#OtD 30 Oct 1944 the left-wing Greek People's Liberation Army liberated Thessaloniki from Nazi occupation. They stopped the Nazis from blowing up power plants and food factories and attacked retreating German units, then paraded through the streets https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10338/thessaloniki-liberated-from-nazis?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#OtD 29 Oct 2000 14-year-old Palestinian Faris Odeh stood alone in front of an Israeli tank in Gaza and threw a stone at it, during the second intifada, photographed by AP's Laurent Rebours. Ten days later Odeh was shot in the neck and killed by the IDF https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/12636/faris-odeh-photographed?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Today is National Black Cat Day. There are a lot of connections between black cats and the workers' movement. Celebrate with these items and help fund our work! https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/search?q=black%20cat&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#OtD 27 Oct 1942 17-year-old Helmuth Hübener was beheaded by the Nazis in Berlin for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets. Learn more about working class youth resistance to Nazism in Germany in our podcast episode 72: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/72-edelweiss-pirates-swing-kids/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#OtD 27 Oct 1940 Japanese aircraft scattered wheat grain over Ningbo, China during World War II. Two days later, an epidemic of bubonic plague broke out in the city which killed 97 people. Japan later admitted it was one of many biological attacks https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9955/japanese-plague-attack?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#OtD 24 Oct 1975 90% of women in Iceland went on general strike for equality with men. Working women stayed home, and house workers refused to cook, clean and look after children. Today Iceland has the lowest gender inequality in the world https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9692/1975-icelandic-women's-strike?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#OtD 25 Oct 1983 the US invaded the Caribbean island of Grenada, ostensibly to protect US citizens but really to assert its dominance over the region. More information, sources and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9784/us-invades-grenada?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#OtD 19 Oct 1915 Jewish baseball player, longshoreman, oil worker and communist, Sam Nahem, was born in New York to Syrian migrant parents. He played for the Brooklyn Dodgers, served in WWII and later help lead an oil strike https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9140/sam-nahem?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#OtD 18 Oct 1931 German workers in Braunschweig went on strike in protest against the Nazis. In the 2nd half of 1931 there were 25 political strikes by 30k workers in protest against fascism, with many more the following year. German antifascist art here: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/anti-fascist?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#OtD 18 Oct 1948 the Israeli Air Force began bombing the Palestinian village of Bayt Jibrin during Operation Yoav. By the time Yoav concluded, in just a few days, it had caused the number of refugees living in the Gaza Strip to increase from 100k to 230k. https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/11436/bombing-of-bayt-jibrin?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#OtD 17 Oct 1915 Spanish machinist, anarchist and civil war fighter Concha Perez Collado was born in Barcelona. Prior to the civil war she took part in jail breaks and insurrectional strikes. She survived the war and remained active till 2014 https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8935/concha-perez-collado?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#OtD 16 Oct 1968 African-American sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised their gloved fists in a Black power salute as they won medals. Peter Norman showed solidarity by wearing a badge protesting the white Australia policy https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8831/black-power-at-the-olympics?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#OtD 16 Oct 1993 in response to racist murders and assaults in South East London, some 60,000 anti-racists held a march on the HQ of the fascist British National Party. Violent riot police defended building, injuring many https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8833/anti-bnp-march-in-se-london?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#OtD 15 Oct 1970 the West Gate Bridge, which was under construction in Australia, collapsed killing 35 workers and injuring 18. The workers had previously raised concerns about the project but bosses said it was safe and they returned to work https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8733/west-gate-bridge-collapse?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#OtD 15 Oct 1940 Charlie Chaplin's first talkie The Great Dictator debuted in New York (while the US was still formally at peace with Nazi Germany). The antifascist film ends with this impassioned speech to the audience opposing all forms of oppression https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8730/the-great-dictator-debuts?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#OtD 8 Oct 1978 the fascist National Front's Sunday League football team, the Lillywhites, were turned over (literally) as the Luton box van they were using as a changing room was attacked and rolled over by members of the anti-fascist Manchester Squad https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10859/fascist-football-team-attacked?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#OtD 26 Sep 1932 Pierre De Geyter, Belgian socialist and composer of the music to the famous revolutionary anthem, L'Internationale, died https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/12666/pierre-de-geyter-dies?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#OtD 21 Sep 1976 Chilean socialist refugee Orlando Letelier and think tank worker Ronni Moffitt were murdered in Washington, DC by a car bomb planted by US and UK-backed dictator General Pinochet's secret police https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9441/orlando-letelier-and-ronni-moffitt-assassinated?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#OtD 20 Sep 1898 migrant anarchist worker Polenice Mattei was murdered by police in São Paulo. Anarchists were central to the Brazilian workers' movement at the time, fighting for shorter hours and health insurance https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9330/polenice-mattei-murdered-by-police?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#OtD 18 Sep 1990 Canadian soldiers and police tried to invade the Kahnawake reservation. Kanyen'kehà:ka (Mohawk) First Nations people who were resisting construction of a golf course resisted them, and forced them to retreat after seven hours of fighting https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/12595/invasion-of-kahnawake-reserve?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon