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Did you hear about Morrisey cancelling a show due to noises during the night and he couldn't sleep? What do you think about it? Best comment was something like: Morrisey's concerts should be paid after the show, never before xD

#morrisey #workingclass #concerts #livemusic #music #work

Today in Labor History March 17, 1846: The first group of famine refugees left Dublin for New York. Over the next few years, over 1 million refugees would flee the country. Another 1 million would die in Ireland. And it was completely avoidable. The reason given for the famine was the failure of the potato crops, due to infestation with Late Blight (Phytophthora infestans), a mold that affects some varieties of potatoes. However, anyone who is paying attention ought to ask: Why would the failure of a single crop cause over 1 million people to starve to death? There was no drought causing the failure of all crops. Nor was there a war, nor any of the other usual culprits. No, it was because the vast majority of Irish people were tenant farmers, required to give away the most valuable food and textiles they produced to their wealthy, absentee landlords. In exchange, they were granted the right to live on the land and to maintain a small plot of the rockiest, boggiest, least productive land on the property for growing food for their own families, land upon which potatoes were one of the only crops they were able to grow in abundance. That and the fact that they were growing a monoculture that was susceptible to the blight. Despite the fact that the blight did spread throughout the world, it did not wipe out the spud crops in Peru, for example, where potatoes were first domesticated, and where hundreds of different varieties were still being grown, many of which having resistance to the plague. Prior to the introduction of potatoes, in the 1700s, the diet of low-income Irish consisted primarily of dairy and grain products.

The British Whig government refused to help, arguing that under Laissez-faire capitalism, the markets would naturally correct themselves and ultimately bring down the price of food. Many governments, including the Queen of England, and international charities, made financial donations to the people of Ireland, but these donations didn’t come close to providing sufficient funds to feed the vast number of starving people. Sultan Khaleefah Abdul-Majid, leader of the Ottoman Empire which, at the time, included Palestine, was one of the largest contributors to the relief effort. However, the Queen of England demanded that he decrease his donation so as to not embarrass her by offering more than her, which he initially had.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #famine #ireland #potatoes #peru #poverty

Today in Labor History March 17, 2016: The Movement for a Democratic Society declared the establishment of the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria. Supporters of the federation claimed they implemented a form of libertarian socialism, influenced by American anarchist Murray Bookchin, with decentralization, gender equality and local governance through direct democracy, with worker cooperatives and district councils, each with one male and one female co-president. They have also banned child marriages and honor killings, and are attempting to replace punitive justice with a system of restorative justice. And women play a prominent role on the battlefield, as well as within the political system. Yet private property remains a part of their system, which is inconsistent with Bookchinite anarchism. And according to Andrea Glioti, remnants of the PKK’s Stalinist past remained in Rojava. He cites the ubiquitous portraits of PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, often accompanied by the slogan “There’s no life without a leader.” Since January, 2026, the Rojava have been under attack by the transitional Syrian government, led by a former ISIS militant Ahmed al-Sharaa, with the support of Israel.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #rojava #kabane #anarchism #murrybookchin #syria #kurdish #kurdistan #pkk #abdullahocalan

Today in Labor History March 17, 1966: 100 striking Mexican American and Filipino farmworkers marched from Delano, California to Sacramento to pressure the growers and the state government to answer their demands for better working conditions and higher wages, which were, at the time, below the federal minimum wage. By the time the marchers arrived, on Easter Sunday, April 11, the crowd had grown to 10,000 protesters and their supporters. A few months later, the two unions that represented them, the National Farm Workers Association, led by César Chávez, and the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee, joined to form the United Farm Workers. The strike was launched on September 8, 1965, by Filipino grape pickers. Mexicans were initially hired as scabs. So, Filipino strike leader Larry Itliong approached Cesar Chavez to get the support of the National Farm Workers Association, and on September 16, 1965, the Mexican farm workers joined the strike. During the strike, the growers and their vigilantes would physically assault the workers and drive their cars and trucks into the picket lines. They also sprayed strikers with pesticides. The strikers persevered nonviolently. They went to the Oakland docks and convinced the longshore workers to support them by refusing to load grapes. This resulted in the spoilage of 1,000 ten-ton cases of grapes. The success of this tactic led to the decision to launch a national grape boycott, which would ultimately help them win the struggle against the growers.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #cesarchavez #ufw #delano #grapestrike #mexican #filipino #union #strike #boycott #protest #scab #farmworkers #vigilantes #larryitliong #sacramento

