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MikeDunnAuthorToday in Labor History August 13, 1923: IWW artist Carlos Cortez was born. Here are two more of his posters:The first is an antiwar poster with soldier skeletons surrounding a person of color who is reading a paper. The caption reads: Draftees of the World Unite! You have nothing to lose but your generals. There is also a large IWW globe logo.The second is a portrait of Mexican anarchist organizer Ricardo Flores Magon, in a jail cell, wearing black and white stripes, holding a document.<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#workingclass</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LaborHistory</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IWW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IWW</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/agitprop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#agitprop</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#art</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/carloscortez" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#carloscortez</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#anarchism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antiwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#antiwar</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ricardofloresmagon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ricardofloresmagon</a>

MikeDunnAuthorToday in Labor History August 13, 1923: Carlos Cortez was born. He was an IWW union artist, poet, songwriter, and activist. He spent two years in prison for refusing to fight in World War II. His father, Alfredo, was a Yaqui and a member of the IWW, as well. He spoke five languages and sang in seven. His mother, Augusta, was a socialist pacifist of German descent. She was also an IWW member. Carlos was an IWW member for nearly 60 years. He wrote a column, “The Left Side,” for their paper, the Industrial Worker.<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#workingclass</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LaborHistory</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IWW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IWW</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/carloscortez" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#carloscortez</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/chicano" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#chicano</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#racism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#art</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#union</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antiwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#antiwar</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#indigenous</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#socialism</a>

MikeDunnAuthorToday in Labor History August 13, 1977: 4,000 antifascists fought with 500 Neo-Nazis from Britain’s National Front in the Battle of Lewisham, in southeast London. Over 100 people were injured and over 200 were arrested. The area had seen years of far-right organizing and violence by neo-Nazi groups, until the formation of the Lewisham Campaign Against Racism and Fascism, with the support of local trade unions, communists, socialists, and anti-racist and anti-fascist groups. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#workingclass</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LaborHistory</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nazis</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nationalfront" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nationalfront</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antifa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#antifa</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antifascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#antifascism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/london" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#london</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#racism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#police</a>

MikeDunnAuthorToday in Labor History August 12, 2017: Heather Heyer was killed and dozens were injured in a white supremacist terrorist attack in Charlottesville, Virginia. Heyer was an antifascist organizer and one of thousands of people who came out to protest against a Unite the Right rally of neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klan activists and other white nationalists. A 20-year-old Nazi deliberately plowed his car into the crowd, causing the injuries and death of Heyer. President Donald Trump described the neo-Nazis as "very fine people." There have been numerous similar attacks on antifascists since then, killing or injuring 100 more activists. At the same time, Republicans in 15 states have attempted to introduce laws that would either legalize vehicular terrorist attacks against activists, or at least protect the attackers from legal liability.<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#workingclass</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LaborHistory</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antifascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#antifascism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antifa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#antifa</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/heatherheyer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#heatherheyer</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/kkk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#kkk</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nazis</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#trump</a>

MikeDunnAuthorToday in Labor History August 12, 1952: The Soviet authorities murdered 13 prominent Jewish intellectuals and writers in the Night of the Murdered Poets. All were members of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, which fought for the USSR against Nazi Germany. They were falsely accused of espionage and treason, and then imprisoned, tortured, and isolated for three years before being formally charged. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#workingclass</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LaborHistory</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#communism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/soviet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#soviet</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ussr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ussr</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/massacre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#massacre</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antisemitism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#antisemitism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#jewish</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/poet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#poet</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#writer</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#censorship</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/freespeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#freespeech</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/torture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#torture</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/prison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#prison</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nazis</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antifascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#antifascism</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstadon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@bookstadon</a>

