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Reading
The Popular Wobbly
Selected Writings of
T-Bone Slim
Edited by Owen Clayton and Iain McIntyre
Foreword by David R. Roediger
2025 University of Minnesota Press
Pbk ISBN 978-1-5179-1496-7
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More than 880,000 workers get a raise this summer due to state minimum wage increases
Nationally, the federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour - since 2009.
https://www.adp.com/-/media/adp/resourcehub/pdf/minimum-wage-increases-chart.pdf
A full-time worker in every U.S. county needs $17+ an hour to afford basic expenses such as housing, food, transportation and health care,
21 States raise MW
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/07/these-21-states-raised-their-minimum-wage-on-jan-1.html
History
https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/minimum-wage/history
Economic Policy InstituteThis July, 15 states and localities increase their minimum wage while others claw back gains for workersOn July 1, the minimum wage will increase in Alaska, Oregon, and Washington, D.C.—lifting wages for more than 880,000 workers and collectively raising their earnings by more than $397 million (see Figure A). In addition to these two states and D.C., 12 cities and counties are also increasing their minimum wage this summer, including Chicago,…
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“It’s all just a little bit of history repeating.” (2.0.) - Shirley Bassey
Estimates of how many were repatriated, deported, or expelled range (1929-1939) from 300,000 to 2 million (of which 40–60% were citizens of the United States, overwhelmingly children).
en.wikipedia.orgMexican Repatriation - Wikipedia
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“It’s all just a little bit of history repeating” - Shirley Bassey
“Operation Wetback” 1954: a federal program to hunt down & deport “undocumented immigrants” from Mexico. Somewhere between 1.1 and 1.5 million were rounded up & deported…. yet, many were documented migrants or US citizens.
en.wikipedia.orgOperation Wetback - Wikipedia
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2020 India General Strike “200+ million”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Indian_general_strike
en.wikipedia.org2020 Indian general strike - Wikipedia
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#FrancescoFantin was a member of an #anarchist paramilitary group who fought against Mussolini’s fascists. When Mussolini came to power, Fantin fled Italy to work in the Queensland cane-fields. Interned as an ‘enemy alien’ during WW2, he was sent to #Loveday camp in South Australia, where, surrounded by the Italian fascist group within the camp, he met his tragic fate.
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/abc-rewind/abc-rewind/105376594
ABC listen · 02 The Loveday Trilogy | Francesco Fantin - ABC listenItalian anarchist Francesco Fantin fled Mussolini's Italy for the freedom of the Queensland cane-fields, only to find himself locked up in a detention camp in wartime Australia, surrounded by his political enemies.
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Biggest squared circle I've ever seen!
Rolf Solberg squaring off against Karsten Lavik on May 1st 1937 at Møhlenpris, after the Worker's Day marches were over.
Photo by Atelier KK, via University of #Bergen Library: https://marcus.uib.no/instance/photograph/ubb-kk-n-413-094.html
#Norway #Norge #Historical #BlackAndWhitePhotography #WorkingClassHistory
Rolf Solberg squaring off against Karsten Lavik on May 1st 1937 at Møhlenpris, after the Worker's Day marches were over.
Photo by Atelier KK, via University of #Bergen Library: https://marcus.uib.no/instance/photograph/ubb-kk-n-413-094.html
#Norway #Norge #Historical #BlackAndWhitePhotography #WorkingClassHistory
June 15th 1990
https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8695/battle-of-century-city
(Source: "Los Angleles Justice for Janitors campaign for economic justice at Century City, 1989-1990," Global Nonviolent Action Database https://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/los-angleles-justice-janitors-campaign-economic-justice-century-city-1989-1990 )
stories.workingclasshistory.comWorking Class History
“Lest We Forget”
https://black-ink.info/2022/08/22/safiya-bukharis-lest-we-forget/
56 Notes on “Red”
https://black-ink.info/2025/05/01/we-are-a-conspiracy-56-notes-on-red/
black-ink.info · Safiya Bukhari’s “Lest We Forget”Editor’s note: for Black August 2022 we share both a facsimile PDF as well as a transcription of Safiya Bukhari’s 1981 pamphlet Lest We Forget, which she wrote and published while incar…
Anybody wanna know about a 1960s adventure play-park in the Gorbals, run by Glaswegian folk singer Matt McGinn, which the council tried to shut down but failed cause like all the kids in the Gorbals marched on City Chambers?
Aye aye. 
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