#OTD 27th May 2004

Confédération Générale des Travailleurs Libanais - General Confederation of Lebanese Workers -
l-Quwwāt al-Musallaḥa al-Lubnāniyya

Hay El-Sellom neighbourhood #Beirut southern suburb.

https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9948/6-dead-in-general-strike-in-lebanon

#generalStrike #Lebanon #workingclasshistory

Working Class History

The Montgomery Bus Boycott | Equal Justice Initiative

Nearly every Black resident in Montgomery refused to ride city buses. They walked, biked, took taxis, carpooled, and even rode mules for 382 days.

Portside

Skinhead culture started in Britain's working-class neighborhoods, built across Caribbean and white communities around the same music and streets. The far-right didn't create it. They colonized it. This piece traces how that happened and how people inside the scene organized to reclaim it.

https://www.radical-guide.com/the-scene-was-never-just-a-scene/

#AntiFascism #WorkingClassHistory #FascismAndCulture #RadicalHistory

A Convict’s Tour Of Hell
Lashed 590 times, Francis Macnamara was sent to solitary confinement, to the treadmill, and worked on chain gangs.
Throughout incarceration, Frank the Poet continued to entertain his fellow convicts with rebellious verse.
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/hindsight/frank-the-poet/4126734

https://frankthepoet.blogspot.com/

https://labourhistorycanberra.org/2015/02/2011-asslh-conference-francis-macnamara-a-convict-poet-in-australia/

#Convicts #FrankThePoet #Poetry #workingclasshistory

Frank the Poet: A convict's tour to hell - ABC listen

August 2012 marks the 151st anniversary of the death of Francis MacNamara, better known in convict Australia as Frank the Poet. According to one of Australia's leading contemporary poets, Les Murray, MacNamara's epic work A Convict's Tour to Hell should be placed right at the beginning of English literature in Australia. 

ABC listen
Sylhet (Bangladesh): Tea workers rally for 105th anniversary of “Mulluk Chalo” movement

The Tea Workers’ Trade Union Center (TWTUC) shares this report: Today is May 20th. On this very day in 1921, one of the most barbaric and brutal massacres in the history of the subcontinent t…

Global May Day
Stick Together

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1973-1975 program of #privatization, drastic reduction of public spending, disciplining workers through mass lay-offs, and the liberalization of prices.
2026?

https://brooklynrail.org/2026/05/field-notes/the-ratline-neoliberalism-and-the-new-right-in-chile-pt-ii/

#Chile #Neoliberalism #workingclasshistory

The Ratline, Neoliberalism, and the New Right in Chile | The Brooklyn Rail

The following attempts to situate José Antonio Kast’s victory within the long trajectory of Chile’s violent neoliberalisation.

#OTD May 18 1941
(Note: Inspired by the Strike of the 100,000, in the French province of Pas-de-Calais (part of the same German administrative area as Belgium) a strike on 27 May lasted until 9 June, by 17,000 miners (around 80 percent of the regional total) out to protest pay and food shortages. Mass anti-Nazi strikes also broke out in the Netherlands and Norway in 1941, and Luxembourg in 1942. )*

https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9028/strike-of-the-100,000-ends

*https://libcom.org/article/belgian-strike-100000-1941

#Belgium #GeneralStrike #workingclasshistory

Working Class History

#OnThisDay: 11 May 1926. The General Strike is called off. An editorial in The Evening Post the next day when it was able to resume printing stated: "Unless a General Strike has a revolutionary aim it is bound to be futile."

#OTD #GeneralStrike100 #RadicalHistory #WorkingClassHistory #NortinghamHistory