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#OtD 23 Feb 1864 300 female collar laundry workers at 14 firms went on strike in Troy, NY demanding pay increases of 20-25%, and better health and safety. After less than a week, they won stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9...

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#OtD 22 Feb 2018 20,000 teachers across West Virginia walked out on a wildcat strike protesting low pay and health benefit cuts. Rank and file teachers organised themselves, defied the union's call to return and stayed out until they won a 5% pay rise stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9...

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#OtD 21 Feb 2013 Israeli authorities issued orders to demolish the homes of four Palestinian families in the village of Beit Dajan. The move was part of an ongoing campaign to expand illegal settlements and ethnically cleanse the area of its inhabitants stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1...

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Shin is commemorated by our February T-shirt of the month, made by a workers' Co-op supporting grassroots unions in Asia: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/t-s...

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#OtD 21 Feb 1973 law students in Athens went on strike and barricaded themselves inside the University in protest at the military dictatorship. Police violently repressed the students, but it was a key event leading to the student uprising of November stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9...

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#OtD 22 Feb 1943 German Jewish anti-fascist resistance member, communist and journalist, Dagobert Lubinsky, died in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9...

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#OtD 22 Feb 1860 the biggest strike in the pre-civil war USA began. New England shoemakers walked out and within days 20000 were on strike across 25 towns. On 10 April, 30 employers agreed to increase wages by 10% and workers began to return to work stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9...

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#OtD 22 Feb 1865 the Dripping Riot took place in Leeds. Eliza Stafford, a cook, was caught stealing 2lbs (900g) of dripping from her boss and was jailed for a month. She was released on Feb 22 and thousands attacked her boss's house, then police stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9...

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#OtD 22 Feb 1927 the first union for Korean casual labourers in Japan was formed: the Casual Workers' Union (Jiyü Rõdõsha Kumiai). It was organised by Korean anarchists Mun Seong-hun, Lee Si-woo, O Seong-mun, and others stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9465/korean-casual-workers'-union-formed

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#OtD 22 Feb 1943 three German White Rose activists, Christoph Probst, Hans and Sophie Scholl, were executed by guillotine for urging the overthrow of the Nazi government. As the blade fell, Hans called out "Let freedom live!" More on anti-Nazi youth: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/72-edelwe...

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#OtD 22 Feb 1860 the biggest strike in the pre-civil war USA began. New England shoemakers walked out and within days 20000 were on strike across 25 towns. On 10 April, 30 employers agreed to increase wages by 10% and workers began to return to work stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9...

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#OtD 22 Feb 1943 German Jewish anti-fascist resistance member, communist and journalist, Dagobert Lubinsky, died in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9...

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#OtD 22 Feb 1876 Yankton Dakota writer, editor, translator, musician, educator, and political activist, Zitkála-Šá, was born on the Yankton Indian Reservation in South Dakota stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/12525/zitk%C3%A1la-%C5%A1%C3%A1-born

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#OtD 21 Feb 1973 law students in Athens went on strike and barricaded themselves inside the University in protest at the military dictatorship. Police violently repressed the students, but it was a key event leading to the student uprising of November stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9...

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Shin is commemorated by our February T-shirt of the month, made by a workers' Co-op supporting grassroots unions in Asia: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/t-s...

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#OtD 21 Feb 1936 Korean anarchist Shin Chae-ho died in prison. Previously Korea's most prominent journalist, he had been sentenced to 10 yrs hard labour. He never bowed on principle, meaning he splashed himself when he washed his face stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9...

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#OtD 21 Feb 2013 Israeli authorities issued orders to demolish the homes of four Palestinian families in the village of Beit Dajan. The move was part of an ongoing campaign to expand illegal settlements and ethnically cleanse the area of its inhabitants stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1...

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#OtD 20 Feb 1895 African-American abolitionist and advocate for women's rights who escaped slavery, Frederick Douglass, died in Washington DC aged 77 stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1...

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#OtD 21 Feb 2013 armed Israeli settlers attacked the Palestinian village of Qusra and set fire to six cars. Israeli troops then invaded the village and used "excessive force against the residents", according to the Palestinian ambassador to the UN stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1...

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#OtD 21 Feb 1848 the Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels was published. Widely read by workers across the world, it remains one of the most influential texts ever written shop.workingclasshistory.com/en-gb/collec...

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#OtD 21 Feb 1957 the 385 employees of the Pechter Baking Company in NYC walked out on solidarity strike when they were picketed by striking bagel bakers. They remained out for 2 1/2 weeks, until they won significant improvements stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9...

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#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 stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9...

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#OtD 21 Feb 1919 British suffragette and anti-war-activist Alice Wheeldon died of influenza aged 53. Her health had been broken by a stint in prison after she was framed by MI5 for a bogus plot to assassinate the PM stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9...

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#OtD 20 Feb 1919 during the revolutionary upsurge of the Biennio Rosso (Two Red Years), metalworkers in the @cgilnazionale union achieved a maximum eight-hour working day from the employers, which was to be implemented in May and August that year stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1...

