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Daily briefings of On This Day people's history anniversaries every day of the year. From the Working Class History team. Help support our work by joining us on patreon and accessing exclusive content and benefits: patreon.com/workingclasshistory
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Mini-podcast about a strike by miners in Sabuk, South Korea, in 1980. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date Our work is only possibl…
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Mini-podcast about rural Jamaicans in 1938 demanding a minimum wage from British colonial authorities. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.…
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Mini-podcast about a sit-in against segregation at a restaurant in Washington DC in 1944. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date Our …
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Mini-podcast about a nationwide strike by US coal miners in 1894. Learn in the book Strike! by Jeremy Brecher, available here: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/strike-jeremy-brecher See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today…
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Mini-podcast about a massacre of striking miners in Ludlow, Colorado, in 1920. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date Our work is onl…
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Mini-podcast about a strike by textile workers in Valdagno, Italy, in 1968. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date Our work is only p…
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Mini-podcast about the general strike by Italian workers against Nazi occupation in Turin, 1945. Learn more about the Italian resistance in our podcast episodes 77-80: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e77-80-italian-resistance/ This is the best book about the resistance: A Civil War: A History of the Italian Resistance by Claudio Pavone Chec…
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Mini-podcast about a strike by oil workers in Kuwait in 2016. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date Our work is only possible becaus…
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Mini-podcast about a strike by Chrysler workers against the sacking of a Black worker in Detroit in 1970. Learn more about Black worker organising in Detroit in the 1960s and 70s in episodes 61-62 of the Working Class History podcast: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e61-the-league-of-revolutionary-black-workers-in-detroit/ See all of our an…
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Mini-podcast about the formation of a union for domestic workers by the Industrial Workers of the World in Denver, Colorado, 1916. Learn more about women in the IWW in episode 16 of the Working Class History podcast: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e16-women-in-the-early-iww/ Learn more about the IWW in these books: https://shop.workingclas…
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Mini-podcast about a general strike in Belgium demanding universal male suffrage in 1913. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date Our …
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Mini-podcast about the birth of highly influential Industrial Workers of the World union organiser, Ben Fletcher, in Philadelphia in 1890. Learn more about Fletcher's life and activism in episodes 73-74 of the Working Class History podcast: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e73-ben-fletcher/ And get hold of this book from our online store: Be…
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Mini-podcast about a successful general strike in Ireland against British colonial authorities in 1920. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory…
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Mini-podcast about the events which precipitated the 1960 April revolution in South Korea. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date Our…
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Mini-podcast about a successful general strike in Lima, Peru, in 1910. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date Our work is only possib…
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Mini-podcast about the general strike by workers in Palestine in 1946. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date Our work is only possib…
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Mini-podcast about protests by working-class students in Gabon against cuts in student grants. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date…
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Mini-podcast about the strike by Carlsberg workers in Denmark against an attack on their right to free beer at work. No Beer No Work historical merchandise See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on…
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Mini-podcast about the uprising by enslaved people in New York in 1712. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date Our work is only possi…
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Mini-podcast about the sit-ins by disabled activists in the US in 1977. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date Our work is only possi…
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Mini-podcast about a Christian pastor in New Haven, Connecticut, who condemned strikes which were sweeping the city in 1886. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://storie…
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Mini-podcast about an attempt to get scab workers across a picket line during a strike by builders at the Barbican in London in 1967. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https…
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Mini-podcast about the food riot by women in Richmond, VA, in 1863. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date Our work is only possible …
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Mini-podcast about the strike by New York brewery workers in 1949. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date Our work is only possible b…
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Mini-podcast about the bossnapping by Caterpillar workers in France demanding better severance pay in 2009. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshis…
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Mini-podcast about the general strike in Palestine and Israel in 1976 against land seizures. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date O…
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Mini-podcast about a strike by mill workers in Eswatini in 1963. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date Our work is only possible bec…
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Mini-podcast about the ban on anarchism and communism in Arkansas in 1919. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date Our work is only po…
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Mini-podcast about a strike by Asian workers against racism on Christmas Island in 1974. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date Our w…
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Mini-podcast about a successful free-speech fight by the Industrial Workers of the World union in Sioux City, Iowa, 1915. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.w…
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Mini-podcast about a strike by Chinese workers in Equatorial Guinea in 2008. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date Our work is only …
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Mini-podcast about a successful strike by Renault workers in Romania in 2008. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date Our work is only…
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Mini-podcast about the most successful attack of the Italian resistance against German Nazis during World War II, in 1944 in Rome. Learn more about the Italian resistance in our podcast episode 77-80: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e77-80-italian-resistance/ See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This D…
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Mini-podcast about the strike of workers in the Philippines, employed in US military bases in 1986. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com…
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Mini-podcast about the abolition of the unpopular poll tax in the UK in 1991. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date Our work is only…
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Mini-podcast about a planned strike by workers at Azores Airlines in 2013. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date Our work is only po…
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Mini-podcast about the occupation of Howard University in Washington DC in 1968. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date Our work is o…
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Mini-podcast about the UK Tolpuddle martyrs, transported to Australia for organising a union in 1834. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.c…
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Mini-podcast about the strike of women munitions workers in Newcastle, UK, during World War I. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date…
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Mini-podcast about the Beyazıt massacre of left-wing students in Istanbul in 1978. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date Our work is…
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Mini-podcast about the general strike by public sector workers in Andorra in 2018. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date Our work is…
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Mini-podcast about the 1970 mutiny aboard the Columbia Eagle in protest against the Vietnam War. E21-24: The Columbia Eagle mutiny – Working Class History podcast See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date …
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Mini-podcast about the Sommerda commune during the German revolution in 1920. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date Our work is only…
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Mini-podcast about the general strike by workers in Barcelona, Spain, in 1951. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date Our work is onl…
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Mini-podcast about the right wing coup attempt in Portugal in March 1975. Learn more about the Portuguese revolution in episodes 41-42 of the Working Class History podcast. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Storie…
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Mini-podcast about the El Bordo mine fire disaster in Mexico in 1920. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date Our work is only possibl…
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Mini-podcast about the strike by women in Mexico against sexist violence in 2020. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date Our work is …
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Mini-podcast about the successful strike of seafarers in Hong Kong and Guanzhou in 1922. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/date Our w…
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Mini-podcast about the successful strike of bagel bakers in New York and Nassau County in 1962. See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/dat…
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Mini-podcast about the 1974 strike by UK miners against the Conservative government. Learn more about the dispute in the Working Class History podcast: E81: Miners’ strikes 1972-4 See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/today And browse all…
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