Working Class History

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2026-03-15 04:46:43 UTC

#OtD 15 Mar 1973 after a prison guards' walkout against rehabilitation reforms, inmates at Walpole prison began running it themselves, improving conditions and eliminating violence. This ended when state troopers allowed guards to regain control https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8704/inmates-take-control-of-walpole-prison

2026-03-15 04:11:43 UTC

#OtD 15 Mar 1983 radical journalist and suffragist Rebecca West died aged 90. She helped found the feminist journal The Freewoman, and later worked with Emma Goldman to assist Spanish antifascist refugees https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8705/rebecca-west-dies

2026-03-14 12:02:26 UTC

#OtD 14 Mar 1970 two sailors on a US vessel carrying 10k tons of napalm for use in the Vietnam war mutinied, hijacked the ship and sailed it to neutral Cambodia. But they could never have guessed what would happen next. Learn more in our podcast: https://workingclasshistory.com/2019/04/09/wch-crime-columbia-eagle-mutiny/

2025-10-13 07:56:44 UTC

#OtD 13 Oct 1970 famous Black activist Angela Davis was arrested by the FBI in NYC. She had fled California after a warrant for her arrest was issued in connection with an attempted jailbreak. Davis was later acquitted. Learn more in this book: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/books/products/if-they-come-in-the-morning-angela-davis

2025-09-10 11:26:42 UTC

#OtD 10 Sep 1962 white supremacists attempted to assassinate Black civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer in Mississippi. While staying with her friend Mary Tucker, racists drove by, firing 16 shots at her, all of which missed. Learn more about Jim Crow: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/books/david-pilgrim

2025-08-31 07:11:21 UTC

#OtD 31 Aug 1942 a wildcat general strike broke out in Luxembourg in opposition to the occupying Nazi regime's order to conscript young people into the Nazi army https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10356/luxembourg-anti-nazi-strike

2025-08-16 12:56:22 UTC

#OtD 16 Aug 1921 The Times of London newspaper exposed 'The Protocol of the Elders of Zion' as an antisemitic fraud. Antisemitic businessman, Henry Ford (pictured receiving an award from Nazi officials), continued to publish it a further 91 times https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8760/%22the-protocol-of-the-elders-of-zion%22-exposed-as-a-fraud

2025-07-25 22:11:15 UTC

#OtD 25 Jul 1885 El Polo Bamba café in Montevideo, Uruguay, opened its doors. One of the first literary cafés in the city, and became its most famous, where artists would mingle with activists and anarchists for hours of discussion. More info and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7905/el-polo-bamba

2025-07-24 13:26:22 UTC

#OtD 24 Jul 1936 days after the start of the civil war, Buenaventura Durruti left Barcelona with an armed column and headed for Zaragoza which was occupied by the fascists. His workers' militia advanced and saved the Aragon front. More about the war: https://workingclasshistory.com/2020/06/17/e39-the-spanish-civil-war-an-introduction/

2025-07-21 20:41:46 UTC

#OtD 21 Jul 1936 this iconic photo of 17-year-old socialist Marina Ginestà was taken by Hans Gutmann after the start of the Spanish civil war. She was a journalist and translator who was given the rifle to pose with. She survived the war. More in our pod: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e39-the-spanish-civil-war-an-introduction/

2024-09-02 17:12:37 UTC

#OtD 2 Sep 2005 after hurricane Katrina, New Orleans police shot in the back and killed Henry Glover, an unarmed African-American. Police physically attacked people trying to help Glover. Another officer drove Glover away, then set the car on fire https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9239/henry-glover-killed-and-burned-by-police?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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