MikeDunnAuthorToday in Labor History August 12, 1936: The First International Brigades arrived in Spain to fight against Franco. Organized by the Communist International, between 40,000 and 60,000 men and women from around the world fought on the Republican side against the fascists. 10,000 of them died. Thousands more international activists joined anti-Stalinist forces, like the socialist POUM, or anarchist groups, like the FAI, CNT and the Durruti Column. Americans defied federal law to participate in the International Brigade, as members of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Famous Lincoln participants included Avant Garde composer Conlon Nancarrow, labor organizer Delmer Berg, scifi author Theodore Cogswell, novelist William Herrick. The Tom Mooney Company, named for San Francisco labor organizer, Tom Mooney, who was wrongly imprisoned for the WWI Preparedness Day bombing, was commanded by African American labor organizer Oliver Law, the first African-American to command an integrated American military unit. Many African-Americans joined the anti-franco forces. Langston Hughes, who was writing for the Baltimore Afro-American, said: "Give Franco a hood, and he would be a member of the Ku Klux Klan." There was also a George Washington Battlian, and a John Brown battery. Once the U.S. entered World War II, the FBI recommended that none of the veterans of the Spanish war against fascism be given any promotions within the U.S. military, to prevent the “rise of communists” in their ranks. The House UnAmerican Activities Committee (HUAC) blacklisted all American veterans of the Spanish war. You can read my complete article on Tom Mooney here: <a href="https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/05/19/tom-mooney-and-warren-billings/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/05/19/tom-mooney-and-warren-billings/</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#workingclass</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LaborHistory</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/lincolnbrigades" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lincolnbrigades</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/spain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#spain</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antifa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#antifa</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antifascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#antifascism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#anarchism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#communism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#socialism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/stalin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#stalin</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fai</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cnt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cnt</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/durruti" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#durruti</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/tommooney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tommooney</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/oliverlaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#oliverlaw</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#union</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#author</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#writer</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/composer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#composer</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Blackmastadon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Blackmastadon</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstadon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@bookstadon</a>

Yvonne Perkins"Less than half of ‘class marginalised workers’ were offered career development in the past year in Australia, compared to 76% of ‘privileged’ employees, a new study suggests."Australians tend to deny and ignore the fact that we have classes in our society. I notice it in particular in the large cities. Even though I like living in Melbourne I didn't want to move back when we had children in high school because we couldn't afford private school education. Working in chartered accounting, I had seen how disadvantaged my husband was in that industry, having grown up poor and attending government schools.My husband was the first in his family to make it to year 10, first to finish year 12 and first to enter university. He struggled at university because he had no-one in his family who understood what it is like and to give him the kind of guidance that I had from 2 university-educated parents. I could see in social conversations at professional social events what a disadvantage he was at as he did not have the middle class way of conversation. He has done incredibly well in his career to overcome many of these invisible barriers. It was a struggle that others, including me, did not have. <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Melbourne" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Melbourne</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Australia</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#workingclass</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/aug/11/mark-baxter-stopped-talking-about-his-upbringing-to-break-through-the-class-ceiling-now-hes-fighting-for-change" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/aug/11/mark-baxter-stopped-talking-about-his-upbringing-to-break-through-the-class-ceiling-now-hes-fighting-for-change</a>

Nando161"can’t have a <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/revolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#revolution</a> without <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#women</a>, or <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/queer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#queer</a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/people" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#people</a>, or <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/disabled" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#disabled</a> people, or <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/neurodivergent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#neurodivergent</a> people, or people of all <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/races" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#races</a>, or the <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#workingclass</a>"<a href="https://www.tumblr.com/nando161mando/791557270302556160" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.tumblr.com/nando161mando/791557270302556160</a>

MikeDunnAuthorToday in Labor History August 7, 1971: Jonathan Jackson, aged 17, brother of imprisoned Black Panther George Jackson, raided a Marin County, CA courtroom with an automatic weapon, and freed prisoners James McClain, William A. Christmas and Ruchell Magee. He took a judge, Deputy DA, and three jurors hostage. He demanded the release of the "Soledad Brothers," including his brother. Police killed 3 of the hostages as they attempted to drive away from the courthouse, as well as Jonathan Jackson and the freed inmates. Angela Davis, who owned the weapons used by Jackson, was jailed for 2 years, but was later acquitted of conspiracy, kidnapping, and murder. Prior to the escape attempt, Davis had organized a defense committee for the Soledad Brothers which included Noam Chomsky, Pete Seeger, Marlon Brando, Jame Fonda, the scientist Linus Pauling, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg.In 1970, George Jackson had published his book, “Soledad Brother,” a collection of his prison writings from the 1960s, including numerous letters he had written to his then kid brother Jonathan. He also wrote critically about racism and white supremacy, class, and the brutality of the prison system. The Soledad brothers were George Jackson, Fleeta Drumgo and John Clutchette, accused of murdering a prison guard at Soledad Prison, in California, in retaliation for the murder of three black inmates by prison guards three days prior. Clutchette and Drumgo were later acquitted. Jackson never got his day in court. He was murdered by prison guards, at San Quinten Prison, California, before his trial, exactly two weeks after his brother’s murder in the botched escape attempt. George Jackson had originally been imprisoned for the crime of stealing $70 from a gas station in 1961. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#workingclass</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LaborHistory</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/georgejackson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#georgejackson</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/angeladavis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#angeladavis</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/blackpanthers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#blackpanthers</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/soledadbrothers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#soledadbrothers</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/riot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#riot</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sanquinten" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sanquinten</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/prison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#prison</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/murder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#murder</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#police</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/policeabuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#policeabuse</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/conspiracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#conspiracy</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#racism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#writer</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#author</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstadon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@bookstadon</a>

