#OtD 15 Sep 1845 5000 women cotton mill workers in and around Pittsburgh went on strike for a 10-hour day and an end to child labour. Although unsuccessful, it got national attention and led to a 10-hour law which unfortunately was not enforced https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8736/cotton-mill-women-strikes?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#OtD 14 Sep 1989 seven members of the Aids campaign group ACT UP infiltrated the New York Stock Exchange and chained themselves to a balcony in protest at the high cost of the only Aids drug, AZT. Shortly after Wellcome cut its price by over 20% https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8631/act-up-protest-at-stock-exchange?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#OtD 12 Sep 2001 anarchist textile worker, Dolors Prat, died aged 96. A lifelong revolutionary, she fought for the eight-hour day, participated in the Spanish revolution and following its defeat escaped to France, where she remained active https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8442/dolors-prat-dies?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#OtD 9 Sep 1971 the Attica prison uprising began when racial groups united and took control of the prison, demanding improvements. The governor sent in troopers who then killed 39, including eight guards whom they claimed were killed by prisoners https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10956/attica-prison-uprising?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#OtD 6 Sep 1971 106 people escaped from the Punta Carretas prison in Montevideo, Uruguay, mostly Tupamaros guerrillas. They dug a tunnel, and found an old tunnel dug by anarchist prisoners 40 years prior which they used to help their escape. Learn more: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10673/punta-carretas-prison-break?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#OtD 6 Sep 1925 Dutch resistance fighter Freddie Oversteegen was born in Schoten, Netherlands. During WWII she and her sister Truus joined the resistance, distributing anti-fascist papers, helping refugees, and later sabotaging and killing fascists https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/12476/freddie-oversteegen-born?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#OtD 6 Sep 1945 following the defeat of the Japanese, the People's Republic of Korea was declared (not to be confused with the DPRK/North Korea) guaranteeing human rights and gender equality. The US abolished it and set up a dictatorship. Learn more: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10671/people's-republic-of-korea-declared?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#OtD 4 Sept 1919 5000 miners, many armed, marched on Logan County, WV, after hearing rumours of women & children being killed by mine operator thugs. They refused to leave until a committee could enter the area and verify all was quiet. More in our pod: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e57-west-virginia-mine-wars-1902-1922/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#OtD 8 Aug 1845 UK Parliament passed an enclosure act taking away public land and appointing officials who could enclose more land without approval from MPs – one of 5,000 such acts passed. This dispossession created the working class https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10768/enclosure-commissioners-introduced?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#OtD 31 Aug 1913 police attacked a crowd in O'Connell Street, in a drunken rampage that became known as 'Bloody Sunday'. During the Dublin lockout of tram workers, 300 officers attacked a crowd of mostly onlookers https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10353/dublin-bloody-sunday?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#OtD 30 Aug 1979 screen icon and Black Panther supporter Jean Seberg killed herself following harassment by the FBI which resulted in the death of her premature baby exactly nine years prior. Learn more: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10268/jean-seberg-suicide?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#OtD 29 Aug 2005 Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, killing over 1800 people, with working-class and Black communities being most affected. The lack of govt response was criticised, while communities on the ground self-organised mutual aid https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10082/hurrican-katrina-hits-us?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#OtD 25 Aug 2020 Anthony Huber, Joseph Rosenbaum and Gaige Grosskreutz were protesting a police shooting of an unarmed Black man in Kenosha, Wisconsin, when a teenager shot them with an illegal semiautomatic rifle. The killer was acquitted of all charges https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9719/kenosha-killings?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#OtD 24 Aug 1800 a group of enslaved people in Virginia, US, met to recruit others for an insurrection planned for 30 August, led by Gabriel, an enslaved 24-year-old. Unfortunately, the plot was betrayed and 26 of the participants were executed https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9626/richmond-slaves-plan-rebellion?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#OtD 24 Aug 1945 legendary Black LGBTQ activist, sex worker, Stonewall rebellion participant, and co-founder of STAR (a radical org that provided shelter for homeless queer and trans youth) Marsha P. Johnson was born in New Jersey, US. Learn more: https://workingclasshistory.com/2019/05/13/e21-22-the-stonewall-riots-and-pride-at-50/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#OtD 22 Aug 2016 Mapuche Indigenous eco-activist Macarena Valdés was found dead by hanging in rural Chile by her 11-year-old son. Police ruled it a suicide, but forensic pathologists found that she was already dead by the time her body was hanged https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9453/macarena-vald%C3%A9s-died?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#OtD 21 Aug 1944 the Maquis uprising took place in Paris where more than 4,000 Spanish exiles took up arms against the occupying Nazi regime. Spanish civil war veterans were also the first external troops to enter the capital to liberate it. Learn more: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9351/the-paris-insurrection?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#OtD 17 Aug 1985 meatpacking workers in Austin, Minnesota went on strike in protest at a 23% wage cut after eight years of a pay freeze. They fought scabs, police, National Guard and their own union the UFCW, but were eventually defeated after 10 months https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8862/hormel-meatpackers-strike?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#OtD 16 Aug 1921 The Times of London newspaper exposed 'The Protocol of the Elders of Zion' as an antisemitic fraud. Antisemitic businessman, Henry Ford (pictured receiving an award from Nazi officials), continued to publish it a further 91 times https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8760/%22the-protocol-of-the-elders-of-zion%22-exposed-as-a-fraud?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#OtD 13 Aug 1937 four striking Indian sugar workers were massacred at the Union Flacq Sugar Estate, Mauritius. In response, protests escalated. The British colonial government was then forced to legalise unions and set up a collective bargaining framework https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7741/mauritius-strike-massacre?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon