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Tell me again how burning petrol to commute to a job that exploits you whilst you earn money for shareholders and taxes for Israel is “fighting fascism,” or good for anyone anywhere but fascists. #YouAreFundingThis #GeneralStrike #DontWork #DontBuy #IHopeTheAmericansLoveTheirChildrenToo

It if talks like an authoritarian dictator and it walks like an authoritarian dictator... Then it needs to be overthrown. #GeneralStrike #PermanentStrike

Today in Labor History August 23, 1927: Sacco and Vanzetti, two Italian immigrant anarchists living in the U.S., were executed murder during a botched robbery in Boston. However, there was no evidence linking them to the crime. They both had alibis, too, including an official at the Italian consulate. Their trial was rife with racism and political bias. The judge, Webster Thayer, said the following about Vanzetti: "This man, although he may not have actually committed the crime attributed to him, is nevertheless morally culpable, because he is the enemy of our existing institutions." The jury foreman, who was a former cop, said he didn’t care if they were innocent: "Damn them. They ought to hang anyway." The author, John Dos Passos, who came to Boston to cover the trial as a journalist, was arrested at a solidarity protest along with writer Dorothy Parker. Einstein, H.G. Wells, and Bernard Shaw all appealed for Sacco and Vanzetti lives. The IWW called for a 3-day nationwide General Strike, which was heeded by 1,132 out of the 1,167 miners in Colorado’s Walsenburg coal district, leading to the Colorado coal strike of 1927. The day after their execution, there were violent demonstrations around the world, including in Tokyo, Geneva, London, and Paris. In South America, wildcat solidarity strikes completely shut down many factories. In Germany, 3 protesters were shot dead. In Boston, over 200,000 came to the funeral procession. Upton Sinclair’s novel, “Boston,” explores the trial, and Vanzetti's life. Woody Guthrie recorded a series of songs known as the Ballads of Sacco & Vanzetti. In 1971, Joan Baez recorded her song "Here's to You," with music composed by Ennio Morricone, a tribute to Sacco & Vanzetti that went on to become a symbol for the human rights movement of the 1970s. #workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #saccoandvanzetti #IWW #coal #miners #strike #generalstrike #solidarity #riot #author #writer #books #fiction @bookstadon@a.gup.pe

The Bank of Canada governor defends using scab labour. The fucker. Scabbing is "supposed" to be illegal now in Canadian federal labour jurisdiction. #canlab #unions #labour #labor #scabs #strikes #generalstrike #Canada #cdnpoli #workersrightshttps://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/bank-of-canada-governor-defends-replacement-workers-9.7292965

Today in Labor History July 31, 1922: A General Strike against Fascism began in Italy, running from July 31 to August 2. Socialists led the strike, which the fascists defeated. Rudolph Rocker, an Anarcho-Syndicalist of the period, said: "… the democratic government armed the Fascist hordes and throttled this last attempt at the defense of freedom and right. But Italian democracy had dug its own grave. It thought it could use Mussolini as a tool against the workers, but thus it became its own grave-digger." In October, 1922, the fascists led a march through Rome, which ultimately led to a coup and their ascension to power. During the march, Mussolini was in Milan, supposedly with a ticket for an ocean liner to flee the country should the fascists fail in the coup. #workingclass #LaborHistory #fascism #mussolini #italy #anarchism #generalstrike #socialism #antifascism

@augieray@mastodon.social Oh, you mean the way the Democrats changed everything after George W. Bush was out of office? The way they investigated the United States' use of torture and punished the perpetrators? Or wait a minute, didn't they just start chanting "look forward not back" (led by Obama) and thereby normalized torture as an American practice? And remember how Obama and Biden coordinated the nationwide rollout of militarized police forces and tanks to crush the Occupy Wall Street movement over a weekend? Are we really supposed to believe that the Democrats are going to disband ICE, DHS, and the border patrol? The Democrats have been a critical part of advancing fascism in America for generations. Anytime anyone points that out, we just get told to vote harder. You know, eventually that line got really old. The Democrats serve the same billionaires that the Republicans do. Anyone who hasn't figured that out by now is either incredibly gullible, or selling something. #GeneralStrike #Politics

What if instead of a nervous system, we had a super chill system, you ask? Well as individuals we do have it. The super chill parasympathic system. Together with the super stressed sympathic system they make up the periferal nervous system, or, as I call it, the federated nervous system, or FediNS, as opposed to our central nervous system. As modern western society however we live in the super stressful capitalist system instead of the super chill degrowth system. We have one built in mechanism though if stress gets too high: the general strike. You should try it sometime. #GeneralStrike #degrowth #capitalism #chill #stress #nervous

