@workingclasshistory
@pasttense

#FrancescoFantin was a member of an #anarchist paramilitary group who fought against Mussolini’s fascists. When Mussolini came to power, Fantin fled Italy to work in the Queensland cane-fields. Interned as an ‘enemy alien’ during WW2, he was sent to #Loveday camp in South Australia, where, surrounded by the Italian fascist group within the camp, he met his tragic fate.

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/abc-rewind/abc-rewind/105376594

#antifascism #antimilitarism #Atheism
#workingclasshistory

2025
https://cepr.net/publications/six-ways-a-78-year-old-law-is-still-screwing-workers/

2022
https://www.ueunion.org/ue-news-feature/2022/seventy-five-years-later-toll-of-taft-harley-weighs-heavily-on-labor

#LaborMovement #Organize #solidarity
#TaftHartleyAct #unions #workingClasshistory

@workingclasshistory

https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/first-green-bans

#constructionworkers #greenbans #KellysBush #workingclasshistory

@workingclasshistory

June 15th 1990
https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8695/battle-of-century-city

(Source: "Los Angleles Justice for Janitors campaign for economic justice at Century City, 1989-1990," Global Nonviolent Action Database https://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/los-angleles-justice-janitors-campaign-economic-justice-century-city-1989-1990 )

#JusticeForJanitors #LosAngeles #SEIU
#workingclasshistory

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-15/marcel-barrena-el-47-marco-eduard-fernandez-spanish-film-fest/105404074

#Andalusia #Barcelona #directaction #El47 #Extremadura #films #migrantworkers #solidarity #TorreBaró #transportworkers #workingclasshistory

“Lest We Forget”
https://black-ink.info/2022/08/22/safiya-bukharis-lest-we-forget/

56 Notes on “Red”
https://black-ink.info/2025/05/01/we-are-a-conspiracy-56-notes-on-red/

#BLM #BPP #workingClassHistory

Anybody wanna know about a 1960s adventure play-park in the Gorbals, run by Glaswegian folk singer Matt McGinn, which the council tried to shut down but failed cause like all the kids in the Gorbals marched on City Chambers?

Aye aye. 🧵 1/5

#Glasgow #Scotland #FolkCulture #FolkMusic #Protest #WorkingClassHistory #LabourHistory

The Merthyr Rising June 1831
https://iww.org.uk/news/the-merthyr-rising/

#Cymru #directaction #iww #Labormovement #Merthyr #organize #solidarity #wales #workingclasshistory

History of IWW in Iceland

https://iwwisland.org/history-of-iww-in-iceland/

#iceland #iww #labormovement #organize #solidarity #unions #workingclasshistory

@ambien0wl

https://hardcrackers.com/from-anaximander-to-marx-or-how-i-spent-half-my-life-in-a-revolutionary-cult-and-the-other-half-working-out-why/

#workingclasshistory

Interview - Late Night Live Program:- “The Australian workers the union movement left behind” Wed 21 May 2025

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/latenightlive/liam-byrne-australian-union-movement-history/105320316

Book “No Power Greater” https://www.mup.com.au/books/no-power-greater-paperback-softback

#labormovement #ORGANIZE #solidarity #unions #workingclasshistory

May 28th 2025
Now:
Altona North in Naarm/Melbourne community picket supporting food workers at one of the largest bakery companies operating in Australia began stop work action on May 14 for a 15% wage increases over three years.

Then:
1998 #MUA dispute with Patrick’s; some mind blowing facts about the extent Government and Employers went to crush worker rights
https://www.3cr.org.au/sticktogether/episode/getting-boot-neck

#3CR #community Radio
#labormovement #organize #solidarity #unions #workingclasshistory

https://thetransmetropolitanreview.wordpress.com/2025/05/14/the-iww-writings-of-andrej-klemencic/

#iww #andrejKlemencic #migrantworkers #workingclasshistory

May 2025 Union News & talk about the 1917 General Strike https://www.3cr.org.au/sticktogether/episode/1917-general-strike

#3CR #communityradio #stickTogether
#directaction #generalstrike #labormovement #organize #solidarity #unions #workingclasshistory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1917_Australian_general_strike

Remembering and Learning
https://www.labourhistory.org.au/hummer/hummer-vol-12-no-2-2017/remembering/

Documentary (National Film and Sound Archive) https://www.nfsa.gov.au/latest/australias-great-strike-100-years

Also on YT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zTcFOH9hdc

#directaction #generalstrike
#labormovement #organize #solidarity #unions
#workingclasshistory

Finally After 200 years old-growth Tree-logging ( Tree-mend-us) ends

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-21/wa-pioneer-jarrah-axemen-worked-in-terrible-conditions/105297658

#djarraly / #Jarrah #firstnations #Noongar #workingclasshistory

International Solidarity https://jacobin.com/2025/05/south-african-unionists-international-solidarity

#labormovement #organize #solidarity #southafrica #unions #workingclasshistory

Ascott Martyrs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascott_Martyrs

From the “Tolpuddle to the Cotswolds”
https://tolpuddletothecotswolds.co.uk/

#AgriculturalWorkers #AscottMartyrs
#Tolpuddle #WorkingClassHistory

May 20th 1873

On 20 May 1873, 16 women from Ascott-under-Wychwood in Oxfordshire, England, were sent to prison for their role in forming the Agricultural Workers' Union and became known as the Ascott martyrs. Local farm workers had joined the union, so the landowner sacked them and instead hired workers from the nearby village of Ramsden.

https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9301/ascott-martyrs-sentenced

#agriculturalworkers #AscottMartyrs #labormovement #organize #solidarity #unions
#workingclasshistory