Today in Labor History, October 4, 1884: Albert Parsons published his first issue of The Alarm, in Chicago, which would go on to become the most prominent English-language anarchist periodical of its day. Two years later, Parsons would be falsely convicted and executed for the Haymarket bombing, along with several other leading anarchists, during the fight for the eight-hour workday. His wife Lucy, also a prominent anarchist activist and speaker, would go on to cofound the IWW, along with Mother Jones, Eugene Debs, Big Bill Haywood, and others. The paper called for the destruction of private property in the means of production: "Workingmen of America, learn the manufacture and use of dynamite. It will be your most powerful weapon; a weapon of the weak against the strong.... Then use it unstintingly, unsparingly. The battle for bread is the battle for life.... Death and destruction to the system and its upholders, which plunders and enslaves the men, women, and children of toil." Read my biography of Lucy Parsons and the history of the Haymarket affair here:

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Today in Labor History October 4, 1936: Battle of Cable Street in the East End of London, when Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists and the Metropolitan Police sent to protect them, where attacked by anti-fascist demonstrators, including local unions, communists, Jews, Irish Catholics, socialists, veterans of World War One, Somali seamen, dockworkers, and unaffiliated folks. As many as 300,000 anti-fascists participated. 175 were injured, including cops, while 150 were arrested, mostly anti-fascists. Activists built barricades. They took several cops prisoners, locking them in nearby shops and stealing their helmets and truncheons. From windows, women pelted the cops with rotten vegetables and the contents of their chamber pots. Activists littered the streets with kids’ marbles to trip up the mounted police. The fascists had provocatively chosen the East End for their march, since there was a large Jewish population living there. The Labour Party and the Board of Deputies of British Jews, as well as major papers, urged people not to go. The Communists, too, initially opposed the counterdemonstration, fearing they’d be vilified as hooligans. #workingclass #LaborHistory #fascism #antif #antifascism #oswaldmosley #communism #union #socialism

Today in Labor History October 4, 1887: 10,000 Louisiana sugarcane workers went on strike with the Knights of Labor over terrible living and working conditions. Many of the striking workers were bound to the plantations in a status similar to slavery, due to debts they owed the overpriced Company Store, which accepted no cash and only scrip. Bosses would also withhold up to 80% of the workers’ pay until the end of the growing season to ensure that no one quit early. On November 23, the Louisiana Militia, aided by white vigilantes, murdered 60 unarmed black workers during the Thibodaux Massacre. Hundreds were injured, murdered or went missing, including women and children. The massacre ended the strike and any effective effort to organize black cane workers until the 1940s. Democrats in the state passed a series of laws in the wake of the strike that disenfranchised black voters and enforced segregation and Jim Crow. #workingclass #LaborHistory #knightsoflabor #union #strike #racism #louisiana #jimcrow #massacre #segregation #vigilante #BlackMastadon

Today in Labor History October 4, 1884: Japanese writer Jun Tsuji was born. He was a Dadaist, nihilist, Epicurean and shakuhachi musician. Early in his life, he was influenced by the works of Tolstoy, Kōtoku Shūsui's socialist anarchism, and the literature of Oscar Wilde and Voltaire. Later, he became a follower of Stirner’s individualist anarchism. His works were censored by the authorities and he was harassed by the police. His former wife, anarcho-feminist Itō Noe, was murdered by the military police in the Amakasu Incident in 1923, when the military police murdered her and lover, Ōsugi Sakae, an informal leader of the Japanese anarchist movement, along with Ōsugi's six-year-old nephew. During the weeks that followed the great Kantō earthquake, authorities and vigilantes arrested, beat, tortured thousands of dissidents, and murdered an estimated 6,000. #workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #japan #police #feminism #policebrutality #ItōNoe #massacre #JunTsuji #censorship #FreeSpeech #dada #socialism #writer #books #literature #fiction #author [@bookstadon](

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Another Quack For Capitalism A Pediatrician Recently went Viral on Tiktok Claiming the Biggest Factor Shaping Children’s Future is NOT how Their parents raised them, but Their Friends & Neighborhood and Their Genetics. So if you want healthy successful kids just move to a bougie neighborhood, get them into an elite school, and make sure they have the right friends. Oh, and make sure to give them genes for whiteness and wealth. In reality neighborhood does correlate with many indicators of health and success, but that is because people who can afford more affluent neighborhoods are more affluent themselves. That means they can afford healthier diets, good Healthcare, intellectually enriching activities for their kids like summer travel, internships, camps museums, music and art lessons. It means lower levels of cortisol due to less worry about rent, Healthcare, groceries & Homelessness; less stress from multiple asshole bosses at your multiple jobs. And lower cortisol means lower risk of heart attacks, stroke diabetes and cancer. Also lower risk of premature births learning disabilities and cognitive impairment. The more affluent neighborhood also means lower risk of environmental contaminants and exposure to smoke and lead, which also lists risk of birth defects and learning disabilities. But if you really want healthy, successful kids, move to European country where they offer childcare, paid family leave, 6 weeks of paid vacation, socialized Healthcare. Where they actually find their schools pay teachers a living wage and don't have school shootings every week.

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Pediatrician Says This 1 Thing Is The Biggest Factor That Shapes Children ... And It's Not What Most Parents Think

"We believed that if we could control every little thing, our kids would turn out perfectly. But that’s a total fallacy.”

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