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Daily briefings of On This Day people's history anniversaries every day of the year. From the Working Class History team.
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- Yesterday0 min
8 November 2004: New Caledonia nickel strike
On this day, 8 November 2004, nickel smelter workers in New Caledonia went on strike in protest over the firing of two co-workers for previous strike activity. The strike lasted 22 days and ended when both workers were rehired. The strike cost the company over $40 million before they considered reversing their decision. More information, sources and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10848/new-caledonia-nickel-workers'-strikeOur work is only possible because of support from you, our listeners on patreon. If you appreciate our work, please join us and access exclusive content and benefits at patreon.com/workingclasshistory.See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/todayBrowse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/dateCheck out our Map of historical Stories: https://map.workingclasshistory.comCheck out books, posters, clothing and more in our online store, here: https://shop.workingclasshistory.comIf you enjoy this podcast, make sure to check out our flagship longform podcast, Working Class History
- 2 days ago1 min
7 November 1988: Brazil CSN strike
On this day, 7 November 1988, workers at the Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional (National Iron Metallurgy Company) of Brazil began a sit-in strike for a pay increase and for the reinstatement of workers sacked for their political beliefs. Two days later the army and police raided the plant, shooting and beating dozens of workers and killing three. A monument to the victims (pictured) by Oscar Niemeyer was bombed the day after it was unveiled. It was later discovered that the army was responsible for the attack.More information, sources and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10747/brazil-csn-strikeOur work is only possible because of support from you, our listeners on patreon. If you appreciate our work, please join us and access exclusive content and benefits at patreon.com/workingclasshistory.See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/todayBrowse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/dateCheck out our Map of historical Stories: https://map.workingclasshistory.comCheck out books, posters, clothing and more in our online store, here: https://shop.workingclasshistory.comIf you enjoy this podcast, make sure to check out our flagship longform podcast, Working Class History
- 3 days ago1 min
6 November 1912: Grabow mill arson
On this day, 6 November 1912, the Grabow lumber mill in Louisiana was burned to the ground. Four months earlier it had been the location of a massacre caused when bosses opened fire on striking workers. The workers, many of them organised in the Brotherhood of Timber Workers, part of the Industrial Workers of the World, fired back and after the dust settled four people were dead and 50 injured. The fire was officially designated as an "accident" and no one was arrested.More information, sources and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10654/grabow-mill-arsonOur work is only possible because of support from you, our listeners on patreon. If you appreciate our work, please join us and access exclusive content and benefits at patreon.com/workingclasshistory.See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/todayBrowse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/dateCheck out our Map of historical Stories: https://map.workingclasshistory.comCheck out books, posters, clothing and more in our online store, here: https://shop.workingclasshistory.comIf you enjoy this podcast, make sure to check out our flagship longform podcast, Working Class History
- 4 days ago1 min
5 November 1811: Saint-Leu enslaved revolt
On this day, 5 November 1811, enslaved people in Saint-Leu, in the then-British colony of Bourbon island (now the French colony, Réunion), rose up in rebellion.Enslaved Africans, Madagascans and Creoles working on the land, and as domestic workers and in manufacturing, armed themselves with spears, axes and two stolen guns, and began deserting their workplaces. The rebels did not pillage or burn enslavers' property, or physically attack anyone. But eventually armed landowners assembled paramilitary forces, including "loyal" enslaved people, and with their superior weaponry, defeated the rebel forces in an open confrontation, killing several dozen and capturing 150 people.Despite the peaceful nature of the revolt, 15 of those captured were publicly beheaded in March 1812. In response to this, numerous enslaved people began escaping from their plantations.Réunion reverted to French rule in 1814, and slavery was eventually abolished in 1848.More information, sources and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7964/saint-leu-enslaved-revoltOur work is only possible because of support from you, our listeners on patreon. If you appreciate our work, please join us and access exclusive content and benefits at patreon.com/workingclasshistory.See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/todayBrowse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/dateCheck out our Map of historical Stories: https://map.workingclasshistory.comCheck out books, posters, clothing and more in our online store, here: https://shop.workingclasshistory.comIf you enjoy this podcast, make sure to check out our flagship longform podcast, Working Class History
- 5 days ago1 min
4 November 1910: Champagne tax strike
On this day, 4 November 1910, in a prelude to the Champagne riots of the following year, several grape growing communes in the Champagne region of France decided to stop paying taxes. Growers were angry at Champagne producers driving down prices, and importing cheaper grapes from elsewhere in Europe to make their "Champagne," and so they wanted the government to legislate that Champagne had to be made mostly from grapes from the region. A few months later on January 17, simmering discontent erupted into violence when growers in the village of Damery intercepted a truck of imported grapes and threw it into the river Marne. Growers then raided the warehouses of a producer they considered "fraudulent,", and raised a red flag at the town hall. Protests, including singing of the Internationale, escalated to a full-blown insurrection. The government responded by initiating a nine-month occupation of the area by 40,000 troops, but they did implement the law protesters had demanded. Today, in Europe, there remain strict rules on what can be labelled "Champagne" and it must come from the Champagne region.More information, sources and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10466/champagne-tax-strikeOur work is only possible because of support from you, our listeners on patreon. If you appreciate our work, please join us and access exclusive content and benefits at patreon.com/workingclasshistory.See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/todayBrowse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/dateCheck out our Map of historical Stories: https://map.workingclasshistory.comCheck out books, posters, clothing and more in our online store, here: https://shop.workingclasshistory.comIf you enjoy this podcast, make sure to check out our flagship longform podcast, Working Class History
