📣 New Podcast! "26 February 1906: Cerbère orange carriers strike" on @Spreaker #france #history #womens
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/26-february-1906-cerbere-orange-carriers-strike--69728383

Argentina uprising 2001 - New episode of the Working Class History podcast: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e115-116-argentina-uprising-2001/

#OtD 25 Feb 1972 young Renault worker and communist Pierre Overney was murdered by a company thug as he leafleted Billancourt factory workers. Riots then broke out, and 200,000 people attended his funeral. The murderer was assassinated in 1977 https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9734/pierre-overney-murdered

#OtD 25 Feb 1913 silk mill workers in Paterson, NJ went on strike demanding an 8-hour day and better conditions. It developed into a general strike of 25k mostly women & child workers organised by the @iww https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9732/1913-paterson-silk-strike-starts

New podcast episode out for all! Part 1 of our series on the 2001 Argentina uprising, which toppled the govt, and led to a wave of factory takeovers and neighbourhood assemblies. Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e115-116-argentina-uprising-2001/ #WorkingClassHistoryWednesday

#OtD 25 Feb 1986 the US-backed, anti-communist dictator of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos, was toppled and forced to flee the country by mass protests in the "people power revolution" https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9735/ferdinand-marcos-toppled

#OtD 25 Feb 2008 transport workers in Cameroon went on strike demanding a lower price for petrol. Young, unemployed people began looting and rioting against poverty. Police opened fired on protesters, but the following day the government cut prices https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7903/cameroon-taxi-strike

#OtD 25 Feb 1792 working class ‘sans-culottes' invaded shops during the French revolution forcing merchants to sell goods at affordable prices https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/en-gb/collections/books/products/the-permanent-guillotine-writings-of-the-sans-culottes-mitchell-abidor-ed

#OtD 25 Feb 1970 abstract expressionist artist and anarchist, Mark Rothko, died by suicide at his studio in NYC. Active in the @iww union early in life, Rothko later became pessimistic about the future but he claimed "I am still an anarchist" https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7902/mark-rothko-dies

#OtD 25 Feb 1643 the Pavonia massacre took place when Dutch colonists murdered around 120 Lenape Native Americans. The brutality united local Algonquian peoples, who then waged war against Dutch colonists for 2 years until a peace agreement was made https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9729/pavonia-massacre

#OtD 25 Feb 1941 a general strike was called in the occupied Netherlands against anti-Jewish measures of the Nazis. Organised by communists it was largely repressed the next day & leaders sent to the camps although some survived the war https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9733/netherlands-general-strike

#OtD 25 Feb 1889 Russian communist metalworker, Gavril Ilyich Miasnikov, was born. A participant in both 1905 and 1917 Revolutions as well as the Bolshevik underground, he later became a fierce critic of Lenin and the party's actions once in power https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9731/birth-of-gavril-ilyich-miasnikov

📣 New Podcast! "25 February 2008: Cameroon taxi strike" on @Spreaker
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/25-february-2008-cameroon-taxi-strike--69728388

#OtD 24 Feb 1950 anarchist Manuel Sabate Llopart was executed by Spanish dictatorship in revenge for the activities of his siblings, Francesc and Jose, who were also anti-Franco guerrillas https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9647/manuel-sabate-llopart-executed

#OtD 24 Feb 1848 King Louis-Philippe of France abdicated, fearing for his life, and fled to England in the French revolution of 1848, part of a wave of uprisings throughout Europe. French workers would rise again in April and June https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9641/french-monarchy-overthrown

#OtD 24 Feb 1942 the Canadian govt ordered the expulsion and internment of all people of Japanese descent from a 100 mile distance from the West Coast. 22,000 were expelled, with most sent to labour camps, losing most of their property https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9646/canada-japanese-internment

#OtD 24 Feb 1932 the chief of police of Montevideo, Uruguay, Luis Pardeiro was assassinated. Pardeiro was notorious for torturing anarchists in custody. The attack was attributed to five Uruguayan anarchists https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9645/luis-pardeiro-assassinated

#OtD 24 Feb 1909 anarchist Ethel Macdonald was born in Motherwell, Scotland. Her exploits during the Spanish Revolution caused the British press to dub her the Scots Scarlet Pimpernel https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9642/ethel-macdonald-born

#OtD 24 Feb 2020 Brörán Indigenous land activist Yehry Rivera was murdered by a mob in Costa Rica, while police stood by. He had previously been brutally beaten by illegal loggers. Settlers in the area illegally occupy vast swathes of Indigenous land. https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/12526/yehry-rivera-murdered

#OtD 24 Feb 1915 Amelio Robles Avila, a trans officer in Emiliano Zapata's Mexican revolutionary army, intervened in close combat in Salto de Valadez and Mazatlan, Guerrero. His unit battled a government column from noon and defeated them by evening https://www.tiktok.com/@workingclasshistory/video/7121709454348881158?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7461956505605391894