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It's #WorkingClassHistoryWednesday! In Part 2 of our series on the 2001 Argentina uprising, Tomas recounts his experience of the rebellion, and discusses the wave of community assemblies and workers' control that spread afterwards. Out now on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/e116-a...
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#OtD 10 Feb 2025 Israeli authorities raided 2 branches of the Palestinian Educational Bookshop in East Jerusalem. Even though censors approved all the books police claimed books contained "nationalist Palestinian themes" and arrested the owners. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1357...
February 10, 2026 at 5:20 AM
#OtD 10 Feb 2025 Israeli authorities raided 2 branches of the Palestinian Educational Bookshop in East Jerusalem. Even though censors approved all the books police claimed books contained "nationalist Palestinian themes" and arrested the owners. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1357...
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#OtD 10 Feb 1938, Spanish anarchist miner Pedro Masera was sentenced to death and executed by Franco's forces during the civil war. In 2017 his granddaughter was finally able to get his body exhumed, to be properly reburied. This is a short biography: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
February 10, 2026 at 5:55 AM
#OtD 10 Feb 1938, Spanish anarchist miner Pedro Masera was sentenced to death and executed by Franco's forces during the civil war. In 2017 his granddaughter was finally able to get his body exhumed, to be properly reburied. This is a short biography: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
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#OtD 10 Feb 1920 physician, anarchist and novelist who was most famous for writing The Joy of Sex, Alex Comfort was born. A member of the Committee of 100 group, he regularly broke into BBC newscasts to denounce nuclear weapons. Commemorated here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/t-s...
February 10, 2026 at 6:10 AM
#OtD 10 Feb 1920 physician, anarchist and novelist who was most famous for writing The Joy of Sex, Alex Comfort was born. A member of the Committee of 100 group, he regularly broke into BBC newscasts to denounce nuclear weapons. Commemorated here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/t-s...
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A Glasgow glazer's advert from 1912.
February 10, 2026 at 1:36 PM
A Glasgow glazer's advert from 1912.
#OtD 10 Feb 1918, Black @IWW activist Ben Fletcher was arrested by the FBI in Philadelphia on bogus charges of sedition for allegedly disrupting the war effort. He was convicted along with dozens of others, fined $30,000 and jailed for 10 years. workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e73-...
February 10, 2026 at 2:56 PM
#OtD 10 Feb 1918, Black @IWW activist Ben Fletcher was arrested by the FBI in Philadelphia on bogus charges of sedition for allegedly disrupting the war effort. He was convicted along with dozens of others, fined $30,000 and jailed for 10 years. workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e73-...
#OtD 10 Feb 1913 suffragettes in the UK smashed windows at the Reform, Carlton, Junior Carlton, Oxford, and Cambridge Clubs, and also at the residence of Prince Christian. Exhibition cases at the Royal Scottish Museum were also broken stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8185...
February 10, 2026 at 1:25 PM
#OtD 10 Feb 1913 suffragettes in the UK smashed windows at the Reform, Carlton, Junior Carlton, Oxford, and Cambridge Clubs, and also at the residence of Prince Christian. Exhibition cases at the Royal Scottish Museum were also broken stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8185...
#OtD 10 Feb 1930 Slovene-Croatian anti-fascist resistance organisation, TIGR, bombed the HQ of Italian fascist newspaper, Il Popolo di Trieste, killing the editor, Guido Neri stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8188...
February 10, 2026 at 11:30 AM
#OtD 10 Feb 1930 Slovene-Croatian anti-fascist resistance organisation, TIGR, bombed the HQ of Italian fascist newspaper, Il Popolo di Trieste, killing the editor, Guido Neri stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8188...
#OtD 10 Feb 1921, Peter Kropotkin's funeral procession began in the city of Dmitrov, Russia. His body was transported by train to Moscow where thousands of anarchists marched for hours in the last public demonstration of anarchists in Russia for decades. shop.workingclasshistory.com/en-gb/collec...
