Today in Labor History January 19, 1812: Luddites torched Oatlands Mill in Yorkshire, England. In order to avoid losing their jobs to machines, Luddites destroyed equipment in protest. Their movement was named for Ned Ludd, a fictional weaver who supposedly smashed knitting frames after being whipped by his boss. Luddite rebellions continued from 1811-1816, until the military quashed their uprising.

Chant no more your old rhymes about bold Robin Hood
His feats I but little admire
I will sing the Achievements of General Ludd
Now the Hero of Nottinghamshire.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #luddite #sabotage #vandalism #robinhood #rebellion #military #uprising #solidarity #technology #poetry @bookstadon

Today in Labor History January 19, 1812: Luddites torched Oatlands Mill in Yorkshire, England. In order to avoid losing their jobs to machines, Luddites destroyed equipment in protest. Their movement was named for Ned Ludd, a fictional weaver who supposedly smashed knitting frames after being whipped by his boss. Luddite rebellions continued from 1811-1816, until the military quashed their uprising.

Chant no more your old rhymes about bold Robin Hood
His feats I but little admire
I will sing the Achievements of General Ludd
Now the Hero of Nottinghamshire.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #luddite #sabotage #vandalism #robinhood #rebellion #military #uprising #solidarity #technology #poetry @bookstadon

Freedom News: **Iran under martial law**

https://freedomnews.org.uk/2026/01/19/iran-uprising-under-martial-law/

“At night, chants echo from inside people’s homes” after thousands killed and internet shut down ~ Rob Latchford, Gabriel Fonten ~ Ir…
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#News #2026Iranuprising #Iranuprising #Iranianuprising #Repression #Socialuprising #Uprising

Today in Labor History January 18, 1943: The start of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. In the summer of 1942, over a quarter million Jews were deported from the ghetto to Treblinka and murdered. In response, the remaining Jews began building bunkers and smuggling weapons and explosives into the ghetto. On January 18, 1943, when the Nazis began their second deportation of the Jews, the armed insurgency began. They fought with whatever they could smuggle into the ghetto: handguns, gasoline bottles and a few other weapons. They inflicted enough casualties on the Nazis that the deportation was halted within a few days. Only 5,000 Jews were removed, instead of the 8,000 planned. They knew from the start that the uprising was doomed. Most of the Jewish fighters did not expect to survive. Rather, they saw their resistance as a battle for their honor and a protest against the world's silence. Marek Edelman, one of the few survivors, said their inspiration to fight was "not to allow the Germans alone to pick the time and place of our deaths."

#workingclass #LaborHistory #holocaust #genocide #nazis #worldwartwo #uprising #warsaw #jews #antisemitism #ghetto #resistance #fascism #antifascism

Today in Labor History January 18, 1943: The start of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. In the summer of 1942, over a quarter million Jews were deported from the ghetto to Treblinka and murdered. In response, the remaining Jews began building bunkers and smuggling weapons and explosives into the ghetto. On January 18, 1943, when the Nazis began their second deportation of the Jews, the armed insurgency began. They fought with whatever they could smuggle into the ghetto: handguns, gasoline bottles and a few other weapons. They inflicted enough casualties on the Nazis that the deportation was halted within a few days. Only 5,000 Jews were removed, instead of the 8,000 planned. They knew from the start that the uprising was doomed. Most of the Jewish fighters did not expect to survive. Rather, they saw their resistance as a battle for their honor and a protest against the world's silence. Marek Edelman, one of the few survivors, said their inspiration to fight was "not to allow the Germans alone to pick the time and place of our deaths."

#workingclass #LaborHistory #holocaust #genocide #nazis #worldwartwo #uprising #warsaw #jews #antisemitism #ghetto #resistance #fascism #antifascism

A young protester narrowly avoided being killed but was LEFT💔PERMANENTLY BLIND after a #DHS agent fired a nonlethal round at close range during a Santa Ana #protest last week.