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#OtD 20 Feb 1990 US miners won a 10-month strike and occupation of Pittston Coal plant in Virginia. Sit-ins, sabotage and the actions of thousands of strike supporters and women played a key role in its success stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9...

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#OtD 20 Feb 1834 the first Lowell "mill girls" strike occurred in New England when 800 women textile workers walked out against a 15% pay cut. While unsuccessful, it showed that local women workers would no longer be pushed around stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9...

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#OtD 20 Feb 1924 Italian anarchist tailor, Ernesto Bonomini, killed a leading Italian fascist in a Paris restaurant, declaring that he wanted to avenge the victims of fascism. Sentenced to 8 years hard labour, then commuted to simple imprisonment stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9...

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This from Italian working-class author, Alberto Prunetti, really underlines the relationship between working-class struggles and working-class writing: how both create narratives to help us reimagine our present, and our future. Listen more: www.patreon.com/posts/wcl10-...

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#OtD 21 Feb 1957 the 385 employees of the Pechter Baking Company in NYC walked out on solidarity strike when they were picketed by striking bagel bakers. They remained out for 2 1/2 weeks, until they won significant improvements stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9...

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#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 stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9...

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#OtD 21 Feb 1848 the Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels was published. Widely read by workers across the world, it remains one of the most influential texts ever written shop.workingclasshistory.com/en-gb/collec...

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#OtD 21 Feb 2013 armed Israeli settlers attacked the Palestinian village of Qusra and set fire to six cars. Israeli troops then invaded the village and used "excessive force against the residents", according to the Palestinian ambassador to the UN stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1...

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This from Italian working-class author, Alberto Prunetti, really underlines the relationship between working-class struggles and working-class writing: how both create narratives to help us reimagine our present, and our future. Listen more: www.patreon.com/posts/wcl10-...

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#OtD 20 Feb 1895 African-American abolitionist and advocate for women's rights who escaped slavery, Frederick Douglass, died in Washington DC aged 77 stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1...

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#OtD 20 Feb 1924 Italian anarchist tailor, Ernesto Bonomini, killed a leading Italian fascist in a Paris restaurant, declaring that he wanted to avenge the victims of fascism. Sentenced to 8 years hard labour, then commuted to simple imprisonment stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9...

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#OtD 20 Feb 1834 the first Lowell "mill girls" strike occurred in New England when 800 women textile workers walked out against a 15% pay cut. While unsuccessful, it showed that local women workers would no longer be pushed around stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9...

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#OtD 20 Feb 2018 191 miners at the Ok Tedi Mining Ltd in Papua New Guinea walked out on a wildcat strike demanding changes to work shifts and renegotiating their contract. The company retaliated by sacking the workers, who were not supported by the union stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7...

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New podcast episode! First of two parts, we speak to the organisers of the Working-Class Literature Festival in Florence, held at the former GKN factory, which workers took over after they were laid off in 2021. Support us, and listen here: patreon.com/posts/wcl10-...

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#OtD 20 Feb 1990 US miners won a 10-month strike and occupation of Pittston Coal plant in Virginia. Sit-ins, sabotage and the actions of thousands of strike supporters and women played a key role in its success stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9...

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#OtD 20 Feb 1919 during the revolutionary upsurge of the Biennio Rosso (Two Red Years), metalworkers in the @cgilnazionale union achieved a maximum eight-hour working day from the employers, which was to be implemented in May and August that year stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1...

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#OtD 20 Feb 1917 a food riot by mostly Jewish women took place in New York's Lower East Side. Women overturned an onion-seller's cart and began seizing food, and hurling it at police when they arrived. They marched to City Hall and gave speeches stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9...

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#OtD 20 Feb 1988 20k people in Manchester marched against Margaret Thatcher's homophobic section 28 law, which made it illegal for public bodies to "promote" homosexuality, including teaching its "acceptability" in school stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9...

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#OtD 20 Feb 2015 2000 prisoners at Willacy prison, Texas, rioted in protest at appalling conditions in the private facility, which included raw sewage, infestations of insects, maggots, inadequate medical care and sexual violence by guards stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9...

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New podcast episode! First of two parts, we speak to the organisers of the Working-Class Literature Festival in Florence, held at the former GKN factory, which workers took over after they were laid off in 2021. Support us, and listen here: patreon.com/posts/wcl10-...

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#OtD 19 Feb 2000, Spanish anti-fascist resistance fighter Maria Mombiola died aged 85. After the Spanish civil war, she escaped a French concentration camp and joined the French resistance, and later the anti-Franco underground stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9...

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#OtD 19 Feb 1913 suffragettes in England bombed the new country house of Chancellor of the Exchequer Lloyd George - just one of many violent attacks of the time stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9...

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#OtD 19 Feb 2002 legendary transgender activist, of Puerto Rican and Venezuelan descent, Sylvia Rivera died aged 50 in NYC. Born in the Bronx, she was a friend to Marsha P Johnson, active in the Gay Liberation Front, Gay Activist Alliance and Young Lords stories.workingclasshistory.com/tag/8460/...

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