New episode out for all! A teaser of our most recent Radical Reads discussion, Beverly Silver's fantastic Forces of Labor: an epic history of the global labour movement since 1870 told from the bottom up. Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts: https://t.co/6IsJFOm2B8

#OtD 6 Dec 1938 members of the Australian Aborigines’ League led by William Cooper marched to the German Consulate in Melbourne to deliver a letter condemning the "cruel persecution of the Jewish people by the Nazi government of Germany". Learn more: https://t.co/sg6cFHBhtf

#OtD 6 Dec 1989 14 women, most of whom were training in engineering fields, were murdered in a mass shooting at the École Polytechnique, Montréal. The killer targeted women, claimed he was "fighting feminism," and killed himself after shooting 28 people https://t.co/Gg2tYCTR4n

#OtD 6 Dec 1989 14 women, most of whom were training in engineering fields, were murdered in a mass shooting at the École Polytechnique, Montréal. The killer claimed he was "fighting feminism," and killed himself after shooting 28 people https://t.co/ciP9BYL9Rp

#OtD 6 Dec 1961 Frantz Fanon, the Martinique-born psychiatrist, anti-colonialist philosopher, revolutionary and writer, died. Works include 'Black Skin, White Masks' and 'The Wretched of the Earth'. Learn more about his life in this biography: https://t.co/Gu6XckDUcj

#OtD 6 Dec 1965 Rose Pesotta, Russian Jewish anarchist garment worker, died in Miami. Leaving Russia in 1916 to avoid an arranged marriage, she found work in the textile industry and became one of America's first women union leaders https://t.co/UKxbjmbDsr

#OtD 6 Dec 1907 the worst mining disaster in US history took place in West Virginia killing all but 5 of 367 workers. It left over 1000 mostly Italian children fatherless and inspired the first Fathers' Day the following year https://t.co/KWLFRJccS7

📣 New Podcast! "6 December 1928: Banana massacre" on @Spreaker #colombiamassacres #history

#OtD 5 December 1921 general José María Orellana led a coup in Guatemala which deposed president Carlos Herrera. Herrera had resisted approving concessions to the United Fruit Company and its subsidiaries by his predecessor, Manuel Estrada Cabrera. https://t.co/28H8cvTzo3

#OtD 5 Dec 1984 popular British author Ethel Mannin died aged 84. Many of her works covered radical and revolutionary themes https://t.co/kE4GfkWeiG

5 December 1961: Toei animators lockout Mini podcast of radical history on this date from the Working Class History team. Our work is only possible because of support from you, our listeners on patreon. If you appreciate our work, please join us and acc https://t.co/TFU235DwWi

#OtD 5 Dec 2008 mostly Latine workers at the Republic Windows and Doors factory in Chicago began their sit down strike against lay offs without compensation. They ended up winning compensation and keeping their jobs https://t.co/BgtG2epKsS

#OtD 5 Dec 1891 pioneering Russian constructivist artist and revolutionary Alexander Rodchenko was born in a working class family in St Petersburg https://t.co/uTjKm8EUkd

#OtD 5 (or 1) Dec 1903 Black Spanish civil war fighter Patrick Roosevelt was born in Long Island, NY. He joined the @IWW and Communist Party, and joined the fight against Franco in 1938, during which he lost his leg. He later worked as a machinist. https://t.co/YW6RFf5qPa

#OtD 5 Dec 1896 Henry Poulaille was born into a poor working-class anarchist family. He became a novelist, anarchist, director of Éditions Grasset, the journal 'Le Nouvel Âge Littéraire' and founded a radical museum https://t.co/PctTwH4dbF

#OtD 5 Dec 2019 French public sector workers began striking against pension cuts, successfully suspending the plans in January. 69% of citizens supported the strikes as massive protests shut down the Eiffel Tower and public services. Commemorated here: https://t.co/XZC1cMbBJN

#OtD 5 Dec 1955 the Montgomery bus boycott began, four days after arrest of Rosa Parks for refusing to vacate her seat in the "coloured" section of a segregated bus to a white passenger. The successful campaign helped spur the civil rights movement https://t.co/5ntwAStXNm

#OtD 5 Dec 1944 workers at the Dodge truck plant in Detroit, Michigan, went on wildcat strike, just one of the many illegal wartime strikes which took place that year. Learn more about the strike wave in this great book: https://t.co/OSJ8u3LCr2

#OtD 5 Dec 1961 Japanese animation studio Toei Doga locked out its workers, including Rintarō, after they held three brief strikes protesting low pay, casualisation and long hours. It ended on 9 Dec with management agreeing to most of the workers' demands https://t.co/tKla0k1jAC

📣 New Podcast! "5 December 1961: Toei animators lockout" on @Spreaker #anime #history #japan

#OtD 4 Dec 2007 tens of thousands of miners in SouthAfrica walked out on a one-day strike for better health and safety protections. Around 200 miners are killed each year in the country: proportionately more than countries like the US https://t.co/4orjNEZaKw