#OtD 21 Jan 1876 Olga Taratuta, veteran Jewish Ukrainian metalworker and revolutionary, was born. Arrested and jailed many times under the tsar, she was then arrested repeatedly by the Bolsheviks until executed in 1938 https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9374/olga-taratuta

#OtD 21 Jan 1966 police in Forest Town, Johannesburg, raided a home where over 300 gay and gender nonconforming white people were having a party. 9 were arrested for "masquerading as women". It sparked both a crackdown and some support for LGBT+ rights https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7847/forest-town-raid

#OtD 21 Jan 1974 postal workers began four-day strike at the Jersey City, NJ, bulk and foreign mail center, protesting an involuntary shift change. The wildcat was led by a group of young workers who identified themselves as "The Outlaws" https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9379/the-outlaws'-postal-strike

#OtD 21 Jan 2015 Che Guevara's grandson, Canek Sanchez Guevara, died aged just 40. His metal band had their gigs broken up by Cuban secret police. He had had to leave Cuba when he began criticising anti-working class aspects of the Communist Party govt https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9381/canek-sanchez-guevara-dies

#OtD 21 Jan 1919 the Irish Republican Army ambushed a transportation of gelignite, killing two police and starting guerrilla war which forced British from most of Ireland. At that point elements of the group began repressing radical workers and strikes https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9375/irish-war-of-independence-begins

#OtD 21 Jan 1946 the largest strike in US history took place when 750,000 steelworkers walked out, part of a massive strike wave after World War II. Find out more in this great book about mass strikes in the US: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/books/products/strike-jeremy-brecher

#OtD 21 Jan 1921 striking workers in Santa Cruz, Argentina, seized 2 ranches demanding better pay and conditions. While there was a negotiated settlement, an army unit later arrived and killed up to 1500 workers by the following year https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9376/la-anita-ranch-seized

#OtD 21 Jan 2010 workers at InBev breweries in Belgium who had been blockading the facilities for two weeks in protest at proposed job cuts called off the action after the firm withdrew the plan. More information, sources and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7346/inbev-plant-blockade

#OtD 21 Jan 2019 workers at Italpizza in Modena, Italy went on strike against pay cuts. The mostly women and migrant workers were threatened by factory guards, and beaten and arrested by police, but organised more strikes throughout 2019 https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9382/modena-pizza-strike

#OtD 21 Jan 1988 workers at the Pasig Mattel plant in the Philippines blockaded their factory after voting to strike in protest at the firm closing its Cainta plant. Rather than negotiate, Mattel sacked everyone and shut down its Philippines operations https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9380/pasig-mattel-blockade

#OnThisDay, 21 Jan 1648, Margaret Brent demands the right to sit on the Maryland council in her dual roles as a land-owner and Lord Baltimore's attorney.

She was denied, and left saying she "Protested against all proceedings in this present assembly unless she may be present and have vote."

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #VotesForWomen #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 21 Jan 1648, Margaret Brent demands the right to sit on the Maryland council in her dual roles as a land-owner and Lord Baltimore's attorney.

She was denied, and left saying she "Protested against all proceedings in this present assembly unless she may be present and have vote."

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #VotesForWomen #Histodons

#OtD 21 Jan 1950 George Orwell, celebrated British author and socialist who fought against the fascists in the Spanish civil war, died. More on the Spanish Civil War in our podcast here: https://workingclasshistory.com/2020/06/17/e39-the-spanish-civil-war-an-introduction/

#OtD 20 Jan 1969, at a Nixon counter-inaugural protest, SDS activist, Marilyn Salzman Webb, tried to speak about women's oppression. Men heckled her shouting, "Take her off the stage and fuck her!" until she was drowned out. Learn more about the movt: https://workingclasshistory.com/2020/09/23/e43-46-the-movement-against-the-vietnam-war-in-the-us/

#OtD 20 Jan 1969, at a Nixon counter-inaugural protest, SDS activist, Marilyn Salzman Webb, tried to speak about women's oppression. Men heckled her shouting, "Take her off the stage and fuck her!" until she was drowned out. Learn more about the movt: https://workingclasshistory.com/2020/09/23/e43-46-the-movement-against-the-vietnam-war-in-the-us/

#OtD 20 Jan 1971 the UK postal workers union called its membership out on strike without consulting members and with no strike pay. But workers still held solid for 6 weeks until the leadership called off the action with no improved offer https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9272/postal-workers-strike

#OtD 20 Jan 1934 Nazi Germany introduced a law designating capitalists as "fuhrers" of their enterprise and requiring "employees and labourers [to] owe him faithfulness". Along with other measures it helped funnel income from workers to big business https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9269/nazis-ban-collective-bargaining

#OtD 20 Jan 1900 racist health officials in Honolulu, Hawaii, set fire to buildings in Chinatown which burned out of control for 17 days, devastating 38 acres and 4000 Chinese and Japanese homes. They had blamed Asians for a bubonic plague outbreak https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9268/honolulu-chinatown-fire

#OtD 20 Jan 1964 troops in Tanzania mutinied against low pay and British officers, despite being independent for 2 yrs. The rebellion spread but the socialist independence leader Julius Nyerere called in British troops to suppress the mutiny https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9270/tanganyika-mutiny

#OtD 20 Jan 1856 Harriot Stanton Blatch was born in New York. She formed the Equality League of Self Supporting Women, organising working class women to militantly fight for votes for women https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9266/harriot-stanton-blatch-born