#OtD 14 Jun 1983 hundreds of thousands took to the streets in Chile demanding an end to the US-backed Pinochet dictatorship. Authorities arrested over 1000 people and shot 15, killing three, but the crackdown failed to stop working-class resistance https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8587/mass-protests-against-pinochet

#OtD 26 May 1824 the first recorded factory strike in US history took place when 102 women and girls working at the Slater Mill in Pawtucket RI picketed their factory against a 25% pay cut. After a week they won concessions. Learn more in our podcast: https://workingclasshistory.com/2019/08/12/e28-the-pawtucket-mill-strike/

#OtD 24 May 1910 German shipyard worker August Landmesser was born. He is thought to be this worker defiantly refusing to perform a Nazi salute. He was later conscripted to a penal battalion then killed, while his Jewish partner was murdered in a camp https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9676/august-landmesser-born

#OtD 24 May 2014 lesbian bouncer known as the "Rosa Parks of the gay community", Stormé DeLarverie, died aged 93 in Brooklyn. Born to a Black mother and a white father, she is credited by some as sparking the Stonewall riots. Learn more in our podcast: https://workingclasshistory.com/2019/05/13/e21-22-the-stonewall-riots-and-pride-at-50/

#OtD 21 May 1980 hundreds gathered in Gwangju, S Korea, and organised themselves into a citizens' militia to combat the troops of the dictatorship after an uprising on May 18. They seized weapons and liberated the city by the next day. More in our pod: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e53-the-gwangju-uprising-1980/

#OtD 16 May 1966 the Chinese Communist Party declared the "cultural revolution". Though primarily a struggle for power between rival groups of bureaucrats, workers took advantage of the upheaval to fight for their own interests https://libcom.org/history/mythology-great-proletarian-cultural-revolution-chinese-ultra-left-donald-parkinson

#OtD 10 May 1941 the Strike of the 100,000 took place in Nazi-occupied Belgium on the first anniversary of German invasion. Authorities granted an 8% pay increase but arrested hundreds and sent many to concentration camps https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8227/strike-of-the-100,000-begins

#OtD 6 May 1933 Nazis raided the Institute of Sex Research in Berlin. It was a pioneering org which supported LGBT rights, and equality for women. It employed numerous trans workers and pioneered gender affirmation surgery. Its library was then burned https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10648/nazis-raid-sex-institute

#OtD 19 Apr 1943 the Warsaw ghetto uprising broke out in earnest when Jews fought back against Nazi attempts to deport them to the Treblinka extermination camp. Although defeated after 27 days it was the biggest armed Jewish rebellion of the Holocaust https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9062/Warsaw-Ghetto-Uprising

#OtD 16 Apr 1970 a white foreman at a Chrysler plant in Detroit threatened to murder a Black worker. When the worker complained, he was sacked. 1000 workers, Black & white, went on strike in protest until management backed down. More in our pod: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e61-the-league-of-revolutionary-black-workers-in-detroit/

#OtD 15 Apr 1989 the Hillsborough disaster took place during an FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest resulting in 97 dead and over 700 injured. Though caused by police negligence, police and the press blamed Liverpool fans https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8641/hillsborough-disaster

#OtD 14 Apr 1775 the first formal organisation for the abolition of slavery was formed in the United States, in the Rising Sun tavern, Philadelphia. It was called the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8534/1st-abolitionist-society-in-usa

#OtD 13 Apr 1985 Danuta Danielsson, the Polish-Jewish daughter of a Holocaust survivor, hit a neo-Nazi on the head with her handbag in Växjö, Sweden. The Nazis were then chased out of town. We have some anti-fascist merch here to help fund our work: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/anti-fascist

#OtD 13 Apr 1890 Black Philadelphia docker and IWW member, Ben Fletcher, was born. Joining the IWW in 1913, he organised a multiracial union on the Philadelphia docks when many unions were still segregated. Learn more in our podcast: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e73-ben-fletcher/

#OtD 12 Apr 1943 young Walter Mayer was jailed by a Nazi court in Düsseldorf for looting and being a member of the anti-fascist Edelweiss Pirates. He later escaped a concentration camp. This is our podcast about the group, including Walter: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/72-edelweiss-pirates-swing-kids/

#OtD 11 April 1945 expecting the arrival of US troops, the resistance in the Buchenwald concentration camp rose up and seized control of it. This delayed the Nazi evacuation of the camp which helped save many lives. US forces arrived later that day. More: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/11244/liberation-of-buchenwald

#OtD 8 Apr 2013 former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher died. Street parties spontaneously broke out across the country. Pictured: Thatcher being welcomed to hell by one of her good friends and supporters, serial paedophile Jimmy Savile https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10766/margaret-thatcher-dies

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#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