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#OtD 24 Oct 1975 90% of women in Iceland went on general strike for equality with men. Working women stayed home, and house workers refused to cook, clean and look after children. Today Iceland has the lowest gender inequality in the world
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#OtD 21 Oct 1966 workers at the Myton construction firm building the brutalist Barbican centre in London began an all-out strike after three were sacked during a work-to-rule against an unfair bonus scheme. After a year they won some concessions
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#OtD 15 Oct 1966 in Oakland, CA, the Black Panther Party for Self Defence was set up. The Party would exist, despite heavy repression, until 1982 and did things like feed breakfast to children and run community health clinics. Learn more:
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#OtD 12 Oct 1919 150 Royal Navy sailors mutinied and broke out of their ships at Port Edgar upon hearing they were being sent to the Baltic to fight against the Russian Revolution. The desertion prevented the First Destroyer Flotilla from departing
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#OtD 11 Oct 1972 approximately fifty inmates at the Washington D.C. jail seized control of a cellblock and held twelve jail officials hostage, demanding improved conditions and reductions in overcrowding
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#OtD 10 Oct 1933 three striking cotton workers in Pixley, California were killed and others wounded, and striking grape pickers in Arvin, California were fired on by bosses' thugs, killing one and injuring several
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#OtD 10 Oct 1937 fascist leader Oswald Mosley was knocked unconscious and hospitalised in Liverpool by a stone thrown by anti-fascists who attacked a Nazi meeting at which he had attempted to address the crowd
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#OtD 5 Jun 2005 Spanish anarchist and women's liberation activist Pepita Carpena died in France. A member of the @CNTsindicato, she worked in a factory making grenades during the revolution before having to flee upon the fascist victory
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#OtD 5 Jun 2005 Spanish anarchist and women's liberation activist Pepita Carpena died in France. A member of the @CNTsindicato, she worked in a fac...
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#OtD 12 May 1916 socialist and Irish republican James Connolly was executed for his part in the Easter Rebellion, an unsuccessful insurrection against British rule. As he was wounded in the fighting, he faced the firing squad tied to a chair
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#OtD 12 May 1916 socialist and Irish republican James Connolly was executed for his part in the Easter Rebellion, an unsuccessful insurrection agai...
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