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Working Class History
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#OtD tweets & podcast. History isn't made by kings or politicians, it's made by billions of ordinary people. Support us: patreon.com/workingclasshi…
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    New podcast bonus episode! Extra information about the @iww Starbucks Workers Union with Daniel Gross, who helped organise hundreds of Starbucks workers in the early 2000s. Listen today by joining us on Patreon and supporting our work: patreon.com/posts/e123-1-i…
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    Congrats to the artist who managed to get the NYPD to put ACAB on their own vehicles! It's reminiscent of some other possible examples of graphic design worker sabotage:
    Happy Pride Month!   Over the years, @GOALny has demonstrated unwavering commitment to promoting universal acceptance and inclusion for all members of the LGBTQIA+ community. Their remarkable contributions to this city and the department defines New York's Finest.
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    #OtD 20 Dec 1973 Spanish fascist PM due to succeed Franco, Luis Carrero Blanco, was assassinated, and dubbed "Spain's first astronaut" as his car was blown over a 5-storey building. His death was credited by some as hastening the return to democracy
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    He was not just a Frenchman, he was a communist, which is why he was put in a concentration camp. It's especially important to point this sort of thing out now that imbeciles are trying to claim the Nazis were left wing, so it's a shame the @AuschwitzMuseum didn't mention this.
    8 February 1902 | A Frenchman, Louis Castel, was born in Lézignan-Corbières. A gardener. In #Auschwitz from 8 July 1942. No. 45339 He perished in the camp on 11 August 1942.
    A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A man with a shaved head wearing a striped uniform. The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.
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    #OtD 26 Dec 1943, communist partisan, Mario Fiorentini, cycled to the Regina Coeli prison in Rome and threw two kilos of TNT at the SS officers guarding the gates. Eight were killed, five instantly. Guards opened fire, but were unable to hit him as he pedalled away to safety
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    #OtD 8 Apr 2013 former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher died. Street parties spontaneously broke out across the country. Pictured: Thatcher being welcomed to hell by one of her good friends and supporters, serial paedophile Jimmy Savile
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    #OtD 2 Jan 2020 El Vaquita, a street dog who'd joined protestors in confrontations with the police, wouldn't allow himself to be adopted, even though he'd been shot. So, the people of Antofagasta, Chile, staged a fake protest to lead the dog to the vet.
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    Due to what is trending on Twitter, thought it would be a good moment to post this photo of the original Antifa HQ in Berlin, Germany, 1932.
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    #OtD 8 Apr 2013 former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher died. Street parties spontaneously broke out across the country. Pictured: Thatcher being welcomed to hell by one of her good friends and supporters, serial paedophile Jimmy Savile
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    #OtD 23 Jul 1944 19-year-old French resistance fighter Madeleine Riffaud saw a Nazi officer walking in Paris. She took out her gun and shot him twice in the head. Captured by French collaborators, she survived a concentration camp and lives to this day.
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    #OtD 8 Apr 2013 former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher died. Street parties spontaneously broke out across the country. Pictured: Thatcher being welcomed to hell by one of her good friends and supporters, serial paedophile Jimmy Savile
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    #OtD 20 Dec 1973 Spanish fascist PM due to succeed Franco, Luis Carrero Blanco, was assassinated, and dubbed "Spain's first astronaut" as his car was blown over a 5-storey building. His death was credited by some as hastening Spain's return to democracy
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    #OtD 20 Dec 1973 Spanish fascist PM due to succeed Franco, Luis Carrero Blanco, was assassinated, and dubbed "Spain's first astronaut" as his car was blown over a 5-storey building. His death was credited by some as hastening the return to democracy
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    #OtD 31 May 1927 Donald Trump's father Fred Trump was arrested at a Ku Klux Klan rally in Queens, NY. Despite Donald Trump denying it happened, multiple newspapers reported it, giving Fred Trump's address and reporting that all of those arrested were wearing KKK robes.