Angelo Sbardellotto Executed (1932) Angelo Sbardellotto was an Italian anarchist executed by the state on this day in 1932 for plotting to assassinate Benito Mussolini

Justice for Janitors Strikers Attacked (1990) On this day in 1990, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) attacked immigrant janitors who were striking for the right to organize in Century City,...

Espionage Act (1917) The Espionage Act, passed on this day in 1917, is a federal U.S. law which has been used to suppress labor and political activism from American dissidents such as Eugene V....

East German Uprising (1953) On this day in 1953, in what became an uprising of more than one million people, 300 East German construction workers protested at government buildings, demanding the...

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896) Harriet Beecher Stowe, born on this day in 1811, was an American abolitionist and author, best known for her anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin", published...

Pentagon Papers Released (1971) On this day in 1971, the Pentagon Papers, leaked by Daniel Ellsberg, were published by the New York Times, detailing secret information about the history of and...

David Barsamian (1945 - ) David Barsamian, born on this day in 1945, is an Armenian-American radio broadcaster, writer, and the founder of Alternative Radio, a Colorado-based syndicated weekly...

Walter Rodney Assassinated (1980) Walter Rodney was a Guyanese public intellectual and Pan-African Marxist who was assassinated by the state on this day in 1980, at 38 years old

Medgar Evers Assassinated (1963) Medgar Evers was an American civil rights leader who achieved national prominence for his efforts in fighting racial oppression in Mississippi, work for which he...

Ratification of the Platt Amendment (1901) On this day in 1901, under duress of occupation by the United States military, the newly independent Cuban government ratified the Platt Amendment,...

Davis Day (1925) Davis Day, also known as Miners' Memorial Day, is a day of remembrance observed annually on this day in Nova Scotia coal mining communities, recognizing all miners killed in the...

Gerrit van der Veen Assassinated (1944) Gerrit van der Veen was a Dutch anti-fascist sculptor who was assassinated by the Nazis on this day in 1944, following a failed attempt to free his comrades...

Giacomo Matteotti Assassinated (1924) Giacomo Matteotti was an anti-fascist Italian socialist politician

Johanna Kirchner Assassinated (1944) Johanna Kirchner was a German anti-fascist and Social Democrat who was executed by the Nazis on this day in 1944 for having "treasonably rooted herself in the...

Battle of Menstad (1931) On this day in 1931, the Battle of Menstad began near Skien, Norway when 2,000 striking workers fought and overwhelmed a group of police officers protecting scabs at Norsk...

Freedom Riders Arrested (1961) On this day in 1961, Freedom Riders protesting segregation, including Kwame Ture, Gwendolyn Green, and Joan Trumpauer Mulholland (shown), were arrested in Jackson,...

Women Ford Machinists Strike (1968) On this day in 1968, all 187 women employees working at a Ford factory in Dagenham, East London went on strike to demand equal pay for equal work, eventually...

Israeli West Bank Occupation Begins (1967) On this day in 1967, the Israeli Army occupied the West Bank and Gaza Strip, claiming emergency powers with a military decree that greatly restricts the...

Philadelphia General Strike (1835) On this day in 1835, the first recorded general strike in North America broke out in Philadelphia when striking Irish dock workers were joined by city workers

Marian Wright Edelman (1939 - ) Marian Wright Edelman, born on this day in 1939, is an American children's rights activist who became the first black woman admitted to the Mississippi Bar and...

James Connolly (1868 - 1916) James Connolly, born on this day in 1868, was an Irish socialist revolutionary, founder of the Irish Citizen Army (ICA), and leader of the Easter Rising rebellion, for...

Eugen Leviné (1883 - 1919) Eugen Leviné, assassinated on this day in 1919, was a German revolutionary communist who briefly led the Bavarian Council Republic, giving luxury apartments to the...

Gurdip Singh Chaggar Murdered (1976) On this day in 1976, Gurdip Singh Chaggar, an 18-year old engineering student, was stabbed to death by fascists in Southall, London, leading to mass protests...

