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#OtD 8 Oct 1886 French anarchist Pierre Besnard was born. He later acted as secretariat of the International Workers' Association and wrote much about the Spanish Civil War stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1085...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 20h

#OtD 7 Oct 1920 seamen and firemen at the Dublin docks were on a wildcat strike demanding a pay increase. The stoppage halted exports from Ireland, which reduced the number of cattle for sale at markets by half stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1075...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 20h

#OtD 7 Oct 1969 the Army Induction Centre on Whitehall Street in New York City was bombed by Sam Melville and David Hughey. There were no injuries. It was the 2nd time the building had been bombed by anti-war activists, and was subsequently closed stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1075...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 22h

#OtD 7 Oct 1922 Italian anarchist Lidio Ettorre was assaulted by fascists in Giulianova, Central Italy, who then burned down his house stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1261...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

#OtD 7 Oct 1985 nurses across the state of Victoria, Australia, started a work-to-rule which eventually turned into an all-out strike as managers tried to break the action. It ended in partial victory for the workers stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1075...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

#OtD 7 Oct 1944 an armed rebellion broke out in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Prisoners fought back with knives and home-made grenades, burned down Crematorium IV, and killed and injured several SS officers stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1075...

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#OtD 7 Oct 2023 after decades of occupation and apartheid armed Palestinians led by Hamas broke out of Gaza and attacked Israel. Israel responded with what is almost universally recognised now to be a genocide of the Palestinian people stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1294...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

#OtD 7 Oct 1975 the social democratic NDP govt in British Columbia, Canada, introduced Bill 146 in an emergency session for a 90-day "cooling off" period in order to force 50k striking forest, railway, gas, and food industry workers back to work stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1261...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

#OtD 7 Oct 2001 the US and UK began the bombing of Afghanistan following the 9/11 attacks kicking off the War on Terror. By October 2023, the conflict has led to an estimated death toll of at least 4.5 million, according to Brown University stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1075...

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#OtD 6 Oct 1969 the Haymarket police memorial statue in Chicago was blown up by the Weather Underground urban guerrilla group. Just one of many occasions in which the statue was destroyed by vandals. Learn more in this podcast for our Patreon supporters: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e85-...

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#OtD 6 Oct 1985 Tottenham, London went up in flames as residents of the Broadwater Farm estate rose up against police after the killing of Cynthia Jarrett, an African-Caribbean mother by police, shortly after other officers also shot Cherry Groce stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1066...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

#OtD 7 Oct 1879 Joe Hill, songwriter and Industrial Workers of the World (@IWW) revolutionary union martyr, was born in Sweden. He wrote such working-class anthems as 'The Preacher and the Slave', and was executed in the US. Learn more in this book: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

#OtD 7 Oct 1920 employees of most newspapers in Berlin were locked out by employers after they went on strike. Employers appealed to the court of arbitration, which declared the sympathy strikes unlawful. Most newspapers then locked out their workers stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1074...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

#OtD 7 Oct 1988 thousands of workers in Montenegro went on strike demanding the resignation of the Communist leadership, whom they blamed for 200% inflation. The CP said they supported the demand, and the strikes ended after a senior official resigned stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7986...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

📣 New Podcast! "7 October 1988: Montenegro mass strike" on @Spreaker #history #montenegro #workers

7 October 1988: Montenegro mass strike

Mini podcast of radical history on this date.

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

#OtD 6 Oct 1976 Cubana de Aviación flight 455 crashed killing all 73 people aboard after 2 bombs on board exploded, planted by two men working for Luis Posada Carriles, a former CIA operative. Posada was later pardoned with support from the US

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

#OtD 6 Oct 1971 inmates at the New Mexico prison began a work and hunger strike in protest at increased restrictions. The next day a riot began and was quickly repressed. Several guards would be indicted over use of force and brutalisation of prisoners stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1066...

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#OTD 6 Oct 1917 civil rights and women's rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer was born in Mississippi. She defied arrests, white supremacists, and police to vote, then organised to register thousands of other Black people to vote across the South stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1066...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

#OtD 6 Oct 1985 Tottenham, London went up in flames as residents of the Broadwater Farm estate rose up against police after the killing of Cynthia Jarrett, an African-Caribbean mother by police, shortly after other officers also shot Cherry Groce stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1066...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

A mutiny is both by people in the armed forces or the crew of a ship. A coup is an overthrow of a government by the military or individuals within the state.

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

#OtD 6 Oct 1976 the Thammasat University massacre took place in Thailand when state forces and far-right royalist mobs murdered dozens of student demonstrators who were protesting against the return of military dictator Thanom Kittikachorn stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1066...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

#OtD 6 Oct 1969 the Haymarket police memorial statue in Chicago was blown up by the Weather Underground urban guerrilla group. Just one of many occasions in which the statue was destroyed by vandals. Learn more in this podcast for our Patreon supporters: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e85-...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

#OtD 6 Oct 1971 30 people including @PeterTatchell held a sit-in at the Chepstow pub in London organised by the Gay Liberation Front, in protest at it refusing to serve LGBT+ people. Police evicted them but landlord agreed to stop discriminating stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1140...

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#OtD 3 Oct 1896 designer, artist and libertarian socialist William Morris died of tuberculosis at age 62. We have used some of his iconic artwork in merch to help fund our work: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

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#OtD 3 Oct 1965 revolutionary nurse, Beatriz González Ortega, died in Mexico City aged 91. During the Mexican Revolution, Ortega was part of Pancho Villa's peasant army, caring for the militia and nursing the wounded. More on the Mexican Revolution: shop.workingclasshistory.com/en-gb/collec...

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