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#OtD 27 Sep 1975 a conservative Italian newspaper wrote a review of a hoax report sent to the country's leaders proposing ways to end the working-class revolt. The hoax was written by Swiss-Italian Situationist, Gianfranco Sanguinetti (pictured) https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9968/veritable-report-hoax

#OtD 27 Sep 1973 the United Farm Workers in California won their second strike in a jurisdictional dispute with the Teamsters, when yet again the Teamsters were forced to concede the UFW's jurisdiction in organising farm workers https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9967/united-farm-workers-win-second-jurisdiction-strike-against-teamsters

#OtD 27 Sep 1915 a strike of 5000 garment workers in Chicago was called by the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America demanding better pay, shorter hours and the abolition of blacklisting. Employers called in police and fired hundreds https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9962/chicago-garment-workers-strike

#OtD 27 Sep 1917 study groups of Native and white radicals in South Africa formed the Industrial Workers of Africa, a revolutionary, multiracial union with a simple slogan: "Sifuna Zonke!" (We want everything!) https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9963/industrial-workers-of-africa-formed

#OtD 27 Sep 1928 two riots took place in Port Adelaide, Australia as 5,000 strikers and supporters besieged docks staffed by scabs. Workers used pipes, iron bars, sticks, stones and even baling hooks to attack the scabs at one dock https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9964/port-adelaide-anti-scab-riots

#OtD 28 Sep 1970 great US novelist John Dos Passos died in Baltimore. Though he had moved to the right by the end of his life, in his younger days he was a revolutionary and his novels covered radical and working-class themes https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10062/john-dos-passos-dies

#OtD 28 Sep 1846 British troops opened fire on starving food rioters in Dungarvan, Ireland, killing one. The Great Famine lasted until the 1850s, killing around a million people and forced even more to emigrate, while food was exported for profit https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10057/food-riots-in-dungarvan,-ireland

#OtD 28 Sep 1955 as dictator Gen Franco visited Barcelona, anarchist resistance activist, Francesc Sabaté, took a cab, told the driver he worked for the Ministry of Information and fired anti-Franco leaflets through the sunroof as they drove around https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10061/sabate-distributes-anti-franco-leaflets-by-mortar

#OtD 28 Sep 1864 the International Workingmen's Association was formed in London, UK. It was a gathering of socialist, anarchist and trade union organisations from around the world dedicated to the emancipation of the working class https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/the-first-socialist-schism-bakunin-vs-marx-in-the-international-working-mens-association-wolfgang-eckhardt

#OtD 28 Sep 1991 leading labour organiser Shankar Guha Niyogi was assassinated in his sleep by hired gunmen at midnight in Bhilai, India. His successful organising efforts had angered many local industrialists, whose profits had suffered as a result https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10065/assassination-of-shankar-guha-niyogi

#OtD 28 Sep 1907 socialist revolutionary and anti-colonialist Bhagat Singh was born in what is now Pakistan. An advocate of working-class uprising, he attacked Gandhi for his fear of the proletariat. He was executed by the British in 1931 https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10060/bhagat-singh-born

#OtD 28 Sep 1898 anarchist André Respaut was born in France. Active in solidarity work for the Spanish Civil War, he participated in the French resistance, imprisoned in Buchenwald concentration camp and survived to continue his activism after the war https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10059/andré-respaut-born

#OtD 28 Sep 1997 dockworkers in Oakland, CA, picketed the Neptune Jade ship in solidarity with Liverpool dockers in the UK. The ship had been loaded by scab labour, attempting to run a global blockade. Despite court action, the ship didn't unload https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/12602/neptune-jade-picket

#OtD 28 Sep 1975 three Black liberation activists held up the Knights­bridge Spaghetti House restaurant in London, UK, hoping to steal the weekly takings. The robbery went wrong and turned into a five-day stand-off with police until they surrendered https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10063/the-spaghetti-house-seige

#OtD 28 Sep 1985 two days of rioting erupted in Brixton, London after police shot and paralysed Dorothy Groce, an innocent Jamaican mother, in her bed. The police did not apologise until 29 years later https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10064/anti-police-riots-erupt-in-brixton

#OtD 29 Sep 1921 Jewish Lithuanian-born factory worker and anarchist, Fanya Baron, was executed by the Cheka (Bolshevik secret police). Having returned to Russia to join the revolution, she fell foul of the new Bolshevik authorities https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10141/fanya-baron-executed

#OtD 29 Sep 1944 communist nurse and partisan Virginia Tonelli was burned alive in the San Sabba concentration camp in Italy. The fascists had tortured her for days, but were unable to get her to speak. Exasperated, her torturers then burned her alive https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e77-80-italian-resistance/

#OtD 29 Sep 2007 tens of thousands of textile workers in Ghazl el-Mahalla, Egypt, went on illegal wildcat strike, eventually winning all their demands https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10146/wildcat-strike-in-ghazl-el-mahalla

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#OTD 70 years ago, @[email protected] Charlton made his United debut ❤️

Front cover to Flatland (1884) by Edwin Abbott Abbott, who died #onthisday in 1926. Read Ian Stewart's introduction to the strange tale of A. Square's geometric adventures, the first ever book that could be described as “mathematical fiction” https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/aspiring-to-a-higher-plane #otd

Today in #ComputingHistory, we celebrate #AdaLovelaceDay, an international celebration of women in STEM. Ada Lovelace Day was established in 2009 to honor her legacy and highlight the many contributions of women in STEM. It strives to inspire future generations to pursue careers in these fields.

In 1843, Ada Lovelace published what is widely regarded as the first computer program.

Her legacy continues to inspire. #OTD https://www.acm.org/education/otd-in-computing-history