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#OtD 1 Sept 1949 trans revolutionary Leslie Feinberg was born. Ze worked in factories before writing powerfully about LGBT+ issues and publishing hir first novel, Stone Butch Blues, in 1993. Hir last words: "Remember me as a revolutionary communist" stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8159...
#OtD 1 Sep 1911 five women published the first issue of Japan's first all-women literary magazine, Bluestocking, credited with sparking the feminist movement in Japan. Often banned, it was still a commercial success and became more radical over time stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8155...
#OtD 1 Sep 1976 over a hundred prisoners at Hull Prison rioted to protest against brutality from staff. The disturbances continued until 3 Sep, by which point two-thirds of the prison had been completely wrecked stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8162...
Revoking an entire nationality’s visas is collective punishment and never acceptable — especially in this moment when millions of Palestinians lack equal rights, basic healthcare, and so much more at home, forcing them out of the US is unfathomably cruel. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...
#OtD 1 Sep 1974 Puerto Rican attendees at a Labour Day event in Newark, New Jersey rioted against police after years of brutality, as well as poor living and economic standards. The police department mobilized virtually its entire 1,500-member force stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8161...
#OtD 1 Sep 1920 a mass occupation movement started in which almost all the metalworking factories in Italy were occupied by their workers. It was a high point of the Biennio Rosso (Two Red Years) of near-revolutionary upheaval stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8156...
That part. People have already been tricked into believing in authoritarianism, which was by design. Snap out of it!
every day i see hundreds of comments of people spinning elaborate scenarios to explain how trump can control everything and all opposition is futile. a) i think a lot of you need to log off and stop following professional doomsayers. b) i think a lot of you are cowards
Remembering Fred Hampton born Aug. 30, 1948, assassinated Dec. 4, 1969 by Chicago police and the FBI
“Now is not the time for purity tests. We have to vote for the Fascists to save democracy. Donate $30 now!”
maybe if we sang “Free Palestine” to the tune of “Sweet Caroline” we could get more white people on board
Unfollowing for the “moral purity” line, which has been utilized so much to stop progress and justice and further genocide that it should never ever be used.
"Your worth is not related to your income" Sticker spotted in Oamaru, New Zealand
"Be Gay, Do Crime" Seen in Sydney
"Police are Murderers" Seen in Jogjakarta, Indonesia where mass anti-government protests are taking place
Graffiti and clashes with police in Makassar during the ongoing anti-government protests across Indonesia
#OtD 29 Aug 2016 600 oil refinery workers in Curaçao walked out for more pay. The strike continued for over two weeks, until a general strike broke out in its support. Faced with closed schools, shops, and no electricity, the employers caved stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1008...
#OtD 29 Aug 1979 after years of fruitless campaigning, 30-40 activists took direct action and occupied the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare in protest at homosexuality being classified as a mental illness. They quickly won stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1247...
#OtD 29 Aug 1944 the Slovak national uprising began against the Nazi occupation and the collaborationist govt. Tens of thousands took part, 12,000 of whom were killed. Though largely repressed, partisan resistance continued until liberation in 1945.
#OtD 29 Aug 1914 the macaroni riots took place in Providence, US when angry residents attacked and looted a pasta shop. The crowd of mostly Italian immigrants was protesting against big price increases which had been brought in since the start of WWI stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1007...
#OtD 29 Aug 1867 Karl Ulrichs became the first self-proclaimed homosexual to speak out publicly for gay rights when he pleaded at the Congress of German Jurists in Munich for a resolution urging the repeal of anti-homosexual laws stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1007...
#OtD 29 Aug 1970 Ruben Salazar, US Army vet and the first Mexican-American mainstream media journalist to write about the Chicano community, was killed by police during an anti-Vietnam war protest. A 10-inch teargas projectile was shot at his head stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1008...
#OtD 29 Aug 1923 anti-Nazi resistance fighter and sculptor Truus Oversteegen was born in Schoten, Netherlands. With her sister she sabotaged railways and killed fascists, on one occasion leading an SS officer into the woods to be shot. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1007...
BREAKING: California lawmakers have reached an agreement with Uber and Lyft that will open the door for app drivers to form unions and organize for increased pay and better benefits. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
I wish I were lying. Stop seeking bigots and embrace the actual left, or keep losing.
Today I wrote about a general tendency to accept atrocious premises, and the need to reject fascism's false choices in order to find expansive and imaginative paths forward. Breaking the premise, embracing the obstacles, pursing everything. www.the-reframe.com/there-is-no-...
Is the trans fem nazi problem in the room with us right now? "One of you was a nazi so you're all nazis" but make it Progressive. Trans women as a demographic are so commonly so extremely far left it's a thing we joke about. It's a steteotype. But sure. We're actually Oops All Nazis.
in my experience everyone who pushes the "Nazi white trans women" narrative is trying to get trans women (regardless of whether they're white) killed
Vance doing his best to appear as a minor villain in a paragraph of history books like it’s 1930
Every time a mass shooter isn’t cishet white male, an attempt to blame that entire community for gun violence is unleashed from the shittiest (cishet white male-est) caverns of the internet in an attempt to frame the issue as anything other than an almost exclusively cishet white male issue. Tired.