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Today in Labor History July 26, 1877: Federal troops killed up to 30 workers at the "Battle of the Viaduct," Chicago, during the Great Upheaval (AKA Great Train Strike). This came after the Workingmen’s Party (affiliated with the First International), organized a rally of six thousand people. At this gathering, a former Confederate Army Officer from Waco, Texas, named Albert Parsons, gave a fiery speech. The events of the Great Upheaval radicalized Parsons and his wife Lucy. In the years following it, they became some of the nation’s leading anarchist organizers. The state executed him in 1887 as one of the Haymarket Martyrs who had been fighting for the eight-hour workday. His widow, Lucy, an African American woman, went on to cofound the radical Industrial Workers of the World, in 1905, along with Mother Jones, Eugene Debs, Big Bill Haywood, and others. The day after Parsons’ speech, protests erupted. Police fired into the crowd, killing three men. The next day, an armed demonstration of 5,000 workers fought the police and soldiers in the Battle of the Viaduct, when they killed as many as 30 more workers and injured over one hundred. One journalist wrote, “The sound of clubs falling on skulls was sickening for the first minute, until one grew accustomed to it. A rioter dropped at every whack, it seemed, for the ground was covered with them.” A judge later found the police guilty of preventing the workers from exercising their right to freedom of speech and assembly The Great Upheaval was a national strike wave involving major uprisings in Martinsburg, WV, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Saint Louis, San Francisco, Boston, Reading, PA, New York and many other cities. I write about it in my historical “Great Upheaval Trilogy.” My first book, “Anywhere But Schuylkill,” takes place in the years immediately preceding the Great Upheaval. Book II, “Red Hot Summer in the Smoky City,” my current WIP, takes place in Pittsburgh, at the height of the Great Upheaval. You can read my complete article about the Great Upheaval here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/03/31/the-great-upheaval/ You can read my biography of Lucy Parsons here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/03/24/lucy-parsons/ And you can get my book ANYWHERE BUT SCHUYLKILL from these indie book sellers: https://www.keplers.com/ https://www.greenapplebooks.com/ Or send me $25 via Venmo (@Michael-Dunn-565) and your mailing address, and I will send you a signed copy! #workingclass #LaborHistory #chicago #massacre #railroad #GeneralStrike #wildcat #strikewave #IWW #socialism #haymarket #anarchism #lucyparsons #policebrutality #policemurder #fiction #novel #historicalfiction #writer #author #books @bookstadon@a.gup.pe

Today in Labor History July 22, 1877: A General Strike began in St. Louis, as part of the national Great Upheaval wave of wildcat strikes. The St. Louis strike is generally considered the first General Strike in U.S. history. It was organized by the communist Workingman’s Party and the Knights of Labor. In addition to joining in solidarity with striking rail workers, thousands in other trades came out to fight for the 8-hour day and an end to child labor. For nearly a week, workers controlled all functions of society. Black and white workers united, even though the unions were all segregated. At one rally, a black steamboat worker asked the crowd if they would stand behind levee workers, regardless of race. “We will!” they shouted back. Another speaker said, “The people are rising up in their might and declaring they will no longer submit to being oppressed by unproductive capital.” Whereas most of the worker uprisings that were occurring throughout the U.S. were spontaneous wildcat strikes (as most of the unions were opposed to the great strike), the situation in St. Louis was led by communists and was revolutionary. “There was a time in the history of France when the poor found themselves oppressed to such an extent that forbearance ceased to be a virtue, and hundreds of heads tumbled into the basket. That time may have arrived with us.” A cooper said this to a crowd of 10,000 workers in St. Louis, in July, 1877. He was referring to the Paris Commune, which happened just six years prior. Like the Parisian workers, the Saint Louis strikers openly called for the use of arms, not only to defend themselves against the violence of the militias and police, but for outright revolutionary aims: “All you have to do is to unite on one idea—that workingmen shall rule this country. What man makes, belongs to him, and the workingmen made this country.” Karl Marx enthusiastically followed events during the Great Strike. He called it “the first uprising against the oligarchy of capital since the Civil War.” He predicted that it would inevitably be suppressed, but might still “be the point of origin for the creation of a serious workers’ party in the United States.” Ironically, many of the Saint Louis activists were followers of Ferdinand Lasalle, whom Marx despised, and who believed that communist revolution could happen through the vote. And some of them, like Albert Currlin, a Workingmen’s Party leader in Saint Louis, were outright racists, who mistrusted the black strikers and refused to work with them, undermining the success of the commune. Ultimately, 3,000 federal troops and 5,000 deputized police (i.e., vigilantes) ended the strike by killing at least 18 people and arresting at least 70. My novel, “Anywhere But Schuylkill,” is about the coal strike that preceded the Great Upheaval. My work in progress, “Red Hot Summer in the Big Smoke,” takes place in Pittsburgh, during the Great Upheaval. You can get my novel from any of these indie retailers: https://www.keplers.com/ https://www.greenapplebooks.com/ Or send me $25 via Venmo (@Michael-Dunn-565) and your mailing address, and I will send you a signed copy! You can also read my complete article on the Great Upheaval here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/03/31/the-great-upheaval/ You can read my complete article on the Pinkertons here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/04/union-busting-by-the-pinkertons/ #workingclass #LaborHistory #greatupheaval #paris #commune #Revolutionary #communism #saintlouis #pinkertons #GeneralStrike #wildcat #strike #knightsoflabor #workingmensparty #marx #solidarity #books #author #writer #fiction #historicalfiction @bookstadon@a.gup.pe

@inthehands@hachyderm.io The Democrats support genocide and brought us Donald Trump, as well as the surveillance state. Both parties work for the same billionaire donors. Amazing that so many people still buy the whole "good cop bad cop" routine even now! I don't know how they manage to completely overlook the genocide in Gaza, among other things. What we need is to end the system altogether and replace it with something that answers to the needs of the people. And we the people are the only ones who are going to do THAT. #GeneralStrike

When general strike? I’m ready to have a neighborhood strike party where we spend all day sharing stories and let the kids play in the streets without worrying about cars. #GeneralStrike

General strike, not general obedience! #GeneralStrike

Did today's #inkyDays drawing before heading out for the General Strike rally at Dolores Park, here in San Francisco. So many people! It was amazing! #ink #drawing #art #NoKings #GeneralStrike #sfba #flowers

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Ways to participate in tomorrow's #mayday #strike that you may not have realized count as participation and arent abstaining from work, school, and shopping:

• work slower on purpose
• cry in class on purpose
• spend cash at locally owned businesses
• reduce internet & power use
• visit niche websites instead of mainstream ones
• do analog stuff
• do a favor for a neighbor

Small things from individuals add up fast

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US stock market hit record highs again today. Proof that capitalism thrives on war and evil. No positive change will happen until the stock market is completely wrecked. Crash that mofo now. #GeneralStrike