#OtD 12 Apr 1943 young Walter Mayer was jailed by a Nazi court in Düsseldorf for looting and being a member of the anti-fascist Edelweiss Pirates. Fortunately he later escaped a concentration camp. This is our podcast about the group, including Walter: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/72-ede…

The events which precipitated the 1960 April revolution in South Korea is the focus of the latest episode of @WrkClassHistory's On This Day in Working Class History #podcast at

spreaker.com/episode/11-apr…

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#OtD 12 Apr 1934 workers at the Electric Auto-Lite company in Toledo, Ohio, went on strike. The Toledo Auto-Lite strike heavily involved unemployed workers and is one of the most important strikes in US labour history. Read its history in this book: shop.workingclasshistory.com/en-gb/products…

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📣 New Podcast! '12 April 1920: Ireland general strike' on @Spreaker #history #ireland spreaker.com/episode/12-apr…

#OtD 11 Apr 1914 a UK anarchist conference began in Newcastle. The The Mirror reported that it 'sounds very terrible' but that the delegates were 'in reality the mildest people imaginable… including three girls in the 'flapper' stage' stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8263/a…

#OtD 11 Apr 1949 students at the City College of New York (CCNY) went on strike demanding removal of anti-Semitic department chairman William E. Knickerbocker & professor William C. Davis for his segregating of black students from white stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8265/c…

#OtD 11 Apr 1972 over 200,000 public sector employees in Quebec took part in a general strike. After a government crackdown, 100,000 more joined them: factories were occupied and even a radio station was taken over and broadcast from by the strikers stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8269/2…

#OtD 11 Apr 1968 West German activist Rudi Dutschke was shot in the head by a fascist. Dutschke survived and, despite brain damage, continued his work and activism until his death in 1979. Many blamed the shooting on the right-wing Springer press stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8268/r…

#OtD 11 Apr 1993 possibly the longest prison rebellion in US history took place in Lucasville, Ohio. Black & white prisoners, including those in the Aryan Brotherhood, fought together against mistreatment by prison authorities. This is a history: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/lucas…

#OtD 11 Apr 1945 the Buchenwald concentration camp was liberated by its resistance as US troops arrived. But many of those interned in camps for homosexuality were not freed but required to serve out their sentences under the Nazi penal code stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/11244/…

📣 New Podcast! '11 April 1960: April revolution' on @Spreaker #history #south_korea spreaker.com/episode/11-apr…

#OtD 11 Apr 1981 in London, after rumours of police brutality against a young Black man, youth in Brixton, both Black and white, turned their anger on the police, leaving 280 injured in what would be one of the iconic urban riots of the Thatcher years stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8270/b…

#OtD 11 Apr 1960 the body of activist, Kim Ju-yul, was found in Masan, South Korea. He had been killed in a protest in March against the US-backed dictatorship. Anger exploded across the country in the April revolution. More South Korean people's history: workingclasshistory.com/tag/south-kore…

#OtD 11 Apr 1931 revolutionary textile worker and feminist, Teresa Claramunt, died in Barcelona aged 67. A pioneering advocate for women's liberation, anarchism and the working class, she took part in many strikes. 50,000 attended her funeral stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8264/t…

The events which precipitated the 1960 April revolution in South Korea is the focus of the latest episode of @WrkClassHistory's On This Day in Working Class History #podcast at

spreaker.com/episode/11-apr…

#1u #UnionStrong #LaborRadioPod

#OtD 11 Apr 1972 over 200,000 public sector employees in Quebec took part in a general strike. After a government crackdown, 100,000 more joined them: factories were occupied and even a radio station was taken over and broadcast from by the strikers stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8269/2…

The 1910 successful general strike in Lima, Peru is the focus of the latest episode of @WrkClassHistory's On This Day in Working Class History #podcast at

spreaker.com/episode/10-apr…

#1u #UnionStrong #LaborRadioPod #LaborHistory

#OtD 11 Apr 1931 revolutionary textile worker and feminist, Teresa Claramunt, died in Barcelona aged 67. A pioneering advocate for women's liberation, anarchism and the working class, she took part in many strikes. 50,000 attended her funeral stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8264/t…