Working Class History
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