#OtD 11 Sep 2017 in Nairobi, Kenya, drivers for rideshare services Taxify, Little and Mondo-Ride joined Uber drivers on an indefinite strike demanding a cut in commission rates https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8362/kenya-uber-drivers-strike

#OtD 11 Sep 1986 violent protests by some 1000 people in Oslo, Norway, delayed a banquet in honour of Conservative UK PM Margaret Thatcher. Protesters were angry about her support of apartheid South Africa, colonialism in Ireland and pollution https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8361/protesters-delay-thatcher-dinner

#OtD 11 Sep 1928 the Port Adelaide strike began in Australia when waterfront workers refused work in protest at new, inferior terms of employment. While the strike largely ended by mid-October, intermittent strikes and riots continued for three years https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8355/port-adelaide-strike

#OtD 11 Sep 1946 homeless WWII ex-servicemen and their families squatted the 630-room Ivanhoe Hotel in Bloomsbury, London. Police blockaded the hotel, so supporters had to throw food and bedding to the families inside https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8358/ivanhoe-hotel-squatted

#OtD 11 Sep 1935 two people were killed and many others injured by police who fired on striking workers at the Flour City Ornamental Iron Company in Minneapolis who were fighting for better pay, the eight-hour day, and union recognition https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8357/flour-city-ornamental-iron-company-strike

#OtD 11 Sep 1973 right-wing general Pinochet launched a coup against the elected left-wing government in Chile of Salvador Allende. Backed by the US and UK, Pinochet went on to torture, jail and kill 10,000s of working class activists https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8360/general-pinochet's-coup-against-the-left-wing-government-in-chile

To go with our podcast episode, How We Won The Weekend, we've made merch celebrating Saint Monday, the working-class tradition of bunking work every Monday. Dating back to the 1600s, this mass unofficial action was key in winning the modern weekend.
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#OtD 11 Sep 1934 25,000 workers walked out in a one-day general strike in Hazelton, Pennsylvania in support of a national strike of textile workers. This excellent book tells the story of the dispute, among others: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/books/products/strike-jeremy-brecher

#OtD 11 Sep 1946 the Abbey Lodge block of flats in Regents Park, London was squatted by homeless families of WWII ex-servicemen. It was part of a wave of similar occupations in the wake of WWII https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8359/abbey-lodge-squatted

#OtD 11 Sep 1917 Spanish Civil War and resistance activist Maruja Lara was born in Granada. Joining a militia during the civil war, she was later interned in a fascist concentration camp but escaped and joined the underground resistance. Learn more: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8354/maruja-lara

New daily podcast: 11 September 2017: Kenya taxi strike
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Hey kids, for our map, we would love to find the location of Ice-Kist Packing Company on Abbott Street, in Salinas, California, in 1934. It was a key workplace picketed during the Salinas lettuce strike at that time. Any assistance locating it would be much appreciated!

#OtD 10 Sep 1962 white supremacists attempted to assassinate Black civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer in Mississippi. While staying with her friend Mary Tucker, racists drove by, firing 16 shots at her, all of which missed. Learn more about Jim Crow: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/books/david-pilgrim

#OtD 10 Sep 1922 women telephone operators in Dublin, Ireland, who were the first to walk out on strike in the 1922 Irish postal strike against pay cuts, were fired upon by the National Army of the Provisional Government of Ireland https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8253/irish-postal-strike-begins

#OtD 10 Sep 1933 an attempted rally by Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists was broken up by 2000 anti-fascist locals in Stockton, England. They chased off fascists with pickaxe handles, stones, half bricks, and potatoes with razor blades inside https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8256/battle-of-stockton

New in our shop: Saint Monday Femme Fit T-Shirt
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#OtD 10 Sep 1943 in Piombino, Italy, a popular uprising took place against the Nazis who occupied the city following the Italian fascist surrender. The town had a long tradition of revolutionary syndicalism. More about the resistance in our podcast: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e77-80-italian-resistance/

#OtD 10 Sep 1909 Quechua Indigenous activist and communist Tránsito Amaguaña was born in Ecuador to a family of day labourers on a hacienda. She took part in strikes, went underground, co-founded the Indigenous Ecuadorian Federation and lived till 99 https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8252/tr%C3%A1nsito-amagua%C3%B1a-born

#OtD 10 Sep 1946 60 homeless families of WWII ex-servicemen squatted the Fountain Court block of flats in Victoria, London. It was part of a mass wave of squatting amidst an acute housing crisis https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8258/fountain-court-squatted

#OtD 10 Sep 1676 pioneering English revolutionary Gerrard Winstanley died aged 66. He was a tailor and the primary theoretician of the Diggers during the English civil war who took over enclosed lands and farmed them https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8250/gerrard-winstanley-dies