Working Class History
Working Class History#OtD 11 Aug 1979 2000 riot police attacked 187 women workers in Seoul, South Korea, who had been occupying the HQ of the New Democratic Party in protest at closure of the factory they worked at. One woman was killed and union leaders were arrested https://workingclasshistory.com/2021/03/24/e51-jeon-tae-il-and-lee-so-sun/
Working Class History#OtD 10 Aug 1889 Polish WWII resistance activist Zofia Kossak-Szczucka was born. During Nazi occupation she founded a group to help save Jewish people. She was sent to Auschwitz but got out, joined the Warsaw uprising and survived the war https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8173/zofia-kossak-szczucka-born
Working Class History#OtD 9 Aug 1956 20,000 women in Pretoria, South Africa, marched against pass laws: apartheid laws curtailing freedom of movement for Black and Indian people. A wave of civil disobedience followed. The day is commemorated in South Africa as Women's Day https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10880/south-africa-women's-day
Working Class History#OtD 7 Aug 1963 Ramon Vila Capdevila, aka 'Burntface', was killed by Guardia Civil (police) in Manresa, Spain. A @Cntsindicato@mastodon.social union militant, he fought in the Spanish Civil War, French resistance and the postwar anti-Franco underground https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10689/ramon-vila-capdevila-killed
Working Class History#OtD 7 Aug 1842 a mass meeting of 18,000 workers took place in the UK, organised by the Chartist movement. They decided to call a general strike beginning the following day, demanding universal male suffrage https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10685/chartist-mass-meeting
Working Class History#OtD 6 Aug 1945 the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, slaughtering tens of thousands of civilians, despite believing that Japan was about to surrender, which was noted by multiple US officials https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10593/u.s.-drops-atomic-bomb-on-hiroshima
Working Class History#OtD 6 Aug 2011 two days after police killed Mark Duggan, relatives and local residents marched on Tottenham Police Station. Police assaulted a protester, sparking a violent response. Riots then broke out across London and several other towns https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10596/mark-duggan-riots