Image of IWW organizer and song writer, Ralph Chaplin, with his poem, Red November, Black November superimposed over him. Red November, black November Bleak November, black and red Hallowed month of Labor's martyrs, Labor's heroes, Labor's dead Labor's hope and wrath and sorrow Red the promise, black the threat Who are we not to remember? Who are we to forget? black and red the colors blended Black and red the pledge we made Red until the fight is ended Black until the debt is paid Wesley Everest and Al Parsons With Joe Hill and all the rest Who are we not to remember? Who are we to dare forget!

Today in Labor History November 4, 1839: The Newport Rising began. It was the last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain. It began when approximately 4,000 Chartists, led by John Frost, marched on the town of Newport. When several were arrested, other Chartists, including coal miners, many armed with homemade weapons, marched on the Westgate Hotel (where they were held) to liberate them. Up to 24 were killed when soldiers were ordered to open fire on them. The Chartists were fighting for the adoption of the People’s Charter, which called for universal suffrage, the secret ballot, and the right of regular working people to serve in the House of Commons. Three leaders of the uprising were sentenced to death, but popular protests got their sentences commuted to Transportation for Life, probably to Australia or Van Dieman’s Land (Tasmania). America’s first cop, Allan Pinkerton, supposedly participated in this rebellion. He was a known Chartist in those days, a physical force man who loved to battle cops and Tory thugs. Because of his history of street violence and vandalism, he had to flee Britain in the dark of the night, ultimately settling in Illinois, where he eventually set up the private detective agency that would go on to murder numerous union organizers, and set up hundreds more for long prison stints through the use of agents provocateur and perjured testimonies. The riots were depicted in the following novels: “Sir Cosmo Digby,” by James Augustus St John (1843), “Rape of the Fair Country,” by Alexander Cordell (1959) and “Children of Rebecca,” by Vivien Annis Bailey (1995). Read my bio of Pinkerton here:

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Union Busting and the Pinkertons - Michael Dunn

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Today in Labor History November 4, 1780: The Rebellion of Túpac Amaru II against Spanish rule in the Peru began. The Spanish captured and executed Tupac in 1781, but the rebellion continued for another year. Many women participated in the rebellion, including Tupac’s wife, Micaela Bastidas, who commanded her own battalion, and who many claimed was even more daring than her husband. The uprising began because of “reforms” by the colonial administration that increased taxes and labor demands on both indigenous and creole populations. However, there was also an ongoing desire to overthrow European rule and restore the pre-conquest Incan empire. And though this would merely replace one feudal power with another, there were also Jacobin and proto-communist elements to the rebellion. Most of the Tupamarista soldiers were poor peasants, artisans and women who saw the uprising as an opportunity to create an egalitarian society, without the cast and class divisions of either the Spanish or Incan feudal systems. The uprising began with the execution of Spanish colonial Governor Antonio de Arriaga by his own slave, Antonio Oblitas. Tupac Amaru II then made a proclamation claiming to be fighting against the abuses of Spain and for the peace and well-being of Indians, mestizos, mambos, native-born whites and blacks. They then proceeded to march toward Cuzco, killing Spaniards and looting their properties. Everywhere they went, they overthrew the Spanish authority. Tupac’s wife, Michaela Bastidas commanded a battalion of insurgents. Many claimed she was more daring and a superior strategist than her husband. As a result of Tupac’s leadership and success against the Spanish, he became a mythical figure in the Peruvian struggle for independence and in the indigenous rights movement. The Tupamaros revolutionary movement in Uruguay (1960s-1970s) took their name from him. As did the Túpac Amaru Revolutionary guerrilla group, in Peru, and the Venezuelan Marxist political party Tupamaro. American rapper, Tupac Amaru Shakur, was also named after him. Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, wrote a poem called “Tupac Amaru (1781).” And Clive Cussler’s book, “Inca Gold,” has a villain who claims to be descended from the revolutionary leader. #workingclass #LaborHistory #Tupac #indigenous #uprising #colonialism #genocide #inca #peru #torture #books #author #fiction [@bookstadon](

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Free political prisoner, Sami Hamdi, British journalist, detained by ICE after being pulled from the domestic terminal at SFO, after feds revoked his visa without warning and for no reason. He was en route during a speaking tour.

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Actually, this has been going on for a while, but the near-term prognosis is an existential threat to most of the planet. The Arab Spring protests that begin in Tunisia in the early 1910s had roots in water shortages that devastated Tunisian farmers, driving up food prices. The massive increase in migration from Central America to the U.S. has its roots in a years-long drought in the altiplanos that has ruined productivity. But nearly 1/3 of the entire planet depends on diminishing snow melt from the Himalayas-1/3 of its glaciers will be gone by the end of the century. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adx0298