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Nov 19 1915 – Joe Hill, IWW organiser executed by firing squad. ”Don't waste any time in mourning. Organize”
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Nov 19 1915 – Joe Hill, IWW organiser executed by firing squad. ”Don't waste any time in mourning. Organize”
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Jun 4 1972 - Angela Davis, a black militant, former philosophy professor at the University of California, and communist, is acquitted on charges of conspiracy, murder, and kidnapping by an all-white jury in San Jose, California.
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May 9 1800 – Abolitionist John Brown born. He opposed pacifism of the mainstream abolition movement, arguing "These men are all talk. What we need is action" Leading anti-slavery raids in the 1850s, in 1859 he tried to start an uprising among slaves at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
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Mar 28 1915 – Emma Goldman arrested & jailed for lecture on birth control, saying it’s key to women controlling their bodies & wellbeing.
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July 9 1951 - Dashiell Hammett, author of Maltese Falcon & other detective fiction, US veteran of both World Wars, Communist & antifascist sentenced to 6 months jail for refusing to cooperate with anti-communist inquiry.
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May 1 1886 – 340,000 workers in Chicago strike for 8hr day. Begins tradition of May Day as workers’ holiday.
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Dec 14 2008 - Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi throws his shoes at President Bush in protest at US occupation of Iraq. He shouted "This is a farewell kiss from the Iraqi people, you dog" & "This is for the widows and orphans and all those killed in Iraq" with the second shoe.
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Dec 1 1955 – Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white person when the whites-only section was full. Her arrest starts bus boycott that ends racial segregation on buses in US South.
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May 9 1800 – Abolitionist John Brown born. He opposed pacifism of the mainstream abolition movement, arguing "These men are all talk. What we need is action" Leading anti-slavery raids in the 1850s, in 1859 he tried to start an uprising among slaves at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
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Dec 2 1914 – Karl Liebknecht is the only member of German parliament to vote against war with France & Britain.
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Jun 11 1963 – Thích Quảng Đức self-immolates in Saigon protesting persecution of Buddhists by South Vietnam government.
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Jun 11 1963 – Thích Quảng Đức self-immolates in Saigon protesting persecution of Buddhists by South Vietnam government.
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May 20 1743 - Birth of Haitian revolutionary Toussaint L'Ouverture who lead the Haitian Revolution that overthrew slavery and European colonialism, but died in a French prison.
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Sep 17 1849 – Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery, later returning multiple times to rescue 70 others; guided a raid at that liberated 700+.
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Feb 4 1913 -Birth of Rosa Parks. US civil rights activist who refused to give up her bus seat & sparked mass boycott. "People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true... No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in."
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June 12 1942 – Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.
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Apr 23 1979 - Death of Blair Peach, a socialist teacher who was killed by the police while demonstrating against the fascist NF in London, UK. 1000s of people followed his coffin to the funeral a few days later.
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Jun 28 1969 - Early morning, New York police raided the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, a popular LGBT venue. The attack led to 6 nights of riots & gave birth to a militant movement for gay liberation. Two years later the first Pride march took place in NY on the same date.
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July 27 1979 - Birth of Marielle Franco, Rio de Janeiro Councillor, socialist activist, campaigner for "poor black women and people from the favelas" who was assassinated after speaking out against police violence.
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May 1 1886 – 10,000s workers in Chicago strike for 8hr day. Begins
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May 9 1800 – Abolitionist John Brown born. He opposed pacifism of the mainstream abolition movement, arguing "These men are all talk. What we need is action". Leading anti-slavery raids in the 1850s, in 1859 he tried to start an uprising among slaves at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
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Oct 7 1944 - Prisoners in Auschwitz concentration camp, rise up & destroy a crematorium, killing three SS guards. 100s executed in reprisals.
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May 4 1886 - A bomb explodes during a rally in Haymarket Square, Chicago USA. Four anarchists are hanged for the crime, though they didn't throw the bomb. This event is the origin of May Day as a day of workers' protest.
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July 6 1907 - Birth of Frida Kahlo. Mexican artist, whose work examines indigenous culture, racism, colonialism and feminism. Radical socialist and member of Mexican Communist Party.
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Aug 12 2017 - Antifascist protester Heather Heyer is killed by a Nazi who drove their car into a crowd of activists protesting against a far-right rally in Charlottesville, USA. Her last social media post read: “If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention”.
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June 12 1942 – Anne Frank receives a diary for her thirteenth birthday.
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Dec 29 1890 – US Army massacres 300 Lakota men, women & children at Wounded Knee. Resistance from Native Americans led to 25 US troops being killed. The US Gov awarded 20 Medals of Honour to those who took part in the massacre. It took 100 years for the Gov to "express regret".
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Feb 11 1987 - Death of Mark Ashton aged 26. A communist and LGBT+ rights activist he is best known for his work in building Lesbians & Gay Men support the Miners during the year long British miner's strike; depicted in the film Pride.
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Sep 11 1973 - A Military coup backed by USA in Chile destroys Salvador Allende's left wing gov & the death of 1000s, including Allende.
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Feb 21 1965 - US Civil Rights activist and revolutionary, Malcolm X is assassinated. "Show me a capitalist and I’ll show you a bloodsucker"
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Jun 16 1829 - Native American leader, Geronimo (Goyaałé) born. Lead the Apache against the incursion into tribal lands of Mexico & US.
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Aug 8 1879 - Birth of Mexican Revolutionary Emiliano Zapata.
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Dec 1 1955 – Rosa Parks refuses to move to back of the bus. Her arrest starts bus boycott that ends racial segregation on buses in US South.
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July 6 1907 - Birth of Frida Kahlo. Mexican artist, whose work examined indigenous culture, racism, colonialism and feminism. Radical socialist and member of Mexican Communist Party.
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Jan 4 1932 - Gandhi is arrested for sedition, and held without a trial.
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May 5 1818 - Birth of revolutionary thinker, author & activist Karl Marx.
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Sep 22 1918 – Birth of Hans Scholl, who, together with his sister Sophie & several friends, founded the White Rose anti-Nazi group in Munich. In Feb 1943 they were caught by the Gestapo & executed. (Hans on left in photo w/ Sophie & Christoph Probst another member of White Rose)
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July 14 1912 - Birth of folk singer Woody Guthrie. US folk singer whose songs & recordings inspired politically and musically for decades.
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Aug 28 1844 - Karl Marx and Frederick Engels meet for the first time in person at the Café de la Régence on the Place du Palais in Paris, France.
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Apr 29 1967 - Muhammad Ali is stripped of his boxing title for refusing to be drafted to Vietnam the day before.
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Jan 6 1937 – Abraham Lincoln Brigade forms to fight fascism in the Spanish Civil War. Almost 3,000 Americans travel to Spain as part of the International Brigades.
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July 6 1907 - Birth of Frida Kahlo. Mexican artist, whose work examines indigenous culture, racism, colonialism and feminism. Radical socialist and member of Mexican Communist Party.
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Dec 6 1849 – Born a slave in Maryland, USA, Harriet Tubman escapes from her owners on this day. She later makes 13 trips to free over 70 other slaves and helps run the "Underground Railroad". Later in life she is a campaigner for women's suffrage.
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Mar 28 1915 – Emma Goldman arrested & jailed for lecture on birth control, saying it’s key to women controlling their bodies & well being.
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Dec 30 1936 - George Orwell enlists in the POUM militia to fight fascism during Spanish Civil War.
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Nov 19 1915 – Joe Hill, IWW organiser executed by firing squad. ”Don't waste any time in mourning. Organize”
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May 14 1940 - Death of anarchist Emma Goldman; once called "the most dangerous woman in America".
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May 4 1970 - US National Guard shoot dead four unarmed students & wound 9 at Kent State University. The victims were protesting against the Vietnam War. Ten days later police kill two and wound 12 protesting students at Jackson State.
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June 8 1949 - George Orwell's 1984 published: "War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”
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Jun 7 2020 - Statue of slave trader Edward Colston is pulled down by Black Lives Matter protesters in Bristol, UK.
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May 4 1970 - US National Guard shoot dead 4 unarmed students & wound 9 at Kent State University who were protesting Vietnam war.
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Feb 1 1960 - 4 black students begin a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, USA.
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May 4 1970 - US National Guard shoot dead four unarmed students & wound 9 at Kent State University. The victims were protesting against the Vietnam War. Ten days later police kill two and wound 12 protesting students at Jackson State.
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Aug 12 2017 - Anti-fascist Heather Heyer killed during counter-protest to Nazi "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. A car, driven by a Nazi, killed her & injured 35. Heather wrote "If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention"
#NeverForget
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Mar 28 1871 – The Paris Commune is formally proclaimed across the city, though elections had been held on the 26th.
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Sep 4 1886 – After almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo, with his remaining warriors, surrenders in Arizona.
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Feb 21 1965 - US revolutionary Malcolm X assassinated. "Show me a capitalist and I’ll show you a bloodsucker".
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Aug 14 1956 - Bertolt Brecht, socialist poet, playwright and theatre director dies. “Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.”
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Feb 2 1972 – The British embassy in Dublin is destroyed in protest at Bloody Sunday.
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Happy May Day to the workers of the world. The struggle for peace, justice, equality and against oppression and exploitation continues.
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Jan 30 1972 – Bloody Sunday in Derry. British soldiers gun down 14 unarmed Catholic civil rights marchers; 13 die immediately, and one later. 26 people are injured, many shot in the back. The struggle for justice continues.
#BloodySunday50
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Jun 7 2020 - During the Black Lives Matter protests following the murder of George Floyd, protesters in Bristol, UK, topple a statue of Edward Colston, a slave trader and roll it into Bristol Harbour. Four protesters are eventually found "not guilty" of criminal damage by a jury.
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Apr 28 1945 - Italian fascist dictator Mussolini is executed by anti-fascist resistance fighters.
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Oct 16 1968 – Tommie Smith & John Carlos raise gloved fists in Black Power salute on medal podium at Mexico Olympics. Peter Norman supports.
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Aug 28 1955 - 14 year old Emmett Till tortured & murdered after reportedly flirting with a white woman. His killers were acquitted. Emmett's mother held an open-casket funeral to show the world her son's mutilated body. His death helped encourage Civil Rights movement.
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Apr 16 1871 - The Paris Commune announces the postponement of all debt obligations for three years and abolition of interest on them.
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Aug 12 2017 - Anti-fascist Heather Heyer is killed by a Nazi terrorist who drives a car into a crowd protesting the far-right in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
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Feb 12 1946 – Black US Army veteran Isaac Woodard beaten & blinded by policeman, hours after being honourably discharged & still in uniform. Helps galvanise Civil Rights Movement. Chief of Police Lynwood Shull was found not-guilty after a trial full of racist language & threats.
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May 4 1970 - US National Guard shoot dead four unarmed students & wound 9 at Kent State University. The victims were protesting against the Vietnam War. Ten days later police kill two and wound 12 protesting students at Jackson State.
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Jan 26 1944 - Birth of Angela Davis: US revolutionary, civil-rights activist & author. A former Communist candidate for VP, charged with helping free the Soledad Brothers, she was found not guilty. Continues to fight for Palestine, Black Rights, prison & police abolition.
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Dec 2 1914 – Karl Liebknecht is the only member of German parliament to vote against war with France & Britain. "The main enemy is at home...."
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Jul 1 1977 – Native American activist Leonard Peltier gets two life sentences for alleged role in death of FBI agents at AIM encampment. Nearly 45 years later the campaign to get his conviction overturned and Peltier released continues:
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Dec 2 1914 – Karl Liebknecht is the only member of German parliament to vote against war with France & Britain.
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May 9 1800 – Abolitionist John Brown born. He opposed pacifism of the mainstream abolition movement, arguing "These men are all talk. What we need is action" Leading anti-slavery raids in the 1850s, in 1859 he tried to start an uprising among slaves at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
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Dec 25 1831 – The Great Jamaican Slave Revolt (sometimes called the Christmas Rebellion) begins as a strike involving 60,000 slaves turns into insurrection; up to 20% of the island's slaves are involved. Brutal repression follows with around 500 killed, often for minor "offenses"
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May 14 1940 - Death of anarchist Emma Goldman; once called "the most dangerous woman in America".
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Sep 11 1973 - A military coup in Chile led by General Pinochet & backed by USA leads to the overthrow of President Salvador Allende's left-wing government. Allende is killed. Pinochet's regime institutes mass repression & kills 1000s.
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May 13 1968 - One million march through streets of Paris following mass student riots. Sorbonne occupied. 10 million on General Strike.
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July 14 1912 - Birth of folk singer and radical Woody Guthrie.
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Feb 18 1943 - Students Sophie & Hans Scholl arrested after distributing anti-Nazi propaganda in Munich.
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July 14 1789 - The Storming of Bastille during French Revolution, a key moment as the masses took to the stage of history and drove the Revolution forward. "Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité"
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May 20 1743 - Birth of Haitian revolutionary Toussaint L'Ouverture who lead the Haitian Revolution that overthrew slavery and European colonialism, but died in a French prison.
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Oct 16 1968 – Tommie Smith & John Carlos give Black Power salute at Mexico Olympics. Smith: "If I win I am American, not a black American. But if I did something bad then... I am a Negro. We're black & we're proud of being black. Black America will understand what we did tonight"
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Aug 28 1844 - Karl Marx and Frederick Engels meet for the first time in person, 1844 at Café de la Régence on the Place du Palais in Paris.
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Aug 22 1791 - Start of slave revolt in French colony of Saint-Domingue, which ended in the elimination of slavery there & founding of Haiti.
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Sep 19 1952 – US prevents Charlie Chaplin from returning to Hollywood until he is investigated due to being blacklisted for his leftwing politics.
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May 19 1925 - Malcolm X born. Key figure in the fight for Black Liberation. Argued that struggle had to be won "by any means necessary".
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Dec 25 1831 – The Great Jamaican Slave Revolt begins. About 60,000 slaves rise-up following a general strike. 500 killed by British troops.
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Dec 14 2008 - Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi throws his shoes as President George W Bush in protest at the US occupation of Iraq.
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Feb 21 1965 - Revolutionary and Civil Rights activist Malcolm X assassinated. "Show me a capitalist and I’ll show you a bloodsucker"
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Apr 9 1898 - Birth of Paul Robeson. US radical singer, actor, socialist and campaigner
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Aug 18 1977 – Steve Biko, leader of South Africa’s Black Consciousness Movement arrested by Apartheid security police. Tortured and beaten, Biko dies of his injuries in a prison cell on 12 September.
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Apr 20 1939 – Billie Holiday records the civil rights song "Strange Fruit"; a rage of anger against racism and lynching in the American South. The song was originally a poem written by Abel Meeropol, a Jewish schoolteacher, Communist & trade union activist
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