Notices by Working Class History (workingclasshistory@mastodon.social)

#OtD 12 Aug 2017 32-year-old anti-racist Heather Heyer was killed and 19 injured in a neo-Nazi terror attack in Charlottesville, VA. Heather was one of many protesting a white supremacist rally when a Nazi drove his car deliberately into the crowd https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8376/heather-heyer-murdered?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Just another example to point to when right-wingers say how the police are necessary because they help people. Look what they did to this man who called them because his father went missing:
https://t.co/yISFPaFM0S https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/24/lucy-letby-loses-attempt-to-appeal-against-baby-convictions?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#OtD 24 May 1968 the May 68 uprising in France peaked. 10 million workers were on strike with many occupying their factories. The city of Nantes and its surroundings were controlled by the workers. The state plotted repression. Artwork from the movement: https://t.co/X5ivvu3Z2a https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/may-68?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

🧵: #OtD 28 Jun 1969 the Stonewall rebellion began in the early hours. The New York Police Department, as part of its policy of closing gay bars, raided the Stonewall Inn, which had a substantial poor and working class LGBT+ clientele. https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e21-22-the-stonewall-riots-and-pride-at-50/

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Today, May 1, is International Workers' Day! It commemorates the sentencing to death of eight anarchist workers in Chicago who were framed for throwing a bomb at police who had attacked a strike demonstration in May 1886. Learn more about May Day here: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/the-incomplete-true-authentic-and-wonderful-history-of-may-day-peter-linebaugh

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/wrkclasshistory/status/1652918316778807296

#OtD 30 Mar 1915, legendary Catalan anarchist and guerrilla fighter, Francesc Sabate Llopart, was born in Barcelona. After the Civil War, he fought in the underground resistance against the Franco dictatorship, conducting numerous successful attacks https://libcom.org/history/articles/1915-1960-francisco-sabate-llopart

#OtD 26 Mar 1923, in Yambol, Bulgaria, during an anarchist protest against the government decision to disarm the people, the army shot into the crowd, killing 30 and wounding and arresting many others. Others were executed the following day and in April.

#OtD 10 Mar 1923 CNT union activist Salvador Seguí (pictured) was assassinated on the street in Barcelona. Francesc Comes was wounded and died a few days later. The killing was by gunmen of the "Sindicatos Libres", an extreme right-wing Catholic nationalist "union"

#OtD 13 Feb 1951 New Zealand's biggest ever industrial dispute began when dock workers started an overtime ban demanding the same 15% pay increase that all industrial workers had just been awarded. It lasted 151 days until they lost

#OtD 21 Dec 1919, Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman were deported from the US alongside 247 fellow worker activists, anarchists and radicals on board the S.S. Buford bound for Russia https://libcom.org/library/emma-goldman-living-my-life

#OtD 20 Dec 1973 Spanish fascist PM due to succeed Franco, Luis Carrero Blanco, was assassinated, and dubbed "Spain's first astronaut" as his car was blown over a 5-storey building. His death was credited by some as hastening the return to democracy

#OtD 6 Nov 1915 Spanish anarchist, anti-fascist, and member of the Mujeres Libres, María Bruguera Pérez was born. https://libcom.org/library/free-women-spain-anarchism-struggle-emancipation-women-martha-ackelsberg

#OtD 31 Oct 1926 15-year-old Italian anarchist Anteo Zamboni attempted to assassinate the fascist dictator Mussolini during a parade in Bologna celebrating the March on Rome. When his shot missed he was attacked and murdered by fascist squads

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#OtD 29 Oct 1901, anarchist Leon Czolgosz was executed for the murder of US President Mckinley.

#OtD 23 Oct 1937 the @IndustrialWrkr@twitter.com paper announced the death of @iww@twitter.com member, sailor and Spanish civil war volunteer Heinrich Bortz, from Germany. He escaped from a concentration camp and joined the Durruti Column International Battalion and was KIA https://libcom.org/history/iww-members-who-fought-spanish-civil-war

#OtD 21 Oct 1929, anarchist, feminist, sci-fi and fantasy novelist Ursula K. Le Guin was born in Berkeley, California. We have made available some of her little-known works in our online store. Check them out here: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/books/ursula-k-le-guin

Can any Polish speaking friends help us out by translating this plaque? Thanks for any assistance!

#OtD 18 Sep 1974 Flora Sanhueza Rebolledo, Chilean teacher, anarchist and Spanish civil war refugee died as a result of the torture she suffered at the hands of the Pinochet regime aged 63.

#OtD 15 Sep 2005 the Guardian revealed that Britain's largest arms manufacturer, BAE Systems, had secretly paid more than £1 million to former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. The firm used a front company registered in the British Virgin Islands.