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#OtD tweets & podcast. History isn't made by kings or politicians, it's made by billions of ordinary people. Support us: https://t.co/BfXZmiqe8a
Joined July 2014
New Radical Reads podcast out now! We speak about our latest book, Be Gay, Do Crime: Everyday Acts of Queer Resistance and Rebellion, with editors Zane McNeill, Blu Buchanan and Riley Clare Valentine. Available early without ads on our Patreon: https://t.co/cDQKqpQzvh
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This is going to be @ZiaYusufUK in a few years: talking to colleagues in the Face-Eating Leopards Party about his worries about the number of leopards that want to eat his face
🚨NO WAY, HELL JUST FROZE OVER: Ben Shapiro just told Matt Walsh and everyone else on the Right, you won’t survive if you refuse to police your own extremists. He’s pointing to the Young Republicans’ leaked chats (hit by Politico), Hitler jokes, gas‑chamber talk, and slurs.
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#OtD 20 Oct 1895 Gaston Leval (born Pierre Robert Piller), anarcho-syndicalist, Spanish Civil War combatant, and historian was born. His most famous work, which gives a detailed account of workers' control during the civil war, is available here: https://t.co/gfoSyTgj8S
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#OtD 20 Oct 1901 hundreds of workers at the sugar refinery in Rosario, Argentina, demonstrated for a pay increase and a maximum 10-hour working day. Migrant worker and anarchist Cosme Budislavich was killed by the police https://t.co/VZDOtUyMy6
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#OtD 20 Oct 1877 this drawing was published in London depicting famine in Bangalore, India. Famine began in 1876, and while around 5.5m Indians starved to death 100,000s of tonnes of food were exported to England with almost no relief. https://t.co/h3Ew7l2Fvg
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#OtD 20 Oct 1945 Francesc Sabaté and two other anarchist guerillas, Jaime 'Abisinio' Pares Adán and Juan 'Roget' Salas Millón, at the request of Committee of Resistance of the CNT union, broke three prisoners out of jail in Franco's Barcelona
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#OtD 19 Oct 1907 the 1st issue of the anarchist newspaper Solidaridad Obrera (Workers' Solidarity) was published by workers' societies in Barcelona. It later became the mouthpiece of the @CNTSindacato, and one of the most important papers in the country. https://t.co/xTBbVr4AAp
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#OtD 19 Oct 1945 the UK Labour govt decided to illegally deport over 1000 Chinese seamen who lived in Liverpool. Even men married to British women were expelled, along with some of their wives who were then stripped of British citizenship https://t.co/UbAlo8Hnx8
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This is going to be @ZiaYusufUK in a few years: talking to colleagues in the Face-Eating Leopards Party about his worries about the number of leopards that want to eat his face
🚨NO WAY, HELL JUST FROZE OVER: Ben Shapiro just told Matt Walsh and everyone else on the Right, you won’t survive if you refuse to police your own extremists. He’s pointing to the Young Republicans’ leaked chats (hit by Politico), Hitler jokes, gas‑chamber talk, and slurs.
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#OtD 19 Oct 1989 after 15 years in prison, a UK judge quashed the convictions of the Guildford Four calling them unreliable and based on confessions extracted by police through violence and threats against family members https://t.co/PDGiJKO8ru
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If you want to learn more about the GKN struggle, check out our podcast episodes about it and the annual Working-Class Literature Festival they've been holding there https://t.co/x2EXx6ksMx
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Demonstrators in solidarity with GKN workers, who have been occupying their factory for over FOUR YEARS, take over Florence airport and clash with police. GKN workers are fighting to restart production as a worker-coop building ecological goods. More info in next tweet...
Manifestanti in corteo con i lavoratori della GKN hanno invaso l'aeroporto di Firenze. Ne sono scaturiti scontri a piĂą riprese con la polizia all'interno dello scalo.
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#OtD 17 Oct 1936 French revolutionary Georgette Kokoczinski was killed in the battle of Perdiguera near Zaragoza during the Spanish civil war. She had volunteered with the international group of the Durruti Column https://t.co/Kw7S0BTsYR
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#OtD 18 Oct 1526 the head of the Spanish colony of San Miguel de Gualdape (probably Georgia) died, provoking chaos. This sparked the 1st enslaved rebellion in US history in Nov when 100 Africans set fire to homes & escaped to live with Native Americans https://t.co/YbYVNemYuC
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#OtD 18 Oct 1931 German workers in Braunschweig went on strike in protest against the Nazis. In the 2nd half of 1931 there were 25 political strikes by 30k workers in protest against fascism, with many more the following year. German antifascist art here: https://t.co/MF2nbhBHFG
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New Radical Reads podcast free for all! About our latest book, Be Gay, Do Crime: Everyday Acts of Queer Resistance and Rebellion, with editors Zane McNeill, Blu Buchanan and Riley Clare Valentine. Listen wherever you listen to podcasts or on our website: https://t.co/5db7HZZ3MK
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#OtD 18 Oct 1979 the South Korean uprising against the US-backed dictatorship which began in Busan two days earlier spread to Masan. The government responded by declaring martial law. Learn more about South Korean people's history on our podcast: https://t.co/IHDNITz6yo
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#OtD 18 Oct 1977 the Red Army Faction killed Martin Schleyer, former Nazi war criminal and SS officer who was also head of the German Employers Association known for his tough opposition to unions and strikes. Learn more about the RAF in these books: https://t.co/LXtEIisVr4
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A general strike stopped the fascist coup in S. Korea. A general strike is how the Italian people forced their rightwing PM to send a Navy ship protect the flotilla. It's the only thing that'll be effective v Trump.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson calls for a general strike against the “tyranny” of Trump and the greed of the ultra-rich. An estimated 300,000 filled the streets for the “No Kings” march, powerfully rejecting the federal government’s “Operation Midway Blitz” against the city.
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#OtD 19 Oct 1988 Pier Carlo Masini, a key figure in Italian anarchism after World War II, passed away in Florence, Italy https://t.co/kttzi78jeM
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