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📣 New Podcast! "12 December 1948: Batang Kali massacre" on @Spreaker #colonial #history #indonesia
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/12-december-1948-batang-kali-massacre--68813165

12 December 1948: Batang Kali massacre

Mini podcast of radical history on this date from the Working Class History team.

Spreaker

Working Class History 6h ago

#OtD 11 Dec 1900 radical artist, Gerd Arntz, was born in Germany. He became a council communist and a core member of the Cologne Progressives circle of artists. More information, sources and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8277/gerd-arntz-born

Working Class History

Working Class History 8h ago

#OtD 11 Dec 1913 3000 council workers went on strike in Leeds for better wages to match rising prices. Scabs, including local university students, were brought in to break the strike, and police attacked workers. It ended in defeat on January 14 https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8278/leeds-municipal-workers'-strike

Working Class History

Working Class History 10h ago

#OtD 11 Dec 1983 three weeks after cruise missiles arrived at Greenham military base in the UK, 50,000 women protested by encircling the base, holding mirrors, symbolically reflecting the military's image back to itself https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8282/greenham-mirror-protest

Working Class History

Working Class History 13h ago

#OtD 11 Dec 2005 racist riots took place in Sydney. After media coverage of a beach fight between Arab men and white lifeguards, white racists put a call to "reclaim the beach from outsiders" and gathered to abuse anyone they thought looked 'foreign' https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8283/cronulla-riots

Working Class History

Working Class History 14h ago

#OtD 11 Dec 1968 the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement of radical Black car factory workers in Detroit issued an attack on the spectacle of Chrysler funding Black banks. Learn more about this inspiring group in our podcast: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e61-the-league-of-revolutionary-black-workers-in-detroit/

E61-62: The League of Revolutionary Black Workers

Double podcast episode about the League of Revolutionary Black Workers in Detroit in the late 60s/early 70s. We hear from former members of the group including Herb Boyd, General Baker, Darryl &#82…

Working Class History

Working Class History 15h ago

#OtD 11 Dec 1981 a Reagan-backed death squad massacred around 1000 people in El Mozote, El Salvador. Prior to being killed, many of the victims were tortured and girls as young as 10 were raped by the US-trained troops https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8281/massacre-in-el-salvador

Working Class History

Working Class History 19h ago

#OtD 11 Dec 1958 Alberto Meschi, a prominent anti-fascist fighter and anarchist died. He fought in the Spanish Civil War, then joined the partisan resistance in Italy in Carrara which successfully ousted the fascists and seized the town hall https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8279/alberto-meschi-died

Working Class History

Working Class History 1d ago

📣 New Podcast! "11 December 1913: Leeds council workers strike" on @Spreaker #history #leeds #uk
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/11-december-1913-leeds-council-workers-strike--68813154

11 December 1913: Leeds council workers strike

Mini podcast of radical history on this date from the Working Class History team.

Spreaker

Working Class History 1d ago

#OtD 10 Dec 1983 Argentina’s right-wing military dictatorship ended. It was responsible for the murder and disappearance of approximately 30,000 people since 1976- mostly trade unionists, socialists, communists and Jews. Israel provided them with arms. https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/12747/argentina-dictatorship-ends

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