#OtD 15 Nov 1936 the Battle of Ciudad Universitaria began during the Spanish Civil War. Working-class people defended Madrid against Nationalist forces, while British volunteers in the University City of Madrid used books as bullet-stopping barricades stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8722...

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Irish activist Tadhg Hickey crew member of the Global Sumud Flotilla briefly speaks of the inhumane treatment towards the crew by the occupation after abduction.

A man on the streets of the UK is asked about the “problem of immigration” and dismantles talking points with ease.

#OtD 24 Aug 1968 the Campaign for Social Justice and the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association held the first civil rights march in Northern Ireland protesting systemic discrimination against Catholics in issues such as housing and voting rights stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9632...

#OtD 24 Aug 1944 the 9th Armored Company (aka: La Nueve), a tank company comprised of 120 Spanish anarchist veterans of the Spanish Civil War, were the first to enter Paris during its liberation from Nazi occupation stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9630...

#OtD 20 Aug 1915 three Russian anarchists robbed the Boyle Heights branch of the Home Savings Bank in LA to raise money for the Russian revolutionary movement. One was arrested, the second shot himself to evade capture, and the third was never caught stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9247...

#OtD 24 Jul 1936 days after the start of the civil war, Buenaventura Durruti left Barcelona with an armed column and headed for Zaragoza which was occupied by the fascists. His workers' militia advanced and saved the Aragon front. More about the war: workingclasshistory.com/2020/06/17/e...

#OtD 17 Jul 1936 the Spanish Civil War began with a coup in Morocco as right wing generals rose up against the Republican govt. The coup was smashed by the working class, and full-scale revolution would break out in the coming days. Learn more in our pod: workingclasshistory.com/2020/06/17/e...

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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." 

-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

#OtD 20 Apr 1919 1000 youths confronted soldiers in one of the major flashpoints of the Limerick Soviet in Ireland. The Trades and Labour Council effectively ran the city during a general strike, even printing its own currency (pictured). More info: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9245...