#OtD 29 Sep 1909 the @iww began their first free speech fight in Missoula, MT. Members spoke on the street in defiance of the law until arrested, followed by another, effectively filling the local jail. By Oct, free speech won and all charges dropped https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10139/missoula-free-speech-fight
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#OtD 29 Sep 1907 while addressing a meeting on Parliament Hill Fields in London, UK, Sam Mainwaring, Welsh machinist and libertarian socialist credited with coining the term "anarcho-syndicalism", collapsed and subsequently died. He was 65 https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/12603/sam-mainwaring-died
🗓️ #OTD seven years ago...
@[email protected] scored this unbelievable free-kick at Stamford Bridge 🚀
#OtD 21 Sep 1921 Lev Chernyi, Russian individualist anarchist theorist, activist and poet, was executed without hearing or trial by the Bolshevik secret police after strongly denouncing the new Bolshevik government https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9439/lev-chernyi-executed
#OtD 21 Sep 1976 Chilean socialist refugee Orlando Letelier and think tank worker Ronni Moffitt were murdered in Washington, DC by a car bomb planted by US and UK-backed dictator General Pinochet's secret police https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9441/orlando-letelier-and-ronni-moffitt-assassinated
#OtD 3 Aug 1492 Columbus set sail from Spain for the "Indies", with disastrous consequences for the people who already lived there. He landed in the Bahamas, where he began enslaving and murdering the Arawak people. More in this book: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/books/products/500-years-of-indigenous-resistance-gord-hill
Mark Twain died #onthisday in 1910. The best known of his books is Huckleberry Finn, not so well known is Jap Herron which, according to a woman named Emily Grant Hutchings, he dictated from beyond the grave via a ouija board... https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/jap-herron-a-novel-written-from-the-ouija-board-1917 #OTD
Ah, I was just reminded that it was on this day in 2013 when Google Reader was shut down.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Reader
Looking back, this feels like the moment when my relationship with (corporate) technology started to shift. What was it for you all? Am I forgetting an earlier event?
#OtD 25 Sep 2005 sex workers in Kyonggi province, South Korea, organised in the Democratic Coalition of Sex Workers, reached the first collective bargaining agreement with brothel owners in the country's history https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9792/south-korean-sex-workers-collective-bargaining-agreement
#OtD 22 Sep 1953 300 workers at the British government atomic research plant in Salwick voted to go on strike the next day in defence of their tea breaks. If you know what happened next please message us! We've made tea break struggles merch here: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/all/tea
#OtD 22 Sep 1934 the United Textile Workers of America ordered its striking members back to work despite bosses conceding nothing. Over 420,000 had been out since July against cuts in hours. 13 were killed in the South alone. More in this great book: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/books/products/strike-jeremy-brecher
🗓️ #OTD 23 years ago, Cristiano scored his first United goal 🇵🇹
#OtD 21 Sep 1908 William White, a Black man, was hospitalised and maybe killed by white patrons in Hanover, PA, as part of a carnival game, "hit the c**n". Instead of the light balls the patrons used their own heavy ones to repeatedly strike White https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9437/william-white-possibly-killed
#OtD 21 Sep 1945 200,000 coal miners in the US went on strike in support of supervisory employees' demand for collective bargaining; part of a wave of strikes in the wake of WWII. Learn more in this great book which tells the story of those strikes: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/books/products/strike-jeremy-brecher
#OtD 21 Sep 1919 Teresa Rebull, revolutionary folk singer, was born in Barcelona. Involved in the Spanish revolution until she was jailed by the NKVD (Russian secret police). She managed to escape and went to France, joining the French resistance https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9438/teresa-rebull
#OtD 22 Sep 1912 the syndicalist union the Casa del Obrero Mundial (House of the World Worker) was formed in Mexico during the turbulent events of the revolution and despite repression by the Madero government https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9521/casa-del-obrero-mundial-founded
#OtD 22 Sep 1958 workers at the flax mill in Sandy Bay, in the British overseas territory of Saint Helena, went on strike. The strike was organised by the Saint Helena General Workers Union, which had been formed July 23 that year https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7871/saint-helena-flax-mill-strike
#OtD 22 Sep 1962 Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini punched a fascist who had confronted him outside the premiere for his film, Mamma Roma. Pasolini's radical politics and openness about his homosexuality made him a frequent target of the right https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9526/pasolini-punches-fascist
#OtD 22 Sep 1918 a mass mutiny and uprising of Bulgarian troops during WWI began. Soldiers deserting at Dobro Pole formed their own army, electing officers and turned their weapons on their leaders https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9522/bulgarian-soldier-uprising
#OtD 23 Sep 1923 two activists in the anarchist @Cntsindicato union were executed by garrotte in Terrassa, Spain by the Primo de Rivera dictatorship. They were convicted of robbing a bank to finance activities for their union which had been banned https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9611/anarchists-executed-in-spain
#OtD 23 Sep 2017 a strike of video game voice actors at 11 US companies ended in partial victory after a deal was reached after 340 days. It was the longest strike in the history of their union, @sagaftra https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9614/video-game-voice-actors-strike-ends
#OtD 23 Sep 2014 Spanish resistance activist Antonia Fontanillas died aged 97. After Franco's victory in the civil war, Antonia went underground to support the anarchist resistance movement, publishing illegal newspapers https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9613/antonia-fontanillas-dies
#OtD 23 Sep 1945 the Saigon Commune came into being when workers rose up, independently of the Vietminh, after French troops supported by Gurkhas under British command entered the city. More info, sources and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7885/creation-of-the-saigon-commune
#OtD 23 Sep 1911 the Organising Council of the anarchist Mexican Liberal Party issued a manifesto declaring war against authority, capital, and the Church. It was later broadcast and published in their paper Regeneración https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9610/mexican-liberal-party-manifesto
#OtD 23 Sep 1969 a wildcat strike of refuse workers began in London. In a matter of weeks, which saw piles of rubbish fill London's streets, a settlement was reached on 9 October. Workers got a wage increase of £2 10s. per week (about a 15% raise) https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/12598/dustmen-wildcat-strike