidt.”

Listen + learn + share:
bit.ly/rc2025elizabethschmidt
Learn as Ms. Guerline Jozef of @haitianbridge.bsky.social discusses the Haitian Revolution.

In 1804, Haiti became the first free nation–rooted in Black liberation. Enslaved people once sent there as punishment rose up, defeating colonial powers, & reshaping the world.

🎧 bit.ly/rc2025guerlinejozef
"The U.S. doesn't have an immigration problem—it has a Black & brown problem."
🎙️ In S1, E3 of Resistant Communiqués, Guerline Jozef @haitianbridge.bsky.social shares vital truths about ICE raids in L.A., Haiti's revolutionary legacy, & the anti-Black roots of ICE
🎧 Listen: bit.ly/rc2025guerlinejozef
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#OtD 22 Jul 2005 civil servants in Tonga went on strike for pay rises. The strike incapacitated the government and grew to include many other public sector employees, resulting in the most significant challenge to the island's monarchy in its history stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9488...
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#OtD 22 Jul 1962 British fascist Oswald Mosley tried to hold a rally in Trafalgar Square but was forced to call it off after he and his followers were attacked by a massive crowd of anti-fascists. More info in the bonus podcast episode to this miniseries: workingclasshistory.com/2020/02/17/e...
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Eventually, if we still exist as a species, someone is going to write a great book about the co-option of both "therapy speak" and "equalities language", and how they were weaponised before they were eviscerated (which is the final goal, of course)
uh oh, things are happening dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
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#OtD 22 Jul 1895 musician August Agbola O'Browne, the only Black person believed to have participated in the 1944 anti-Nazi Warsaw uprising, was born in Lagos, Nigeria. He fought under the codename "Ali" in the Iwo battalion, and later moved to Britain stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9481...
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#OtD 22 Jul 2011 neo-Nazi Anders Breivik killed 77 and injured 242 in separate bomb and gun terrorist attacks in Norway. Many of those killed were children at a Labour Party Youth camp, murdered as he screamed "You are going to die today, Marxists!" stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9489...