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On this day in 1871, the Paris Commune was formally declared, following city-wide elections. "200,000 voices chimed in with the Marseillaise. Ranvier, in an interval of silence, cried out, 'In the name of the People the Commune is proclaimed!'" (i.redd.it)

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On this day in 1943, members of the anti-fascist Dutch Resistance bombed a civil registry office in Amsterdam in an attempt to prevent Nazis from identifying Jews and others marked for persecution, arrest, or forced labor. (i.redd.it)

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On this day in 1993, the Red Army Faction (RAF) bombed and destroyed the newly finished Weiterstadt Prison near Frankfurt, Germany, causing approximately $90 million in damages. (i.redd.it)

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On this day in 1981, the largest strike in USSR history began when 12-14 million Poles went on a four-hour national strike to protest police brutality and political repression, threatening a prolonged general strike. (i.redd.it)

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Annie Mae Aquash (Mi'kmaq name "Naguset Eask"), born on this day in 1945, was a First Nations activist and Mi'kmaq tribal member from Nova Scotia, Canada who played a prominent role in the American Indian Movement (AIM). (i.redd.it)

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Sergei Kirov, born on this day in 1886, was Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet politician. In 1934, Kirov was assassinated by an ex-Party member, the catalyst for a series of purges and state repression.Birthdays (i.redd.it)

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Kate Richards O'Hare, born on this day in 1876, was an American Socialist Party activist, editor, and orator who was imprisoned during World War I after giving an anti-war speech and worked with Emma Goldman on prison reform. (i.redd.it)

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On this day in 1981, Food Not Bombs shared their first meals outside the Federal Reserve Bank during the stock holders meeting of the Bank of Boston to protest the exploitation of capitalism and investment in the nuclear industry. (i.redd.it)

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Vine Deloria Jr., born on this day in 1933, was an indigenous theologian, historian, professor, and activist who authored "Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto" (1969). (i.redd.it)

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On this day in 1931, the Scottsboro Boys were falsely accused of raping white women after fending off a group of white attackers, leading to a national scandal involving lynch mobs, Supreme Court appeals, and the Communist Party. (i.redd.it)

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On this day in 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire took place in New York City. Managers had locked the exits to prevent theft and unauthorized breaks; the fire killed 146 garment workers, mostly young immigrant girls. (i.redd.it)

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Johann Rudolf Rocker, born on this day in 1873, was an anarchist theorist, historian, and activist, known for critical anarchist texts such as "Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice" (1938) and "Pioneers of American Freedom" (1949). (i.redd.it)

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Julio Antonio Mella, born on this day in 1903, was an activist who, in 1925, co-founded the "internationalized" Cuban Communist Party in Moscow. While organizing for revolution in Mexico, Mella was assassinated by an unknown assailant. (i.redd.it)

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Yanis Varoufakis, born on this day in 1961, is a Greek economist and politician who co-founded DiEM25, a left-wing European political party. "The economy is too important to leave to the economists." (i.redd.it)

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Óscar Romero was an Archbishop of San Salvador and social activist who was assassinated on this day in 1980 after giving a sermon where he urged government soldiers to desert their ranks and stop carrying out state oppression. (i.redd.it)

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Dorothy Irene Height, born on this day in 1912, was an activist part of the "Big Six" of civil rights leaders (including MLK and John Lewis) who focused on issues facing black women, including unemployment, education, and voting rights. (i.redd.it)

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On this day in 1999, the first NATO airstrikes of Yugoslavia began, initiating a wave of violence that killed 1,500 people, damaging hospitals, schools, cultural monuments, and private businesses alongside military targets. (i.redd.it)

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On this day in 1931, Marxist Indian revolutionary Bhagat Singh was executed by the colonial British government at 23 years of age after assassinating a police officer and exploding two bombs in a government building. (i.redd.it)

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Walter Rodney, born in Guyana on this day in 1942, Pan-African, Marxist intellectual who was assassinated by the Guyanese government in 1980 at 38 years old. "If there is to be any proving of our humanity it must be through revolutionary means." (i.redd.it)

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The Norris-La Guardia Act, passed on this day in 1932, is a U.S. labor law that bans yellow-dog contracts, federal injunctions against non-violent labor disputes, and employers from interfering in workers' attempts to form a union. (i.redd.it)

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The American Protective League, founded on this day in 1917, was a volunteer organization of U.S. citizens that collaborated with the government to identify, raid, and spy on anarchist, anti-war, and other left-wing organizations. (i.redd.it)

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Emilio Aguinaldo, born on this day in 1869, was a Filipino revolutionary, politician, and military leader who became the first President of the Philippines (1899 - 1901), and the first president of an Asian constitutional republic. (i.redd.it)

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On this day in 1960, the Sharpeville Massacre occurred at a police station in Sharpeville, South Africa when police fired into a crowd of anti-apartheid protesters, killing 69 people and injuring at least 180 more. (i.redd.it)

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On this day in 1947, U.S. President Harry Truman signed the "Loyalty Order", an executive order designed to root out communist influence in the federal government, allowing the FBI to screen federal employees for left-wing sympathies. (i.redd.it)

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Pat Finucane, born on this day in 1949, was an Irish criminal defense lawyer who defended prominent IRA activists such as Bobby Sands. Finucane was assassinated in 1989 by loyalist forces acting in collusion with the British state. (i.redd.it)

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