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  #OtD 11 Nov 1887 4 of the Haymarket martyrs were executed in Chicago. They were anarchist labour organisers framed for a bombing because of their role in the fight for the 8-hour day. Learn more in this history of May Day, which commemorates them: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/the-incomplete-true-authentic-and-wonderful-history-of-may-day-peter-linebaugh

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  #OtD 10 Nov 1995 Ken Saro-Wiwa, Ogoni indigenous author and activist, was hanged by the Nigerian state for resisting Royal Dutch Shell, alongside eight other Ogoni people. They had organised nonviolent resistance to destruction of Indigenous lands https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8237/ken-saro-wiwa-executed

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  #OtD 9 Nov 1938 a pogrom occurred against Jewish people throughout Nazi Germany carried out by the fascist Brownshirts and antisemitic civilian supporters. Nazis dubbed it "Kristallnacht". 30k Jews were arrested and hundreds killed in the coming weeks https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10940/kristallnacht

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  #OtD 8 Nov 1939 Georg Elser attempted to assassinate Hitler by bombing the pub where Hitler stayed every year. But Hitler cancelled his stay and left just 13 minutes earlier, and instead the bomb killed 6 Nazis, as well as a waitress https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10844/georg-hitler-attentat

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  #OtD 4 Nov 1921 Paris Communard and anarchist Victorine Rouchy died aged 83. She joined the militia and fought on the barricades when the army came to retake the city, but was arrested alongside her husband. Condemned to death, but escaped https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10469/victorine-rouchy-dies

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  #OtD 4 Nov 1811 Luddites attacked machinery in Bulwell, England. While 'Luddite' is used today to mock those who don't like/know how to use technology, the Luddites didn't oppose technology as such, but how capitalists used it to make them unemployed https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10465/bulwell-luddites-attack

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  #OtD 3 Nov 1979 the Greensboro, NC, massacre occurred when five communists at an anti-Ku Klux Klan protest were murdered by members of the KKK and the American Nazi Party., who were helped by police who gave them a map of anti-racists https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10238/greensboro-massacre

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  #OtD 2 Nov 1917 the UK issued the Balfour declaration, announcing its support for a Jewish ethnostate in Palestine. One official later explained its function as the creation for the UK of "a little loyal Jewish Ulster" in the region. More in our podcast: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e86-87-class-struggle-in-palestine/

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  #OtD 1 Nov 1963 Black tenants began a rent strike in Harlem, NYC. By January, about 2000 tenants were withholding rent. The strike caused the city to create a rat eradication program, legalize rent strikes, and pass laws to improve housing conditions https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7712/harlem-rent-strike

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  #OtD 29 Oct 1956 Israeli armed forces massacred 48 Palestinian citizens of Israel in the village of Kafr Qasem, inc women (one of whom was pregnant) and children. At 4:30pm, they brought in a 5pm curfew, and killed people as they came home from work https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/11641/kafr-qassem-massacre

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  #OtD 21 Oct 2016 video game voice actors in the US went on strike through their union @SAGAFTRA against 11 video game developers. After 340 days they won improvements including better pay and transparency about roles. More info, sources and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9436/video-game-voice-actors-strike-begins

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  #OtD 18 Oct 1948 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

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  #OtD 30 Sep 1919 the Elaine massacre began in Arkansas, US, when hundreds of African-Americans were murdered and tortured by white racists and security forces, after Black farm workers tried to organise for better pay https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10348/elaine-massacre

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  #OtD 30 Sep 1973 Chilean army death squad the Caravan of Death flew by helicopter from the south to the north of Chile, and began brutally torturing and murdering around 100 people and dumping them in unmarked graves on the orders of Augusto Pinochet https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10350/caravan-of-death

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  #OtD 29 Sep 2007 tens of thousands of textile workers in Ghazl el-Mahalla, Egypt, went on illegal wildcat strike, eventually winning all their demands https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10146/wildcat-strike-in-ghazl-el-mahalla

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  #OtD 29 Sep 1944 communist nurse and partisan Virginia Tonelli was burned alive in the San Sabba concentration camp in Italy. The fascists had tortured her for days, but were unable to get her to speak. Exasperated, her torturers then burned her alive https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e77-80-italian-resistance/

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  #OtD 28 Sep 1997 dockworkers in Oakland, CA, picketed the Neptune Jade ship in solidarity with Liverpool dockers in the UK. The ship had been loaded by scab labour, attempting to run a global blockade. Despite court action, the ship didn't unload https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/12602/neptune-jade-picket

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  #OtD 28 Sep 1846 British troops opened fire on starving food rioters in Dungarvan, Ireland, killing one. The Great Famine lasted until the 1850s, killing around a million people and forced even more to emigrate, while food was exported for profit https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10057/food-riots-in-dungarvan,-ireland

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  #OtD 27 Sep 1936 1000 uniformed fascist Blackshirts led by Oswald Mosley in Leeds, UK, were confronted by 30,000 anti-fascist locals who attacked them, pelted them with stones, hitting Mosley, and drowned out speeches by singing The Red Flag https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9965/battle-of-holbeck-moor

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  #OtD 25 Sep 1912 sheriff's deputies in Louisiana caught up with Charles "Leather Britches" Smith, a former logger who was wanted for firing at a sawmill during the Grabow timber strike. He died after refusing to surrender https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9786/charles-smith-killed-by-police

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  #OtD 25 Sep 1952 influential Black author, activist, and feminist theorist, bell hooks was born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. She wrote over 30 books during her life, often critiquing what she termed the imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/12599/bell-hooks-born

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  #OtD 24 Sep 2003 27 pilots in the Israeli air force wrote to their commander refusing to participate in assassination missions in the West Bank and Gaza. They stated the attacks were "illegal and immoral" and harmed "innocent civilians" https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9703/israeli-air-force-pilots-refusal-to-partake-in-assassination-missions

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  #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

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  #OtD 20 Sep 1978 Ford workers in the UK sparked the "winter of discontent" when 15,000 of them walked out against a Labour govt-union pay cap. They stayed out till Nov, winning a 17% increase, and 1m other workers followed them https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9527/ford-workers'-strike-in-the-uk

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  #OtD 19 Sep 1868 the Camilla massacre took place in Georgia, US. Several hundred Black Republicans had marched in protest at Black and mixed race elected representatives being expelled. White racists opened fire, killing around 12 and wounding more https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9147/camilla-massacre

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  #OtD 18 Jun 1943 18-year-old Ukrainian anti-fascist fighter Maria Kislyak was executed, alongside her two friends Fedor Rudenko and Vasiliy Bugrimenko, for killing two Nazis https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8999/maria-kislyak-executed

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  #OtD 19 Sep 1795 the Curaçao slave rebellion was crushed by Dutch forces, who executed two rebel leaders, in addition to the many killed in fighting. Despite this, the government was forced to grant limited rights to the enslaved https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9146/curaçao-slave-revolt-crushed

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  #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 fought back, and forced them to retreat after seven hours of fighting https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/12595/invasion-of-kahnawake-reserve

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  #OtD 17 Sep 1963 Raghbir Singh, a Sikh man, became the first person of colour to work on a bus in Bristol, England after a mass campaign forced the dropping of the "colour bar" by bosses and the TGWU union the previous month https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8946/first-person-of-colour-begins-work-on-bristol-buses

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  #OtD 15 Sep 1983 Michael Stewart, a 25-year-old Black student, was beaten to death by 10 NYPD officers after being caught painting graffiti. The medical examiner then helped them cover up the murder. No officers were convicted https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8745/michael-stewart-killed-by-police