Don't miss this epic event
⚡️PUNKS WITH BOOKS⚡️
Reading and Signings
🔸️Billy Bragg
🔸️Jason Lamb
🔸️Michelle Cruz-Gonzales
🔸️James Tracy
🔸️Juanita E. Mantz
🔸️Mike Dunn
Sun, May 26th, Noon to 3pm
Avantpop Bookstore
900 Liberace Ave D102
Las Vegas, NV 89109

#books #punks

Abolish the wage system
Abolish the state
All power to the workers!

Do it for mom!

#IWW #classwar #union #GeneralStrike #workingclass #mothersday2024 #SocialistSunday

Today in Labor History 5/12/1916: #JamesConnolly was executed for his role in #easterrising to end #British rule in #Ireland . 485 people died, mostly #civilians . Connolly was also a cofounder of the #IWW

#workingclass #LaborHistory #Dublin #union #strike #SocialistSunday

Happy #Caturday

#CatsOfTwitter

#Liberals #Gaslighting

If you're in the SF Bay Area today, come to the book release party for Roberta Tracy's Zig Zag Woman. I'll be there, too, reading from my novel Anywhere But Schuylkill, 4:30p, Alibi Books, Vallejo.

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#books #HistoricalFiction

Today in Labor History 5/11/1968: Night of the Barricades occurred in #Paris after #Police blocked #StudentProtests from crossing the river. As a result, they threw up barricades. #cops savagely beat & arrested hundreds of #Students . Led to a #GeneralStrike May 13.

Today in Labor History 5/11/1963: Birmingham #RIOT began when racists bombed African-American #CivilRights leaders. Frustrated by #Police complicity in #racism & atrocities, black protesters burned down businesses & fought #cops in downtown Birmingham. Gov deployed the militia

Today in Labor History 5/11/1894: Pullman #Railroad #Strike began in #Chicago . 260,000 participated. strike & #Boycott halted most rail traffic west of Detroit. Led by Eugene Debs, #IWW cofounder. 70 workers killed by federal troops.

#union #massacre #socialism

Today in Labor History 5/11/1878: Max Hoedel, 21, anarchist, shot Emperor Guillaume I of Prussia to publicize plight of #WorkingClass . Monarch survived. Hoedel was beheaded, shouting 'Vive la commune.'

#anarchism #DeathPenalty #execution #regicide #assassination #atentat

Please join us Saturday, May 11 at 4:30 for the book release of Roberta Tracy’s “Zig Zag Woman, joined by Mike Dunn, author of “Anywhere but Schuylkill”

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#mystery #vaudeville #zigzagwoman #historiumpress #HistoricalFiction #books #AnywhereButSchuylkill

In Vegas this Memorial Day weekend? Stop by Avantpop Books, Sunday, May 26, noon. I'll be reading from my working-class historical novel, 'Anywhere But Schuylkill.'

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#LaborHistory #fiction #books #literature #historicalfiction #punk #author #Writer

Today in Labor History 5/5/1931: Battle of Evarts, Harlan Co, #Kentucky . Scab accosted #Union coal miner worker. Led to 3 deaths. Gov called out Natl Guard Killed several strikers. Inspired Florence Reece to write 'Which Side Are You On?' youtube.com/watch?v=SPFY8C…
#SocialistSunday

Today in Labor History 5/5/1886: Bay View Massacre in #Milwaukee , day after #Haymarket bombing. Workers demonstrating for #EightHourDay . State shot & killed 7, incl 14-yr-old boy. No militiamen were ever charged. But 50 strikers got hard labor for 'rioting.'

#SocialistSunday

Today in Labor History 5/5/1884: #KnightsOfLabor struck at Jay Gould’s Union Pacific over wage cuts & won. Because of the success of this #strike , their #Union rapidly grew. However, #Pinkertons , National Guards & #TexasRangers killed >10 workers.

#SocialistSunday

Today in Labor History 5/5/1882: Sylvia Pankhurst was born. English women's suffrage, #Feminism & left (council) #Communism .

#SocialistSunday
#workingclass #LaborHistory #sylviapankhurst #WomensRights #soviet #councilcommunism

Today in Labor History 5/4/26: UK #GeneralStrike to prevent wage cuts for coal miners. >1.7 million workers participated. TUC limited participation out of fear of the revolutionary potential of a full blown General Strike. They wrote: “The General Strike. . . is road to anarchy.”

Today in Labor History 5/4/46: US deployed marines against prisoners in #alcatraz . Used grenades & mortars. 3 prisoners, 2 #prison officials died. Later executed 2 more prisoners for participating in the #RIOT .

Today in Labor History 5/4/70: #kentstatemassacre of #Students protesting US invasion of #Cambodia . A repeat seems imminent with #Police use of chemical agents & snipers, & threat of Natl Guard against #StudentProtests against the #genocide in #Gaza