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#OtD 13 Aug 1776 a crowd of women in Fishkill, New York, seized tea during a food riot in the American revolution https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8449/fishkill-food-riot

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#OtD 13 Aug 1917 a revolutionary general strike began in Sabadell, Spain, as part of a national strike called by the UGT union, which was supported by the @Cntsindicato@mastodon.social. The civil guard attacked workers, killing 13 and destroying the union office https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7740/sabadell-general-strike

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#OtD 13 Aug 1955 Lamar Smith, African-American civil rights activist and WWI veteran, was murdered by racists outside the Lincoln courthouse in Mississippi. Despite many witnesses, including the sheriff, no one was charged with any crime https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8456/lamar-smith-murdered

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#OtD 13 Aug 1973 five Black independence activists were sentenced to eight life sentences in the US Virgin Islands. After the killing of eight tourists, Black people were rounded up and tortured into confessing, and jurors were threatened to convict https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8457/fountain-valley-five-convicted

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#OtD 13 Aug 1880 Mary Macarthur was born in Glasgow, Scotland. She was central to the working-class wing of the suffragettes who opposed WWI and votes just for rich women, which made her unpopular with middle-class suffragettes https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8451/mary-macarthur

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#OtD 12 Aug 1887 pioneering Colombian socialist and women's rights advocate María Cano aka "flor del trabajo" ("flower of labour") was born. She gave fiery speeches to crowds of mining, oil and banana workers, and was repeatedly arrested https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8368/maría-cano-born

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#OtD 12 Aug 1889 agitation, which later caused the London Great Dock Strike, began as a response to appalling working conditions for casual workers. The strike ended in a massive victory for workers https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8369/great-dock-strike

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#OtD 12 Aug 2017 32-year-old anti-racist Heather Heyer was killed and 19 injured in a neo-Nazi terror attack in Charlottesville, VA. Heather was one of many protesting a white supremacist rally when a Nazi drove his car deliberately into the crowd https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8376/heather-heyer-murdered

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#OtD 11 Aug 1964 18-year-old Scottish anarchist Stuart Christie was arrested in Madrid, Spain with explosives to assassinate dictator Franco. He was wearing a kilt, which confused the Argentinian press, who described him as "a Scottish transvestite" https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8273/stuart-christie-arrested

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#OtD 11 Aug 1958 young African Americans in Wichita, Kansas won a key early sit-in protest against segregated lunch counters at Dockums Drug Store. They confronted bosses, police and racists for 23 days until they won. More info in this short history: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8272/dockum's-drug-store-sit-in-wins