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For a century, teens have proved time and time again that they are the future.
By #KimKelly August 18, 2026https://www.teenvogue.com/story/teens-have-always-been-on-the-front-lines-of-the-labor-movement
#directaction #labourmovement #solidarity #workingclasshistory #youngworkers
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60th 1966-Wave Hill Walk-off 2026 Freedom Festival
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-23/hundreds-march-in-freedom-festival-wave-hill-walk-off-60-years/107064186#firstNations #Gurindji #labourmovement #landrights #Workingclasshistory
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May 1st 1946
800 Aboriginal #pastoralworkers walked off the large pastoral stations in the #Pilbara and from exploitation in the two major towns of #PortHedland and #MarbleBar. The strike did not end until August 1949
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilbara_strikeHow The West Was Lost (film)
https://www.roninfilms.com.au/video/0/120/587.htmlAbout
https://www.pilbarastrike.org/#firstnations #labourmovement #mayday #pilbara #strikes #workingclasshistory
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Gather round, people, I'll tell you a story
An eight-year-long story of power and pride
'Bout British Lord Vestey and Vincent Lingiari
They were opposite men on opposite sides
Kev Carmody - Paul Kelly (1991)23rd August 1966
#WaveHill walk-off/strike, by 200 #Gurindji stockmen, house servants and their families, at #Kalkarindji cattle station lasting seven years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_Hill_walk-off#FirstNations #labourmovement #landrights #organize #solidarity #strikes #workingclasshistory
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“Getting members to go through the hoops of fire that it takes to #organize, it’s a big ask; it is always amazing to me that workers do organize rather than that they don’t, because it is hard to organize, particularly in this very divisive society, coming together and building #solidarity.” - Kate Bronfenbrenner
https://portside.org/2026-08-20/kate-bronfenbrenner-union-organizers-scholar
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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