#OtD 21 Nov 1927 a massacre took place in Columbine, Colorado, when police and militia fired into a crowd of striking miners and their families, killing at least six and injuring more than 60 in an effort to break the @npub1xy35...0fsc union
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#OtD 19 Nov 1900 German communist and anti-Nazi activist Anna Seghers was born in Mainz. She wrote a novel in 1932 warning of the dangers of fascism, Die GefΓ€hrten, which led her to be arrested by the Gestapo, but she survived
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#OtD 19 Nov 1984 one of the world's worst industrial disasters ever occurred when tanks in a PEMEX petroleum facility in San Juanico, Mexico, exploded, killing over 500 and burning over 5,000 people. The plant's safety features were woefully inadequate
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#OtD 18 Nov 1953 the British Royal Air Force began aerial bombing of Kenya in an effort to crush the "Mau Mau" anti-colonial insurgency. Over the next year and a half they dropped nearly 6 million bombs on the country
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#OtD 17 Nov 2018 the gilets jaune or yellow vest movement staged their first protest in France and colony of RΓ©union, angry over the rising cost of living. A populist mass movement encompassing many political views, including a prominent rural element
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#OtD 17 Nov 1932 Korean anarchist and activist Lee Hoe-yeong died in the Lushun prison in the hands of Japanese authorities. He spent a good portion of his life fighting against the Japanese occupation of Korea
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#OtD 16 Nov 1989 six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter were killed by the US-backed military in El Salvador for being "subversive". Troops then tried to make the murders look like the work of left-wing guerrillas
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#OtD 15 Nov 1922 between 300 and 1000 workers were massacred by the state during a general strike in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Power and trolley workers had walked out at worsening economic conditions and were joined by most other workers
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#OtD 11 Nov 1887 4 of the Haymarket martyrs were executed in Chicago. They were anarchist labour organisers framed for a bombing because of their role in the fight for the 8-hour day. Learn more in this history of May Day, which commemorates them:
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The Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day – Peter Linebaugh
β€œMay Day is about affirmation, the love of life, and the start of spring, so it has to be about the beginning of the end of the capitalist system...