MikeDunnAuthorToday in Labor History August 7, 1890: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was born in Concord, New Hampshire. Flynn joined the IWW in 1907, two years after its formation, and quickly became one of their best organizers. She was instrumental in the Patterson Silk Strike (1913). In 1909, during the Spokane Free Speech fight, she chained herself to a lamp post to delay her arrest. Jess Waters portrayed her role in the Spokane struggle in his 2020 novel, “The Cold Millions.” John Updike also fictionalized her in his book, “In the Beauty of the Lilies,” (1996).Flynn was a socialist early in her life, but later joined the Communist Party USA, rising to its chair in 1961. She was also a founding member of the ACLU, where she played an important role in the defense of Sacco and Vanzetti. Additionally, she was a feminist activist, fighting for birth control rights and women’s suffrage. In 1934, despite her poor health, she actively supported the West Coast Longshore Strike. She was also a prolific writer, including the 1916 book, “Sabotage: the Conscious Withdrawal of Workers Efficiency.” The famous IWW bard, Joe Hill, wrote the song “Rebel Girl” (1915) for Flynn, and the photograph of a woman, holding a red flag, on the cover of the sheet music, bears a striking resemblance to Flynn.<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#workingclass</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LaborHistory</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/eliazabethgurleyflynn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#eliazabethgurleyflynn</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IWW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IWW</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#union</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/organizing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#organizing</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/strike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#strike</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sabotage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sabotage</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#communism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#socialism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#anarchism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/aclu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#aclu</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#writer</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#author</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fiction</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/novels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#novels</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstadon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@bookstadon</a>

Reverend ElvisWorking class anthem You can listen to free music .. free as free in freedom. No tracking - no adds - no algorithm - no bullshit. Just music! <a href="https://music.undeadnetwork.de/eternity/11/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://music.undeadnetwork.de/eternity/11/</a><a href="https://word.undead-network.de/2025/08/07/working-class-anthem/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://word.undead-network.de/2025/08/07/working-class-anthem/</a> <a href="https://social.undeadnetwork.de/tags/harlan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#harlan</a> <a href="https://social.undeadnetwork.de/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#music</a> <a href="https://social.undeadnetwork.de/tags/reverendelvis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#reverendelvis</a> <a href="https://social.undeadnetwork.de/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#workingclass</a>

MikeDunnAuthorHappiest place on Earth?Today in History August 6, 1970: Yippidy Doo Dah, the Yippies invaded Disneyland. However, the Black Panthers did not show up for breakfast at Aunt Jemima's Pancake House, as promised, nor did any feminists try to liberate Minnie Mouse.<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#workingclass</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LaborHistory</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/yippies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#yippies</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/disneyland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#disneyland</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/feminism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#feminism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/blackpanthers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#blackpanthers</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#police</a>

MikeDunnAuthorToday in History August 6, 1945: The B-29 Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, immediately killing 70,000 children, women and male civilians. Tens of thousands more died in subsequent decades from radiation-induced illnesses. Nagasaki got the same two days later. However, today’s nuclear weapons are far more powerful and the U.S. has 5,800 of them, enough to obliterate the planet several times over. Russia has 6,375, and China has 320. And let’s not forget Israel’s nukes, as they draw the U.S. closer to putting boots on the ground in Iran. Or India and Pakistan’s, as shooting skirmishes flare up every few years in Kahsmir. Or North Korea’s. Or France’s and UK’s.Oh, we will all char together when we char And let there be no moaning of the bar Just sing out a tedium when you see that I-C-B-M And the party will be "come as you are”RIP Tom Lehrer<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#workingclass</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LaborHistory</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nuclear</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nukes</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/atomic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#atomic</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/bomb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bomb</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/hiroshima" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hiroshima</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nagasaki" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nagasaki</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#israel</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/iran" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#iran</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#russia</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/china" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#china</a>

MikeDunnAuthorOld Bisbee jail: 2 story brick building with iron bars on the window. Local IWW headquarters used to be next door (now an empty lot). I asked local historian, and IWW fellow worker, Mike Anderson about it. He said yeh, the location was weird, but the town was incredibly dense (20,000 people squeezed into a few city blocks), and you rented where you could.During the 1917 strike and deportation, many Wobblies (IWW members) were arrested and jailed here. During more recent restorations, after removing old plaster, they discovered IWW graffiti on the walls. Many of the men who were kidnapped and deported were taken to Columbus, New Mexico, where Pancho Villa had invaded just the year before (in one of the only times a foreign army invaded US mainland since the War of 1812). They no doubt were hoping that the US army, which was still there, would brutralize the men. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#workingclass</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LaborHistory</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/strike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#strike</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#union</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Bisbee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Bisbee</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IWW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IWW</a>

