Today in Labor History November 20, 1922: Ricardo Flores Magón died in Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary. Ricardo, with his brother Enrique, founded and edited the anarchist paper Regeneracion, founded the Partido Liberal de Mexico, and organized with the IWW. Magon was one of the major intellectual forces inspiring the Mexican Revolution, and he launched a short-lived revolution in Baja California, in which many IWW members from participated. In 1918, the U.S. arrested him under the 1917 Anti-Espionage Act, for publishing an anti-war manifesto. This was part of the First Red Scare, also known as the Palmer Raids, which also swept up Eugene Debs and Emma Goldman. Ricardo Flores Magon died 4 years later, in Leavenworth Prison. There are still streets named after him in many Mexican cities, including Tijuana. #workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #magonistas #RicardoFloresMagon #mexico #Revolution #prison #IWW

Today in Labor History November 20, 1896: Rose Pesotta was born on this date to a Jewish family in Ukraine. Pesotta was an anarchist labor activist and the only woman on the General Executive Board of the International Ladies' Garment Workers (ILGWU) from 1933-1944. She learned about anarchism by reading books by Bakunin in her father’s library. Her parents set up an arranged marriage for her, which she did not approve. So, she emigrated to the U.S. in 1913, joining the ILGWU the next year. Her local, #25, was filled with militant women veterans of the 1909 Shirtwaist Strike. She wrote regularly for the New York Anarchist press, in both English and in Yiddish. She was friends with Italian-American anarchist Bartolomeo Vanzetti. In 1933, she organized immigrant Mexican garment workers, leading to the Los Angeles Garment Workers Strike. She also organized workers in Canada and Puerto Rico. Later in life, she worked briefly for the B’nai B’rith. She also wrote two memoirs, Bread Upon the Waters (1944),[6] and Days of Our Lives (1958). #workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #rosepesotta #feminism #ilgwu #ukraine #jewish #yiddish #union #strike #immigration #memoir #writer #author #books [@bookstadon](

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Today in Labor History November 20, 1695: Zumbí, leader of the Quilombo de Palmares, was assassinated. Palmares was the largest and longest lasting Quilombo in Brazil (societies of people who freed themselves from slavery). Up to 30,000 inhabitants lived in Palmares during its height. The community lasted for more than 100 years. Members of Palmares routinely raided plantations, freeing slaves and slaughtering their masters. Palmares was portrayed in the superb 1984 film, Quilombo, directed by Carlos Diegues. Also, mangue beat superstar, Chico Science, named his band Chico Science & Nacao Zumbi after the Quilombo leader. Gilberto Gil and Jorge Ben also composed music dedicated to Zumbi. And November 20 is celebrated in Brazil as a day of Afro-Brazilian consciousness. #workingclass #LaborHistory #zumbi #brazil #slavery #abolition #palmares #liberation #quilombo #BlackMastodon

Today, on Transgender Day of Remembrance, we honor those lost to transphobic violence. Started in 1999 to commemorate the lives of Rita Hester and Chanelle Pickett, TDOR reminds us of the ongoing struggle against transphobia. Let's stand in solidarity, remember the lives lost, and fight for a world that respects and supports all. For a world that only punches up, and never down. A world in which the only people who are marginalized are the bigots and fascists. #transgenderdayofremembrance #translivesmatter #transrightsarehumanrights #lgbtqia #solidarity #tdor tdot

Americans are dying younger, and at least 12 large companies have said that this has reduced their pension obligations a combined $9.7 billion. The report is already 8 years old, but the trend has, if anything, only gotten worse. First, it's not All Americans that are dying younger. It's mostly the poor and working-class. Studies show that the bottom 50% of earners live 7 years less than the top 1%. In rural areas, this gap can be even wider. And the increased mortality is due, in large part, to increases in alcoholism and drug overdoses, suicide and stress-related illnesses--all of which can be exacerbated by the despair and anxiety over financial insecurity. https://www.axios.com/2017/12/15/lower-life-expectancy-reduces-corporate-pension-costs-1513304734 #classwar #pension #publichealth #inflation #wages #addiction

How the U.S. Steals from the Masses to Enrich the 0.1% A recent study from Brown University’s Costs of War project found that over half of Pentagon spending from 2020 to 2024 went to for-profit contractors. And the $1 TRILLION 2026 military budget would result in the privatization of >$500 billion in public funds. Over the past 10 yrs, tax payers have funded >$1 billion in buybacks and dividends for shareholder of just 4 companies: Lockheed Martin, Raytheon (RTX), General Dynamics, and Northrop Grumman. These companies, of course, are also responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths worldwide

How Trump’s trillion-dollar war machine enriches the 1%

Congress will decide in the coming weeks whether to approve a $1 trillion military budget for 2026.

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Capitalism, it's what's for breakfast! Let them eat genocide? Idk...It's all so sick. Our rulers clearly care only for profits. Human life? Human suffering? Education? Healthcare? Housing? Childcare? The right to exist? None of it matters one iota...Except to the extent that it can be turned into profits. ...But, as Joe Hill (who was murdered by the state on this day in 1915) famously said on the eve of his execution: Don't mourn, Organize! Now, more than ever! No one is free until we all are free.

Today in Labor History November 19, 1900: Anna Seghers was born. She was born in Germany to Jewish parents, married a Hungarian communist and became a communist herself, and was also active in the anti-Nazi movement in Germany until 1941, when she fled to Mexico. Her 1932 novel, “Die Gefährten” (The Companions) was an early warning of the dangers of Nazism. The Gestapo later arrested her for writing this book. While living in Mexico City, she founded the Heinrich-Heine-Klub, an anti-fascist organization named for the German Jewish poet Heinrich Heine. (Heine sometimes wrote for Vorwärts!, the radical German language paper in Paris in the 1840s, along with Karl Marx, Bakunin and others). Seghers also founded an academic journal called “Free Germany.” In 1942, the U.S. edition of her novel, “The Seventh Cross,” was released. Set in 1936, it portrays the escape of seven prisoners from a concentration camp. It was also adapted into a film and was one of the only films depicting concentration camps to be released in the U.S. while World War Two was still going on. #workingclass #LaborHistory #annseghers #nazis #fascism #antifascism #concentrationcamps #antisemitism #holocaust #communism #gestapo #writer #author #books #fiction [@bookstadon](

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