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Sociologist • Writer • Radical Dreaming of a world without money… Free Palestine! Free Turtle Island! AuDHD Neurodivergent Agender Non-binary Queer (Pronouns: xe/xir or they/them) AI is theft, ecocide, and shit
Animal Liberation stencil seen in Copenhagen, Denmark
Street art spotted in New Orleans
Anti-nazi poster spotted in Thornbury, Melbourne
#OtD 7 Sep 1976 Ian Davies, a gay social worker in London, won reinstatement after being demoted for a "gross indecency" conviction. First 25 colleagues walked out, then 1300 workers said they would strike and the council relented. Learn more in our book: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/be-...
#OtD 7 Sep 2011 700 longshore workers in the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and their supporters blockaded a grain train from entering a non-ILWU terminal, facing down violent police attacks. After a long struggle, they won concessions stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1076...
#OtD 1 Sept 1949 trans revolutionary Leslie Feinberg was born. Ze worked in factories before writing powerfully about LGBT+ issues and publishing hir first novel, Stone Butch Blues, in 1993. Hir last words: "Remember me as a revolutionary communist" stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8159...
#OtD 1 Sep 1911 five women published the first issue of Japan's first all-women literary magazine, Bluestocking, credited with sparking the feminist movement in Japan. Often banned, it was still a commercial success and became more radical over time stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8155...
#OtD 1 Sep 1976 over a hundred prisoners at Hull Prison rioted to protest against brutality from staff. The disturbances continued until 3 Sep, by which point two-thirds of the prison had been completely wrecked stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8162...
Revoking an entire nationality’s visas is collective punishment and never acceptable — especially in this moment when millions of Palestinians lack equal rights, basic healthcare, and so much more at home, forcing them out of the US is unfathomably cruel.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...
#OtD 1 Sep 1974 Puerto Rican attendees at a Labour Day event in Newark, New Jersey rioted against police after years of brutality, as well as poor living and economic standards. The police department mobilized virtually its entire 1,500-member force stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8161...
#OtD 1 Sep 1920 a mass occupation movement started in which almost all the metalworking factories in Italy were occupied by their workers. It was a high point of the Biennio Rosso (Two Red Years) of near-revolutionary upheaval stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8156...
That part. People have already been tricked into believing in authoritarianism, which was by design. Snap out of it!
every day i see hundreds of comments of people spinning elaborate scenarios to explain how trump can control everything and all opposition is futile. a) i think a lot of you need to log off and stop following professional doomsayers. b) i think a lot of you are cowards
Remembering Fred Hampton born Aug. 30, 1948, assassinated Dec. 4, 1969 by Chicago police and the FBI
“Now is not the time for purity tests. We have to vote for the Fascists to save democracy. Donate $30 now!”
Unfollowing for the “moral purity” line, which has been utilized so much to stop progress and justice and further genocide that it should never ever be used.
"Your worth is not related to your income"
Sticker spotted in Oamaru, New Zealand
"Be Gay, Do Crime"
Seen in Sydney
"Police are Murderers"
Seen in Jogjakarta, Indonesia where mass anti-government protests are taking place
Graffiti and clashes with police in Makassar during the ongoing anti-government protests across Indonesia
#OtD 29 Aug 2016 600 oil refinery workers in Curaçao walked out for more pay. The strike continued for over two weeks, until a general strike broke out in its support. Faced with closed schools, shops, and no electricity, the employers caved stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1008...
#OtD 29 Aug 1979 after years of fruitless campaigning, 30-40 activists took direct action and occupied the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare in protest at homosexuality being classified as a mental illness. They quickly won stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1247...
#OtD 29 Aug 1944 the Slovak national uprising began against the Nazi occupation and the collaborationist govt. Tens of thousands took part, 12,000 of whom were killed. Though largely repressed, partisan resistance continued until liberation in 1945.
#OtD 29 Aug 1914 the macaroni riots took place in Providence, US when angry residents attacked and looted a pasta shop. The crowd of mostly Italian immigrants was protesting against big price increases which had been brought in since the start of WWI stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1007...
#OtD 29 Aug 1867 Karl Ulrichs became the first self-proclaimed homosexual to speak out publicly for gay rights when he pleaded at the Congress of German Jurists in Munich for a resolution urging the repeal of anti-homosexual laws stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1007...
#OtD 29 Aug 1970 Ruben Salazar, US Army vet and the first Mexican-American mainstream media journalist to write about the Chicano community, was killed by police during an anti-Vietnam war protest. A 10-inch teargas projectile was shot at his head stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1008...
#OtD 29 Aug 1923 anti-Nazi resistance fighter and sculptor Truus Oversteegen was born in Schoten, Netherlands. With her sister she sabotaged railways and killed fascists, on one occasion leading an SS officer into the woods to be shot. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1007...
BREAKING: California lawmakers have reached an agreement with Uber and Lyft that will open the door for app drivers to form unions and organize for increased pay and better benefits.
www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
