The #FederalCreditUnionAct was signed in 1934 on #ThisDayInHistory, establishing non-profit coöperative banks. We could have built on this, using #USPS for some #PublicBanking rôles and making #CreditUnions universal by abolishing #usury. The tyranny of finance must be ended.

Opposition to #JosephSmith & his #LDS movement grew more strident with his abuses of political power, including violent attacks on the free press & use of #MartialLaw in #Nauvoo. On #ThisDayInHistory in 1844 he & his brother Hyrum were #lynched in Carthage, IL, by ~200 angry men.

The #IndustrialWorkersOfTheWorld, the #IWW, was formed on #ThisDayInHistory in 1905. We #Wobblies are dedicated to ending the #WageSystem and gaining direct #WorkerOwnership by linking workers into #OneBigUnion. Help us to defeat #capitalism by joining: https://zurl.co/E5bVu

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1880 was born the #socialist / #anarchist and #DisabilityRights activist and author #HelenKeller. An #IWW member, Keller is the sort of person the US right calls a #woke #SJW, and whose basic #HumanRights they still oppose.
#DisabilityRightsAreHumanRights

#GraceLeeBoggs, a #ChineseAmerican #CivilRights & #WorkerRights activist, was born on #ThisDayInHistory in 1915. A #Marxist & philosophy #PhD, she devoted herself to #BlackPower, social renewal in #Chicago & #Detroit, and a sociocultural fight against discrimination & oppression.

The #anarchist activist & theorist #EmmaGoldman was born on #ThisDayInHistory in 1869 in Lithuania. She was an influence on the development of #anarchism from her love of #freedom for all, her #feminism & early calls for #QueerLiberation, & her refusal to compromise on principle.

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1954, the #CIA overthrew the elected government of #Guatemala to support #UnitedFruitCompany's anti-#union tyranny. Having deposed #Árbenz, the US made sure Guatemala stayed a dictatorship until 1996, including backing it in a #genocide against the #Maya.

As #SouthCarolina lawmakers debated removing their #DixieSwastika following a #WhiteSupremacist mass murder in their state, activist #BrewNewsome chose #DirectAction on #ThisDayInHistory in 2015, climbing the flagpole at the statehouse to tear that #racist flag of #treason down.

#Antisemitism/#Judeophobia was widespread in Europe and many nations contributed to the #genocide during #WorldWarII. In the #IașiPogrom, launched by the Romanian state on #ThisDayInHistory in 1941, at least 13,266 Jews were butchered and many more were deported in its aftermath.