Rees said her 21-year-old nephew🚨underwent 6 hours of surgery & that doctors found shards of plastic, glass & metal embedded in his eyes & around his face, incl a metal piece lodged 7 mm from a carotid artery.

“That could've cost him his life..."
#AbolishICE #StateViolence #Murder #Uprising #USPol
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-01-13/socal-protester-permanently-blinded-by-dhs-agent-family-says

A young protester narrowly avoided being killed but was LEFT💔PERMANENTLY BLIND after a #DHS agent fired a nonlethal round at close range during a Santa Ana #protest last week.

Rees said her 21-year-old nephew🚨underwent 6 hours of surgery & that doctors found shards of plastic, glass & metal embedded in his eyes & around his face, incl a metal piece lodged 7 mm from a carotid artery.

“That could've cost him his life..."
#AbolishICE #StateViolence #Murder #Uprising #USPol
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-01-13/socal-protester-permanently-blinded-by-dhs-agent-family-says

Today in Labor History December 25, 1831: The Great Jamaican Slave Revolt, the largest slave uprising in the British West Indies, began on this date. Samuel Sharpe, a black Baptist deacon, led the revolt of 60,000 enslaved people. The 11-day uprising began as a General Strike, but quickly turned violent. 14 whites and 207 enslaved black people died in the siege. However, another 340 rebels were executed afterward. The rebels had been inspired by the abolitionist movement in London and had intended to call for a peaceful uprising. The rebellion was depicted in Andrea Levy's 2010 novel, “The Long Song,” and in Herbert de Lisser’s The 1929 novel “The White Witch of Rosehall.”

#workingclass #LaborHistory #slavery #abolition #revolt #uprising #jamaica #samuelsharpe #rebellion #books #novels #writer #author #fiction #BlackMastodon @bookstadon

“In 2026 will Americans🚨finally turn against #Oligarchs? Americans are noticing #PrivateEquity roll-ups in everything from youth sports to fire trucks to #BigTech. Is a genuine anti-monopoly revolt finally brewing?”

“So excited that K Van Dyck’s Cong testimony on the harmful effects of PE roll-ups in youth sports has gone viral.⚡️The impact of her test +the anti-oligarchy zeitgeist it unleashed—masterfully highlighted in MS’s⬇️”
-M Singer
#Kleptocracy #Uprising #USPol
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/the-case-for-optimism-in-the-next

“In 2026 will Americans🚨finally turn against #Oligarchs? Americans are noticing #PrivateEquity roll-ups in everything from youth sports to fire trucks to #BigTech. Is a genuine anti-monopoly revolt finally brewing?”

“So excited that K Van Dyck’s Cong testimony on the harmful effects of PE roll-ups in youth sports has gone viral.⚡️The impact of her test +the anti-oligarchy zeitgeist it unleashed—masterfully highlighted in MS’s⬇️”
-M Singer
#Kleptocracy #Uprising #USPol
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/the-case-for-optimism-in-the-next

Today in Labor History December 25, 1831: The Great Jamaican Slave Revolt, the largest slave uprising in the British West Indies, began on this date. Samuel Sharpe, a black Baptist deacon, led the revolt of 60,000 enslaved people. The 11-day uprising began as a General Strike, but quickly turned violent. 14 whites and 207 enslaved black people died in the siege. However, another 340 rebels were executed afterward. The rebels had been inspired by the abolitionist movement in London and had intended to call for a peaceful uprising. The rebellion was depicted in Andrea Levy's 2010 novel, “The Long Song,” and in Herbert de Lisser’s The 1929 novel “The White Witch of Rosehall.”

#workingclass #LaborHistory #slavery #abolition #revolt #uprising #jamaica #samuelsharpe #rebellion #books #novels #writer #author #fiction #BlackMastodon @bookstadon

@Tutanota Don't worry. When we're all gone and AI is fighting for us against the #broligarchy, in their luxury bunkers; we'll have one last victory.

Hurrah!