February 10, 2026 at 11:25 AM
#OtD 10 Feb 1921, Peter Kropotkin's funeral procession began in the city of Dmitrov, Russia. His body was transported by train to Moscow where thousands of anarchists marched for hours in the last public demonstration of anarchists in Russia for decades. shop.workingclasshistory.com/en-gb/collec...
#OtD 10 Feb 1979, striking lettuce grower Rufino Contreras was killed by a foreman in California. 4300 workers in the United Farm Workers union were on strike in Imperial Valley in a violent dispute. Authorities declined to prosecute the murderer. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8191...
February 10, 2026 at 10:25 AM
#OtD 10 Feb 1979, striking lettuce grower Rufino Contreras was killed by a foreman in California. 4300 workers in the United Farm Workers union were on strike in Imperial Valley in a violent dispute. Authorities declined to prosecute the murderer. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8191...
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#OtD 9 Feb 2007 Alejandro Finisterre, anarchist poet and inventor of the Spanish table football (foosball) died in Zamora, Spain. He invented the game following injury during the Spanish Civil War so injured children could still play football workingclasshistory.com/2018/07/29/s...
February 9, 2026 at 5:25 PM
#OtD 9 Feb 2007 Alejandro Finisterre, anarchist poet and inventor of the Spanish table football (foosball) died in Zamora, Spain. He invented the game following injury during the Spanish Civil War so injured children could still play football workingclasshistory.com/2018/07/29/s...
#OtD 10 Feb 1987, a telephone box in Puerto Real, Spain was burned, leaving 14,000 phones out of service, in an act of sabotage by dock workers and their supporters, who were fighting against privatisation of the port. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8192...
February 10, 2026 at 7:40 AM
#OtD 10 Feb 1987, a telephone box in Puerto Real, Spain was burned, leaving 14,000 phones out of service, in an act of sabotage by dock workers and their supporters, who were fighting against privatisation of the port. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8192...
#OtD 10 Feb 1920 physician, anarchist and novelist who was most famous for writing The Joy of Sex, Alex Comfort was born. A member of the Committee of 100 group, he regularly broke into BBC newscasts to denounce nuclear weapons. Commemorated here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/t-s...
February 10, 2026 at 6:10 AM
#OtD 10 Feb 1920 physician, anarchist and novelist who was most famous for writing The Joy of Sex, Alex Comfort was born. A member of the Committee of 100 group, he regularly broke into BBC newscasts to denounce nuclear weapons. Commemorated here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/t-s...
#OtD 10 Feb 1938, Spanish anarchist miner Pedro Masera was sentenced to death and executed by Franco's forces during the civil war. In 2017 his granddaughter was finally able to get his body exhumed, to be properly reburied. This is a short biography: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
February 10, 2026 at 5:55 AM
#OtD 10 Feb 1938, Spanish anarchist miner Pedro Masera was sentenced to death and executed by Franco's forces during the civil war. In 2017 his granddaughter was finally able to get his body exhumed, to be properly reburied. This is a short biography: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
#OtD 10 Feb 2025 Israeli authorities raided 2 branches of the Palestinian Educational Bookshop in East Jerusalem. Even though censors approved all the books police claimed books contained "nationalist Palestinian themes" and arrested the owners. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1357...
February 10, 2026 at 5:20 AM
#OtD 10 Feb 2025 Israeli authorities raided 2 branches of the Palestinian Educational Bookshop in East Jerusalem. Even though censors approved all the books police claimed books contained "nationalist Palestinian themes" and arrested the owners. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1357...
📣 New Podcast! "10 February 1930: Il Popolo di Trieste bombing" on @Spreaker #antifa #history #italy
10 February 1930: Il Popolo di Trieste bombing
Mini podcast of radical history on this date from the Working Class History team.
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February 10, 2026 at 5:05 AM
#OtD 9 Feb 2020 Bribrí Indigenous rights activist Mainor Ortíz Delgado was shot & wounded on his land in Salitre, Costa Rica. Most land is still illegally occupied and defenders attacked despite official granting to Indigenous peoples in 1977 stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1089...
February 9, 2026 at 8:40 PM
#OtD 9 Feb 2020 Bribrí Indigenous rights activist Mainor Ortíz Delgado was shot & wounded on his land in Salitre, Costa Rica. Most land is still illegally occupied and defenders attacked despite official granting to Indigenous peoples in 1977 stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1089...
