Did you know that there is a full-length spoof Tintin graphic novel, in which Tintin and his friends are reimagined as angry workers who start to take collective action, culminating in a mass strike? Available in our online store with global shipping: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/breaking-free-the-adventures-of-tintin

#OtD 1 Apr 1982 oil company Exxon made a private report on CO2. It showed burning fossil fuels would cause global warming which may be irreversible and could be detectable by 1995. They then spent $31m to spread false propaganda claiming the opposite https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8039/exxon-greenhouse-effect-report

#OtD 10 Mar 1919 Leo Jogiches, Polish-German communist, key figure of the Spartacus League & KPD, and lover of Rosa Luxemburg, was murdered while trying to investigate the assassinations of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht. https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8216/leo-jogiches-murdered

#OtD 8 Mar 1917 defying union leaderships, women workers and housewives took the streets of St Petersburg against high prices and hunger. They were joined the next day by 200,000 workers, sparking the February Revolution https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10826/st-petersburg-international-women's-day

#OtD 6 Mar 1944 Italian resistance partisans breached the Camp 59 concentration camp in Servigliano, Italy, and helped a small number of mostly Jewish Italian prisoners to escape. They broke in twice more in the coming weeks. Learn more about partisans: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e77-80-italian-resistance/

#OtD 4 Mar 1976 Antoni Ruiz was arrested in Valencia for homosexuality after being reported by a nun at confession. One of 5000 LGBT+ people convicted under a Franco-era law and sent to a specialist prison where he was raped and later hounded by police https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10456/antoni-ruiz-arrested

#OtD 4 Mar 1943 nine members of the Baum Group, a Jewish communist anti-nazi organization led by Herbert Baum, were executed by guillotine in Berlin after they set fire to a Nazi propaganda exhibit https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10454/baum-group-executions

#OtD 3 Mar 1903 the Immigration Act of 1903 (aka: Anarchist Exclusion Act) was signed into US law by President Theodore Roosevelt. It barred entry to the US for anarchists, people with epilepsy, beggars, and importers of sex workers https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10206/anarchist-exclusion-act

#OtD 1 Mar 1944 a series of general strikes took place across Nazi-occupied northern Italy involving 1-6 million workers. Superficially about economic issues, they were organised by the anti-fascist resistance to undermine the regime. More in our podcast: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e77-80-italian-resistance/

#OtD 24 Feb 1942 the Canadian govt ordered the expulsion and internment of all people of Japanese descent from a 100 mile distance from the West Coast. 22,000 were expelled, with most sent to labour camps, losing most of their property https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9646/canada-japanese-internment

#OtD 22 Feb 1865 the Dripping Riot took place in Leeds. Eliza Stafford, a cook, was caught stealing 2lbs (900g) of dripping from her boss and was jailed for a month. She was released on Feb 22 and thousands attacked her boss's house, then police https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9464/the-dripping-riot

#OtD 20 Feb 1919 during the revolutionary upsurge of the Biennio Rosso (Two Red Years), metalworkers in the FIOM union achieved a maximum eight-hour working day from the employers, which was to be implemented in May and August that year https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/11002/metalworkers-win-eight-hour-day

#OtD 17 Feb 1942 Huey P Newton, revolutionary and founding member of the Black Panther Party, was born in Monroe, Louisiana. Learn more about the Panthers in these books by former members: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/all/black-panthers

"#OtD 9 Feb 1874 AmaHlubi Chief Langalibalele became one of the first Black activists to be banished to Robben Island for refusing to register firearms, which killed colonial troops trying to arrest him. It was deemed a rebellion and he was captured.
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#OtD 8 Feb 1915 DW Griffith’s film The Birth of a Nation premiered. The first major blockbuster in the US, it glorified the KKK & portrayed Black people in the worst ways possible. It inspired a resurgence in KKK membership and still has an impact today. https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10784/the-birth-of-a-nation

Strikes by federal govt workers in the US are illegal. But in 1970, over 200,000 postal workers across the country defied the government, the National Guard, the U.S. Army and even their own union and walked out and won. Learn more in our latest podcast: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e99-vietnam-war-strike-wave/

#OtD 4 Feb 1913 Rosa Parks was born. Often wrongly described as "quiet", she was actually a lifelong activist who supported Black power, Malcolm X and worked alongside the League of Revolutionary Black Workers in Detroit. More about the LRBW in our pod: https://workingclasshistory.com/2018/08/28/e12-the-league-of-revolutionary-black-workers-in-detroit/

#OtD 1 Feb 1967, bagel bakery bosses in New York City locked out their unionised & well-organised bakers, who had been resisting 40% pay cuts, citing competition from non-union bakeries and bagels made by machines. The bakers were ultimately unsuccessful https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8061/bagel-bakers-locked-out

#OtD 31 Jan 1971 anti-fascists attacked the National Socialist Party HQ in Melbourne, Australia. The Nazis, dressed like storm troopers, were advised by police to lock themselves inside, but over 500 people forced their way through and wrecked the offices https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/11141/melbourne-nazis-attacked

New podcast out for everyone! Part 1 of a double podcast episode about the wave of strikes which took place in the US during the Vietnam war, in conversation with Jeremy Brecher. Listen wherever you get your podcasts or go to our website: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e99-vietnam-war-strike-wave/