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Working Class History#OtD 18 Nov 1953 the British Royal Air Force began aerial bombing of Kenya in an effort to crush the "Mau Mau" anti-colonial insurgency. Over the next year and a half they dropped nearly 6 million bombs on the country https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9039/raf-bombing-of-kenya
Working Class History#OtD 18 Nov 1965 the term 'sexism' was probably coined by Pauline M. Leet during a "Student-Faculty Forum" at Franklin and Marshall College, defined by comparing it to racism https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9040/%22sexism%22-probably-coined
Working Class History#OtD 17 Nov 1973 the Athens Polytechnic uprising began against the Greek military junta, after an army tank rolled over the gates of the University to evict protesting students who occupied it 3 days previously https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8927/athens-polytechnic-uprising
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Working Class History#OtD 17 Nov 1866 American anarchist Voltairine de Cleyre was born. As well as advocating for workers' control of production, she attacked female beauty ideals, gender roles for children & marriage laws which allowed men to rape their wives. Posters here: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/working-class-heroes/voltairine-de-cleyre
Working Class History#OtD 16 Nov 1989 six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter were killed by the US-backed military in El Salvador for being "subversive". Troops then tried to make the murders look like the work of left-wing guerrillas https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8824/jesuits-murdered-in-el-salvador
Working Class History#OtD 13 Aug 1937 four striking Indian sugar workers were massacred at the Union Flacq Sugar Estate, Mauritius. In response, protests escalated. The British colonial government was then forced to legalise unions and set up collective bargaining https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7741/mauritius-strike-massacre
Working Class History#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
Working Class History#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
Working Class History#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