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#workingclasshistory

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Peter Riley

#RememberMarikana

mg.co.za/article/2016-08-16-re

Massacre sahistory.org.za/article/marik

On 10 August 2012, workers at the British-owned #Lonmin mine walked out on a #wildcatstrike demanding better pay.
The strike would become best known for a massacre of workers on August 16, but it continued until late September when workers were successful in achieving pay increases of between 11 and 22%.

stories.workingclasshistory.co

Prequel
dailymaverick.co.za/opinionist

#RememberMarikana: The miners killed at Marikana on 13 and 16 August 2012
The Mail & Guardian · #RememberMarikana: The miners killed at Marikana on 13 and 16 August 2012This list was compiled by the Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (Seri).
#marikana#mineworkers#strike
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Peter Riley

(Reflections) Working on the Other Side: My Factory Jobs

brooklynrail.org/2025/07/field

brooklynrail.org/2023/11/field

The Brooklyn Rail
brooklynrail.org · Working on the Other Side: My Factory Jobs | The Brooklyn RailThese stories are excerpted from a longer work, We Wanted to Change Everything, an account of the author’s years as an activist and member of the Sojourner Truth Organization (STO) from the early 1970s to 1983. 1976 was the year when STO shifted its focus away from the factories, because we perceived a lull—a temporary pause—in the sort of workplace struggles that had defined our early years, such as the national Independent Truckers Strike and the Farah garment workers strike in El Paso. None of us realized that we were on the cusp of the massive deindustrialization that would move those industries away for good and cut the heart from a project based on workers “united, disciplined, and organized by the mechanism of capitalist labor.” (Karl Marx) We turned our attention to providing support to national liberation, especially the Puerto Rican independence movement, then engaged in militant and effervescent struggles in Chicago, which appeared to offer more promise. That is another story.
#labormovement#organize#solidarity
poison punk

A former pit village is marking the 100th anniversary of a #miners' lockout.

Pit bosses closed #ChopwellColliery in #Gateshead after employees refused to accept less pay & worse conditions, with the dispute lasting 17 months.

Support for the miners came from around the world, including Russia, which led to the village being nicknamed "Little Moscow"

The centenary is being celebrated by community events, including a podcast and and digital film made by local young people.

#press #news #WorkingClassHistory #media

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz7lv0

Black and white photograph dating from 1925 showing march, fronted by a group of policemen wearing the uniform of the time. The marchers, mostly men, are carrying banners and there are crowds of people lining the street on either side.
BBC NewsChopwell marks 100th anniversary of miners' lockoutA former pit village remembers miners who refused to accept low wages and were locked out of work.
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Peter Riley

@takvera @JulietAndJones

Radical Tradition
takver.com/history/

“War on the Wharfies” 1998
takver.com/wharfie/

Anti-Militarism 2003
takver.com/history/melb/peace2

Gay Pride 1973
takver.com/history/sydney/gay_

Climate Action MerriBek
climateactionmerribek.org/

Sustainable Fawkner
fawkner.org/

Anti-Nuclear Bicycle rides
takver.com/history/cycle_antiu

#radicalhistory #RadicalTradition
#workingclasshistory

www.takver.comRadical Tradition Main Index - an Australasian History page of working class struggle and anarchismRadical Tradition - An Australasian History Page - Articles on the history of working class struggle and anarchism in Australia. Main Index page
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Peter Riley

More than 880,000 workers get a raise this summer due to state minimum wage increases

epi.org/blog/this-july-15-stat

Nationally, the federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour - since 2009.

adp.com/-/media/adp/resourcehu

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,

portside.org/2025-07-02/minimu

21 States raise MW
cnbc.com/2025/01/07/these-21-s

History
dol.gov/agencies/whd/minimum-w

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,…
#minimumWage#workingclasshistory
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Peter Riley

“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.org/wiki/Operatio

en.wikipedia.orgOperation Wetback - Wikipedia
#Bracero#migrantworkers#WorkingClassHistory
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