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#OtD 11 Oct 1972 approximately fifty inmates at the Washington D.C. jail seized control of a cellblock and held twelve jail officials hostage, demanding improved conditions and reductions in overcrowding stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8351...

#OtD 11 Oct 1884 one of the longest-burning fires in the world began when striking miners set fire to the New Straitsville mine in Ohio. Miners walked out in Jun and were replaced by scabs, so strikers set mines on fire. It is still burning today stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1107...

#OtD 11 Oct 1972 Mexican-American activists occupied the abandoned Beacon Hill School in Seattle and founded El Centro de la Raza (Centre for People of All Races) a Chicane/Latine civil rights community organisation. It still exists today stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8352...

#OtD 11 Oct 1941 the Macedonian uprising against fascism during WWII began with an attack by communist partisans on a police station in Prilep, then Yugoslav territory, which had been occupied by German, Italian, Albanian and Bulgarian forces stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8349...

#OtD 11 Oct 1937 Polish Jewish revolutionary Aniela Wolberg died aged just 29. She had recently travelled to Spain to support the revolution, but had to return to Poland where she died from post-operative complications stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8348...

#OtD 10 Oct 1800 enslaved blacksmith and abolitionist Gabriel Prosser was executed in Virginia alongside his two brothers and 23 followers. They had planned a revolt of enslaved people in Richmond, but were betrayed and captured stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8240...

#OtD 10 Oct 1947 a strike began by Black African railway workers. The strike spread throughout the whole of French West Africa (Senegal, Benin, Ivory Coast & Guinea). It lasted 5 months till workers won many concessions stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8246...

#OtD 10 Oct 1922 Puerto Rican strike leader and women's rights advocate Luisa Capetillo died of TB aged 43. She had taken part in many strikes, including the highly successful sugarcane strike of 1916 which won 13% pay increases stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8244...

#OtD 10 Oct 1908 suffragettes and unemployed men stormed a meeting hosted by PM Herbert Asquith in Leeds, UK. The groups were holding separate protests and met by chance, and decided to rush the meeting. A window was broken and there were a few arrests stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8243...

#OtD 10 Oct 1900 Umberto Marzocchi, Italian anarchist shipyard worker who fought Mussolini's fascists in Italy, Franco's fascists in Spain and Hitler's fascists in France, was born stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1261...

#OtD 10 Oct 1902 Jewish anarcho-syndicalist and lifelong @IWW member and house painter Sam Dolgoff was born in a small Jewish village in what is now Belarus. Immigrating to NYC, he would be part of the US anarchist movement for most of the 20th century stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8242...

#OtD 10 Oct 1972 Black sailors from the USS Kitty Hawk in the Philippines during the Vietnam war decided to disrupt a favourite hangout of white sailors in a segregated whites-only area in protest at the beating of a Black sailor the previous night. More: workingclasshistory.com/2018/08/06/e...

#OtD 10 Oct 1937 fascist leader Oswald Mosley was knocked unconscious and hospitalised in Liverpool by a stone thrown by anti-fascists who attacked a Nazi meeting at which he had attempted to address the crowd stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8245...

#OtD 10 Oct 1903 the Women's Social & Political Union was founded at the Pankhurst family home in Manchester by six women. A split from the non-militant NUWSS, they chose the slogan "Deeds, not words" and a direct action approach to win votes for women stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1262...

#OtD 10 or 19 Oct 1609 pioneering English revolutionary Gerrard Winstanley was born. He was a farmworker and the primary theoretician of the Diggers, or True Levellers, during the English Civil War who took over enclosed lands and farmed them stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8239...

#OtD 10 Oct 1995 the first mass walkout of French public sector workers occurred against cuts to their pensions shutting transport, schools, universities and the post. Later, private sector workers joined, and by December they won stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8249...

#OtD 10 Oct 1933 three striking cotton workers in Pixley, California were killed and others wounded, and striking grape pickers in Arvin, California were fired on by bosses' thugs, killing one and injuring several stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1262...

#OtD 10 Oct 1971 the men of Bravo Company, 1/12, 1st Cavalry Division of the US Army declared a private unofficial ceasefire with the North Vietnamese. It followed a mutiny shortly before. Authorities instead shipped them out to safety. Learn more: workingclasshistory.com/2018/08/06/e...