Post · bonfire.cafe

@workingclasshistory@mastodon.social · 13 hours ago

#OtD 14 May 1913 4000 Philadelphia longshoremen went on strike, half of whom were African-American. Strikers joined the @iww, an early example of effective multiracial unionism in the US. More in our podcast on Ben Fletcher, one of the organisers: https://workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e73-ben-fletcher/

Working Class History

E73-74: Ben Fletcher

Double podcast episode about Ben Fletcher, a very important but little-known dock worker and labour organiser in the US with the Industrial Workers of the World union.

#otd

Peter Riley

@peterjriley2024@mastodon.social · 1 hour ago

@workingclasshistory

Also 14th May
1985 MOVE #Philadelphia : six adults and five children dead, 60 homes in ruins
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/history-black-radical-group-move-infamous-bombing-by-police

Teen Vogue

What You Need to Know About the MOVE Bombing

And how Philadelphia became "the city that bombed itself."