Teresa Claramunt (1862 - 1931) Teresa Claramunt, born on this day in 1862, was a Catalan anarcho-syndicalist, feminist, and labor organizer who helped publish the influential radical magazine "El...

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Zoot Suit Riots (1943) On this day in 1943, the Zoot Suit Riots began when thousands of white American servicemen in California began indiscriminately attacking people (mostly Latinos) wearing...

Adelaide Casely-Hayford (1868 - 1960) Adelaide Casely-Hayford, born on this day in 1868, was a Sierra Leone Creole Pan-African feminist, educator, and author

Cornel West (1953 - ) Cornel West, born on this day in 1953, is a philosopher, socialist activist, educator, and public intellectual whose works include "Race Matters" and "The Rich and the Rest...

Cananea Riot (1906) On this day in 1906, Mexican employees of the US-owned Cananea Copper Company went on strike, demanding an end to pay discrimination and an eight-hour day

Burning of Jaffna Public Library (1981) On this day in 1981, a Sinhalese mob burned Jaffna Public Library in Sri Lanka, one of the worst examples of ethnic book burning in the 20th century

Morral Affair (1906) On this day in 1906, revolutionary anarchist Mateu Morral attempted to assassinate Spanish King Alfonso XIII and his bride via bomb

Tulsa Race Massacre (1921) On this day in 1921, the Tulsa Race Massacre began when mobs of white people attacked residents and businesses of the Greenwood District, known as "Black Wall Street",...

James Chaney (1943 - 1964) James Earl Chaney, born on this day in 1943, was a young member of the Congress of Racial Equity (CORE) who, along with Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, was...

Randolph Bourne (1886 - 1918) Randolph Silliman Bourne, born on this day in 1886, was a progressive writer, disability advocate, and pacifist from Bloomfield, New Jersey who coined the phrase "war...

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Maurice Bishop (1944 - 1983) Maurice Bishop, born on this day in 1944, was a Grenadian revolutionary and leader of the New Jewel Movement, which seized power in 1979 and instituted widespread...

Mariola Sirakova Assassinated (1925) Mariola Sirakova, assassinated by state police at age 20 on this day in 1925, was a Bulgarian actress who organized with anarchists and hid wanted...

Indian Removal Act (1830) The Indian Removal Act, signed into law on this day in 1830, provided the legal authority for the president to force indigenous peoples west of the Mississippi River,...

Gezi Park Occupation (2013) On this day in 2013, Turkish protesters began occupying Gezi Park to oppose its demolition, an act with led to widespread protests and strikes with approximately...

In re Debs (1895) In re Debs (Latin: "In the matter of Debs") was a U.S. Supreme Court case that, on this day in 1895, unanimously upheld the government's use of injunctions against labor strikes,...

House Committee on Un-American Activities Founded (1938) On this day in 1938, the House Committee on Un-American Activities was established to investigate suspected communist sympathies among...

Lyuh Woon-hyung (1886 - 1947) Lyuh Woon-hyung, born on this day in 1886, was a socialist politician who argued that Korean independence was essential to world peace

Symon Petliura Assassinated for Pogroms (1926) On this day in 1926, Jewish anarchist Sholem Schwarzbard assassinated Symon Petliura, President of the Ukrainian People's Republic and leader of its...

George Floyd Murdered (2020) On this day in 2020, a Minneapolis cop murdered George Floyd by kneeling on his neck for more than nine minutes

Drumheller Coal Strike (1919) On this day in 1919, under the banner of the One Big Union (OBU), approximately 6,500 miners in Alberta, Canada walked off the job during a dispute over wages, the...

Earth First Car Bombing (1990) On this day in 1990, in Oakland, California, an assassination attempt was made against environmental activists and political radicals Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney...

Joe Slovo (1926 - 1995) Joe Slovo, born on this day in 1926, was a South African communist and militant opponent of apartheid whose wife was assassinated by police

Margaret Fuller (1810 - 1850) Margaret Fuller, born on this day in 1810, was an American feminist journalist associated with the American transcendentalism movement

Harvey Milk (1930 - 1978) Harvey Milk, born on this day in 1930, the first openly gay elected official in the history of California, serving on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors