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  #OtD 8 Sep 1944 Lela Carayannis, Greek grandmother and leader of the resistance/intelligence organisation known as 'Bouboulina' was shot along with 71 of her followers and co-workers by Nazi execution squad in the University of Athens https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10864/lela-carayannis-executed

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  #OtD 7 Sep 1934 anti-fascists hung a banner atop the BBC, advertising a counter-rally against Oswald Mosley and his British Union of Fascists. The BBC had Mosley on to promote his Nazi views and rally. Even so, over 100,000 locals drove out the fascist https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10756/bbc-anti-fascist-banner-drop

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  #OtD 5 Sep 1900 Vietnamese revolutionary Nguyễn An Ninh was born in Cholon, Hoc Mon. He was jailed by the French colonial authorities five times for his activism. On the final occasion, tragically his health was broken and he died in 1943 https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10574/nguyễn-an-ninh-born

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  #OtD 5 Sep 2018 Dutch resistance fighter, Freddie Oversteegen, died aged 92. 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/tag/9903/world-war-ii-resistance

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  #OtD 5 Sep 1917 mass arrests of radical American workers took place as US marshals raided the national offices of the Socialist Party and of the @iww@mastodon.social union, as well as some 20 branch offices of the IWW in different states. Learn more: https://workingclasshistory.com/2018/05/23/wch-e6-the-industrial-workers-of-the-world-in-the-us-1905-1918/

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  #OtD 30 Aug 1961 a mass meeting of workers at the British Light Steel Pressings plant voted to go on strike against feared job cuts. The strike was undermined by the workers' Amalgamated Engineering Union and unfortunately defeated https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10266/blsp-strike

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  #OtD 20 Aug 1968 the Red Army entered Prague ending the ‘Prague Spring' which had seen the local Party leadership attempt to liberalise aspects of the system. Workers and civilians resisted the invasion but their nonviolence was easily overcome https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9249/red-army-invasion-of-prague

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  #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

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  #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

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  #OtD 30 Aug 1958 Black people in Notting Hill, London, defended themselves after repeated attacks by racist teddy boys, in several days of fierce rioting https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10265/racist-attacks-in-notting-hill

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  #OtD 23 Aug 1851 a violent riot broke out in Sydney, Australia, when police arrested a sailor wearing women's clothing. Hundreds attacked police officers and police stations, freeing all prisoners along the way. We've produced this poster in celebration: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/all/agustin-huarte?sort_by=created-ascending

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  #OtD 10 Aug 2005 the Gate Gourmet dispute began at Heathrow airport in London, where hundreds of outsourced workers, mostly Asian women, tried to fight changes to working conditions. Eventually their union, the TGWU, accepted the inferior conditions https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8178/gate-gourmet-dispute

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  #OtD 10 Aug 1889 Polish WWII resistance activist Zofia Kossak-Szczucka was born. During Nazi occupation she founded a group to help save Jewish people. She was sent to Auschwitz but got out, joined the Warsaw uprising and survived the war https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8173/zofia-kossak-szczucka-born

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  #OtD 9 Aug 1914 5000 people gathered on Glasgow Green, Scotland to denounce the declaration of WWI as "the outcome of capitalism." Unlike a similar rally in Edinburgh the day before, no jingoistic mob attacked. The war would claim over 16 million lives https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10878/red-clydeside-against-wwi

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  #OtD 8 Aug 1942 Spanish Civil War veteran, Maria Perez Cruz, was executed by the Franco regime on trumped up charges. A former nurse in the anarchist Iron Column militia, she was arrested in 1939 and charged with various offences https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10774/france-closes-border-with-spain

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  #OtD 6 Aug 1945 the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, slaughtering tens of thousands of civilians, despite believing that Japan was about to surrender, which was noted by multiple US officials https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10593/u.s.-drops-atomic-bomb-on-hiroshima

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  #OtD 5 Aug 1964 the US began bombing North Vietnam in Operation Pierce Arrow, after "intelligence" reported a North Vietnamese attack on US ships. These reports were false. In our podcast episode, Noam Chomsky explains the geopolitics of the Vietnam war: https://workingclasshistory.com/2018/10/31/e14-the-vietnam-war-with-noam-chomsky/

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  #OtD 4 Aug 1980 the US-backed military dictatorship in South Korea handed down jail sentences of between one and five years to 30 people who had been involved in an insurrection of coal miners and their families in Sabuk the previous April https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10406/sabuk-protesters-jailed

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  #OtD 3 Aug 1492 Columbus set sail from Spain for the "Indies", with disastrous consequences for the people who already lived there. He landed in the Bahamas, where he began enslaving and murdering the Arawak people. More in this book: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/books/products/500-years-of-indigenous-resistance-gord-hill

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  #OtD 2 Aug 1924 James Baldwin, gay African-American author and social critic was born. During the civil rights movement he played an active role in fighting racism, encouraging civil disobedience and taking part in demonstrations https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9166/james-baldwin-born

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  #OtD 31 Jul 1887 Kiuchi Teiko (木内錠子), Japanese Taisho-era novelist and feminist, was born. She was one of the co-founders of the monthly feminist magazine Seitō (Bluestocking), which laid the groundwork for Japanese feminism.

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  #OtD 31 Jul 1922 workers in Italy declared a general strike against fascism, but the nationalist unions did not join, and the middle class supported fascists breaking the strike. After two days, the fascists broke the strike across most of Italy https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10373/general-strike-against-fascism

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  #OtD 31 Jul 2007 after nearly forty years of conflict, the British Armed Forces' Operation Banner – its military action in Northern Ireland – officially ended. More than 3,500 people were killed during this deployment, the majority of them civilians https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10378/british-military-campaign-in-northern-ireland-officially-ends

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  #OtD 31 Jul 1962 Oswald Mosley and his fascist Blackshirts attempted to hold a meeting in Dalston, London, but were once again forced to call it off after the meeting was attacked by angry locals. More about struggles against Mosley in our podcast: https://workingclasshistory.com/2020/02/17/e35-37-the-43-group/

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  #OtD 30 Jul 1766 silver miners in Real Del Monte, Mexico, went on strike against a 25% pay cut in the first recorded strike against an employer in North American history. The employers finally caved in September https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10292/real-del-monte-miners-strike

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  #OtD 30 Jul 1950 the Grâce-Berleur shooting took place in Belgium. During a 600-person march in Wallonia against the return of King Leopold III, police opened fire and ultimately killed four workers, including three anti-Nazi resistance veterans https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10297/grace-berleur-shooting

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  #OtD 29 Jul 1921 Maria Occhipinti, Italian revolutionary, anarchist feminist, and textile worker, was born in Ragusa. In 1945 she sparked an anti-draft revolt in Ragusa, for which she was imprisoned https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10101/maria-occhipinti-born

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  #OtD 29 Jul 1911 Bolivian anarchist union organiser Petronila Infantes, known as Doña Peta, was born in La Paz, Bolivia. Becoming a cook at a young age, at 24 she helped found the Culinary Union, which was part of the anarchist Women Workers’ Federation

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  #OtD 29 Jul 1996 four women anti-war activists were acquitted in Liverpool, UK of all charges related to extensively damaging a fighter jet. They were found not guilty on the basis of preventing a greater crime: the genocidal occupation of East Timor https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10105/anti-war-activists-acquitted

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  #OtD 29 Jul 1900 King Umberto I of Italy was assassinated by anarchist Gaetano Bresci in revenge for the brutal suppression of a workers' demonstration in Milan which left hundreds dead. This is a history of the events: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10098/king-umberto-assassinated