#OtD 9 Feb 2007 Alejandro Finisterre, anarchist poet and inventor of the Spanish table football (foosball) died in Zamora, Spain. He invented the game following injury during the Spanish Civil War so injured children could still play football workingclasshistory.com/2018/07/29/s...
February 9, 2026 at 5:25 PM
#OtD 9 Feb 2007 Alejandro Finisterre, anarchist poet and inventor of the Spanish table football (foosball) died in Zamora, Spain. He invented the game following injury during the Spanish Civil War so injured children could still play football workingclasshistory.com/2018/07/29/s...
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#OtD 5 Feb 1885 King Leopold of Belgium declared his new colony the Congo Free State. What followed was one of the most horrific examples of European colonialism, with 8 to 10 million killed. More on colonialism in the Congo here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
February 5, 2026 at 7:55 PM
#OtD 5 Feb 1885 King Leopold of Belgium declared his new colony the Congo Free State. What followed was one of the most horrific examples of European colonialism, with 8 to 10 million killed. More on colonialism in the Congo here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
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We've got some great new books available in our online store. Proceeds support our work as well as independent, radical publishing. Check out our constantly-growing collection at shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
February 5, 2026 at 9:23 PM
We've got some great new books available in our online store. Proceeds support our work as well as independent, radical publishing. Check out our constantly-growing collection at shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
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#OtD 5 Feb 1894 anarchist Auguste Vaillant was beheaded in France. He called the bomb he threw into the Chamber of Deputies "the cry of an entire class that calls for its rights and will soon join its acts to its words." More details here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
February 5, 2026 at 11:10 PM
#OtD 5 Feb 1894 anarchist Auguste Vaillant was beheaded in France. He called the bomb he threw into the Chamber of Deputies "the cry of an entire class that calls for its rights and will soon join its acts to its words." More details here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
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#OtD 6 Feb 1974 with the prospect of a UK-wide coalminers strike Conservative Prime Minister Edward Heath called a snap election under the slogan "Who governs Britain?" - meaning the government, or the unions? He lost, and miners won 35% pay increase workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e81-...
February 6, 2026 at 11:11 AM
#OtD 6 Feb 1974 with the prospect of a UK-wide coalminers strike Conservative Prime Minister Edward Heath called a snap election under the slogan "Who governs Britain?" - meaning the government, or the unions? He lost, and miners won 35% pay increase workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e81-...
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#OtD 6 Feb 1915 women's liberation activist and militant chemical worker, Soledad Estorach, was born. She built barricades in Barcelona with the outbreak of revolution in 1936, and was active in the Mujeres Libres women's group shop.workingclasshistory.com/en-gb/collec...
February 6, 2026 at 4:25 PM
#OtD 6 Feb 1915 women's liberation activist and militant chemical worker, Soledad Estorach, was born. She built barricades in Barcelona with the outbreak of revolution in 1936, and was active in the Mujeres Libres women's group shop.workingclasshistory.com/en-gb/collec...
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#OtD 7 Feb 1919 construction workers in Essex, NJ, voted to strike if alcohol prohibition came into force. However, union leaders called off the action, saying it would make them "look ridiculous". We made this commemorative merch: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
February 7, 2026 at 9:10 AM
#OtD 7 Feb 1919 construction workers in Essex, NJ, voted to strike if alcohol prohibition came into force. However, union leaders called off the action, saying it would make them "look ridiculous". We made this commemorative merch: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
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#OtD 8 Feb 1968 the Orangeburg massacre took place in South Carolina when police opened fire on Black SC State students, killing three and wounding 27 after Black student-led protests at a segregated bowling alley shop.workingclasshistory.com/en-gb/collec...
February 8, 2026 at 5:55 AM
#OtD 8 Feb 1968 the Orangeburg massacre took place in South Carolina when police opened fire on Black SC State students, killing three and wounding 27 after Black student-led protests at a segregated bowling alley shop.workingclasshistory.com/en-gb/collec...