Today in Labor History December 19, 2001: The Argentine government declared a state of siege to stop the worst looting and rioting in a decade sparked by austerity measures and poverty. #workingclass #LaborHistory #argentina #Riot #poverty #austerity

Today in Labor History December 19, 1900: French parliament gave to amnesty everyone who participated in the scandalous army treason trial known as the Dreyfus affair. The scandal began in 1894 when the state convicted Captain Alfred Dreyfus of treason. He was a 35-year-old French artillery officer of Jewish descent, falsely convicted for espionage and imprisoned on Devil's Island in French Guiana. Émile Zola's open letter “J'Accuse” helped build a movement of support for Dreyfus, putting pressure on the government to reopen the case. In 1899, Dreyfus was returned to France, retried and convicted again, but was pardoned and released. They eventually reinstated him as a major and he served during the World War I. Roman Polanski made a film about the affair called “J’Accuse,” after the Zola letter. However, much of Europe and the U.S. banned screenings of the film due to Polanski’s U.S. rape conviction. #workingclass #LaborHistory #dreyfess #treason #antisemtisim #devilsisland #prison #deportation #jewish #zola #author #writer #fiction #books [@bookstadon](

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Today in Labor History December 19, 1925: Lepa Svetozara Radić was born. She was a Serbian communist and antifascist, executed by the Nazis in 1943 at age 17 for shooting at Nazi troops. As they tied the noose around her neck, they offered her amnesty if she revealed the names of her comrades. She replied that she wasn’t a traitor and that they’d make themselves known when they avenged her death. #workingclass #LaborHistory #fascism #nazis #LepaRadić #serbia #antifascism #communism

RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz announce moves to ban gender-affirming care for young people, even in states where it is still legal. They'll pull this off by pitting the Medical needs of the poor and working class against those of transgender youth and their families by blocking all Medicaid and Medicare funding for any services at hospitals that provide any pediatric gender-affirming care. This could be averted, of course, if states implemented their own single payer systems, so that they weren't dependent on the fed, a proposal that could end up on the next ballot in California. Meanwhile, the house passed Marjorie Taylor Greens bill criminalizing gender affirming care for youth. Several Dems voted with the Republicans on the bill. https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/12/18/nx-s1-5647789/transgender-gender-affirming-care-rfk-jr-dr-oz-trump

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House passes Marjorie Taylor Greene's bill to criminalize gender-affirming care for trans youth - LGBTQ Nation

The bill would jail doctors who provide gender-affirming care for trans youth.

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Today in Labor History December 18, 1974: The radical Danish Solvognen theatre group, all dressed as Santas, provoked a near-riot in a Copenhagen department store. At the time, there was an unemployment crisis. Some activists dressed as Santas went around on roller skates, attacking state buildings with pitchforks. Others passed out people's history books at nursing homes and schools. On December 18, the Santa Claus Army entered the Magasin department store and began passing out gifts from the store's shelves for free to shoppers, saying "Merry Christmas! Today, no one has to pay." Their defense: We were just returning gifts to the workers who had made them. When the police arrived and started arresting the Santas, the children who had been watching started crying, giving many of them their first taste of the role police play in maintaining the capitalist order. #workingclass #LaborHistory #christmas #santaclaus #riot #capitalism #denmark #copenhagen

Today in Labor History December 16, 2006: Christmas Riot broke out in Copenhagen to protest the eviction of the alternative left-wing social center Ungdomshuset (The Youth House). The squatters had originally been "allowed" by the city to occupy the facility back in 1982 after the squatters had campaigned for an autonomous youth center in Copenhagen. It became a gathering place for the punk and alternative music scene and home to many political action groups as well as an underground performance scene. In 1999, Ungdomshuset was put up for sale by the city, sparking protests by the users and legal battles that would continue for years. #workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #punk #copenhagen #squat #squatting

Today in Labor History December 18, 1865: US Secretary of State William Seward proclaimed the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment, prohibiting slavery throughout the USA. However, the thirteenth amendment included the following clause: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States.” Jim Crow laws in the past and racial profiling today result in large numbers of African Americans and poor people being incarcerated and subjected to legal slavery. Some were even rented out to the same plantations that had used chattel slaves in the past. But with the U.S. having both the world’s highest number of incarcerated people (2.1 million) and the highest incarceration rate (665 per 100,000), there are plenty of people from all ethnicities who continue to be subjected to legal slavery. #workingclass #LaborHistory #constitution #slavery #freedom #prison #PrisonIndustrialComplex #jimcrow #racism