New axiom
"The amount a company boasts of awards for being a great place to work, is directly proportional how much of a shit show it is in practice."
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#WorkingClass Britons were united in scorn for #WinstonChurchill, whose state funeral was held on #ThisDayInHistory in 1965. No heroic opponent of #fascism, Churchill _celebrated_ it, agreeing fully with Mussolini, backing Franco, and favouring appeasement of Hitler through 1938.
Today in Labor History January 30, 1972: Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland occurred when British soldiers gunned down 14 Roman Catholic civil-rights marchers in Derry. The victims were all unarmed and running away from the soldiers when they were shot. Many more were injured by shrapnel, rubber bullets or batons. The soldiers who killed them were members of the 1st Battalion Parachute Regiment, which had committed the Ballymurphy Massacre several months prior. Two days after Bloody Sunday, Paul McCartney recorded, “Give Ireland Back to the Irish.” It was one of the only songs banned by the BBC. John Lennon later recorded “Sunday Bloody Sunday.” And, of course, there is the 1983 U2 song, “Sunday Bloody Sunday,” and the cover of the same, by Saul Williams.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0izN111lXUg
#workingclass #LaborHistory #ireland #Troubles #massacre #bloodysunday #civilrights #Derry #paulmccartney #blacksabbath #u2 #bbc #johnlennon
Today in Labor History January 30, 1970: 20,000 people rioted in Manila. They were protesting the regime of US-backed dictator Ferdinand Marcos after his State of the Nation address. Over 2,000 attempted to storm the US embassy chanting “Down with imperialism!” Riot police and soldiers beat protesters with truncheons and rifle butts. At least 50 people were hospitalized and at least six died. Riots continued throughout the year. They were part of the First Quarter Storm.
In 1986, after ongoing protests, Filipino dictator Ferdinand Marcos begged President Ronald Regan for advice. Regan told him to “cut and cut cleanly.” That evening, Marcos and his wife Imelda fled the nation aboard a U.S. air force plane, after 20 years of rule. He and his family, and an entourage of 90 people (mostly servants), arrived in Hawaii the next day. They brought 22 crates of cash valued at $717 million, 300 crates of jewelry of unknown value, $4 million worth of unset precious gems, $200,000 in gold bullion, $1 million in Philippine pesos and deposit slips for $124 million in banks in the Cayman Islands. Plus, countless crates of shoes. The Marcos’s hold the Guinness record for the largest ever theft from a government. Although Grifter-in-chief Trump seems dead set on trying to break that record.
Speaking of which, if you are shocked and appalled that Americans could be stupid enough to reelect Trump, consider that the people of the Philippines somehow “forgot” about the years of brutal dictatorship by Marcos and elected his son Bongbong, who currently wants to collaborate with Trump to get foreign aid flowing again, so he can continue his family tradition of violent domestic repression.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #philippines #massacre #riot #FerdinandMarcos #policeabuse #dictator #trump #corruption
Today in Labor History January 30, 1956: Klansmen bombed the home of Martin Luther King Jr in retaliation for the Montgomery bus boycott. No one died in the bombing. However, the explosion destroyed the King’s porch and blasted out their windows. At the time of the bombing, King was giving a speech at the Montgomery Improvement Association at Rev. Ralph Abernathy’s First Baptist Church. No one was ever indicted or convicted for the bombing. The authorities did indict King, and 80 other activists, for “interfering with business,” during the bus boycott and demonstrations.
#LaborHistory #workingclass #rosaparks #mlk #civilrights #bombing #racism #boycott #jimcrow #montgomery #alabama #kkk #klan #BlackMastodon
Today in Labor History January 30, 1933: German President Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler Chancellor. Almost immediately, Hitler began his attacks on labor, with his Sturmabteilung (paramilitary) raiding and burning union offices and assassinating labor leaders, while the police looked on. In May, 1933, he created the German Labor Front, a fascist labor organization to replace the gutted unions. They sent many of the labor leaders to concentration camps and abolished collective bargaining and union elections. Also in May, 1933, the Nazis also attacked and destroyed the Institute for Sexual Sciences, home to the world’s first trans medical clinic, which performed the world’s first sexual reassignment surgeries, for Karl Meir Baer, in 1906, and Lili Elbe, in 1930-1931.