Let’s move forward and not forget what our strength lies in.
What they're really afraid of is that we'll join forces.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSpvxzGKtB0

https://word.undead-network.de/2026/03/17/lets-move-forward-and-not-forget-what-our-strength-lies-in/
#Moscow #oi #punk #punks #sham69 #skins #street #unite #workingclass #worldwide

Fighting each other just ain’t clever! FIGHT THE REAL ENEMY! Oi!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBS0guD_AtI&list=RDiBS0guD_AtI

https://word.undead-network.de/2026/03/17/fighting-each-other-just-aint-clever-fight-the-real-enemy-oi/
#fighttherealenemy #oi #punk #skins #standtogehter #workingclass

#WorkingClass #college #labor #unions

"THE COLLEGE-EDUCATED WORKING CLASS

Can a generation of graduates frustrated by their economic prospects change American labor politics?

This is an age of mutinies. For more than a decade in America, they’ve come so thick and fast that they trip over one another: the Tea Party, Occupy, Black Lives Matter, the Resistance, the anti-lockdown protests, the insurrection, the anti-ICE protests. The ur-mutiny, encompassing some of these, provoking and provoked by others, is MAGA. Even in full authoritarian control of the federal government, it still acts like a rioter laying dynamite at the foundation of a decayed establishment.

(. . .)

What is life like for someone born in the 21st century? Your everyday reality is disorienting change—but not the kind that freed Lippmann and his generation to shape their era. Instead, your overwhelming feeling is that the game is rigged against you. You see the old as at best indifferent, if not outright predatory, and lacking the ability or the desire to solve the problems they’ve inflicted on you. The electronic air you breathe crackles with vituperation. Political and media elites hoard status and wealth by keeping you in a perpetual fever of resentment and fury. Meanwhile, tech giants addict you from toddlerhood to devices that alienate you from other people and the natural world, trapping you in a hall of mirrors, until you give up on the idea that truth is even knowable and surrender to the wildest images of unreality. Your sense of your own existence grows fragile, and your job prospects are as precarious as your mental health. Whatever your race or gender, it feels like a liability. The system is a conspiracy against your chance at a decent life.

(. . .)

Perhaps the most important arena of struggle isn’t the internet, where the wars are fought and nothing is achieved except division, but the physical world, where certain problems are common to all ordinary people. Perhaps the deepest conflict is not between red and blue, but between power and powerlessness."

https://archive.ph/WkTRt

Today in Labor History March 16, 2003: Israeli Defense Forces murdered American activist Rachel Corrie in Rafah by running over her with a bulldozer during the 2nd Intifada. She had been defending a Palestinian home that the IDF was trying to demolish as part of their collective punishment of the Palestinian people. Corie was a member of the International Solidarity Movement. She had travelled to Rafah as part of her college's (Evergreen State, in Olympia, WA) senior-year independent-study project to connect Olympia and Rafah with each other as sister cities. Under Trump, her college would likely be stripped of federal funding for allowing such a project, and Corie, herself, might have been deemed a terrorist.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #rachelcorie #idf #palestine #warcrimes #israel #collectivepunishment #freepalestine #zionism #intifada #solidarity

Mississippi Goddamn!

Today in Labor History March 16, 1995: Mississippi finally ratified the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, banning chattel slavery, 130 years after it was officially ratified by the U.S. in 1865. However, Mississippi never formally notified the U.S. archivist of its belated decision. In other words, the 1995 ratification was unofficial and did not legally count. It would not be until February 7, 2013, 148 years later, that it would make its ratification of the amendment legal.

Here is Nina Simone performing her famous song, Mississippi Goddam!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ25-U3jNWM

#workingclass #LaborHistory #slavery #mississippi #ninasimone #MississippiGoddam #abolition #thirteenthamendmendment #constitution #racism