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  • workingclasshistory@mastodon.socialW

    #OtD 19 May 1925 El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, aka Malcolm X, was born in Omaha, Nebraska.

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    #OtD 16 May is European Romani Resistance Day, commemorating the Roma people who fought fascism during WW2, like the 'Lions of Breda Solini', a partisan battalion in Italy made up entirely of Sinti participants who had escaped from a concentration camp...

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    #OtD (or the previous) 15 May 1897 the world's first LGBTQ rights organisation, the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee, was formed in Berlin.

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    #OtD 15 May 1970 police opened fire on a small group of Black students protesting at Jackson State College, Mississippi, killing two, including a bystander, and wounding 12 https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8718/jackson-state-massacre

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    #OtD 15 May 1912 while Emma Goldman gave a speech during the San Diego free speech fight, Ben Reitman, her lover and fellow anarchist, was abducted by vigilantes and tortured by being beaten, branded with the letters of the @iww, and urinated on https:...

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  • workingclasshistory@mastodon.socialW

    #OtD 14 May 1938 the England football team gave a Nazi salute before a match in Berlin.

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  • workingclasshistory@mastodon.socialW

    #OtD 10 May 1941 the Strike of the 100,000 took place in Nazi-occupied Belgium on the first anniversary of German invasion.

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    #OtD 8 May 1970 the Hard Hat Riot took place in NYC after 200 construction workers attacked 1000 mostly young people protesting the Vietnam War in an operation organised by the New York state @AFLCIO in conjunction with the White House https://workingc...

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  • workingclasshistory@mastodon.socialW

    #OtD 8 May 1943 the HQ of the Jewish Warsaw ghetto resistance fighters was captured by German troops.

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  • workingclasshistory@mastodon.socialW

    #OtD 6 May 1933 Nazis raided the Institute of Sex Research in Berlin.

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  • workingclasshistory@mastodon.socialW

    #OtD 6 May 1937 400 Black women tobacco stemmers went on strike in Richmond, VA.

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  • workingclasshistory@mastodon.socialW

    #OtD 5 May 2024 the Israeli govt raided news organisation Al Jazeera and ordered them to shut down amidst a brutal invasion of Gaza.

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  • workingclasshistory@mastodon.socialW

    #OtD 5 May 1970 100,000s of university students in the US walked out on a nationwide student strike against the Vietnam war and in protest at the killing of four students at Kent State by troops the previous day.

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  • workingclasshistory@mastodon.socialW

    #OtD 5 May 1818 Karl Marx was born in Trier, Germany.

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    #OtD 4 May 1978 Altab Ali, a young Bengali clothing worker, was murdered by racists in Whitechapel, East London, triggering a massive wave of protests.

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    #OtD 4 May 1970 the Kent State massacre took place when Ohio National Guard fired 67 rounds into a crowd of students protesting against the bombing of Cambodia, killing four and wounding nine others including bystanders.

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    #OtD 4 May 1897 Giovannina Caleffi was born in Italy.

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    #OtD 4 May 1929 actress and member of the Dutch resistance Audrey Hepburn was born in Belgium.

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  • workingclasshistory@mastodon.socialW

    #OtD 4 May 1961 Freedom Riders began using direct action to fight segregation of interstate bus travel in the Southern United States.

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  • workingclasshistory@mastodon.socialW

    #OtD 3 May 1886 during a strike for the eight-hour work day, Chicago police killed at least two workers when strikers confronted scabs.

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