Deir Yassin Massacre (1948) On this day in 1948, far-right Zionist paramilitaries indiscriminately slaughtered 107-254 villagers of Deir Yassin, orphaning at least 55 children (2 shown). Israel...
Ramón Emeterio Betances (1827 - 1898) Ramón Emeterio Betances, born on this day in 1827, was a Puerto Rican abolitionist, revolutionary, and medical doctor who helped instigate the "Grito de...
Ghassan Kanafani (1936 - 1972) Ghassan Kanafani, born on this day in 1936, was a Palestinian author and leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) who was assassinated by...
Gustave Landauer (1870 - 1919) Gustave Landauer, born on this day in 1870, was an anarchist pacifist who helped found the Bavarian Soviet Republic in 1919. The newly formed Republic was crushed by...
William Monroe Trotter (1872 - 1934) William Monroe Trotter, born on this day in 1872, was a newspaper editor and civil rights activist based in Boston, Massachusetts who co-founded the Niagara...
Rose Schneiderman (1882 - 1972) Rose Schneiderman, born on this day in 1882, was a Polish-American socialist and feminist of Jewish heritage, and one of the most prominent female labor union...
Erich Mühsam (1878 - 1934) Erich Mühsam, born on this day in 1878, was a Jewish anarchist essayist, poet, and playwright who condemned Nazism and satirized Hitler. In 1934, Mühsam was murdered in...
Northumberland and Durham Miners' Strike (1844) On this day in 1844, a mass meeting of 40,000 miners in Northumberland and Durham refused to renew contracts with their employers until their...
Colonial Building Riot (1932) The Colonial Building Riot began on this day in 1932, in St. John's, Newfoundland, when protests during the Great Depression turned violent, nearly causing the death...
Abdullah Öcalan (1947 - ) Abdullah Öcalan, born on this day in 1947, is a socialist theorist, feminist, political prisoner, and one of the founders of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). His...
MLK Jr. Assassinated (1968) On this day in 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated at the age of 39 while supporting striking sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee. "A man who won't die...
"The Ballot or The Bullet" Speech (1964) On this day in 1964, Malcolm X delivered a speech at Cory Methodist Church in Cleveland, Ohio, discussing the strategies of electoralism and armed defense,...
Richmond Bread Riot (1863) On this day in 1863, the Richmond Bread Riot, the largest of several bread riots that took place in the Confederacy, began when thousands of hungry people began...
Ruth Wilson Gilmore (1950 - ) Ruth Wilson Gilmore, born on this day in 1950, is a prison abolitionist and scholar who founded the field of "carceral geography", the study of the relationships...
Coal Creek War Begins (1891) On this day in 1891, the Coal Creek War began when the Tennessee Coal Mining Company (TCMC) rejected worker demands, closing operations. After TCMC used strikebreaking...
IWW Espionage Trial Begins (1918) On this day in 1918, the IWW Espionage Trial began, with more than one hundred Wobblies standing trial after the Department of Justice engaged in mass raids and...
Poll Tax Riots (1990) On this day in 1990, 180k-250k people gathered in Kennington Park, London to protest an unpopular poll tax imposed by Margaret Thatcher, leading to widespread police...
Land Day (1976) On this day in 1976, Palestinians initiated a campaign of resistance, including a general strike, occupations, and violent confrontation with police, in opposition to Israeli...
Loray Mill Strike (1929) On this day in 1929, mill workers in Gastonia, North Carolina, led by communist labor organizer Fred Beal, voted in favor of striking to demand a 40 hour work week, higher...
