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#OtD 4 Aug 1887 the first public event by the new anarchist bakers' union took place in Buenos Aires. Radical bakers came up with many of the names of Argentinian pastries mocking government, police and the Church, like bolas de fraile (friar's balls) stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1040...

#OtD 4 Aug 1765 French actor and revolutionary Claire Lacombe was born. She took part in the 1792 Paris insurrection and co-founded the Society of Revolutionary Republican Women, an organisation so radical it led all women's organisations to be banned stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1040...

#OtD 4 Aug 1919 three days of rioting and looting in Liverpool, UK, came to end with the arrival of 3,000 troops. Quick-witted locals had decided to take advantage of a strike of half of the city's police officers stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1040...

#OtD 4 Aug 2011 violent clashes erupted between protesters and security forces in an escalation of a popular movement demanding education reform in Chile around such things as access to higher education and the needs of Indigenous Mapuche students stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1040...

4 August 1941: Moengo miners strike Mini-podcast about an event on this day in working class history. Our work is only possible because of support from you, our listeners on https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory. If you appreciate our work, please join us and access exclusive content and benefits at https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory. - See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today - Browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date - Check out our Map of historical Stories: https://map.workingclasshistory.com - Check out books, posters, clothing and more in our https://shop.workingclasshistory.com - If you enjoy this podcast, make sure to check out our flagship longform podcast, https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast.   Acknowledgements - Written and edited by Working Class History. - Theme music by Ricardo Araya. Check out his YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@peptoattack

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#OtD 3 Aug 1929 19-year-old communist Yetta Stromberg was arrested with six others for having a red flag in California, one of 24 states which banned socialist/anarchist flags. She took her case to the Supreme Court and won, overturning the ban stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1015...

#OtD 3 Aug 2010 two contractors at Canada Post in Edmonton were told their pay would be cut by nearly 8%, so they walked out and were followed by the rest of the contractors, mostly non-union African immigrants. The boss then promptly reversed the cut stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1016...

#OtD 3 Aug 1970 outsourced workers rioted and set up barricades in the industrial area of Porto Marghera, Venice, as part of a three-month long dispute. Joined by locals and other workers, the area was held under workers' control for three days stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1016...

#OtD 3 Aug 1947 UK-wide antisemitic riots began in Manchester after two British soldiers in Palestine were killed by Zionist Irgun fighters. Antisemitism had already been inflamed by politicians and the media, such as Ernest Bevin and the Sunday Times workingclasshistory.com/2020/02/17/e...

#OtD 2 Aug 1939 Walter Altmann and Gunther Mann, two Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany, were deported from the UK back to Belgium where they had crossed the Channel in a small dinghy which capsized. Both were likely sent to the concentration camps stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9167...

#OtD 2 Aug 1944 4000 Roma people in Auschwitz resisted being taken to the gas chambers. They armed themselves with sticks and crowbars, and barricaded the doors, women in particular fighting the SS with hands and nails. They were overcome and murdered stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9169...

#OtD 2 Aug 1776 the Declaration of Independence was signed, creating the United States of America and taking land, profits and political power away from the British Empire and created a consensus of popular support for a new privileged elite stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9161...

#OtD 2 Aug 1917 a multi-ethnic armed uprising took place in rural Oklahoma in opposition to conscription during WWI, in what would later become known as the Green Corn rebellion stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9163...

#OtD 2 Aug 1924 James Baldwin, gay African-American author and social critic was born. During the civil rights movement he played an active role in fighting racism, encouraging civil disobedience and taking part in demonstrations stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9166...

#OtD 3 Aug 1945 a homeless ex-soldier in Sydney, Australia squatted an empty home on Marion Street, Auburn. "Forcible possession of homes will not solve the housing problem... But what other avenue is open to a man in desperate circumstances like me?" stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1016...

#OtD 3 Aug 2019 the El Paso mass shooting took place when an anti-immigrant gunman murdered 22 people and injured dozens more at a Walmart store in the predominantly Latine city, later telling police he wanted to kill as many "Mexicans" as possible.

#OtD 3 Aug 1492 Columbus set sail from Spain for the "Indies", with disastrous consequences for the people who already lived there. He landed in the Bahamas, where he began enslaving and murdering the Arawak people. More in this book: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

#OtD 3 Aug 1913 in California, the Wheatland hop riot took place after a farm labourers' meeting with the revolutionary @IWW union was broken up by police, leaving four dead and two leading organisers framed on murder charges stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1015...

#OtD 3 Aug 1945 a group in Melbourne called the Australian Soldiers' Legion (ASL) helped the Wagglens family, which included a homeless, wounded WWII veteran, his wife and children, squat a empty house in Bell Street, Hawthorn stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1016...

3 August 1945: Wagglen family squat Mini-podcast about an event on this day in working class history. Our work is only possible because of support from you, our listeners on https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory. If you appreciate our work, please join us and access exclusive content and benefits at https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory. - See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today - Browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date - Check out our Map of historical Stories: https://map.workingclasshistory.com - Check out books, posters, clothing and more in our https://shop.workingclasshistory.com - If you enjoy this podcast, make sure to check out our flagship longform podcast, https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast.   Acknowledgements - Written and edited by Working Class History. - Theme music by Ricardo Araya. Check out his YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@peptoattack

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#OtD 2 Aug 1894 work resumed at the Pullman factory after its strike was defeated. US troops had killed 34 and injured and arrested many others, the AFL refused to call sympathy action, and the union further isolated itself by excluding Black members stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1247...

#OtD 2 Aug 1901 Jewish revolutionary and author Ida Mett was born in Smarhoń, Belarus. She was involved in the Russian revolution and was a member of the anarchist-communist Dielo Truda (Workers' Cause) group from 1925 to 1928 stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9162...

#OtD 2 Aug 1924 James Baldwin, gay African-American author and social critic was born. During the civil rights movement he played an active role in fighting racism, encouraging civil disobedience and taking part in demonstrations stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9166...

#OtD 2 Aug 1943 a rebellion took place at the Treblinka extermination camp. 600 inmates escaped after setting fire to buildings. 40 are known to have survived stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9168...

#OtD 2 Aug 1917 a multi-ethnic armed uprising took place in rural Oklahoma in opposition to conscription during WWI, in what would later become known as the Green Corn rebellion stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9163...

#OtD 2 Aug 1776 the Declaration of Independence was signed, creating the United States of America and taking land, profits and political power away from the British Empire and created a consensus of popular support for a new privileged elite stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9161...

#OtD 2 Aug 1944 on the second day of fighting in the Warsaw uprising against Nazi occupation, Krasinski Palace was captured by soldiers of the 104th Company of Syndicalists – a unit of revolutionary Polish workers stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9170...

#OtD 2 Aug 1944 4000 Roma people in Auschwitz resisted being taken to the gas chambers. They armed themselves with sticks and crowbars, and barricaded the doors, women in particular fighting the SS with hands and nails. They were overcome and murdered stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9169...

#OtD 2 Aug 1939 Walter Altmann and Gunther Mann, two Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany, were deported from the UK back to Belgium where they had crossed the Channel in a small dinghy which capsized. Both were likely sent to the concentration camps stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9167...

#OtD 2 Aug 1980 a bomb exploded at Bologna train station, killing 85 people and injuring over 200. Carried out by neo-fascists, it was part of the Strategy of Tension, a state programme to carry out attacks and blame them on the left stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9171...