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“When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called ‘the People's Stick" - Bakunin
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#OtD 26 Nov 1920 the Red Army attacked its allies, the Makhnovists in Ukraine, after the latter defeated the Whites. Russian troops attacked in Crimea and Huliaipole, and arrested and executed many. Rebel leader Nestor Makhno managed to escape. More: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
November 26, 2025 at 9:25 PM
#OtD 26 Nov 1920 the Red Army attacked its allies, the Makhnovists in Ukraine, after the latter defeated the Whites. Russian troops attacked in Crimea and Huliaipole, and arrested and executed many. Rebel leader Nestor Makhno managed to escape. More: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
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#OtD 23 Nov 1912 anarcho-syndicalist union, Unione Sindacale Italiana, was founded in Modena mainly by radical metal workers, builders, farm workers and miners. It played a key role in both the factory occupation movement and anti-fascist resistance stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9595...
November 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
#OtD 23 Nov 1912 anarcho-syndicalist union, Unione Sindacale Italiana, was founded in Modena mainly by radical metal workers, builders, farm workers and miners. It played a key role in both the factory occupation movement and anti-fascist resistance stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9595...
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#OtD 21 Nov 1922 Mexican anarchist communist of Zapotec descent, Ricardo Flores Magón, died after months of illness and neglect in Leavenworth Prison, Kansas. He was one of the major thinkers and activists of the Mexican revolution stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9420...
November 21, 2025 at 2:25 PM
#OtD 21 Nov 1922 Mexican anarchist communist of Zapotec descent, Ricardo Flores Magón, died after months of illness and neglect in Leavenworth Prison, Kansas. He was one of the major thinkers and activists of the Mexican revolution stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9420...
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Kropotkin's analysis of women's domestic labour remains relevant over a century later.
November 20, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Kropotkin's analysis of women's domestic labour remains relevant over a century later.
“The freedom of all is essential to my freedom” - Bakunin
November 16, 2025 at 1:41 AM
“The freedom of all is essential to my freedom” - Bakunin
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#OtD 11 Nov 1919 the Centralia incident took place, during which @IWW member and war veteran, Wesley Everest, was lynched. A mob had attacked the union hall, and some were killed in self defence. Everest was murdered, and his killers went unpunished stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8343...
November 11, 2025 at 1:25 PM
#OtD 11 Nov 1919 the Centralia incident took place, during which @IWW member and war veteran, Wesley Everest, was lynched. A mob had attacked the union hall, and some were killed in self defence. Everest was murdered, and his killers went unpunished stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8343...
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#OtD 10 Nov 1891 Jewish Ukrainian anarchist, Simón Radowitzky, was born. At 15, he took part in the 1905 Russian Revolution, killed a police chief in Argentina at 18, endured 20 years of prison, fought fascism during the Spanish Civil War, and more stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1264...
November 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
#OtD 10 Nov 1891 Jewish Ukrainian anarchist, Simón Radowitzky, was born. At 15, he took part in the 1905 Russian Revolution, killed a police chief in Argentina at 18, endured 20 years of prison, fought fascism during the Spanish Civil War, and more stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1264...
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"Communists" when they are asked if the workers should be in charge.
November 8, 2025 at 9:57 PM
"Communists" when they are asked if the workers should be in charge.
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#OtD 7 Nov 1879 French anarchist-syndicalist Benoît Broutchoux was born. He edited multiple syndicalist papers, and was sent to prison many times throughout his life for printing radical ideas and taking part in labour struggles stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1248...
November 7, 2025 at 7:55 PM
#OtD 7 Nov 1879 French anarchist-syndicalist Benoît Broutchoux was born. He edited multiple syndicalist papers, and was sent to prison many times throughout his life for printing radical ideas and taking part in labour struggles stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1248...
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#OtD 7 Nov 1880 Shin Chae-ho, a Korean historian, journalist, novelist, independence activist and collectivist anarchist was born. His works, including his historiography, are still read in Korea today, where he is still held up as a national hero stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1248...
November 7, 2025 at 1:10 PM
#OtD 7 Nov 1880 Shin Chae-ho, a Korean historian, journalist, novelist, independence activist and collectivist anarchist was born. His works, including his historiography, are still read in Korea today, where he is still held up as a national hero stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1248...
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#OtD 6 Nov 1986 the Iran-Contra scandal — where the US sold arms to Iran to fund right-wing paramilitaries in Nicaragua — began to break. Acting Pres Ronald Reagan said the revelations had "no foundation", which turned out to be a lie stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1065...
November 6, 2025 at 11:40 AM
#OtD 6 Nov 1986 the Iran-Contra scandal — where the US sold arms to Iran to fund right-wing paramilitaries in Nicaragua — began to break. Acting Pres Ronald Reagan said the revelations had "no foundation", which turned out to be a lie stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1065...
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If your workplaces are dictatorial, so is your society.
November 1, 2025 at 3:50 PM
If your workplaces are dictatorial, so is your society.