נאריש זשלאָב מענטש"When <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Jewish</a> families started summering in the <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Catskills" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Catskills</a>’ <a href="https://babka.social/tags/BorschtBelt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BorschtBelt</a> hotels in the 1920’s, there was a very different scene taking place on the other side of the Hudson River. A couple miles south of the town of Beacon, <a href="https://babka.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#workingclass</a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Jews</a> with <a href="https://babka.social/tags/leftist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#leftist</a> political sympathies were gathering in a <a href="https://babka.social/tags/proletarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#proletarian</a> vacation resort with ties to the <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Communist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Communist</a> Party. Most of the <a href="https://babka.social/tags/workers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#workers</a> who came to Camp Nitgedaiget to escape the steamy <a href="https://babka.social/tags/NewYorkCity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NewYorkCity</a> summers were employed in the needle trades.“These are people who never had a vacation or had no money to leave the city,” said Diane Lapis, a retired kindergarten teacher who spent ten years researching the scene at Nitgedaiget [Nish-guh-die-get]. The fruits of her labor are on display in a new exhibit at the Beacon <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Historical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Historical</a> Society."<a href="https://forward.com/culture/760285/camp-nitgedaiget-jewish-communist-camp-beacon-new-york-history/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://forward.com/culture/760285/camp-nitgedaiget-jewish-communist-camp-beacon-new-york-history/</a>

MikeDunnAuthorVideo as we drive past the tailings of the old Lavender Pit Copper Mine, in operation from 1950-1974. Owned by Phelps Dodge, located between Lowell and Bisbee, Arizona, site of the infamous 1917 kidnapping and deportation of striking IWW copper miners, on the orders of the Phelps Dodge management. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IWW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IWW</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/copper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#copper</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mining</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/strike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#strike</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/deportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#deportation</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#workingclass</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LaborHistory</a>

MikeDunnAuthorPhoto of me in Lowell, Arizona, outside a hat shop, with antique cars on the side of the road, and an old Indian Motorcycles shop. Now aghost town, Lowell was incorporated into Bisbee, AZ, in 2908. It was settled by Copper miners from Serbia, Finland Montenegro. July 12, 1917, 1,300 striking IWW copper miners and their supporters were kidnapped from Bisbee, by vigilantes to crush the union. They were forced into cattle cars and illegally deported 200 miles into New Mexico, through desert, without any food or water. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#workingclass</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LaborHistory</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IWW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IWW</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/strike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#strike</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#union</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/bisbee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bisbee</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mining</a>

30YrdScreamerDue to being all chilled and zen I've decided to watch Miners Strike: Frontline Story on iPlayer. I'm gonna be in a grumpy rage very quickly I think. <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/tory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/thatcher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#thatcher</a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/MinersStrike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MinersStrike</a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/bbc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bbc</a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/iplayer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#iplayer</a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/ClassPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ClassPolitics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/WorkingClass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WorkingClass</a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/ukpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ukpolitics</a>

Nathaniel GregoryIn addition to this, there was recently a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tuition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tuition</a> increase, making the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/campus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#campus</a> which calls itself a “place of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/opportunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#opportunity</a>” for first year <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/students" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#students</a> from <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Appalachia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Appalachia</a> even more innaccessible to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#workingclass</a> people looking for an <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#education</a>.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Democrats</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Republicans</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Liberals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Liberals</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Conservatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Conservatives</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Vote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Vote</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Election</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DemocraticParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DemocraticParty</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RepublicanParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RepublicanParty</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Biden</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/KamalaHarris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#KamalaHarris</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TimWalz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TimWalz</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Democracy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USA</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fascism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fascist</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Progressive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Progressive</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Protest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Protest</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Activism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Activism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Protesters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Protesters</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AbolishICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AbolishICE</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Kentucky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Kentucky</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/KY" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#KY</a>

formuchdeliberationAmericans are struggling financially, grappling with debt and the rising cost of living, and are blaming the Trump administration and corporate interests for worsening economic outlooks for working families... <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/USeconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USeconomy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/CostOfLiving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CostOfLiving</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/trumpadministration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#trumpadministration</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/americanlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#americanlife</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/inflation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#inflation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#economics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#workingclass</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/aug/01/trump-inflation-cost-of-living-poll" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/aug/01/trump-inflation-cost-of-living-poll</a>

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