- 6 days ago1 min
3 November 2017: Marshall Islands fish strike
On 3 November 2017 around 20 workers at the Delap Marshall Islands Fishing Venture (MIFV) went on strike. MIFV claimed that the strike was based on a false allegation that they had withdrawn the ability of employees to buy fish on credit from their salaries. They claim that one employee was denied a purchase because he had not worked sufficient hours.The Marshall Islands Journal reported that when "the employee was told he couldn’t charge fish, he became angry and told coworkers MIFV administration had stopped allowing employees to charge fish against their pay. The individual rounded up a group of workers for a meeting last Thursday night, and with the help of alcohol, pulled a successful strike the following day."In retaliation, the company fired two workers the following week.More information, sources and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7945/marshall-islands-fish-strikeOur work is only possible because of support from you, our listeners on patreon. If you appreciate our work, please join us and access exclusive content and benefits at patreon.com/workingclasshistory.See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/todayBrowse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/dateCheck out our Map of historical Stories: https://map.workingclasshistory.comCheck out books, posters, clothing and more in our online store, here: https://shop.workingclasshistory.comIf you enjoy this podcast, make sure to check out our flagship longform podcast, Working Class History
- 1 weeks ago3 min
2 November 1917: Balfour declaration
On this day, 2 November 1917, the UK government issued the Balfour declaration, announcing its official policy to facilitate "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people".The founder of political Zionism, Theodor Herzl, had approached Britain for support for of establishing a Jewish ethnostate in Uganda or Palestine because “the idea of Zionism, which is a colonial idea, should be easily and quickly understood in England.” The 1920s British governor of Jerusalem, Ronald Storrs, explained that the establishment of a colony would be “forming for England ‘a little loyal Jewish Ulster’ in a sea of potentially hostile Arabism”. It would also help protect access to the Suez Canal and Britain’s South Asian colonies.Many antisemites who believed that Jewish people did not belong in Europe also supported the move. Arthur Balfour himself had passed the Aliens Act of 1905 to stop Jewish people fleeing pogroms in Eastern Europe seeking refuge in Britain.Zionists established groups such as the Jewish Colonial Trust and the Jewish Colonisation Association (JCA) to raise money for Jewish settlers to purchase land and establish colonies in Palestine and other places like Argentina. When much public opinion turned against colonialism, the JCA renamed itself the Jewish Charitable Association.Leading Zionists like Vladimir Jabotinsky were clear about what their project entailed:“Every native population in the world resists colonists as long as it has the slightest hope of being able to rid itself of the danger of being colonised. That is what the Arabs in Palestine are doing, and what they will persist in doing as long as there remains a solitary spark of hope that they will be able to prevent the transformation of ‘Palestine’ into the ‘Land of Israel.’"Zionist colonisation… can proceed and develop only under the protection of a power that is independent of the native population – behind an iron wall, which the native population cannot breach."More information, sources and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/11643/balfour-declarationLearn more about British colonialism and Palestinian resistance in episodes 86-87 of our podcast: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e86-87-class-struggle-in-palestine/And learn more about Palestinian history in these books: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/books/palestineOur work is only possible because of support from you, our listeners on patreon. If you appreciate our work, please join us and access exclusive content and benefits at patreon.com/workingclasshistory.See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/todayBrowse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/dateCheck out our Map of historical Stories: https://map.workingclasshistory.comCheck out books, posters, clothing and more in our online store, here: https://shop.workingclasshistory.comIf you enjoy this podcast, make sure to check out our flagship longform podcast, Working Class History
- 1 weeks ago0 min
1 November 2008: Boeing workers win strike
On this day, 1 November 2008, thousands of Boeing machinists won their 2-month strike. The walkout was costing Boeing $100 million a day, and ended when the company and the union agreed a 15% pay rise over 4 years and increased ability for the union to challenge outsourcing.More information, sources and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8140/boeing-machinists-win-strikeOur work is only possible because of support from you, our listeners on patreon. If you appreciate our work, please join us and access exclusive content and benefits at patreon.com/workingclasshistory.See all of our anniversaries each day, alongside sources and maps on the On This Day section of our Stories app: stories.workingclasshistory.com/date/todayBrowse all Stories by Date here on the Date index: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/dateCheck out our Map of historical Stories: https://map.workingclasshistory.comCheck out books, posters, clothing and more in our online store, here: https://shop.workingclasshistory.comIf you enjoy this podcast, make sure to check out our flagship longform podcast, Working Class History
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