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#OtD 3 Nov 1979 the Greensboro, NC, massacre occurred when five communists at an anti-Ku Klux Klan protest were murdered by members of the KKK and the American Nazi Party., who were helped by police who gave them a map of anti-racists stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1023...
November 3, 2025 at 11:15 AM
#OtD 3 Nov 1979 the Greensboro, NC, massacre occurred when five communists at an anti-Ku Klux Klan protest were murdered by members of the KKK and the American Nazi Party., who were helped by police who gave them a map of anti-racists stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1023...
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In 2001, working-class Argentinians rose up in a rebellion which shook the global neoliberal financial order, and forced the president to resign and flee. Preorder a discounted copy of this thrilling first person account of the revolt on our Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/wrk...
November 2, 2025 at 4:48 PM
In 2001, working-class Argentinians rose up in a rebellion which shook the global neoliberal financial order, and forced the president to resign and flee. Preorder a discounted copy of this thrilling first person account of the revolt on our Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/wrk...
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#OtD 2 Nov 2011 10,000s took to the streets of Oakland and attempted to organise a general strike in protests originating in the Occupy movement, shutting down a significant proportion of the city's businesses, including the Port of Oakland stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9224...
November 2, 2025 at 6:10 PM
#OtD 2 Nov 2011 10,000s took to the streets of Oakland and attempted to organise a general strike in protests originating in the Occupy movement, shutting down a significant proportion of the city's businesses, including the Port of Oakland stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9224...
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#OtD 31 Oct 1894 the Trial of the Thirty, a show trial aimed at repressing the French anarchist movt and restricting freedom of speech, ended in Paris. Starting in Aug, it tried 30 French and foreign anarchists on a charge of "criminal association" stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1246...
October 31, 2025 at 2:15 PM
#OtD 31 Oct 1894 the Trial of the Thirty, a show trial aimed at repressing the French anarchist movt and restricting freedom of speech, ended in Paris. Starting in Aug, it tried 30 French and foreign anarchists on a charge of "criminal association" stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1246...
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#OtD 30 Oct 1911 while on mandatory military service, Italian anarchist Augusto Masetti shot his colonel in protest of being sent to fight in Libya. As he wounded the officer he shouted: 'Down with the war! Long live Anarchy!' stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1033...
October 30, 2025 at 9:25 AM
#OtD 30 Oct 1911 while on mandatory military service, Italian anarchist Augusto Masetti shot his colonel in protest of being sent to fight in Libya. As he wounded the officer he shouted: 'Down with the war! Long live Anarchy!' stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1033...
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#OtD 29 Oct 2009 Brazilian police raided the offices of the Federação Anarquista Gaúcha and seized files and hard drives. They charged six people, all later acquitted. The repression was partly due to the group publicising a murder by an army officer stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1263...
October 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
#OtD 29 Oct 2009 Brazilian police raided the offices of the Federação Anarquista Gaúcha and seized files and hard drives. They charged six people, all later acquitted. The repression was partly due to the group publicising a murder by an army officer stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1263...
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Talking to normal people about my radical beliefs in real life makes fighting with other leftists online feel so meaningless. Even liberals and conservatives seem so much more open to new ideas in the real world than online liberals. People who talk about politics from their phones have more strict-
October 29, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Talking to normal people about my radical beliefs in real life makes fighting with other leftists online feel so meaningless. Even liberals and conservatives seem so much more open to new ideas in the real world than online liberals. People who talk about politics from their phones have more strict-
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Today I read Jesuit descriptions of Wendat Indigenous communities in the 17th century. They claim that chiefs, who they call captains, "do not govern their subjects by means of command and absolute power; they have no force at hand to compel them to their duty".
October 29, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Today I read Jesuit descriptions of Wendat Indigenous communities in the 17th century. They claim that chiefs, who they call captains, "do not govern their subjects by means of command and absolute power; they have no force at hand to compel them to their duty".
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#OtD 27 Oct 1962 during the Cuban missile crisis, 2nd-in-command Vasili Arkhipov of the Soviet submarine B-59 refused his captain's order to launch nuclear torpedos against US warships. This avoided setting off a likely superpower nuclear war stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9958...
October 27, 2025 at 7:25 AM
#OtD 27 Oct 1962 during the Cuban missile crisis, 2nd-in-command Vasili Arkhipov of the Soviet submarine B-59 refused his captain's order to launch nuclear torpedos against US warships. This avoided setting off a likely superpower nuclear war stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9958...
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#OtD 27 Oct 1970 the Nixon administration passed the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act, as part of their "war on drugs". A Nixon adviser later admitted it was based on a lie to disrupt left-wing and Black power movements stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9959...
October 27, 2025 at 1:40 PM
#OtD 27 Oct 1970 the Nixon administration passed the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act, as part of their "war on drugs". A Nixon adviser later admitted it was based on a lie to disrupt left-wing and Black power movements stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9959...
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