Working Class History
Working Class History#OtD 29 Nov 1947 the UN passed resolution 181 recommending partition of Palestine into Jewish and Arab states. Approved by the US, USSR and others, it gave 56% of land to the Jewish state despite Jews being only 32% of the population. More in our podcast: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e86-87-class-struggle-in-palestine/
Working Class History#OtD 28 Nov 1971 Jewish anti-fascists of the 62 Group shut down a fascist meeting at the Royal Pavillion Hotel in Brighton, UK. Present were National Front members and former Nazi SS officers, some of whom were hospitalised. More on Jewish anti-fascism: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e35-37-the-43-group/
Working Class HistoryToday is Thanksgiving in the US, or National Day of Mourning/"Unthanksgiving Day" for some Native Americans. Wampanoag people shared food with pilgrims in 1621 but were repaid with centuries of genocide. More on Indigenous resistance: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/books/products/500-years-of-indigenous-resistance-gord-hill
Working Class History#OtD 27 Nov 1835 James Pratt and John Smith, a groom and labourer, respectively, were executed in London for having sex. They were the last men executed in Britain for homosexuality, although executions continued in British colonies. Learn more: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9949/last-uk-men-executed-for-homosexuality
Working Class History#OtD 25 Nov 1941 three Schlurfs were arrested by Gestapo in Austria for destroying a Hitler Youth noticeboard. Schlurfs were working-class youth who rejected Nazism, militarism and the work ethic, and listened to jazz music. More on WWII anti-Nazi youth: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/72-edelweiss-pirates-swing-kids/
Working Class History#OtD 23 Nov 1912 anarcho-syndicalist union, Unione Sindacale Italiana, was founded in Modena mainly by radical metal workers, builders, farm workers and miners. It played a key role in both the factory occupation movement and anti-fascist resistance https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9595/unione-sindacale-italiana-founded
Working Class History#OtD 19 Nov 1900 German communist and anti-Nazi activist Anna Seghers was born in Mainz. She wrote a novel in 1932 warning of the dangers of fascism, Die Gefährten, which led her to be arrested by the Gestapo, but she survived https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9133/anna-seghers
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