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#OtD 26 Jun 2012 40 construction workers from Balfour Beatty in England went out on a successful wildcat strike after management failed to honour an agreement on time off for weekends stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9841...

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📣 New Podcast! "26 June 1993: Decatur workers protest" on @Spreaker #decatur #history #workers

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#OtD 25 Jun 1978 the rainbow flag was first flown at the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade. The flag was designed by artist Gilbert Baker (pictured), and hand-dyed and stitched by 30 volunteers. This is our LGBTQ podcast series: workingclasshistory.com/tag/lgbtq/

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New Fireside Chat podcast: Ryan Harvey from the Hope Dies Last podcast interviews members of WCH and our Farsi language sister project, Daily Worker History, about our historical work. Available exclusively for our Patreon supporters at www.patreon.com/posts/132274...

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#OtD 25 Jun 1917 Spanish revolutionary and anti-Franco resister, Joaquina Dorado Pita was born in La Coruña. A CNT member, during the revolution she was involved in the collectivisation of industry. More about the revolution in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/2020/06/17/e...

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#OtD 25 Jun 1876 the Battle of the Little Bighorn began when Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes routed General Custer's army, killing Custer in the process. A full account of the battle is in Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9753...

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#OtD 25 Jun 1943 the Jewish Fighting Organisation in the Polish Częstochowa ghetto launched an armed uprising. They held out against Nazi troops for 5 days, and over 5000 survived through the ghetto until liberation by the Red Army in 1945 stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9757...

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#OtD 25 Jun 1942 French press denounced the Zazous: young people who embraced African American swing and jazz music and style and fought against fascists in the streets. More info in our podcast episode on anti-Nazi youth movements: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/72-e...

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#OtD 25 Jun 1878 the Kanak rebellion in New Caledonia began when indigenous Melanesian warriors killed a number of colonialists in the La Foa region stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9754...

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📣 New Podcast! "25 June 2021: Chad oil workers strike" on @Spreaker #black #chad #history

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#OtD 24 Jun 1855 crowds gathered in Hyde Park, London against the Sunday Trading Bill introduced to close shops, public transport and pubs on the Sabbath. The crowds grew over the next two Sundays, culminating in a riot on 1 July. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9665...

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#OtD 24 Jun 1763 William Trent in Philadelphia recorded an attempt to use biological warfare against Native Americans. He wrote that British troops gave blankets and a handkerchief from a smallpox hospital to 2 chiefs during peace talks. More here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

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#OtD 24 Jun 1980 a two-day general strike began in El Salvador protesting against the US-backed military dictatorship and its death squads. 85% of the economy was paralysed and 80,000 people took to the streets stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9669...

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#OtD 24 Jun 1976 the Polish government announced enormous food price rises. Countrywide strikes, public protests, and rioting broke out. In Radom, demonstrators burned the Communist Party headquarters and fought the police. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9668...

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#OtD 24 Jun 1917 the Russian Black Sea fleet mutinied at Sevastopol, one of the key events in the Russian revolution stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9667...

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#OtD 24 Jun 1943 a battle broke out within the segregated US military in the British village of Bamber Bridge. White military police opened fire on Black service personnel after they were unhappy about local residents supporting Black troops. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7894...

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#OtD 24 Jun 2012 Gerhard "Gad" Beck German educator, author, anti-fascist, and the last known gay survivor of the Holocaust, died just six days before his 89th birthday stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7895...

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#OtD 24 Jun 1856 Anna Yakimova, of the Socialist Revolutionaries, was born in what is now Kirov, Russia. Sentenced to death for trying to assassinate the tsar, she got a reduced sentence, and later freed during the 1917 revolution stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9666...

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📣 New Podcast! "24 June 1980: El Salvador general strike" on @Spreaker #el #history #salvador

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#OtD 23 Jun 1990 500 queer protesters took part in an illegal march before NYC Pride in protest against the city parks department refusing permission for the Pride rally in Central Park. Learn more in our book, Be Gay Do Crime: www.kickstarter.com/projects/wrk...

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#OtD 23 Jun 2023 Starbucks workers in the US at 21 stores began a week-long protest, with strikes, during Pride month against anti-union actions by management and a ban on Pride displays in stores. Learn more in our book, Be Gay Do Crime: www.kickstarter.com/projects/wrk...

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#OtD 23 Jun 1751 Gregoria Apaza Nina, Indigenous Aymara rebel leader, was born in Bolivia. She led a major Indigenous revolt, against Spanish colonial rule in the country. More on Native American resistance in this book: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

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#OtD 23 Jun 1952 gay activist William Dale Jennings was arrested for alleged solicitation of a police officer in NYC. His group, the Mattachine Society, launched a national campaign in his support. His case was dismissed. Learn more in our new book: www.kickstarter.com/projects/wrk...