Exactly. And the massive expansion of the police state he keeps signing off on, we all know, disproportionately affects People of Color. He’s Blue Team Fascist, through and through.
Ah hell yeah. The only way out of this is mass civil disobedience. Let’s go!
Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.
AP live feed of the CDC walkout in Atlanta. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ7Q...
For Empire!
As dead-head Neolibs keep shouting that it’s just parody, that embracing Fascist talking points about Trans people while expanding the police state doesn’t make him a Fascist 🤡
They're openly calling to lock up every trans person by force. We need every ally to speak out forcefully against this because trans folks cannot do this on our own.
How are you an “aspiring farmer”? Can’t afford land, even though the Fuhrer keeps promising a better economy?
Don’t worry, we have “reasonable concerns about restrooms and sports” Newsom and Buttigieg coming to save us!
Just straight up Techno-Fascism (0% surprised, of course)
Let’s fucking go!
The average home price is now about twice what it was in 2009.
Police are a “serious conflict of interest”
Still doing the work of Andrew Jackson, who founded the party (genocide against indigenous peoples)
Good thing USians understand what Socialism actually is, right? 💀 RIP The Atlantic, once a news source
Remember the four big bads of generative AI: 1) Wastes extreme amounts of water (ecocide) 2) Steals intellectual property 3) Pushes Fascist ideology 4) Produces hideous, erroneous shit
OpenAI is one of the monstrous companies @rweingarten.bsky.social has partnered with to push "A.i." into schools. INTO SCHOOLS. Tell your schools HELL NO TO "A.i." www.chalkbeat.org/2025/07/08/o...
Eat the rich, actually
While watching the latest John Oliver about MAHA, I turned to my partner and asked “Remember when early MAGA turned Michelle Obama into Satan for introducing whole wheats into school lunch meals?”
The cruelty is the point. (AI is also ecocide) bsky.app/profile/kash...
Especially in this historical moment in our world now. Shit, give the people what they want.
Obviously not. Much more concerned with the actual suffering caused by its extreme use of water and pushing fascist ideology.
paying rent on stolen land
Currently reading “An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States” by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and couldn’t recommend it more.
“Capitalism turns everything into merchandise. The monster of the evil system exterminates humanity” Seen in the Caracol Morelia, Chiapas, Mexico
"The University of Genocide" Seen at Edinburgh University in Scotland
"Stolen Land! Fuck ICE" Seen in Portland, Oregon
#OtD 15 Aug 1845 British artist and socialist Walter Crane was born. He sought to bring art into the daily life of all classes, depicting international working class solidarity, the Paris Commune of 1871, and the anarchist Haymarket martyrs in his work stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8643...
The internet used to be better, sorry, just speaking truth
I drew this on my lunch break your excuses are fucking pathetic
A larger body would reduce the level of celebrity attained, as well. The superiority mindset of Senators is most obvious, but is also very apparent in “very safe” house districts. These types never actually have to try or be held accountable, just get the party’s support.
As Marx argued: pay government representatives no more than a working man’s salary and give the people the ability to recall them at any time, and the opportunists will weed themselves out, without the ability to take advantage of the position. Reduce public service to boring administrative tasks.
Making the House of Representatives work for us again will require a few things, including campaign finance reform and other regulations against corruption. Period. The only way, however, to be able to enforce any of it, created a culture of accountability, is with recall power given to voters.
Defenders of the existing order, including the Senate (which should be abolished) will always invoke the endless quest for consensus here. Are we getting consensus now? Consensus of the ruling/business/upper class, surely. Meanwhile, everyone else isn’t being served.
Everyone should want this. Do you know 781k people? Is that a community to you? That’s how many (on average) you currently share a representative with. Rural and urban communities would both get better representation, wouldn’t have to find fake compromise™️ candidates who end up doing nothing
My number is 100k per house rep. Mostly for simplicity, and because even I submit that we probably shouldn’t have more than 3,400 members in a governing body. But I believe in direct democracy, and will always push for more power to individual voters, not corrupt able representatives
Even 300k or perhaps 250k would be a better metric (giving Wyoming two house seats) That would put the house at 1133-1360 representatives Even then, we are talking about one person “representing” hundreds of thousands of individuals, without counting for corruption and personal agendas
The redistricting nightmare show keeps reminding me that the House of Representatives should be two or three times its size. Wyoming has the nation’s lowest population at ~587k, so even 500k per house seat would mean (with the US pop at ~340m) 680 representatives… #ExpandTheHouse
Just me in the comments of every social network lately.
Buttigieg will be invoked whenever we break through the narrative, when permission to be Anti-Trans is needed (because, of course, neoliberalism will accept a cisheteronormative token to speak for all of us)
Same thing happens with Buttigieg. The two are absolutely going to be main characters in 28 And they’re acting like it’s 28 because they want to control 26 with the same old fear and false choice fallacies
I know we all did this a year ago, but let's all take a moment to tell Patreon how we feel about them trying to add GenAI tools once more: patreon.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Still waiting for him to block us? Seems like he likes the attention. Hey Dray, drop a Trans Lives Matter in the chat and move on from defending fascist Newsom.
