DailyRadical History

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Our faith in the self-emancipation of ordinary people continues. We hope we've played a small part in inspiring people around the world to join the struggle in whatever capacity. See you on the streets, picket lines, protests and everywhere in the fight. ✊✊✊Solidarity (5/5)

Humanity faces an existential crisis driven by capitalism. The rise of the right, war & genocide, economic decline & stagnation, a growing disparity between rich and poor and multiple environmental crises threaten us all. (4/5)

🎺Announcement. The editors of Daily Radical History have reluctantly decided to put a hold on posting. It is becoming harder to continue this engagement and members have other projects, not least the real world engagement in the struggle (1/5)

Sep 26 2000 - First major European anti-capitalist protest in Prague "S26" as tens of 1000s protest IMF meeting. Heavy state repression follows demonisation of the protesters by local media, but IMF meeting closes early and demonstrators hail symbolic victory.

Sep 23 1868 - The Lares uprising, Grito de Lares begins. The first major revolt against Spanish rule in Puerto Rico.

Sep 20 1986 – Namibian Food & Allied Workers Union founded; led originally by political prisoner John Pendeni.

Sep 20 2019 - Friday's for the Future climate strike involving workers, adults and trade unionists take place on a massive scale across the globe.

Sep 20 2003 - Civil unrest begins in Malé, Maldives provoked by death of prisoner Hassan Naseem and other killings.

Sep 19 1958 - Death of Rudolf Rocker, an anarcho-syndicalist writer & activist. In first decades of 20C he was based in East London, organising with Arbeter Fraynd, Yiddish-language anarchist newspaper. Returning to Germany, he left in 1933 to US where he continued to organise

Sep 19 1893 – New Zealand is first major country to grant national electoral rights to all women , including Maori, after yrs of suffragette meetings. However there were separate electoral systems for Maori and those of European colonial descent.

Sep 17 2006 - A leaked recording of Hungarian PM Gyurcsány admitting he lied provokes huge protests. (Image below of a museum tank taken by protesters & used on the 50th anniversary of the crushing of the Hungarian Uprising by Soviets using these tanks) socialistworker.co.uk/art/9604/Crisi…

Sep 17 1871 – International Workingmen’s Association begins conference in London, though attendance disrupted by Franco-Prussian war.

Sep 17 2011 - Inspired by protests in Spain, which were in turn inspired by the Egyptian Revolution, Occupy Wall Street movement begins in Zuccotti Park, NYC, USA, further inspiring world-wide movements.

Sep 11 1944 - The trial of 50 black US seamen charged with mutiny begins. Following a massive explosion a few weeks earlier that killed 300, mostly black, seamen at the Port Chicago ammunition loading port near San Franciso, 100s of black navy sailors refused to load ammunition.

Sep 13 2007 – The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is adopted by the United Nations General Assembly. un.org/development/de…

Sep 13 1971 - Attica prison uprising ends in Buffalo, USA, over demands for political rights & living conditions. 31 prisoners & 9 guards are killed (almost all of these, including hostages, by troops when they recaptured the prison).

Sep 12 1969 -Argentinean Rosariazo movement begins with indefinite strike. Factories occupied in Córdoba & uprising in Cipolletti, Río Negro