#GenZ #uprising

... also describes the China's communist revolution, but also its Cultural Revolution. It describes the Occupy movement but it also describes the alt-right. Whether it's a good things or not depends on what kind of people, groups and values are driving it.

It's hard to tell from that NYT article what the situation is in Nepal. This sheds a bit more light;

https://www.anarchistfederation.net/nepal-communications-international/

#uprising#Nepal

Today in Labor History August 21, 1920: Ongoing violence by coal operators and their paid goons in the southern coalfields of West Virginia led to a three-hour gun battle between striking miners and guards that left six dead. 500 Federal troops were sent in not only to quell the fighting, but to ensure that scabs were able to get to and from the mines. A General Strike was threatened if the troops did not cease their strikebreaking activities. This was just 3 months after the Matewan Massacre, in which the miners drove out the seemingly invincible Baldwin-Felts private police force, with the help of their ally, Sheriff Sid Hatfield. 1 year later, Sheriff Hatfield was gunned down on the steps of the courthouse by surviving members of the Baldwin-Felts Agency. News spread and miners began arming themselves, leading to the Battle of Blair Mountain, the largest armed insurrection since the Civil War and the largest labor uprising in U.S. history. Over 100 people were killed in the 5-day battle, including 3 army soldiers and up to 20 Baldwin-Felts detectives. Nearly 1,000 people were arrested. 1 million rounds were fired. And the government dropped bombs from aircraft on the miners, only the second time in history that the government bombed its own citizens (the first being the pogrom against African American residents of Tulsa, during the so-called Tulsa Riots).

The Battle of Blair Mountain is depicted in Storming Heaven (Denise Giardina, 1987), Blair Mountain (Jonathan Lynn, 2006), and Carla Rising (Topper Sherwood, 2015). And the Matewan Massacre is brilliantly portrayed in John Sayles’s film, “Matewan.”

Read my history of the Battle of Blair Mountain here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/14/the-battle-of-blair-mountain/

#workingclass #LaborHistory #mining #strike #union #westvirginia #matewan#BattleOfBlairMountain #uprising #civilwar#GeneralStrike #tulsa #massacre #racism #books #fiction #film #writer #author #novel @bookstadon

Today in Labor History August 21, 1920: Ongoing violence by coal operators and their paid goons in the southern coalfields of West Virginia led to a three-hour gun battle between striking miners and guards that left six dead. 500 Federal troops were sent in not only to quell the fighting, but to ensure that scabs were able to get to and from the mines. A General Strike was threatened if the troops did not cease their strikebreaking activities. This was just 3 months after the Matewan Massacre, in which the miners drove out the seemingly invincible Baldwin-Felts private police force, with the help of their ally, Sheriff Sid Hatfield. 1 year later, Sheriff Hatfield was gunned down on the steps of the courthouse by surviving members of the Baldwin-Felts Agency. News spread and miners began arming themselves, leading to the Battle of Blair Mountain, the largest armed insurrection since the Civil War and the largest labor uprising in U.S. history. Over 100 people were killed in the 5-day battle, including 3 army soldiers and up to 20 Baldwin-Felts detectives. Nearly 1,000 people were arrested. 1 million rounds were fired. And the government dropped bombs from aircraft on the miners, only the second time in history that the government bombed its own citizens (the first being the pogrom against African American residents of Tulsa, during the so-called Tulsa Riots).

The Battle of Blair Mountain is depicted in Storming Heaven (Denise Giardina, 1987), Blair Mountain (Jonathan Lynn, 2006), and Carla Rising (Topper Sherwood, 2015). And the Matewan Massacre is brilliantly portrayed in John Sayles’s film, “Matewan.”

Read my history of the Battle of Blair Mountain here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/14/the-battle-of-blair-mountain/

#workingclass #LaborHistory #mining #strike #union #westvirginia #matewan#BattleOfBlairMountain #uprising #civilwar#GeneralStrike #tulsa #massacre #racism #books #fiction #film #writer #author #novel @bookstadon