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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 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...

Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1h

#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...

Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1h

#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 · 23h

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 · 22h

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...

Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 3h

#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...

Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 3h

#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...

Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 4h

#OtD 10 Oct 1901 Laurent Tailhade, satirical poet and editor of the French anarchist newspaper Libertaire, was sentenced to a year's imprisonment and fined 1000 francs for making "incendiary" comments during the Russian Tsar's visit to France

Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 4h

#OtD 10 Oct 1972 Black sailors from the USS Kitty Hawk in the Philippines during the Vietnam war decided to disrupt a favourite hangout of white sailors in a segregated whites-only area in protest at the beating of a Black sailor the previous night. More: workingclasshistory.com/2018/08/06/e...

Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 5h

#OtD 10 Oct 1937 fascist leader Oswald Mosley was knocked unconscious and hospitalised in Liverpool by a stone thrown by anti-fascists who attacked a Nazi meeting at which he had attempted to address the crowd stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8245...

Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 5h

#OtD 10 Oct 1902 Jewish anarcho-syndicalist and lifelong @IWW member and house painter Sam Dolgoff was born in a small Jewish village in what is now Belarus. Immigrating to NYC, he would be part of the US anarchist movement for most of the 20th century stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8242...

Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 6h

#OtD 10 or 19 Oct 1609 pioneering English revolutionary Gerrard Winstanley was born. He was a farmworker and the primary theoretician of the Diggers, or True Levellers, during the English Civil War who took over enclosed lands and farmed them stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8239...

Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 6h

#OtD 10 Oct 1900 Umberto Marzocchi, Italian anarchist shipyard worker who fought Mussolini's fascists in Italy, Franco's fascists in Spain and Hitler's fascists in France, was born stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1261...

Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 8h

📣 New Podcast! "10 October 1947: West Africa railway strike" on @Spreaker #african #black #history

10 October 1947: West Africa railway strike

Mini podcast of radical history on this date

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 16h

#OtD 9 Oct 1972 3000 council tenants in Kirkby, England launched a rent strike against the Housing Finances Act which increased rents. It lasted 14 months stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1094...

Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 22h

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...

Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 23h

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...

Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

#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...

Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

#OtD 9 Oct 1967 Argentinian doctor and revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, who had been wounded and captured, was summarily executed in Bolivia by the country's special forces stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1094...

Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

#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...

Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

#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...

Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

#OtD 9 Oct 1908 Australian anarchist poet Harry Hooton, who participated in the Sydney Push scene in Sydney, was born in Doncaster, England stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1261...