Today in Labor History June 10, 1971: Mexican police, and paramilitary death squads known as Los Halcones, killed 120 student protesters, including a 14-year-old boy, in the Corpus Christi Massacre, also known as El Halconazo. In 1968, the government had massacred up to 500 students and bystanders in the Tlatelolco massacre. The 1971 Halconazo started with protests at the University of Nuevo Leon, for joint leadership that included students and teachers. When the university implemented the new government, the state government slashed their budget and abolished their autonomy. This led to a strike that spread to the National Autonomous University of Mexico and National Polytechnic Institute. To suppress the strike, the authorities used tankettes, police, riot police, and the death squad, known as Los Halcones, who had been trained by the CIA. Los Halcones first attacked with sticks, but the student fended them off. Then they resorted to high caliber rifles. Police had been ordered to do nothing. When the injured were taken to the hospital, Los Halcones followed and shot them dead in the hospital. Silvia Moreno-Garcia writes about these events in her 2021 novel “Velvet Was the Night.” It is also depicted in the 2018 film Roma.”

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Today in Labor History June 10, 1960: Thousands of council workers and revolutionary students surrounded the entourage of U.S. Presidential Press Secretary Hagerty at Haneda airport in Tokyo. Hagerty had to be rescued by a US marine helicopter, while the pro-imperialist government of Japan collapsed in embarrassment. President Eisenhower, fearing for his life, cancelled his July visit. The protests were part of the 1959-1960 Anpo (Security Treaty) protests. By June, 1960, hundreds of thousands of protestors were surrounding Japan's National Diet building in Tokyo on nearly a daily basis. At least one protestor was killed.

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Today in Labor History June 10, 1937: The mayor of Monroe, Michigan organized a vigilante mob of 1,400 men armed with baseball bats and teargas to break the picket line at Newton Steel. As a result, eight strikers were injured and hospitalized. The vigilantes also vandalized sixteen of the workers’ cars dumped eight of them into the river. During this same strike wave in the steel industry, there was a Memorial Day Massacre, in Chicago, in which the police beat and shot scores of people, including men and women, killing at least 25. There was also the Women’s Day Massacre, in Youngstown, Ohio, in which 2 workers were killed. 10% of the union at that time was made up of African American workers. Although few women worked in the industry, they played a pivotal role in the strike, walking picket lines with the men, risking life and limb in confrontations with the police.

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Today in Writing History June 10, 1928: Maurice Sendak, author of “Where the Wild Things Are,” was born in Brooklyn, New York. A little boy once sent him a card with a drawing on it. Sendak was so moved he sent the boy another letter with his own personal “Wild Thing” drawn on it. The boy’s mother sent Sendak a thank you note saying that her son loved the card so much he ate it. Sendak considered that one of the highest compliments he ever received. Sendak was an atheist Jew who lost numerous family members in the Holocaust. He was also gay. The title of his most well-known book came from the Yiddish phrase vilde chaya, or “wild beast.” As he put it, “It’s what almost every Jewish mother or father says to their offspring, ‘You’re acting like a vilde chaya! Stop it!’” His book, “In the Night Kitchen,” is one of the most frequently banned books, for its depiction of a naked boy.

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Today in Labor History June 10, 1927: Gino Lucetti was sentenced to 30 years in imprison for attempting to assassinate Mussolini. Lucetti was very active during the Biennio Rosso (a period of strikes and revolutionary organizing from 1919-1920) and in opposing the fascist movement that followed. On September 11, 1926, he launched a bomb at Mussolini’s automobile procession. He escaped from prison in 1943, when Naples was liberated, and died soon after on the island of Ischia, when it was bombed by the Germans. During World War II, several antifascist partisan groups named themselves after him (e.g., ‘G. Lucetti’ and ‘Lucetti bis,’ as well as the anarchist brigade ‘Lucetti Battalion.’)

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What are the leftists going to say when the white working class doesn't vote for this guy? What's the excuse going to be this time?

They didn't vote for AOC, Bernie, Mamdani, etc... and they're not going to vote for #villegas Hopefully enough Democrats show up .

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This last decade has given me a greater appreciation for the #Democratic party. #Biden, #Obama, #Hillary, #Kamala, #Pelosi, #Jeffries, #Schumer, etc... I don't know how they do it.

America is truly a broken country with major issues, and the citizens are indeed deplorable. Imagine trying to govern a population so ignorant that it elected #Trump president TWICE, the #Democrats are clearly better people than me.

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#CALIFORNIA! Wake Up!

#GubernatorialRace: Primaries

Becerra's in the lead, but followed by a #Trumpian #MAGA farright snake named #SteveHilton !!!

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#LGBTQIAplus! #POCs! #Immigrants! Progressives! #WorkingClass!

Get that #vote out in November

From the leftists who claim Schumer and Jeffries don't fight.

When Zohran Mamdani ran for mayor, he promised to fight back — showing up to protests outside NYU Langone, pledging $65 million for gender-affirming care, and vowing to use every lever of city power to protect trans New Yorkers from federal intimidation. Since taking office, those promises have largely gone unfulfilled.

https://truthout.org/articles/mamdanis-city-run-clinic-will-deny-gender-affirming-care-to-patients-under-19/

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Today in Labor History June 9, 2004: Brian Williamson died. He was a Jamaican activist and co-founder of J-FLAG (in 1998), the Jamaican Forum for Lesbians, All-Sexuals and Gays. They run the Stop Murder Music campaign, which fights for the censorship of homophobic lyrics in Jamaican music. They also co-run the Black Gay Men’s Advisory Group and OutRage, a direct-action LGBTQ activist group. Williamson was one of the first openly gay public figures in Jamaica. He was murdered in his apartment by an acquaintance, at the age of 58. Police officially ruled it a botched robbery. However, J-FLAG believes it was a homophobic attack. Williamson previously survived a homophobic knife attack and numerous death threats.

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