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#OtD 12 Sep 1992 Anti-Fascist Action fought neo-Nazis heading to a Blood & Honour gig in the "Battle of Waterloo" in London. By occupying the redirection point for the gig, anti-fascists were able to ambush small groups of Nazis as they arrived. https://libcom.org/library/bash-the-fash-anti-fascist-recollections-1984-1993/15-waterloo-blood-and-honour-gig-london-1992

#OtD 3 Sep 1940 Uruguayan radical author and journalist Eduardo Hughes Galeano was born in Montevideo. The dictatorship imprisoned and exiled him, three countries banned his books, and Argentinian death squads tried to kill him, but he survived.

#OtD 16 Aug 2012 police in Marikana, South Africa massacred 34 miners who were engaging in a wildcat strike for a pay increase. This is a history of the strike wave and the repression: https://libcom.org/library/south-africa-partial-reemergence-workers-autonomy-mouvement-communiste-kolektivn%C4%9B-proti

#OtD 10 Aug 1956 André Achiary, a former French military intelligence officer, alongside the Union Française Nord-Africaine terrorist group, planted a bomb in the Casbah, Algiers, killing 73 people as part of a campaign against Algerian independence.

#OtD 20 Jun 1967 boxing legend Muhammad Ali was convicted for refusing the draft for the Vietnam war & sentenced to 5 years prison and a $10,000 fine. He criticised the system where: "the rich man’s son went to college, and the poor man’s son went to war" https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/-muhammad-ali-convicted-refusing-vietnam-draft

#OtD 4 Jun 1989 the Chinese army began to crush the uprising and 7-week long occupation of Tiananmen Square. Hundreds of students and workers around the country were killed before the rebellion was repressed over the next 2 days https://libcom.org/history/chinese-democratic-uprising-1989

#OtD 21 May 1968, during the May uprising in France, radical workers and students formed a joint Workers-Students Action Committee to support an ongoing strike and occupation at Paris's Citroen auto plant https://libcom.org/library/worker-student-action-committees-france-1968-perlman-gregoire

#OtD 10 May 1968, the "night of the barricades" took place in Paris. It saw some of the most severe street fighting of the May '68 rebellion. Books, reproduction posters and more from May 68 available here: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/may-68

#OtD 10 May 2000, gay rights activists in Glasgow climbed atop a Stagecoach bus, owned by homophobe Brian Souter, and covered it with pink paint. They were protesting Souter's £1M support of a campaign for keeping the homophobic section 28 law

Question for Colombians, Spanish speakers and #twitterstorians: we would love to find the exact location of the first women's strike in Colombia, the textile factory in Bello, Antioquia in 1920. Betsabé Espinal was probably the most famous participant. Any assistance appreciated!

#OtD 4 May 1929 actress and member of the Dutch resistance Audrey Hepburn was born in Belgium. She later worked as a courier for and performed in underground concerts to raise funds for the resistance during Holland's occupation https://libcom.org/library/audrey-hepburn-dutch-resistance-courier

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#OtD 26 Apr 1905 Surrealist and anarchist filmmaker Jean Vigo was born in Paris. Zero for Conduct (1933), his most famous film, was banned for "Praise of indiscipline & attacking the prestige of the educational institution"

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#OtD 23 Apr 1976, Catalan anarchist Enric Duran i Giralt ‘Robin Bank' was born. He later robbed dozens of Spanish banks of around half a million euros to finance anticapitalist social movements

#OtD 17 Apr 1920, dockers in Dublin refused to load foodstuffs destined for England. The action helped relieve severe food shortages in Dublin, which had been dire since 1917, while huge quantities of food were shipped to Britain https://libcom.org/history/general-strike-irish-independence

#OtD 9 Apr 1987, 8000 people blocked a major road in Cadiz, Spain, as part of a militant and successful fight against the privatisation of the Puerto Real shipyards. This is a detailed account of the dispute: https://libcom.org/library/anarcho-syndicalism-puerto-real-shipyard-resistance-community-control

#OtD 1 Apr 1972, the Situationist International was dissolved. One of the first revolutionary group to analyse capitalism in its consumerist form, their ideas had a huge influence on the France 1968 uprising. Read more here: http://libcom.org/library/situationists-reading-guide

#OtD 31 Mar 1968 Zengakuren - Japanese radical students - clashed with police in riots against the new Narita airport. It was part of an extended campaign for years against the airport which was going to displace hundreds of farmers https://libcom.org/history/zengakuren-japans-revolutionary-students

#OtD 27 Mar 1942 France's Vichy govt issued a decree demanding barbers to collect cut hair and donate it to the war effort. The Zazous (rebellious anti-fascist youths) refused and grew their hair long. More info in our podcast: https://workingclasshistory.com/2018/04/04/wch4-anti-nazi-youth-movements-in-world-war-ii/