Whether or not you think the comparison of Trump’s United States with Nazi Germany is a valid one, both came after trans people almost from day 1. And Project 2025 very directly targets unions and labor activism. So, if your workplace isn’t already organized, it’s past time to get started.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #nazis #fascsim #hitler #union #concentrationcamps #assassination #police #collectivebargaining #lgbtq #trans #transrightsarehumanrights #homophobia #transphobia #censorship #bookburning #bookban #freespeech #trump #project2025
Today in Labor History January 30, 1909: Organizer Saul Alinsky was born in Chicago, Illinois. He worked with the Industrial Areas Foundation, in Chicago, helping tenants fight their landlords. In 1972, he published "Rules for Radicals," a guide for organizers and community activists. The first rule was: “Power is not only what you have, but what your enemy thinks you have.” Another rule was "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. There is no defense. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also, it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage."
There are a lot of valid criticisms one could make of Alinsky’s politics. But his strategies for community organizing are pretty sound. If you are wanting to organize your workplace or community and aren’t really sure where to start, or how to do it, you could start by reading up on Alinsky’s organizing methods.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #housing #organizer #saulalinsky #activism #tenants #landlords #protest
Today in Labor History January 30, 1836: Gustave Lefrancaise (1826-1901) was born. Lefrancais was a French revolutionary member of the First International. He participated in the Paris Commune and cofounded the anarchist Jura Federation.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #ParisCommune #anarchism #Revolutionary #jura #france
Richard Avedon’s Striking Portraits of Everyday Folk From the American West https://petapixel.com/2026/01/30/richard-avedons-striking-portraits-of-everyday-folk-from-the-american-west/ #gagosiangallery #photoexhibition #blackandwhite #richardavedon #americanwest #unitedstates #workingclass #largeformat #Spotlight #deardorff #Features #workers #Analog #8x10
Your reminder that corporate tax cuts do not translate into more jobs and better pay for workers. On the contrary. Just look at some of the job cuts of 2025:
Amazon cut 14,000-32,000 jobs
Blue Origins (a Bezos company) cut 1,000 jobs
Boeing cut 400 from its Moon Rocket program
BP cut 7,700 worldwide
Bumble cut 240 (30%) of its staff
Chevron cuts 9,000
Conoco-Phillips cut 3,000 jobs worldwide
CrowdStrike cut 500 jobs
Disney laid off hundreds
Estée Lauder cut up to 7,000
Exxon cut 2,000 jobs globally
FedEx cut 850 jobs, just in Texas
Geico cut 30,000 jobs
Hewlett Packard cut 2,500 jobs (5% of its workforce)
IBM cut thousands of jobs
Intel cut 5,000 jobs
Kroger cut 1,000
Microsoft cut 6,000 jobs
Meta cut 600 jobs, just in its AI dept
Microchip Technology cut 2,000
Morgan Stanley cut up to 2,400 jobs
Nestle cut over 16,000 jobs worldwide
Nisson will have cut over 27,000 jobs by the end of 2027
Panasonic is cutting 10,000 jobs
Paramount cut 2800 jobs
Salesforce cut >1,000 jobs
Starbucks laid off 2,000 corporate staff
Southwest Airlines laid off 1,750 (15% of its staff)
Target cut 1,800 jobs
UPS cut 20,000 jobs
Verizon laid off 13,000
Workday fired over 1,700 workers
And this doesn’t even take into account the over 213,000 federal jobs lost under Trump and Musk’s gutting of federal agencies.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #taxcuts #layoffs #unemployment #jobs #trump #musk #doge
Today in Labor History January 29, 1936: Rubber workers engaged in a sit-down strike in Akron, Ohio. Their action helped establish the United Rubber Workers as a national union. Working conditions and pay were terrible and workers and virtually no benefits. They engaged in numerous sit-down strikes in the 1930s. Theirs preceded the more famous Flint sit-down strike of 1936-1937. The first American sit-down strike was probably in 1909, when 3,000 members of the IWW engaged in a sit-down strike against General Electric, in Schenectady, NY.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #akron #ohio #SitDownStrike #strike #union #flint #IWW #policebrutality
Today in Labor History January 29, 1911: The Mexican Liberal Party, led by the anarchist Magonistas, captured the Baja California border town of Mexicali, during their revolution in Baja California. Many members of the IWW participated in the revolution, which also conquered and held Tijuana and Ensenada for several days. Lowell Blaisdell writes about it in his now hard to find book, “The Desert Revolution,” (1962).
