#workingclasshistory — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #workingclasshistory, aggregated by home.social.
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“Leave me alone, I’m on smoko”
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Women #Chainmakers' Strike in #CradleyHeath, England, August 23, 1910 - October 22, 1910, when the final employers agreed to pay the #minimumwage
https://www.womenchainmakers.org.uk/
https://neu.org.uk/latest/library/mary-macarthur-and-cradley-heath-women-chainmakers-strike-1910
https://voyagerofhistory.wordpress.com/2025/03/15/the-women-chainmakers-strike-of-1910/
#marymacarthur #strikes #womenworkers #workingclasshistory #workingpoor
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#OTD 10 August 2005, #GateGourmet dispute as British Airways “outsourced” its airline meal production, to cut wages and conditions. workers assembled to discuss and protest and 700 were sacked. So baggage handlers walked out in #solidarity shutting #Heathrow airport completely for 48 hours. Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU) workers fought on until April but they were eventually defeated.
https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8178/gate-gourmet-dispute
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/strikingwomen/strikes accessed 29/08/
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Britain abolished #slavery in 1833 parliament granted £20m compensation - for lost income - to former enslavers. Prominent British families moved to the colonies with proceeds of slavery’s abolition, most prolifically in South Australia, which prided itself on being “the free state” devoid of #convicts
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/21/colonial-australias-foundation-is-stained-with-the-profits-of-british-slavery#Capitalism #Colonialism #labourmovement #workingclasshistory
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Bosses have always been keen to “reduce the cost of labour” https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/aug/10/sydney-sugar-industry-slave-trade-pacific-islanders-ntwnfb
#Capitalism #Colonialism #exploitation #labourmovement #migrantworkers #slavery #Townsville #workingclasshistory
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8 8 8 8 Uprising
#OTD 8th August, 1988
https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10777/8888-uprising
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#OTD On 1 August 2010 Indigenous Polynesian #RapaNui people occupied the development site of the Hangaroa Eco Village & Spa hotel on Rapa Nui (Easter Island), a Chilean colony.
The land the development was on was their property, which was stolen by deception off their grandmother, who was illiterate, and then handed over illegally under the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7699/hangaroa-hotel-occupation
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biography Book tour by Dave Zirin
(Note: Howard Zinn (August 24, 1922–January 27, 2010) was a historian, author, professor, playwright, and activist. *
https://www.howardzinn.org/2026-new-howard-zinn-biography/Education Project
https://www.zinnedproject.org/about/howard-zinn/Review
https://portside.org/2026-07-30/howard-zinn-seen-anewWiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Zinn#educationworkers #frombelow #HowardZinn #workingclasshistory
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The Workers Outcry
We have fed you all a thousand years,
And you hail us still unfed,
Though there’s never a dollar of all your wealth,
But marks the workers dead.
We have yielded our best to give you rest,
And you lie on crimson wool,
For if blood be the price of all your wealth,
Good God we have paid it in full.The Firebrand : For Burning Away Of The Cobwebs of Ignorance and Superstition, March 7 1897
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One of the strike leaders was a middle-aged black woman named Carrie Smith who created the slogan, "We demand ten and four" in reference to the strikers' desired pay scale; also well known for #picketing with a Bible and a brick in her hands and telling her fellow strikers, "Girls, we can't lose!"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1933_Funsten_Nut_strike
#labourMovement #Pecan #StLouis #Strikes #workingclasshistory
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Some Sources on the Spanish Revolution of 1936
https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/c868x9#AntiFa #CNT #directaction #labourmovement #solidarity #workingclasshistory
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90th anniversary of Spanish Revolution (from below)
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2026/07/19/revolution-in-hand-spain-1936/On July 19th 1936
https://www.onebigunion.ie/post/celebrating-the-90th-anniversary-of-the#AntiFa #CNT #directaction #labourmovement #mujeresLibres #solidarity #workingclasshistory
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It’s no mystery
Workers make history !
https://www.minnpost.com/mnopedia/2023/09/the-history-of-labor-organizing-in-minnesota/?#labourmovment #Minnesota #organize #solidarity #unions #workingclasshistory
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@workingclasshistory Birmingham District Coal Strike of 1908 https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/birmingham-district-coal-strike-of-1908/
#USHistory #WorkingClassHistory #AlabamaHistory #Alabama #Labor #Union
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#OTD July 6th 1921 (Italy) Arditi Del Popolo rally against Fascism
https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10626/arditi-del-popolo-rallyAbout “the People’s Daring Ones”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arditi_del_Popolo2026 USA aka Amerikkka
How To Catch A Fascist (publisher)
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/To-Catch-a-Fascist/Christopher-Mathias/9781668034767 -
Historical Presentations with @JosephToscano-Naarm
No. 5: Australia’s 1930s Fascist Movement
The New Guard, The Old Guard – Has Anything Changed?What can Australia’s experience with fascist and ultra-nationalist movements during the 1930s tell us about the present day?
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Working Glass https://www.dopemag.org/articles-1/working-glass-for-the-working-class
Living Rent (Glasgow Tenants Union)
https://www.livingrent.org/#Art #Glasgow #glass #illustration #KeiraMcLean #workingclasshistory
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Fans of @workingclasshistory may want to check out this morning’s Thinking Allowed, talking about the Grunswick strike and South Asian labour organising
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#AnnaCampbell was an anarchist, a plumber, and a feminist revolutionary who joined the fight in Rojava against the Salafists of Daesh, and in defense of the democratic-confederalist revolution there. She fought as an international volunteer in the YPG, in the Deir ez-Zor campaign to drive Daesh from its last strongholds in Syria.