"#Socialist" states under #Communist parties betray workers and prevent their organization. On #ThisDayInHistory in 1960, #Cuba ordered #AnarchoSyndicalist newspapers to cease publication. Learn more about #anarchism in Cuba here:
https://zurl.co/PsQ1z & https://zurl.co/gjy1W

The US #RepublicanParty/#GOP was founded in Wisconsin on #ThisDayInHistory in 1854. Initially pursuing #liberal & centre-left politics with a federalist bent, it gradually shifted rightward through #progressivism, then moderate #conservatism, and finally into #FarRight #populism.

#Taylorism, or #ScientificManagement, comes from the work of #Progressive-era efficiency-expert #FrederickTaylor, born #ThisDayInHistory in 1856. His work caused new heights in #AlienatedLabour. Here is a #JobAction joke on it by #UtahPhillips that I love:
https://zurl.co/vEM1K

Orders for creation of the long-running #Dachau #ConcentrationCamp were given #ThisDayInHistory in 1933 by #HeinrichHimmler. It was initially for leftists (#socialists, #communists) but it and satellite labour camps were used for #Roma, Jews, & others. Torture there was the norm.

The United States launched the #IraqWar on #ThisDayInHistory in 2003, causing 650,000 Iraqi deaths, more than the Baathists killed in a longer period. US troops were despatched to guard the oil ministry, but Iraq's #oil — nationalized in 1972 — wasn't a reason for war, oh no. /s

#UncleTomsCabin, published on #ThisDayInHistory in 1852, was a milestone in the history of #abolitionism, showing some of #slavery's horrors to a wide audience. It also entrenched many #racist stereotypes of #Black people; #HarrietBeecherStowe's family wanted them sent to Africa.

The #DutchEastIndiaCompany (#VOC) was formed on #ThisDayInHistory in 1602. Operating in many countries and one of the earliest #JointStockCompanies, it is a forerunner of #MultiNationalCorporations, helping to create stock markets and running its own military to expand its power.

#ProvisionalIRA set off its first #CarBomb in 1972 on #ThisDayInHistory. The #DonegallStreetBombing went off when the street was packed, killing seven people & wounding 148, perhaps due to miscommunication about location,.. or perhaps this was made up later out of shame over it.

The #CurraghIncident, a mutiny in the British Army on #ThisDayInHistory in 1914, saw over 100 officers threaten resignation if told to march against the #UlsterVolunteers, a Unionist terrorist militia. This told Irish Republicans they could not count on the state to protect them.

The #SiegeOfKobanî was broken on #ThisDayInHistory in 2015. The #Kurdish city was partly conquered and its surrounding villages overrun in late 2014 by so-called "Islamic State"/#Daesh but by the end of January #Kobanî was retaken by #YPG/#YPJ & #FSA, with the villages to follow.