Notices by Working Class History (workingclasshistory@mastodon.social), page 4

#OtD 28 Nov 1985 a Shell report showed they knew that global heating was real, caused by fossil fuels, and that global temp and sea levels were rising and would rise further. So they covered it up and began sponsoring fake studies to deny climate change.

#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.

#OtD 18 Sep 2013 Pavlos Fyssas (aka Killah P), a Greek anti-fascist rapper, was murdered by a member of the Nazi party Golden Dawn in the western Athens district of Keratsini.

#OtD 15 Sep 1963 four African-American girls were killed and 22 others were wounded after KKK members planted a bomb against a predominantly Black church in Birmingham, Alabama. This act of terrorism marked a turning point in the Civil Rights Movement.

#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.

#OtD 26 Aug 2017 Chilean riot dog Negro Matapacos (Black Cop-Killer) died of old age. A Santiago stray, he defied teargas, barked at police and defended protesters in the 2011 student movement and subsequently. Commemorative posters & more here: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/all/negro-matapacos

#OtD 25 Aug 1936 communist artist Felicia Browne became the first British volunteer to be killed in the Spanish civil war. She was killed while trying to help a wounded comrade, despite heavy fire. http://www.albavolunteer.org/2014/09/felicia-browne-the-first-british-casualty-in-spain/

#OtD 22 Aug 1893 Dorothy Parker, American writer and victim of Hollywood blacklisting, was born. Radicalised by the executions of the anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti, she later founded the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League and helped Spanish civil war orphans. https://libcom.org/history/hollywood-blacklist-dan-georgakas

#OtD 21 Feb 1965 Malcolm X, instrumental speaker and activist of the American civil rights and Black power movements, was assassinated while preparing to address a crowd of supporters in New York month https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9371/malcolm-x-assassinated