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This is fundamentally the pursuit of the private sector: to create its own state (or series of mini-states) in all but name, but without even the pretence of democracy or other pesky means for the people to have any input or say.

#OtD 28 Jul 1925 Polish Jewish shoemaker and communist Naftali Botwin assassinated a secret police agent who had infiltrated the Communist Party in Lviv, Ukraine. Botwin pleaded guilty and was sentenced to death and executed on Aug 6. Learn more: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1001...

Did you know that in the US at the beginning of the last century, many miners weren't paid in cash? Instead, they were paid in company scrip – tokens which were only redeemable in stores owned by the company. Learn all about it in this book: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/scr...

I lived in Chile during El Estallido so I have a bunch of photos with different illustrations by protesters depicting al Negrito Matapacos.

Ze verkopen shirts met protesthonden en ik vind dat keileuk.

New podcast: we tell the story of Negro Matapacos, Chile's legendary riot dog, and the protest movements in which he took part, protecting demonstrators from the police. Listen early by joining us on Patreon and supporting our work: www.patreon.com/workingclass...

#OtD 28 Jul 1887 the French-American artist, painter, sculptor, writer, chess player and anarchist Marcel Duchamp was born. A key figure in the Dada movement, Duchamp helped revolutionise the art world stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1001...

#OtD 28 Jul 1915 the United States' 19-year occupation of Haiti began. Writer James Weldon Johnson observed "economic corruption, forced labour, press censorship, racial segregation, and wanton violence introduced to Haiti by the US occupation" in 1920 stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1001...

#OtD 28 Jul 1943 20 people were massacred and 38 injured by soldiers in Bari, Italy. After the fall of Mussolini, around 200 people peacefully marched demanding the release of anti-fascist prisoners. Learn more about the Italian resistance in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e77-...

#OtD 28 Jul 1937 lightermen (barge operatives) in Barbados went on strike. Despite brutal repression by British colonial authorities, the workers continued their strike until their demands were met, and returned to work on 4 Aug. More info here: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1002...

#OtD 28 Jul 1937 rioting broke out in Barbados after news broke the night before that worker organiser Clement Payne had been secretly deported to Trinidad by British authorities stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1001...

#OtD 28 Jul 1932 the US government sent in the army to attack WWI vets and their families with tanks, fixed bayonets, teargas and sabres, killing three, when vets marched demanding wartime bonuses they were promised. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1001...

#OtD 28 Jul 1879 Lucy Burns, suffragist and women's rights advocate, was born. While living in the UK she joined the Women's Social and Political Union, and later in the US she and Alice Paul formed the radical Congressional Union for Women's Suffrage stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1001...

New daily podcast: 28 July 1869: Daughters of Saint Crispin

The first 3 chapters are by far the most difficult. After that it's pretty much easy-going. TBH, if you are having trouble with them I would start at chapter 26, then go back to the beginning. If you still can't get through the first 3, skip to 4 and read on, then you can go back later

#OtD 27 Jul 1933 bus drivers in Havana went on strike, and other drivers soon struck in sympathy. This was the start of unrest that culminated in a general strike of Cuban workers and students, and eventually brought an end to Gerardo Machado's reign stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9911...

#OtD 27 Jul 1919 a week of riots erupted in Chicago after a white man threw stones at a young African-American man on a racially segregated beach, killing him, and police refused to arrest the perpetrators. 1000s of Black homes were looted and burned stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1247...

#OtD 27 Jul 1838 70,000 people attended a Chartist rally in Newcastle as part of the fight for universal male suffrage. The Northern Star newspaper thought the meeting was "the most splendid display of the working classes ever witnessed in England". stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9909...

#OtD 27 Jul 1988 is the most likely date for the start of a massacre of prisoners in Iranian jails. First Mojahedin prisoners were targeted, but in late Aug, communist and leftists were next. Ayatollah Montazeri estimated that over 3800 were killed stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9914...

#OtD 27 Jul 1981 a second wave of anti-police rioting in a month began in Liverpool, UK. Protesters attacked police with missiles, and the police responded by driving vans at high speed into the crowds to disperse them stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9913...