89 years ago today, a loudspeaker van carrying UK fascist leader Oswald Mosley and a tiny contingent of his Blackshirts arrived in Tonypandy, Wales.

Mosley has hoped that his (loudly) broadcast message of hatred and division would attract new recruits. Instead, about 6000 Welsh antifascists pelted him and his bodyguards with rocks and debris as he attempted to address the crowd, forcing the fascists to turn tale and flee for their lives, after less than half an hour.

Full story here: https://voice.cymru/1005-2/

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Today in Labor History February 27, 1912: The Times of London published a lead story about a conspiracy of unions planning on taking over ownership of British coal mines. The piece was based on a pamphlet, “The Miner’s Next Step,” which had been printed in Tonypandy, a scene of recent bloodshed between strikers and police during the Tonypandy riots of 1911. The pamphlet, written by the South Wales Miner’s Federation, called for direct action and industrial solidarity. It also called for the elimination of employers and direct worker control.

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