Semantically wrong, as it was disabled people they targeted first, sure, but trans people were included in that definition. They burned the institute of sexology once hitler became chancellor. The point is: fascists cast a wide net of people to fear and hate, trick you into abandoning the margins.
Reminds me of the moment my anxiety brain tells me that a hummingbird is a gigantic wasp or something and it takes all my being not to scare them away.
IF YOU HAVE A PATREON PAGE PLEASE FILL OUT THIS SURVEY ASKING THEM NOT TO ADD AI TO THE PLATFORM
If you keep sacrificing your nominal allies to the meat grinder in hopes that you will eventually once again get to be in charge of the meat grinder's operation, you'll one day look around and realize you're alone with the folks demanding ever more ground human.
Unclear if the folks who think other people's basic civil rights are "too divisive" are aware that they're basically acting like German Christians during the Third Reich. (Note for those unclear on their history: this means they are playing out the "First they came for" poem.)
Real quick: which marginalized group did the Nazis target first? Trans people. And how did the anti-trans movement on the right start? With restrooms and sports. You may be oblivious to supporting fascism, having been tricked by the Nice Team… or you’re a false flag yourself 🤡
Lol he has “anti-Nazi” in his bio Not quite, Dray
The relief of realization that you were never supposed to understand parts of your struggle cause they didn't make any fucking sense.
Neither of these Fascists can become the nominee in 28, no matter how hard the DNC tries to shove them down our throats.
Gavin Newsom and Buttigege both seemingly want to be the American Keir Starmer, and Americans sympathetic to that pitch should glance over at how things are going across the pond
Hard to imagine how this party has lost to trump twice, isn’t it? 💀
Exactly. This is exactly how the Anti-Trans movement started on the right, with “reasonable concerns” about restrooms and sports. Anyone who can’t see the Democratic Party doing the same thing with these lines is not to be taken seriously. This isn’t hard.
Hard to imagine how this party lost to Trump twice, isn’t it? 💀
Stop offloading cognitive tasks to "generative AI." Stop using systems w/ "AI" features either inextricably woven through them or prominently displayed at the top to nudge you into their use. Stop *Designing* "AI" tools & integrations that way. Stop building or using "AI" like this. Fucking Stop it.
I will always also argue here that the DNC is clearly opposed to DSA and uses more of their power to stop them and remove them from office than they do the GOP. If anything, you might be able to focus on the resources that the DNC spares on this and that it is a weakening of capitalist bureaucracy.
Revolution requires belief. We do not currently have a widespread belief that a Socialist Revolution is possible (and good?) DSA is the closest thing we have to a movement inspiring people to believe in Revolution, even if they don’t end up directly, outwardly helping bring it about.
#OtD 14 Aug 1945 WWII officially ended as Japan surrendered. Despite slogans of peace, freedom and democracy, the US kept Japanese officials in charge of Korea, Britain backed the far-right in Greece and the USSR established dictatorships in East Europe.
#OtD 14 Aug 1923 Italian-American anarchist Carlo Tresca was arrested in the US, supposedly the home of free speech, for writing articles denouncing fascism and the Italian monarchy stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8544...
Honestly. A Democratic Socialist being mayor of NYC (especially instead of a power-hungry rapist) would be good, actually. I believe in a Socialist Revolution, and that having electeds like Mamdani will help that along, not hurt or slow it.
Honestly. A Democratic Socialist being mayor of NYC (especially instead of a power-hungry rapist) would be good, actually. I believe in a Socialist Revolution, and that having electeds like Mamdani will help that along, not hurt or slow it.
Since this came out I've been so bitterly amused by how *much* of my stuff is here. Folks have spent so much energy declaring my work inferior and me a "DEI hire"... but then they stole every book, story, and even interview to feed their plagiarism machines. And yeah, I'm adding my name.
#OtD 14 Aug 1889 the great London dock strike began. In two weeks 130,000 were out and after four weeks the employers caved and agreed to nearly all the workers' demands. The dispute marked a turning point in British working-class history stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8541...
#OtD 14 Aug 1945 the August Revolution began in Vietnam. It succeeded and on 2 Sep a Declaration of Independence, based on that written by the Americans in 1776, was announced. The Americans, in turn, funded French efforts to retake the country stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8548...
#OtD 14 Aug 1944 29-year-old Italian resistance partisan, Irma Bandiera, was murdered by the Nazis. She refused to give the names of her comrades, despite being blinded and tortured for seven days. Learn more about the resistance in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e77-...
#OtD 14 Aug 1901 Mercedes Comaposada, film editor and lifelong revolutionary feminist, was born. An anarcho-feminist organizer in Spain, Franco's fascist victory forced her to flee with her partner to Paris where she worked as Pablo Picasso's secretary shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
#OtD 14 Aug 1911 a general strike of all transport workers in Liverpool, England, began following a police attack on a strike meeting the previous day stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8543...
