Anarchist newspaper editor Carlo Tresca was shot on the street in New York on Jan. 11, 1943, most likely by the Mafia. Italian born and an outspoken critic of fascism, the Mafia and Stalin, Tresca worked with the IWW and published El Martello (The Hammer). #OTD #AntiFa #IWW

A founding member of the July 26 Movement and the first woman to join its guerrilla forces in the course of the Cuban Revolution, Celia Sánchez died Jan. 11. 1980. #OTD #Cuba

‘The Strike in Port Angeles’ from Commonwealth (Everett). No. 130. June 26, 1913. An IWW organizer and local Socialist Party activist describe the workings of the city’s ‘Broadcloth Mob’ against striking lumber workers around Port Angeles, Washington. https://t.co/D7EskHOYUy

To be a capitalist, is to have not only a purely personal, but a social status in production. Capital is a collective product, and only by the united action of many members, nay, in the last resort, only by the united action of all members of society, can it be set in motion.

#OtD 10 Jan 1979 during the Winter of Discontent the number of lorry drivers across Scotland and northern England on wildcat strike against government-union pay restraint reached 50,000. Drivers picketed ports and warehouses to stop trucks moving goods https://t.co/OsfEAY2kCH

‘Another Act of Oppression Against Haiti’ by Joseph Freeman from The Daily Worker. Vol. 2 No. 250. November 1, 1925. The United States cancels an election in Haiti when it appeared the National City Bank’s preferred leader, President Borno, would lose. https://t.co/cDcVXRfkrc

It's shaky, but an alliance it is - and boy, do we need it 🥳 https://t.co/IrbGrNw0Pg

Heba Muraisi is on day 66 of her hunger strike. Kamran Ahmed is on day 58 of his hunger strike. The government is willing to let them die.

A Palestine Action-linked prisoner on hunger strike is at "risk of sudden cardiac arrest", his sister has told Novara Media. Kamran Ahmed, 28, is experiencing shrinkage to the muscle of his heart and has been diagnosed with bradycardia after being admitted to hospital on

Outrage: ICE kills Renee Nicole Good. ICE thugs in the streets from LA 2 Minneapolis 2 NYC are a danger to us all! Repression of immigrants drives down wages & conditions for everybody! We can’t let them get away with this. The working class must fight back against this assault!

🧵 59 years ago today, January 1967, an earthshaking event began in Shanghai. The start of the glorious January Storm. The working class had successfully overthrown the stronghold of the capitalist-roaders.

An extract from one of Mustafa Abu Ali's most important films, 'They Do Not Exist' [1974], was born in response to former Israeli prime minister Golda Meir's statement: "There was no such thing as Palestinians". The film portrays scenes from the Nabatieh camp in May 1974

"Lenin visse. Lenin vive. Lenin vivrà."

#OtD 5 Jan 1915 the revolutionary union @IWW organised 150 hungry unemployed people to storm an elite club in Sioux City demanding work or unemployment relief. The next day the city council created 400 jobs for the unemployed grading roads https://t.co/FxWSsfsFuo

One million people take to the streets of Shanghai on Jan. 6, 1967, in response to a call by an alliance of Red Guard groups bringing down the ruling Shanghai Communist Party Committee. Their seizure of power would inspire similar actions across China. #OTD #China #GPCR

The treatment of the indigenous population was, of course, at its most frightful in plantation-colonies set up exclusively for the export trade, such as the West Indies, and in rich and well-populated countries, such as Mexico and India, that were given over to plunder.

'What is Internationalism' (1918) by V.I. Lenin from The Proletarian Revolution and Kautsky the Renegade. Contemporary Publishing Association, New York. 1920. In my mind, below is the most relevant chapter for today from Lenin’s 1918 refutation. https://t.co/W6tPo2pfxo

Rallying to oppose the US attack on Venezuela at Flinders St Station this evening. ✊

NEW SPART TALK! Comrade Mansa kicks off season 2 with an emergency episode following the US bombing of Venezuela and the capture of President Maduro. Listen to it here: https://t.co/lKPLFSkLRq

Photographer Tina Modotti died Jan. 5, 1942. Born in Italy, Modotti lived in the US and then Mexico where she joined the Communist Party and worked for the Comintern in Germany, the USSR and Spain before returning to Mexico. #OTD #Mexico #AntiFa