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#OtD 23 Jun 1950 delivery drivers for Smithfields meat market in London went on wildcat strike. Lasting until July, the strike was condemned by the Labour government who brought in troops as scabs to break the strike stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9579...

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#OtD 23 Jun 1970 protesters in Tokyo rioted during a demonstration against the actions of the US government stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9579...

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#OtD 23 Jun 1911 a mass meeting of dockers passed a resolution refusing to load vessels manned by scabs in support of a seamen's strike in Salford, England. This is a great pamphlet about what became a general strike in the area: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9578...

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#OtD 23 Jun 1937 during the Spanish Civil War, following the Republican government suppression of the anarchists and POUM, anti-fascist author George Orwell fled Spain with his wife, Eileen O'Shaughnessy. Our podcast gives an overview of the conflict: workingclasshistory.com/2020/06/17/e...

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📣 New Podcast! "23 June 2015: St Pierre strike" on @Spreaker #history #pierre #workers

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#OtD 22 Jun 1941 Sisak People's Liberation Partisan Detachment, the first Yugoslav partisan unit, was founded following the Nazi occupation. Today is commemorated in Croatia as "Anti-Fascist Struggle Day" stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9493...

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#OtD 22 Jun 1945 tens of thousands of workers in Nigeria defied the unions and walked out on a general strike demanding a minimum wage and increased cost of living payment. Lasting 45 days, the workers were later given the increase stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9494...

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#OtD 22 Jun 1907 Chinese anarchist newspaper 'Xin Shiji' (The New Century) was first published in Paris. Anarchist ideas were soon taken back to China where it fused with a section of the labour movement stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9491...

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#OtD 22 Jun 1948 the Empire Windrush arrived in Tilbury docks bringing the first group of 492 Jamaicans to the UK. They had answered an appeal for workers from the UK which needed to rebuild following World War II, amidst an acute labour shortage shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

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#OtD 22 Jun 1908 celebrated anarchist Koken Yamaguchi was released from prison in Tokyo. Met by crowds waving red flags and singing, who were then attacked by police, with 10 arrested stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9492...

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#OtD 22 Jun 1848 the June Days Uprising began in France in response to plans to close National Workshops, which were created to provide work for the unemployed: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7875...

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📣 New Podcast! "22 June 1945: Nigeria general strike" on @Spreaker #black #history #nigeria

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#OtD 21 Jun 1949 7000 brewery workers in NYC won their 82-day strike. They won more base pay, increased night pay, more holiday, shorter hours, better safety, employer-funded pensions, better union rights and an additional worker on each truck stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9399...

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#OtD 21 Jun 1877 10 Irish miners were hanged for belonging to the Molly Maguires, a militant group who terrorised mine bosses, in what became known as "Black Thursday" or the "Day of the Rope" stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1248...

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#OtD 21 Jun 1964 three American civil rights activists, James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael 'Mickey' Schwerner, were murdered by police and KKK members in Mississippi stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9401...

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#OtD 21 Jun 1956 American playwright Arthur Miller was cited for contempt when he refused to name people as communists when called to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9400...

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#OtD 21 Jun 1908 "Women's Sunday" took place in London when 300,000 women descended on Hyde Park to demonstrate in favour of women's suffrage - the largest political gathering to date in the park stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9395...

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#OtD 21 Jun 1995 the final property occupied by people opposing the M11 motorway extension in Wanstead, east London, nicknamed Munstonia, was evicted by police in a massive operation costing a quarter of a million pounds. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9407...

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#OtD 21 Jun 1919 "Bloody Saturday" occurred during the Winnipeg general strike when 30,000 strikers were attacked by mounted police with clubs and guns. The attack resulted in the death of two strikers, 35-45 people injured, and numerous arrests stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9396...

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#OtD 21 Jun 1852 Italian anarchist seamstress, Maria Luisa 'Gigia' Minguzzi, was born. She played a leading role in the the women workers' movement in Italy and helped found the women's section of the International Workingmen's Association stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9394...

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#OtD 21 Jun 1922 a striking miner became the third killed by company guards during an eight-week strike in Illinois. In response, 1,000 armed strikers marched on strikebreakers while dropping bombs on scabs from a rented aeroplane stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9397...

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#OtD 21 Jun 1798 20,000 rebels fought British troops at the Battle of Vinegar Hill. The rebels were supporters of the United Irishmen movement, and their defeat at Vinegar Hill is viewed by historians as a decisive point in the 1798 revolt stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9393...

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📣 New Podcast! "21 June 2018: Mongolia health strike" on @Spreaker #health #history #mongolia

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Lots of new additions to our online store! Historical and theoretical texts to help inform your practice. Check them out here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/en-gb/collec...

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#OtD 20 June 1944 43 Italian partisans and civilians were shot by a Nazi firing squad in Fondotoce, near Milan. One partisan, Carlo Suzzi (pictured), amazingly survived and waited under the bodies of his comrades until nightfall to escape. More info: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9288...

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