“It’s all just a little bit of history repeating” - Shirley Bassey
“Operation Wetback” 1954: a federal program to hunt down & deport “undocumented immigrants” from Mexico. Somewhere between 1.1 and 1.5 million were rounded up & deported…. yet, many were documented migrants or US citizens.
Anybody wanna know about a 1960s adventure play-park in the Gorbals, run by Glaswegian folk singer Matt McGinn, which the council tried to shut down but failed cause like all the kids in the Gorbals marched on City Chambers?
Aye aye. 
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Sharing this (justly) furious verse from Ewan Robertson's song of c. 1880s about the Highland Clearances, telling Patrick Sellar to burn in hell.
Sellar, a factor (property manager) for the aristocratic Sutherland family, oversaw the forced eviction of tenants to make way for sheep, which could make landowners more money.
From Scottish Studies 1964: 104-6, Gaelic as sung by Andrew Stewart; English John MacInnes; Scots Hamish Henderson.
In the early-20th century, strikes and union battles were common in industrial centers throughout the US. But nothing compared to the class warfare of the West Virginia Mine Wars.
To celebrate the release of "Black Coal and Red Bandanas," an illustrated history from PM Press, we're exciting to host a virtual evening with author Raymond Tyler and illustrator Summer McClinton. They'll be joined by Shaun Slifer and Kenzie New-Walker of the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum!
Register for this free online event and find a copy of "Black Coal and Red Bandanas" at https://firestorm.coop/events/3342-the-west-virginia-mine-wars.html. Can't make the event but still want to listen in? Sign up and we'll send you the recording to stream at your convenience!
#WorkingClassHistory #ClassWar #CoalMiner #WestVirginia #MineWars #FeministBookstore #FirestormCoop (- L)
@workingclasshistory has an excellent two-part podcast interview with John Barker.
Banana Massacre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_Massacre
Santa Marta Massacre
https://web.archive.org/web/20120717004708/http://www.icdc.com/~paulwolf/colombia/santamarta.htm
Thanks
@markhburton
#Colombia. 1928 and US company United Fruit, now #Chiquita, responsible for the massacre of some 1500+ striking banana plantation workers…appears in Garcia Marquez's '100 Years of Solitude'.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Hundred_Years_of_Solitude_(TV_series)
Nearly 100 years of #impunity.
Prohibido olvidar la masacre de las bananeras - Por Fernando Alexis Jiménez - NODAL
Given the news from South Korea today, it seems like a good time to highlight the @workingclasshistory project’s podcasts on life under, and resistance to, South Korean dictatorship in the second half of the 20th century - see
Democracy Thwarted: Vermont Council Delegates Must Keep Voting Until Results Please AFL Headquarters?
a re-run election that turns the labor council back into a top-down, dysfunctional organization—like it was for decades—will be a setback for labor locally and nationally.
https://www.laprogressive.com/labor-social-justice/democracy-thwarted
From #WorkingClassHistory website
"Double podcast episode about the #ClassStruggle in #Palestine during the #BritishMandate (1920-48). We discuss the organisations built by #Palestinian #workers, the 1936-39 revolt, and a number of joint strikes by #Arabs and #Jews which happened against the backdrop of rising tensions which culminated in the ethnic cleansing of the #Nakba."
#SolidarityWithPalestine #NotAntisemitism
#FreePalestine
#Israel #history @palestine @israel
Hey Fediverse! @workingclasshistory has a Kickstarter for a book about the Vermont AFL-CIO, to be published by @pmpress, with four days and about $400 to go. I want to see this book published, so if you can pitch something in, please do!! Boost and share too!
On April 9th, we're hosting another awesome conversation between international authors! Anarchist historians Zoe Baker and Charlie Allison will join us to discuss the revolutionary strategy and practice of anarchists in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Both authors have recently published titles delving into underexamined radical histories. Charlie Allison's "No Harmless Power" follows the life of Nestor Makhno, who organized a seven-million-strong anarchist polity during the Russian Civil War, and Zoe Baker's "Means and Ends" is an accessible overview of the revolutionary strategy of anarchism in Europe and the United States between 1868 and 1939.
Register for this free event, and grab a copy of both books at https://firestorm.coop/events/3161-anarchism-at-the-dawn-of-the-20th-century.html (link in bio). Not sure if you can make the event? Sign up anyway and you'll receive a link to the recorded conversation when we post it!
#WorkingClassHistory #Anarchism #Socialism #NestorMakhno #FeministBookstore #Anarchopac #FirestormCoop (- L)
There and then (1845-1848)
Here and now (2024- ?)
#Capitalism exploits us
Allegheny Cotton Mill Strikes
https://libcom.org/article/1845-allegheny-cotton-mill-strike
#Alegheny #cottonmill #strike
Wherever you are, whatever you do, there is a#union for you.
“Nonviolent Direct Action And The Early IWW” by Lowell May (x333295)