#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #magonistas #ricardofloresmagon #tijuana #mexico #Revolution #IWW #Baja #ensenada #mexicali
Today in Writing History January 29, 1845: The Evening Mirror, in New York, published “The Raven,” by Edgar Allan Poe. It was Poe’s first publication and it made him an overnight sensation. Yet, he spent much of his life in poverty. He originally considered having an owl or parrot, rather than a raven, quote “Nevermore.”
#LaborHistory #workingclass #poetry #edgarallenpoe #poverty #books #writer #author #poet #theraven @bookstadon
Today in Labor History January 29, 1834: Chesapeake and Ohio Canal workers rioted. President Jackson sent in troops to quell the unrest. It was the first time the government used troops to suppress a domestic labor dispute. Workers rebelled because of deadly working conditions and low pay. George Washington had designed the canal project. He intended it to facilitate transportation of goods from the Chesapeake Bay to the Ohio River Valley. Construction teams were made up mostly of Irish, German, Dutch and black workers. They toiled long hours for low wages in dangerous conditions. From this, and similar projects of the era, came the line: “the banks of the canals are lined with the bones of dead Irishmen.” Also from this project came the poem:
Ten thousand Micks,
They swung their picks,
To build the new canal.
But the choleray
Was stronger ‘n they
And twice it killed ‘em all.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #strike #riot #irish #racism #german #africanamerican #rebellion #military #repression #uprising #immigration
Today in Labor History January 28, 1935: Iceland became the first Western country to legalize therapeutic (elective) abortion. The Soviet Union legalized it in 1919. And the Nazis legalized abortion in 1935, but only to get rid of what they considered genetically inferior people. They prohibited women of Protestant German heritage from having abortions.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #reproductiverights #abortion #iceland #soviet #communism #nazis #genocide #eugenics #Choice
Today in Labor History January 28, 1918: Ranchers, Texas Rangers, and the U.S. Army attacked the Mexican-American village of Porvenir, in West Texas, slaughtering 15 men and boys in their sleep. The remaining villagers fled town, which soldiers burned to the ground. The Rangers had been sent to stop banditry. They accused the villagers, without any evidence, of firing weapons at them. However, investigations by the Army and the State Department found that the villagers were unarmed. Activity by the Rangers along the border had increased in the wake of Pancho Villa’s 1916 raid on Columbus, New Mexico. Tensions were particularly high because of the December 25, 1918 raid on the Brite Ranch, in the same west Texas region as Porvenir, thought to have been committed by Villistas.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #texasrangers #police #vigilante #racism #mexican #massacre #texas #newmexico #panchovilla #mexico #revolution
Today in Labor History January 28, 1918: General strikes occurred in the large cities throughout Germany. The Berlin strike lasted through February 3. Over 4 million workers participated.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #GeneralStrike #strike #wildcat #germany #berlin #worldwarone
Today in Labor History January 28, 1914: The Edmonton, Canada city council caved in to the IWW, agreeing to provide a large hall to house the homeless. They also agreed to pass out three 25-cent meal tickets per day to each man, and to employ 400 people on a public project. On December 27, 1913, IWW workers in Edmonton had begun a rebellion to force the city to house 400 unemployed during winter.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #IWW #union #homeless #edmonton #unemployment
🎬 Angèle et Tony (2010)
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Today in Labor History January 27, 2014: The Kobani Canton declared its autonomy from the Syrian Arab Republic during the Rojava conflict. Supporters claim they have implemented a form of libertarian socialism, influenced by American anarchist Murray Bookchin, with decentralization, gender equality and local governance through direct democracy. They have created worker cooperatives and govern the cantons through district councils, each with one male and one female co-president. The councils have gender quotas requiring at least 40% female participation. They have banned child marriages and honor killings. They are attempting to replace punitive justice with a system of restorative justice. And women play a prominent role on the battlefield, as well as within the political system. Yet private property remains a part of their system, which is inconsistent with Bookchinian anarchism. And according to Andrea Glioti, remnants of the PKK’s Stalinist past remain in Rojava. He cites the ubiquitous portraits of PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, often accompanied by the slogan “There’s no life without a leader.”
#workingclass #LaborHistory #syria #kurdish #anarchism #kobani #rojava #murraybookchin #pkk #abullahocalan
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